Topic: I will not appoligize for being white.
Winx's photo
Sun 09/28/08 04:15 PM
Edited by Winx on Sun 09/28/08 04:16 PM
I still don't understand why I would even consider apologizing for who I am. Shrugs shoulders.ohwell

Thomas27's photo
Sun 09/28/08 04:19 PM
If people don't start to straighten up in this thread, the Great Rep. Chuck Norris is going to come in here and roundhouse kick some Dem. a$$! While Cowboy Troy says the Pledge of Allegiance in the background!

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Sun 09/28/08 04:21 PM
tthe funny part was that it's a thread about racial assumptions and differences and the big fight in it had nothing to do with race

Thomas27's photo
Sun 09/28/08 04:26 PM
I know, I was clowning around, but at least my post did include a white guy and a black guy.


However I did actually see Chuck on CNN a few weeks ago kicking the sh!t out of someone for being liberal. Cowboy Troy did also say the Pledge of Allegiance at the RNC.

enderra's photo
Sun 09/28/08 04:30 PM
Back to my original question. What's the apology or lack there of about?

Lynann's photo
Sun 09/28/08 04:52 PM
I guess the threads author needs to post on that.

I'll say this.

Prejudice isn't owned by any group.

The origin of prejudice, I beleive go to our earliest senses, the ones that allowed us, as humans to survive.

When our (yes our...we share more common genetic material than some would like to acknowledge) ancestors were battling animals and each other for survival, when we were discovering fire etc. one of our earliest survival mechanisms was knowing who or what was a friend or an enemy.

Familiarity equaled safety...or more safety than could be found with strangers who were competing for the same resources.

It's in our deep brains...what is familiar is safe...what is foreign represents a threat.

That said, we are not just animals we are thinking animals. It is our obligation to look past our animal reactions and rise to our potential.

You can tell me I am wrong but how often have you looked out your window at your neighbor, or watched a news report or walked down the street and seeing anther person have you thought, I am not like them?

In truth I think we are all much more like each other than we'd like to admit.

t22learner's photo
Sun 09/28/08 04:53 PM

Back to my original question. What's the apology or lack there of about?

Yeah, who's asking you to apologize? Is this some kind of guilt over your Obama-bashing?

There's clearly a racist element left in our society, but it's dying thankfully. Just because someone opposes Obama doesn't mean they're a racist, but some of them are.

If that's not you, then let it go. Nobody can make you feel guilty. That takes your consent.

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Sun 09/28/08 04:56 PM
ummmm there actually wasn't anything in this thread about Obama

t22learner's photo
Sun 09/28/08 04:59 PM
Edited by t22learner on Sun 09/28/08 05:00 PM

ummmm there actually wasn't anything in this thread about Obama

True, but AB is an Obama basher. I'm just trying to help him get to the root of his non-apologetic whiteness issue. :wink:

enderra's photo
Sun 09/28/08 05:00 PM

ummmm there actually wasn't anything in this thread about Obama
Then what the Hell is it about????? who was making him feel guilty?

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Sun 09/28/08 05:02 PM
I dunno but this is the first I heard of any Obama/McCain bashing in this thread

in his original post he said the media

enderra's photo
Sun 09/28/08 05:03 PM
Wow, sorry I wasted my time on someone that takes anything the media has to say seriously.

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Sun 09/28/08 05:05 PM
well he never came back after that (another fire and forget thread) so we kinda just took it over

but if ya'll wanna bash McCain or Obama that's fine with me. I can always go find something else to do

t22learner's photo
Sun 09/28/08 05:05 PM

I dunno but this is the first I heard of any Obama/McCain bashing in this thread

in his original post he said the media

It's in a political thread, and race is an issue in the media related to the election.

BonnyMiss's photo
Sun 09/28/08 05:09 PM

wow...interesting reading...this is why I dont need to have tv..
:laughing:


My sentiment too laugh laugh You guys are funny, now kiss and make up......................You know you want to

warmachine's photo
Sun 09/28/08 05:16 PM
Black white, whatever. We all bleed red.

Race is just one more fake tribalism tactic to keep the people fighting each other and the elite enslaving all the easier.

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Sun 09/28/08 05:19 PM
it goes deeper even that that

if it's not race it's something else

human tribes have ALWAY differentiated themselves from the neighbor tribe doewn the river, and always looked down on em

Lynann's photo
Sun 09/28/08 05:29 PM
You know...it isn't fake...the way some people manipulate it is disgusting but it only works because it speaks to our darkest fears.

We are afraid of what is different, what we don't understand...what is foreign to us.

It's deeply ingrained not just in the human animal but all animals.

What divides us is fear. The us and them mentality.

Warmachine is right about the "fake tribalism tactic" is a huge threat to the future of this country I think.

As long as black and white, brown and black, yellow and black, white and brown (who did I forget color spectrum wise) people keep bickering we will be little more than cannon fodder for those that want to profit from our collective disorganization.

(I added yellow as a skin color. Is that bad? Smack me if you want..I wish we'd all collectively turn purple for about six months. It might give everyone new persepctives but oh well)

Thomas27's photo
Sun 09/28/08 06:01 PM
yellow, black or white they are precious in his sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world.

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Sun 09/28/08 06:15 PM

yellow, black or white they are precious in his sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world.


it's "red and yellow black and white"

otherwise it breaks the rythym

Jesus loves the little children of the world