i never understood how white people think it helps black people to ignore negative patterns or just call the person who points them out racist. if i was a black athlete and had hopes of becoming a qb one day and i was faced with a history and a perception of black qb after black qb faikling to meet expectations, which option is best for me:
1. to have every ignore it and maintain the status quo
2. to call everyone who points out the obvious pattern racist and maintain the status quo
3. to explore the issue and see if it can be corrected.
why do white people invariably chose options 1 and/or 2.
how am i doing, luck?
How are you doing? If I were to invite just one regular poster here to my old neighborhood on the Lower East Side for an egg cream and corned beef sandwich, it would be you.
And I regret the teasing I did in some prior posts signoffs. Nothing rabid was meant by it. I know I come on as very opinionated - and I am on some topics - but I'm so committed to free speech that I have in the past taken a side I didn't really agree with but one that was unpopular, just to make a point. (not this time tho! I am "liberal" on some issues, but this PCism on race is reminescent of the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland who can "believe 10 impossible things before lunch." (Or was it the Mad Hatter?)
Others here are interesting - be easy, too smart to be a pc hack, but very cautious. I don't concur with him on capitalism uncontrolled, but a rare 20s something with something to say.
hugh, tho we disagree, would be interesting to exchange ideas with. Good username for him, very civilized, very "english." It could be like a timed chess match tho, each getting one minute no more to respond to the other's argument. (tho I'd probably cheat, hell I'm an American)
vanzack has grey matter to burn. Knows evolutionary theory back and forward. (I've read Darwin, not too much else, except smatterings) Always good posts, and I hope he got his weed (tho it won't be the same as when you 20)
Five or six others - including the mod, koaj. From Jersey (the only "New" state where you can leave off the New and it still sounds right (unlike, say, Hampshire) but so laconic that he should be from Vermont. Disgree with him also about the capitalist lords of the manor being able to regulate themselves. (And would be surprised if it was koaj who shoved this thread into the bad boy room)
Others too, so when is Lou going to have a Vegas "bash". And not in the ridulous summer time there, when only desert frogs dare to out in the midday sun. Ah well, I'm gone anyway after the bowl games
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