The Gadfly
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- Feb 7, 2011
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I get it Gadfly, you pity black folks
If you really see people as your equal, you will treat them as your equal.
Hey, did you know in America blacks could own property, own a business and vote long before Asians could?
No, you do not "get it". Obviously you do not understand the meaning of the word "empathy" (why am I not surprised?). Empathy is not "pity"; it's an attempt to recognize and understand the feelings of others whose life experiences may have been quite different from one's own. This often engenders respect and admiration, rather than "pity"; I happen to think that restraint in the face of violence and insult, and achievement in the face of obstacles deliberately placed in one's path by others, deserves both respect and admiration. I'll save the pity for those who are the truly victimized and downtrodden, for those still struggling in poverty and despair....and for you, with that cold, withered, unfeeling, hardened knot of a thing that serves you as a conscience and a soul. I'd rather trade places with the poorest of the poor, than exist in the cheerless, angry spiritual desert you seem to inhabit.