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05-04-2005, 12:44 PM #23
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I always said that if you were blind, you wouldn't notice. And even at that, I'd much rather have my daughter marry from a different race and have him love and respect her, than a white man who beats her.
Linda
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05-04-2005, 01:09 PM #24
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Re: racist people
I hear people say things about racist all the time. I'm sure they are out there, but I rarely see or hear anything that makes me think a person is racist in my daily life. I think of us as Americans instead of colors. Most of us are not full blood any race anyway.
Grow up and get over it, the only so called race in American that has to be careful around other races now is the Caucasians. Just let one of them step out of line and see what happens. I dare them to try and get a "White Entertainment Broadcast" going and see what happens. Or wonder what would happen if they tried to get an organization like the "National association for the Advancement of white people" ....boy talk about spit hitting the fan then!
The race haters of the world are just the ignorant no matter what color they are and they shouldn't be wasting their time on something so meaningless. I wish they would put that same energy into something to help save the planet.
And as far as you downing the Southerners and their heritage, it makes you sound like you are the one with all the hate for others in your heart.
I like what J.J. Johnson Editor and Chief of the Sierra Times has to say about the Confederate Flag!
http://www.sierratimes.com/archive/jj/edjj022000.htm
The Confederate Flag:
Should We get Rid of It?
J.J. Johnson - Posted: 02.20.00
Okay, so what’s wrong with me? In celebration of slain Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King’s day (week?) if I watch enough news, I should be out there with my black brethren yelling, screaming and looking to burn every free waving Southern Cross I run across. So what’s wrong? Shouldn’t I be offended as well?
In a way, yes. I am. And here’s why:
I had ancestors who fought on both sides of that war – which was anything but civil.
Surprised?
Yes, in Northern Mississippi in fact. Cousin against cousin. One man trying to protect what was his, and one who escaped slavery only to be drafted into taking his cousin’s land away. This little fact, along with all the arguments about Southern Heritage, Southern Pride and Remembering the Gentlemen who in died war gets lost in all the noise about why it’s so “insensitive.”
…And I am just fed up with it.
More than that, I’m fed up with the yellow-bellied, white guys who don’t have the guts to fight back on the issue. I know, no one wants to get labeled the “R” word. To politicians, it’s a label that’s worse than being called a liar, an adultorer or a draft dodger. And heaven knows, you white guys in the public sector better not even bring it up at work or in public. There’s a civil rights lawsuit with your name on it. Yet, I know how many of you – especially you folks south of the Mason-Dixon line must feel right now.
Wanna fight back?
Hold my coat for a minute…
Where were these protests against OUR Confederate battle flag for the last 135 years? Why are these black people allowing themselves to be manipulated by the media and their left-wing, so-called "black leadership?" Whenever I hear a black person talk about this flag issue, I ask them the same questions. Do you know how long that flag has been flying over those state capitals? Haven’t you seen them there before? The answer from most blacks I talk to out west is, “who cares?”
Not good enough for the National Association for the Advancement of Career Politicians (NAACP). Not good enough for these modern-day “Plantation Pimps” who can’t find any other juvenile criminals to fight for so now they retaliate by “dissing” a great hunk of American culture. This is ONLY being done to pander to black voters this political season. You see, back in 1992, folks just decided to burn down Los Angeles while liberal politicians mailed gasoline to the rioters. This time, let’s burn down a heritage instead.
I hope some black person is reading this right now and fuming. You should be. If you think the Confederate flag is insulting to you, you are being used, or as we say it in the hood, you bein’ played – for a fool. By who? Not by those evil conservatives, but by the liberal white man. The ones who’ll take your votes, then tell you you’re not good enough to make it on your own.
But there is no sense giving you the same argument many of the Southern Ladies and Gentleman are trying to give now. You don’t want to hear them, anyway.
Let’s talk about “insensitivity,” shall we?
If you don’t mind, some of us with southern roots are going to find every Vietnamese American citizen in this country, bus them to Washington, D.C. and protest to have the Vietnam Memorial removed from the park. Why stop there? On the way to Washington, we might as well grab every citizen with German or Japanese ancestors. With enough noise, we can get rid of that World War II Memorial, too. After all, These people all had relatives who were killed by the men and women America honors at those Memorials. You liberal, nothing-else-better-to-do black folks wouldn’t mind, would you?
Yes. Let that sink in real good. That’s what you’re doing to these good people of the South. You are DESECRATING THEIR MEMORIAL… Check that – Our Memorial.
What ever happened to Diversity? Tolerance? Must be a one sided thing.
Don’t give me that “Symbol of Slavery” bull****. If that were the case, turn in all those 1, 20, 50, and 100 dollar bills. The faces on these bills were men who were leaders when many blacks were slaves. But let’s get down and dirty, shall we?
The worst riot in American history was not in Los Angeles. It was in New York, back in 1863. You see, there were a bunch of people who, like during Vietnam, didn’t want be conscripted (read: drafted) to serve in an unjust war. Talk to your President about that. Over 1200 people died in just two days. Most when President Lincoln sent federal troops in to put down the “rebellion.” Oh, by the way, 83 blacks were lynched in those two days – right there in The Big Apple. So, which flag do you really want taken down?
But since we’re all told to boycott, will those leftist, black elected leaders in South Carolina boycott the Statehouse while its in session? I doubt it. Will they avoid buying goods in their own state? Doubt it. Our forefathers who wrote the Constitution gave all of us a way to deal with a state’s policies we didn’t like. That’s what the South was fighting for. It was not about slavery. If that were the case, we’d be bombing China right now, and we would not accept license plates made with prison labor right here in the good ol’ USA.
Oh…What’s the black population percentage in prison these days, anyway?
The multicultural extremists can’t call me racist, but in the black socialist community, they have even uglier words for people who refuse to live on that “plantation,” such as me. Just ask Clarence Thomas.
So let that flag wave proudly as a monument to the last Army in this country that actually fought for the Constitution. I am proud to have ancestors who fought with them. And for those people who don’t want their state to fly the Southern Cross, here a solution that’s much easier that protesting…
…leave.
There’s a term for it. Its called “white flight.”
J.J. Johnson – Proud Black American
Editor and Chief
SierraTimes.com
***Edited to add****
I also wanted to say that when you speak about hating the Confederate Flag, your also stepping on allot of Proud Southern African-Americans toes as well.
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05-04-2005, 03:19 PM #25
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I am very prejudice...I dislike everyone equally...lol...can't remember where I read that but I love it..hehe.
Ignorance is the most common problem in racial issues IMO. Well that and lack of Love.The more you complain, the longer God makes you live.
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05-04-2005, 05:23 PM #26
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Coming out of a restaurant tonight I saw a truck with the word CRACKER on the front and the confererate flag. I was just ???????????. Doesn't mean anything to me cause I don't understand it all. Just
about it. If it's suppose to offend anyone I don't know about it.
That is the thing about racism, if the person can't be in power over the other person, they can't really make any impact except to laugh at them. That inclused sexism and ageism as well.
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05-04-2005, 05:23 PM #27
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people need to realise whether or not you believe in God and creationism or evolution that WE ALL came from the same few people and only in time did we spread out and diversify. all races are equal........we all belong exclusively to the human race.
There is always someone bigger and badder than you!
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05-04-2005, 06:11 PM #28
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We're all God's children no matter if we're black, white, Chinese, Hispanic, etc.
"I've crossed oceans of time to find you"
"I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way."
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05-04-2005, 09:24 PM #29
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about git er done - there are these lighers at work, they have the flag on them, and when you open it it yells GIT ER DONE. they are annoying to begin with, but what really made me dislike them was when a young african american girl asked me why the people in the store didn't like her. i told her no one disliked her and asked her why she thought that, and she pointed to the lighter. that is what sparked my post.
as far as me spray painting over the swastikas on the stop sign, i have no desire to be arrested. the thought has crossed my mind, but i can't afford to get caught and go to jail.
LuvBigRip, i'm not sure what i've said to make this so toxic. and i don't care. but if you didn't want to make a rude comment about me, you should have left out the part about me being so wrong (again).
schsa/ahippiechick, i stated in another post that i am done with that topic. i am not going to go back into that, i've explained myself several times already. as far as getting a blog, or whatever they are, i don't like them.
as far as me being a negative person, that's not true. you see me that way if the only posts of mine you read are from vent/whine. try reading a post of mine that isn't in vent/whine. i post about other things if i think anyone else on the board would be interested. but so far, i've only seen adorkablex (sp?) list interests similar to mine, and that was only in the magazines we read. s/he (sorry, i don't recall seeing anything to specify a gender - please don't take it out of context, if you even see this) hasn't liked me since i can remember (not just this past week), so i don't see us having a conversation. and as i see it you must be just as bad as me if you spend enough time in this section to notice all my vents. i have posted lots of non-vent things before, and no one is interested. which i can understand, i haven't met many people on this board who like what i do. the one or two i did disappeared.
yes, i have considered relocating. the only thing keeping me here is my family. and the fact that i don't have enough cash to make it through a big move right now.
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05-05-2005, 06:15 AM #30
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Sadly, I get bored at work, and have read most of your posts, here in V/W and other sections.
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05-05-2005, 06:17 AM #31
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I try not to be racist. Though I will be honest and say that at times I am. But I am open minded and willing to live, learn, and listen. I get irked when Jimmy the Greek makes a statement about africians being better athletes in running which has scientific backing and he is drummed out of the business yet Martin Lawrence can make cracker remarks, which is a derrogatory term used about whites and nothing is done. We are all people created by the same god. For the most part we love our children and will bleed if we are cut. We all feel pain and want something better for ourselves and loved ones. We are all more alike than different.
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Originally Posted by hblueeyes
Some mornings it's not worth the effort of chewing through the restraints.