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Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 5366
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 02, 2007 - 12:40 pm: | 
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...that all the racial problems were due to the old white folks.
"Wait till the old ones die off," she'd say. "The young ones will do right."
She was wrong about a lot of things, and wrong about that too--
Check it out
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/1002071jena1.html
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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2305
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 11:17 am: |
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Chris, please do not come on here talking bad about your grandmother. Surely she can be excused for having hope and faith in folks! I don't know her, of course, but you say anything else negative about her and I'm gonna get my own late grandmothers to throw down a lesson on you! 
Anyway, I'll bet her granadson (CH) is leading an easier life than she did--despite the racism than lingers in our midst. |
Imtiredowaiting
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Username: Imtiredowaiting
Post Number: 16
Registered: 09-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 03:28 pm: |
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my parents used to warn me by saying that he white kids i hung out with when i was a boy would influence me to steal and be bad and tell lies on me get me into trouble and then beat me up!
it didn't make me hang out only with my so called "own kind" ie "black people"
because even as a young boy i knew that the color of one's skin doesn't determine one's behavior and it does not make a race of people better or worse.
in fact by telling me to avoid white people
my parents were unwittingly sowing the seeds of racism in me, which i am glad to say didn't occur.
racism has done much damage to people and i think it is time we all started trying to irradiate it so that our kids will not grow up and follow the bad attitudes of us adults who should know better.
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Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 5393
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 05, 2007 - 01:04 pm: |
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Chris, please do not come on here talking bad about your grandmother. Surely she can be excused for having hope and faith in folks! I don't know her, of course, but you say anything else negative about her and I'm gonna get my own late grandmothers to throw down a lesson
(I loved my grandmother, god rest her soul. But she was a lifelong Republican and one of the biggest uncle toms I ever laid eyes on---
Kind of why I take a fancy to Cynique.
Anyway, I'll bet her granadson (CH) is leading an easier life than she did--despite the racism than lingers in our midst.
(I have been freer to do somethings, some things have been harder, since I am a MAN and she was a woman who could get along, plus that she lived in a small town where, if you minded yourself you didn't have trouble--
She didn't have gunfire in the night several times a week, or a murder almost every day some years, or have to see the carnage that black people have endured as things got "better".
You didn't even know her and you stick up for her. She could have been a female Clarence Thomas, for all you know.
You women all stick together, don't you?
in fact by telling me to avoid white people
my parents were unwittingly sowing the seeds of racism in me, which i am glad to say didn't occur
(Come here to the states. Your parents won't have to teach you any. Pretty soon you'll fit right in, and you'll feel funny when there IS NO racism.
A while ago I went to L.A., which is different than St. Louis. I was in a supermarket where I was the only black and I felt funny. I realized why I did--nobody was following me, staring at me, or tripping on me being the only black somewhere.
Now put THAT in your pipe and smoke it!) |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 5397
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 05, 2007 - 01:10 pm: |
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And I might add, my grandmother loved me a cherished me and she did not even yell at me and beat my ass not even when I crapped my pants not even when I got in the chicken coop and killed the baby chickens.
Nyaaah! |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 10185
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 05, 2007 - 01:55 pm: |
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Well, that's where me and your grandmother differ, chrishayden. I find nothing redeemable about you. |
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