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wuggles (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#58276: Jul 13th 2013 at 9:31:11 PM

@Joe- It seems like you have some personal issues with black people...Maybe you should work that out before you start debating..

edited 13th Jul '13 9:31:24 PM by wuggles

deviantbraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#58277: Jul 13th 2013 at 9:32:01 PM

Still no riots.

I think we're in the clear.

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KBSL Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
#58278: Jul 13th 2013 at 9:32:46 PM

@Joesolo, so you are offened by being called cracker? I just ask because I once got into this rather long "debate"(argument) about whether ANY white people find the term offensive. Long story short, I argue it shouldn't be used becasue it's a hate word, even if it's not on the same "level" as "nigger", and I get told to fuck off for being to sensitive (is black ironically enough).

I think what happened to your family should probably be more chalked up to police incompetence than anything else.

Edit: Also, would you WANT a scholarship based on race? You don't sound like the type of person who would (neither am I). You don't honestly sound like you have a chip on your shoulder though.

edited 13th Jul '13 9:35:08 PM by KBSL

mailedbypostman Since: May, 2010
#58279: Jul 13th 2013 at 9:34:28 PM

[up][up][up][up][up] Those scholarships are in place because of certain racial groups being perceived as disadvantaged beyond that of the norm aka white people. Moreover, what makes you so sure that you just weren't as qualified as them?

joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Indiana Solo
#58280: Jul 13th 2013 at 9:43:35 PM

[up] because they said they were for african american men?

[up][up] Hell no! the very idea of it offends me! especially given one was in honor of Martin Luther King Jr, himself, who would probably be disgusted at the idea. he, after all, had "a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

edited 13th Jul '13 9:44:47 PM by joesolo

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deviantbraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#58281: Jul 13th 2013 at 9:44:14 PM

‘Millions For Trayvon’: New Black Panther Party Calls for Protests on Twitter

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joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Indiana Solo
#58282: Jul 13th 2013 at 9:47:00 PM

Oh for God's sake GO BACK TO THE HISTORY BOOKS ALREADY! There's a reason the original party died out.them, the KKK, the WBC, all those hate based groups need to GO alreay. locked in a room that forces people to talk in peaceful tones and discuss everything or something...

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midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#58283: Jul 13th 2013 at 9:48:24 PM

[up]

forcing people to talk in peaceful tones just means they'll be secretly thinking about exterminating all the other people mentally while doing so.

Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#58284: Jul 13th 2013 at 9:48:44 PM

@ Taira Mai, two pages back.

I said before, the US, from a PR perspective, is just getting a very raw deal in regards to the Egypt situation, due to the need to appease whoever appears to have the proverbial "Mandate of Heaven" at the moment. Thus they (we?) end up looking like military-dictator puppetmasters, friends of radical islam, and coup-abetters all at the same time.

joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Indiana Solo
#58285: Jul 13th 2013 at 9:51:24 PM

[up][up] whatever. allowed to all have a brawl to the death then, they just need to go, they are doing no good for no one.

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Hermiethefrog Since: Jan, 2001
#58286: Jul 13th 2013 at 9:52:24 PM

So am I allowed to break into the discussion on the Zimmerman case to bring this up?

I realize of course that it's Fox News but wow. Just, wow.

midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#58287: Jul 13th 2013 at 9:53:13 PM

[up]

Not surprising.

The Fox news narrative on pro-choice is we're gleeful baby murderers who take pride in every life we cut short.

edited 13th Jul '13 9:54:28 PM by midgetsnowman

deviantbraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#58288: Jul 13th 2013 at 9:54:56 PM

Al Sharpton responds to Zimmerman's acquittal.

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joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Indiana Solo
#58289: Jul 13th 2013 at 9:55:38 PM

[up][up][up] That's screwed up.

[up][up] I'd reply but the flame war'd be worse than the trayvon one...

[up](hasn't read yet) oh this should be good.

(has now read) I was expecting worse.

edited 13th Jul '13 9:58:00 PM by joesolo

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deviantbraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
KBSL Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
#58291: Jul 13th 2013 at 10:02:01 PM

I doubt the coat hanger thing is as rare a sentiment as we would hope. I once read a comment that pretty mcuh said if a woman is willing to get an abortion that she doesn't deserve to live. It's just that most of the ones who feel that way don't express it.

midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#58292: Jul 13th 2013 at 10:05:18 PM

[up]

speaking as someone living in a conservative town..yeah, thats pretty accurate. Fundamentalists are insanely self-righteous.

edited 13th Jul '13 10:05:28 PM by midgetsnowman

Linhasxoc Since: Jun, 2009
#58293: Jul 13th 2013 at 10:14:56 PM

The Fox news narrative on pro-choice is we're gleeful baby murderers who take pride in every life we cut short.

Around the time of Newtown, I got into a Facebook debate about abortion. A friend of a friend basically accused me of having no problem with the Newtown murders because I was pro-choice. After hinting, rather strongly that I didn't appreciate that, I did the Facebook equivalent of storming out of the room.

Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#58294: Jul 13th 2013 at 10:47:59 PM

I will say there's such a thing as black on black racism too — between African-Americans and African immigrants.

By the way, The BBC are explicitly calling Zimmerman Hispanic.

edited 13th Jul '13 10:49:59 PM by Greenmantle

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KBSL Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
#58295: Jul 13th 2013 at 10:55:55 PM

[up]and Afro-Caribbeans, which mostly seems to be caused by the latter two buying into negative stereotypes of American Blacks and the former believing the other two are "less civilized" among other things.

But, I have heard people lament about how the American-born children of african and caribbean immigrants more often than not identify more with American blacks.

edited 14th Jul '13 4:29:57 AM by KBSL

midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#58296: Jul 13th 2013 at 11:09:09 PM

[up]

can you blame them when white culture will treat them the same way anyhow?

DrunkGirlfriend from Castle Geekhaven Since: Jan, 2011
#58297: Jul 13th 2013 at 11:14:39 PM

Re: The Zimmerman Case

I called it. I said he was going to walk.

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deviantbraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
joeyjojo Happy New Year! from South Sydney: go the bunnies! Since: Jan, 2001
Happy New Year!
#58299: Jul 13th 2013 at 11:32:29 PM

[up] [up]There were two possible outcomes of a trial, don't get cockytongue

edited 13th Jul '13 11:59:22 PM by joeyjojo

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rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#58300: Jul 13th 2013 at 11:33:05 PM

[up]x6 & 5 Well that's no-brainer, my dad told me back in the 70s for instance. there was a lot of friction between Jamaicans and African-Americans due to the latter feeling that the former were running them out of jobs. (Leading to surprise when people found out my dad was Jamaican because he came here when he was young.)

edited 13th Jul '13 11:33:15 PM by rmctagg09

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