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Hell I thought it was Gen. Lee's Birthday.... oooo well guess I have to work Monday
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Originally posted by Jeff & Laura
Hell I thought it was Gen. Lee's Birthday.... oooo well guess I have to work Monday
LOL
Jeff
Originally posted by Bullypulpit
Did I mention race-baiting earlier?
Originally posted by jimnyc
Either enter into the real world or ignore the posts you don't care for. Why is that so hard for you to do?
Originally posted by Bullypulpit
As a hospice nurse, I'm in the real world each and every day. It's just that some posts display such a depth and breadth of ignorance that they cannot go unanswered.
Originally posted by jimnyc
Why not dispute the FACTS if you don't like them? Do you agree with them and just think we shouldn't speak of them? Do you disagree and just fail to come up with an argument?
Testy, aren't we?
Firstly, the figures you quote aren't facts. They are statistics, the interpretation of which is always open to debate.
As to their causes, poverty, despair, lack of opportunity, ignorance, undereducation. The current paradigm is treatment of the symptoms, i.e. substance abuse, violence, rather than treatment of the causes. IN the long run this is the most expensive option.
Treat the causes before the symptoms manifest...A much more cost effective solution.
It seems to me that some people on this board are presenting you with the facts as they see them. The only thing you've shown is your contempt for others. If someone chooses to relate things that they've seen, heard and been involved in which show a difference between the races or were the foundations for their beliefs, instead of just calling them ignorant perhaps you'd be better off just ignoring them.Originally posted by Bullypulpit
...What it is, no matter how much we wish it were otherwise.
I take reality as it comes, no fear there. Just what is.
Originally posted by Moi
The only ignorance here is you, and that's because you fail to give credence to people who, like it or not, have had a very different life experience with minorities.
"...where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today."
"Like anybody, I would like to live a long life; longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountain, and I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land."
Seems to me you do just that by calling them ignorant and using other derrogatory statements. The facts that they've provided along with their personal experiences shapes their beliefs. That doesn't make them ignorant. You may believe that they should work toward a more laudable society, but that doesn't make people ignorant or wrong.Originally posted by Bullypulpit
But the choice is theirs in how that experience shapes their view of minorities. They can choose to look beyond the stereotypes and see people for what and who they are, or they can take the easy road and let the stereotypes be their only yardstick, and the stereotype is not reality.
Originally posted by Moi
Just becuase someone's poor doesn't excuse criminal behavior.
Originally posted by bamthin
The senseless murder of a peaceful, God fearing man who only wanted what all of you pro-Iraq war people are so gung-ho about for the Iraqis. Liberty and freedom for black people.
Why can't you just either post something nice about him or post nothing?