Reading all the stories about racism and the comments really make me wonder if people can ever get along.
On my own personal level, I have not experienced this type of behavior. When I use to live in SoCal my neighborhood had a lot of black families and I never had one incident of crime vistited on me.
I had a lot of dialogue on race with my neighbors too.
I don't understand how the use of the n word is even excepted in their own community either.

As I shared before I have a black granddaughter and I am afraid for her and my son and his wife....
I am sure he withholds some of the more ugly stories visited upon them from folks of both colors....

Is there any hope?

Maybe it's just time to admit the obvious, and move on.

http://fredoneverything.org/missouri-taking-the-national-temperture/

I was raised as a liberal (3rd generation Quaker) and have found that over the course of my life I have become less a liberal and more of a realist. I worked at one job in downtown Philadelphia with a lot of africian americians, one guy about 10 years younger than me wanted to borrow a 20 to get a blow job during his lunch break andf then hit a bar. Another who did the deliveries would head out and take a 2 hour lunch break at an all you could eat deli and then rack up 1 or 2 hours OT per day.
 I have a whole bunch of examples from personal experience that has shown to me (no offense ment) that an educated person, white, black or any other race, acts more responsable than someone from a simular background but not as well educated.
 I also have had the privilege to work with people who have immigrated into the US with nothing, worked to get an education and made a wonderful life for themselves.
 What's the difference between them? maybe just the fact that one wants to take thier destiny into thier own hands while the others want thier destiny handed to them.
 Just maybe the a lot of racial unrest is due to the fact that the undereducated minorities are realizing that they need to change the way they act to get ahead but are throwing a temper tantrum instead. It's sure easier than buckling down and getting thier sh!t together and throwing temper tantrums has worked for them before.

 Just my take on it all.


OldNslow, good link, fun read.

oldNslow wrote on 11/13/15 at 06:05:10:



if I were rude–I emphatically am not rude–“Try contributing instead of demanding. I mean, beyond blues, basketball, and arson. Remember, we the white privileged invented both cities and matches. And virtually everything else that allows you to complain in comfort.”

While some room for debate over who invented cities might exist, you can't say he cant turn a phrase.
Suggested reading

Serowbot wrote on 11/13/15 at 06:53:12:


I would even say more so....
Wasn't a few days ago you called me a democrat  
He is college educated, Fresno state and a master from Pepperdine.
He is waaaaaaay smarter than me, but who ain't  

raydawg wrote on 11/13/15 at 08:02:45:

Oh,... yeah...  
I forgot about that... ...

Why is his hat Photoshopped?...  ...

Now,.. I have to wonder about the writing on the t-shirt... and the motivations of the poster's creator...

EDIT...
I found the original..

Think about it,
(You may put me in the, ’tin foil hat’, group)
Don’t care, Just think about it.
I believe. Their is another force, ‘Purposely’, KEEPING the, ‘separation’ going.
Because it keeps your mind OFF, how badly your getting screwed, by other things.

Went to a boys boarding school.
Became friends with a, ‘Black’ person, from Chicago.
We were both independent people,
(Un like some, that were ALWAYS, in their Certain Group)
Once and a while, we would walk together to the refectory,
Or sneak out in the woods for a smoke.
Not, BBF, type, but friends, who chatted freely about class, instructors, girls, etc, and also, Race & Religion!

Next year, saw him, we were happy to see each other.
And had a good time chatting.
BUT, he became more distant as time went on.
Finally, he said we can’t talk any more, because I have Oppressed his race.
Cheese and Rice, WTF !!!!!!!!

I checked further, and found out he was taking a, ‘Black History” Class.
I signed up for that class the next quarter, and was told I could NOT take it, because I was WHITE.

30 years ago, first time in Huntsville TX.
Here this, naive, ‘White Boy’, from Minn. Saw and experienced things,
which, ‘he thought’,  went OUT of style in the 30-40’s.

This, hatred, of a person, JUST, because of the color of their skin.
And  NOT,  on what kind, of person they are.
Could be Very Easily, SOLVED by now.  But it’s not.

Is it matter of the, ‘fairy dust’, people, swinging the pendulum, to far ?
(example: Mother and child, in a store, the child is very unruly, the mother, gives a little swat on the butt, grabs their hand, set’s then down, and scolds them. And another, ‘fairy dust’, person, calls the police, and the Mother is put in Jail)

Or is it a mater of, Someone, ‘Purposely’, telling someone else,
"You are Special, and You have, ’Special’, rights”.
To Spread, discord ?


Oh, Bot, Yesterday, went to town, the, special was 2 Polish Sausages, Sauerkraut, Beans, and Cauliflower soup.
And as it was after, the lunch rush, I got a, bigger helping of, Sauerkraut & Beans.
So does that means, I can Post ? (Just trying out your new, proposed, proposal.  8 paragraphs.)