Wow, those last few posts were some of the most ignorant hogwash I've yet to see on TFP. First of all, just becuase I have Irish heritage doesn't mean I can fly to Ireland and live like a king. Having abackgorund means just that... it's a background. Some people like theirs, others don't... but your background doesn't make or break you, sorry...
Also, I'm glad that my having black friends doesn't make me master of all things racial. Since you are apparently not white, alansmithee (this is what I gather from your post after mine) then you must know ALL about white Americans, and our hate for you, and disdain, and how absolutely none of us consider you equal. Hell, I bet you think we'd go back to slavery at the drop of a hat if the law allowed it. WTF are you smoking? First of all, it was white people who SAW the error in slavery that abolished it in the first place. When slavery was outlawed in the US, what black people were helping write those laws? Oh, there WEREN'T any... it was WHITE people writing laws to abolish slavery. Hmmm, crazy. Also, just because a white guy doesn't want to pay for your kids to go to college doesn't mean he's racist. Again, I'm sorry to pop your deluded bubble... it's just the way things are. Also, where have I made racist and hateful remarks? I don't seem to see any in my previous posts, so I'm curious what I wrote that fits either of those categories? ANything I've said has been from life experience. I also don't put all black people into the same boat... nor do I with people of ANY race, including my own. There are pieces of shit with every color of skin imaginable, but those people and their mistakes shouldn't cost me anything because I share their skin color either. I never kept slaves, neither did my parents. Why the hell should I OWE you anything because you're black and I'm white? Great, it's only been 40 years. I know, it sucks. I feel real bad it happened... but *I* didn't do any goddamend thing. I'm not saying you can just go back to Africa... the comment was made to show how inane any arguments are of "going back home".
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They don't play the lave or race cards to get things for free, they just want acknowledgement of the wrongs that were done to them and continue to be done.
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Okay, I acknowledge it. Bad... no, VERY bad things were done to black people by white people in America. Yes, there are still racist assholes who would as soon lynch a black man as look at him. I'm sorry for that. Not because I'm white and they might be as well, but because nobody should hate someone else like that no matter what. So, I've acknowledged it now. I expect that you'll make sure my child has the same chance to get into a state college that yours does, and that yours won't get in solely to make a quota. Oh, it's NOT acknowledgement you want? It's eqaulity... but how do you get it? Excuse me, what can I, as a middle-class American white male do, personally, to ensure that you are my equal? I mean, at a bare minimum it can start with one white man helping a black man, right? You said yourself that we are the ones with the power and we have to GIVE that power to you. What is it that I have that will help you? Seriously? I'm not being a dick, I just don't understand. Is it money? I don't really have any... but if you NEED money, well, let me know. Is it an education? I assume that, since you are posting here and making rather intelligent arguments (though I completely disagree with them) that you are educated, either via institution or self-educated. But can I help you in school? Can I give your kids a job? What can *I* do to help your family feel mor equal? Will giving you money, and a job and a house in white suburbia make you equal? Would you FEEL equal? I assume since you call MLK an Uncle Tom that those items probably wouldn't suit you... so what is it you REALLY want? You complain that you don't have it... but nobody has defined "it" to this point, and I'm quite curious. Wait!
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Oh, where woud us'n be without y'all kind whites to be lookin' out for us?
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So, I assume this snide remark means you don't WANT anything from us... but you keep saying you do. You're the one who doesn't have a straight story. You're just pissed to have dark skin and live in America, and somehow you like to think I'm to blame for something because I have white skin and live in America. Holy shit... THAT'S RACISM!!! Sorry, the only one not attending a meeting of osme sort seems to be me. Next time I go "get the sheet" I'll expect you'll be wearing your colors out your back pocket and will come "jack me up" for being such a piece of shit. Wow, it's pretty silly how fucking dumb that sounds isn't it...