I don't need a lecture in identity politics.JESUS...... You obviously are a retard.Only by the usual suspects *racist Democrats*I dunno. I've been waking up in the morning with one since 1977.
Have you ever been to one of their funerals? Have you ever had any of them live with you for more than a day or two? Have you ever played on a team with them in any sport? Have you ever raised one of them like your own kids?
Oh fucking relax muddy - Yes, I started HS and JC hoops with no less than TWO black players who became stars in the NBA. One is a Hall-o-Famer and we're still in touch. My HS team was half black - JC College about a third.
Funerals? Yes - two the latter of which was with full gospel choir for the Daddy of Hall-o-Famer which was AWESOME.
And yes, I shared dorm room with a black guy for both my Junior & Senior years in college. He was awesome, we got along fine and he'd take me to his Mama's house on occasion for soul food. We are still in touch also.
Your claim that marrying a black woman gives you some sort of magical insight into black people in general is summarily laughed off the board.![]()
Knowing a black person isn't even remotely like the commitment one has to make to spend your life with one of them. Especially since when I took the vows, mixed marriages were much more a taboo. I caught hell from strangers and family members alike for my decision. Being on a team, or sharing a dorm room doesn't make you any less of a racist. However, deciding to raise a family of kids that will assuredly be ostracized by racist Whites and racist Blacks is a choice I took without a second thought. Despite the bigotry of some of my family members, I didn't want to be narrow minded like some of them obviously were.
So you know a few black people. Big fucking deal. Most blacks think your attitude is a joke. However, some have told me that my attitude is something that gives them hope. Most look at a white person and they see a racist, that is until you prove otherwise.
I find I difficult to believe you’re married to a black woman based on your post. Your language throughout is replete with racism and “us and them” language.
“Knowing a black person isn't even remotely like the commitment one has to make to spend your life with one of them.” You refer to your wife as “one of them”.
One of the young men in our family married a woman with Chinese heritage he met at University (I believe her parents emigrated from China and she was born here.) He chose a woman who has looks, brains, and who’s a nerdy gamer just like him. They make a cute couple and a great team. Our family thinks this young man is lucky to have found this woman, and that she’s a great addition to the family. She is one of us. We are a family.
It’s hard to imagine that anyone who is married to someone of another race, and who has mixed race children would view his own family through the racist lens of “us and them”.
I'm not one of those folks that thinks marrying ONE is the same as being ONE. You can never be one of THEM unless you're born one of THEM. Just like folks like IM2 would never know what it's like to be black in the South during the Great Depression.....like my wife does. Bet he never once cut Tobacco or picked cotton like my wife has. Having to miss school because the boss man said he had better be in the fields from Sun up to Sun down, or else.....like my wife has. Born into a family with 12 kids and 5 different fathers...like my wife has.
I didn’t say that marrying a black person makes you one of “them”. I said there is no “us” and “them”. You are all Americans.
Your entire post points out how different “they” are. That “their” experiences differ from “ours”. Your words emphasize and magnify the difference and divisions between the races, and ensure that the those divisions remain.
Whether people African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, Italian Americans, or Martian Americans, or Jewish Americans or Muslim Americans they are all Americans. You all want basically the same things: good jobs, safe communities, opportunity, and security. You all want your children to grow up strong and to have a good life.
As long as you keep emphasizing how different you are and how much you’re not like “them”, the divisions, the racism and the divide will continue to deepen.
However, you seem to support a political party that believes that everyone is different.
After all, blacks are either too poor or too stupid to get proper I.D. to vote.....according to the left.
White people don't seem to have any problem with getting an I.D.
Living with blacks makes you understand the differences.
Imagine not being able to go anywhere without some old lady thinking you're gonna snatch her purse.
How about all of the times you were followed by a cop looking to give you a ticket.
Also, how about all of the kids that want to be your friend just because you're black.
But you're right. We're all Americans. (except roughly 5 million CA voters)