[kcam213]

Originally Posted by funbustours

You're quite welcome! ...

is that buttermilk ???!! "

You and I got married the same year!

and yes it is true that I married a good mate, someone steady and doesn't sweat the small stuff. I didn't care if he was black, white or green, as long as he was good for me.

Pretty boys who hang out in clubs and parks are not looking for a soul mate...

Glad that you have survived cancer and living life to the fullest.

[funbustours]

Thanks...have a good one!

[bekajane]

My friend just became a Michigan state police trooper, said that racial profiling was taught as a legit tactic. We both think its ridiculous.

[and the]

My friend just became a Michigan state police trooper, said that racial profiling was taught as a legit tactic. We both think its ridiculous.

BS. You're (and him too if he told you that) confusing "profiling" with "racial profiling".

[upandrunning]

I have been all over the country. I never new racism until I moved to Florida for 10 years. Even black people would get mad when they wanted to move out away from Ni**ers and then they would tell me the whites moved thinking that they were Ni**ers, and the real ones moved in, making it a run down neighborhood again. Blacks are a different people from whites, and whites are different from Asians ect. I have lived around all. First off I am not a racists but I have seen the facts of blacks living in a home that I would not put a dog in and parking a 30k caddy out front. I have seen Mexicans paint homes every neon color under the sun, put little balls hanging down the whole perimeter of the inside of the car, drive with 34 people inside and live with 68 to an apt. I have seen Asians work night and day in a small shop that most other people would not make a go of. I have seen blacks drive a car not worth more than 300$ with 3000$ of rims on it. Stereotypes are not true every time, but they are there mostly because of a general truth. It would be almost impossible to make people get along with each other in this system, where people are at so different of economic status. If we want to homogenize our country we need to make some sort of hybrid of socialist and capitalist, taking out the ability of some to amass ridiculous wealth. What good does it do for society for a few to make 100 million of income a year? Not much.

[upandrunning]

By the way state troopers suck.

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Ya See....that's how some posts get "ugly"....by one person "assuming" that a blogger is "implying" something.....because I did not mention Asians, per se.

No, I didn't assume anything, that's why I asked. Because it was pretty apparent that you think there are only two races. "One race or the other"? That implies two. Your words, not mine. Maybe you just have a hard time clearly expressing what YOU mean?

[Alex Libman]

Of course it's right! People should leave bad areas and move to good ones, that's really the only way to make a difference in your environment. The race of the people involved is irrelevant, what matters are the socialist policies that caused most people to leave for the suburbs: high taxes, rent control, zoning, government incompetence, and so on.

[renter8319]

Originally Posted by willy1979

I am new to the forum and this conversation caught my attention. I will give my personal belief and then what I know to be true from my experience. The crime rate between white and blacks does not differ as much as the media and society would like you to believe. It is just that white are great pretenders. This have been instilled in us from birth. We like to envision the world around us as perfect if we are in an all white atmosphere. But the truth is that we do get away with more because we are not watched as closely as blacks. We have in our homes abuse, physically, sexually, and emotionally. We steal, lie (boy do we lie), cheat on our wives, create children out of wedlock( we just abort them). The truth is by staying in our little space it allow us to keep the image that we are better. If we are caught committing a crime we are forgiven for it by our white friends (favors) and we walk around as if nothing ever happened and we can go on to provide for our wives and we go on pretending until the day we die. I speak this from the things that I have seen and experienced. I would love to see someone else be this honest. I believe if we stop pretending for just a little why that our life is sooo much better that others. This country will be a better place.

i think this is bull. i'm not saying some of those things don't happen. what i am saying is that when they do, we want all hell brought upon the doer of said crimes.

[Indentured Servant]

Originally Posted by upandrunning

I have been all over the country. I never new racism until I moved to Florida for 10 years. Even black people would get mad when they wanted to move out away from Ni**ers and then they would tell me the whites moved thinking that they were Ni**ers, and the real ones moved in, making it a run down neighborhood again. Blacks are a different people from whites, and whites are different from Asians ect. I have lived around all. First off I am not a racists but I have seen the facts of blacks living in a home that I would not put a dog in and parking a 30k caddy out front. I have seen Mexicans paint homes every neon color under the sun, put little balls hanging down the whole perimeter of the inside of the car, drive with 34 people inside and live with 68 to an apt. I have seen Asians work night and day in a small shop that most other people would not make a go of. I have seen blacks drive a car not worth more than 300$ with 3000$ of rims on it. Stereotypes are not true every time, but they are there mostly because of a general truth. It would be almost impossible to make people get along with each other in this system, where people are at so different of economic status. If we want to homogenize our country we need to make some sort of hybrid of socialist and capitalist, taking out the ability of some to amass ridiculous wealth. What good does it do for society for a few to make 100 million of income a year? Not much.

Well…..it all comes down to this. Let’s just man up here and stop beating around the bush and employing anecdotal analysis. People need some self introspection in regards to the ROOT causation of these “different” behaviorisms manifesting in the “races”. I want people, from hence forth, to say whether they believe these differences are genetic or cultural. In other words, is it nature or nurture, if not the physical curse of Ham (Ham was the darker of Noah's son...of which blacks are theorized to be descendants of) for his laughing at his father’s Noah’s nakedness….or a combination there of.

As an African living in America, reared and immersed in the midst of the “black culture”, the one thing I can say for sure is that the culture practiced in black America did not come from Africa. So indeed, there is no “black culture” in America. That would be “African culture”. African slaves were systematically stripped of their language, the names, their religion; their customs…..in other words…..TRUE BLACK CULTURE. After being stripped of their identity, the African in America essentially morphed into a culture of the oppressed, with low esteem/self worth and a people who begin to see themselves in the denigrated way that the larger society saw and treated them. To this day, you will still hear black American use the term “good hair”. Good hair is hair like white folks. It’s easy to run the comb through and manage. Its corollary, “bad hair” is what the Negro with the less European or Native American mixture has. It’s the type of hair indigenous to West African blacks who are not mixed. Still, to this day, those traits that appear pure African are generally held to an inferior status by the black community.

My point is that it does not take intelligence to observe. All it takes is functioning sensory receptors sending messages to the brain. How the brain process those observation is what separates the wheat from the chafe. The unbaised cognitions of pattern recognition and the realizations that all actions create reactions, and hence the present is the reaction to past actions, is what allowed the seperation. I am afraid that many of you have not managed to separate the wheat from the chafe. The reason being is that you truncate the present from the past. You act as if the present exist in a vacuum unrelated to social evolution and history. Yes…..you will find blacks that behave badly, maybe in larger percentages than other groups. However, that should not be surprising given the history of how badly they were treated historically….relative to other groups. Over 90% of blacks in America are descendants of African Slaves brought here and abused. Actions create reactions. To think that 300 years of oppression did not manifest an economic, social, psychological and cultural reaction in the black community is incredulous. Of course….this is all moot if one believes that the root of black behavioral differences is genetic. Such a line of thinking is obviously that of “white supremacy”, at least relative to blacks as Asians might be debunking the theory of who sits at the top.