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I also think the term "all that" is no longer in the popular lexicon.
And, yes I'm hoping to make it a little more purple.
No offense or anything, but you aren't exactly the type of personality that's going to sway any political opinions in your favor. In fact, I think your arrogance will prove to backfire on you.
Seriously dude, I realize you are a disabled vet, and I thank you for your service, but I would ask you do us another service and stop posting until you learn to play like an adult.
One other thing you should take into account is that the incidents on these boards are uncorraborated. I'm not saying racism doesn't exist. But the truth is Mexican-Americans live all over Nebraska and I've never heard of people in a small town "running" a family out of it.
My point is there may be other reasons, other than race, that made the family unpopular.
It is all too easy for a reclusive pompous new comer to simply blame an entire community for not accepting them because of some superficial difference. When the actual reason for not being accepted may be that the person was reclusive not engaged and pompous.
But if you walk into Laurel (or any small town in the country) and simply "demand" respect and expect those who have lived there their entire life to defer to you then you are in for a rude awakening.
I was all set to be so impressed and appreciative of Nitemarehippy, but now I am somewhat disillusioned. I guess the first thing I would like to address is the Republican bit. I claim to be a Republican, simply so I can vote in the primary. But I vote for the person, not the party. But in line with your view of politics, I would like to ask if you agree w/ Obama's idea that the government should not be responsible for our Vet's medical bills? Also, his response that - evidently his fellow Americans must not be as "Patriotic" as he is. Now that made my blood boil! I feel every military person should be afforded every medical benefit possible. My Uncles were military, one was in for 22 years. I hate to think where he would have been without the medical benefits that the government gave him. You said you are a disabled Vet,Sir. May I ask how you feel about that?
You also said we wasted 4 hours of your life reading these posts. I don't think I made you read it, and I don't think anyone else did either. It was one of the choices you fought for, Sir. The right to do what ever you please. And I for one, would like to thank you for fighting for my rights, and my right to reply to your posts. But if you read my past posts, you read where I said there is good and bad in every race, creed and color. There is white trash, just as there is trash in every race. Race has nothing to do with how well you are thought of in my book. I have many Hispanic friends, that I hold dear to me. I have a friend from Iraq that escaped to the US, as they had already killed his brother. He calls me his sister. He has a good heart. As do all my friends, and it makes not one bit of difference what color they are. A person is my friend because of who they are and how they treat me, not what color they may be, they are my friends...they just may happen to have a slightly different color of skin. My dad looked like he was a Native American, and some people asked him if he was. We all laughed because it was just the years spent in the sun putting up hay. But I will tell you what a good friend of his said about him once. She said "If he decides to be your friend ... there isn't a da*n thing you can do about it!" I would like to think the same thing of myself. I also would like to think my views are pretty liberal. I don't smoke any more, but I don't think they should have taken away the right to smoke in bars, if you don't like the smoke, go to the bars that haven't allowed smoking in them for some time. I also believe in your right to have an abortion, not because it is the thing to do, but because it is just one more right the government is taking away from us. I think we should be able to make some decisions on our own. And if we continue on this road, how long will it be before the government tells me what I can and can't do in my own home. And it is my body, I should be able to do what ever I want to with it. I thought those were some of the freedoms or ideals that America has fought for.
However Sir, I must agree with some of the others that have posted to your response. You have readied yourself for a fight, before there is even a reason to. It is as though you are looking for someone to fight with, and I find that very sad. I am sure you did go through alot of pain as a child, and you may not agree with this, but the reason I feel that I can identify with your pain is...I am fat. I have always been heavy, kids can be very hurtful, I know. My own mother gave me a complex, and I wasn't even that heavy as a child, but bigger than the others. I wasn't obese as a child, I am now, but I wasn't then. But I was ridiculed, and things were said to me that I never have forgotten. But I am older now, and I realize that I don't need the people that react to me in that manner. They are the losers, they don't take the time to get to know the me that is inside. You know how they say "fat people are jolly"? We learn to be that way, so that we can laugh off what people say to us or about us.
Sir, I think you need to work on your personality skills. As I was told by a lady at a job that I interviewed for, "I can teach you the job, that doesn't worry me. What I can't teach you - is how to be nice." I soon learned why she said that. Her husband was a mule. He brow beat me. He tried to get me to quit. He had to fire me, as I don't quit at anything. The lady that had the job after me, didn't want to take his cr*p. She had one arm, and she walked out and went to a bar. He followed her there and beat her up. He was well over 6ft. and in his early 40's and he beat up a one armed lady in her late 60's. I soon realized why his wife said she couldn't "teach you to be nice"! I am sure she had been on the receiving end of his personality many times before. Now Sir, I am not saying you are a wife beater, but your personality that came through to me in your posts, reminded me of him. Kind of raised the hackles of my hair!
Good grief, it sounds to me like you are just on a hard search for a "Redneck" to take out all your hostilities on! You mentioned several times that you are a disabled veteran, but it sounds like the biggest handicap you have is you mind set. I am very sorry that your are physically disabled, but your mind set is of your own doing. It sounds as if before you get done, you are going to have to set a perimeter, and walk it constantly, if you continue on in life with such a low opinion of everyone else. You sound as if you are the only educated, intelligent person on the planet. And I know of many others who don't have to flaunt their degrees and medals to get their point accross, and many people still like them. You don't sound so much like an eletist, as you do a supremicist!
Sir, I also don't pretend to have your education or your worldly experience. I have a GED and the School of Hard Knocks, and yes, I had to look up the word prosylitize. But I hope I don't come off as a person with a chip on their shoulder as big as yours. All I can say is - I, too, think maybe you should have rented before you buy in any Smalltown, USA. Not because of the town, Sir, but because you seem to want to change everyone to believe the way you do. You are going to go thru alot of people if you keep that attitude, and it won't be long before a Smalltown has decided that they don't want to be put down if they don't agree with you. Every person has their own ideas, that is what makes the world go around. If we all thought the same way, we would never advance. Or as I was told many times about a saying of an old Swede "It's a good t'ing we don't all t'ink alike, else everybody would want Mudder (Mother)!!
I hope your relocation works out for you. Again, I would like to thank you for your service to our country and defending our freedoms. I am very serious about that. I just hope you don't forget what you fought for, and don't try to force your "high falooting" schooling, degrees, medals, and ideas in everyone's face. And I say that for your own sake, Sir, not mine. And as I have said in other posts, if you have to show your degrees and tell your IQ, then you really aren't as smart as you would like to think. A truely smart person would be able to "prosylitize" their opinion, and enlighten people, being happy to have enlightened people with out acting like a know it all. It really sounds to me like you have more of a problem with being Mexican, than I do. But that is just my humble GED opinion! And I am sure my phrase of "high falooting" is not a popular phrase either, but there again, it is my right to say or use any phrase I want to.
And just a little side note. Again, if you read my past posts, you know that I make my living telemarketing doing surveys. Hey, it's a job, the pay isn't bad for someone who can't do a physically demanding job. But most of my surveys have had to do with health care of late. And when I find out someone has been in the service, I like to thank them for protecting my rights, and laying their life on the line. I appreciate your having done the same. And I wish you good luck in life, Sir, as I am sure you are going to need it, unless you change the way you feel about people like me. I am guessing you are setting there telling yourself that I am uneducated, and a redneck. Well, I would say bring it on, but I hate to do battle with someone who is unarmed with common sense and respect for everyone else.
It would be very interesting to find out one day, that we have run in to each other, discuss many issues, and see how we each felt about each other. Probably won't happen, as I too, keep to myself for the most part. But it would still be interesting.
I will respond to you with my grown up face. Honestly, I demand respect everywhere I go. This does not mean I walk around with my nose up in the air, it means I want to be treated like everyone else. Like a human being. It also does not mean I will demand a single person to "defer" to me. Demanding respect for one's self is hardly pompous in my book.
If I walk around town and I am this big douche nozzle, call me on it. That's not me though. If you and I were to sit around and drink coffee or a beer, we would get along great, I can guarantee it. I'm jovial, friendly, humble when need be and an all around good guy. I can talk football, fishing, politics, the military, growing up in Nebraska.....
But, (I hate starting a sentence with a conjunction) due to me being a Pro-Gay, socialist medicine wanting, anti-death penalty having, organic food eating, half-Mexican liberal atheist, I can't play in your reindeer games?
I keep to myself, because I'm a disabled vet and can't handle too many people at one time. I moving to a small town, because I don't want to feel like I'm being surrounded by the world. To me these are all legitimate reasons for wanting to buy a house in a small town.
As for the "family". Nothing you read in forums is able to be corroborated unless it's on the news. Just because you haven't heard of any unreported, personal stories of racism, does not mean they don't exist. The whole point of a forum is to ingest information and hopefully respond back to said information. I was responding to that story and the numerous racist attitudes expressed following that post.
I can't be bullied. I don't have a wife or a kid to protect. They won't be able to push me out. Now, could that family have been a bunch of meth heads? Yes, of course. Was the whole story a big lie, maybe. I don't know. I was just asserting that it won't happen to me. I do hope by "rude awakening" you don't mean violence. That would not be cool. If you **** me off or offend me, you will hear about it. I, however, will not be assaulting you. I'm sure that's not what you meant. I'm liberal remember? We don't like violence.
I live in Oregon right now, last year a black family had a cross burned in their yard(google it). This stuff happens all over and should not be skawfed at.
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No, I'm already an arrogant elitist.
