tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post9059258754840182948..comments2024-03-18T22:34:29.437-04:00Comments on field negro: Relax folks, it's just an "off color" remark.field negrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15411743587725023134noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-37792775856228533932009-10-22T12:51:19.097-04:002009-10-22T12:51:19.097-04:00For information and products relating to height in...For information and products relating to height increase or footcare please visit HEELSNCLEAVAGE<br /><br /><a href="http://www.heelsncleavage.com/Heel_Lift/cat18290_25119.aspx" rel="nofollow">HEEL LIFT</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.heelsncleavage.com/Heel_Lift/cat18290_25119.aspx" rel="nofollow">HEIGHT INCREASE INSOLES</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.heelsncleavage.com/Heel_Lift/cat18290_25119.aspx" rel="nofollow">SHOE INSERTS</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.heelsncleavage.com/Shoes_Insoles/cat18290_115745.aspx" rel="nofollow">SHOES INSOLES</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.heelsncleavage.com/Invisible_Bras/cat18290_64013.aspx" rel="nofollow">BRAS</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.heelsncleavage.com/Foot_Care/cat18290_25123.aspx" rel="nofollow">HEEL PADS</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.deelsonheels.com/" rel="nofollow">SHOE INSOLE</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.deelsonheels.com/" rel="nofollow">INCREASE MY HEIGHT</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.deelsonheels.com/" rel="nofollow">INCREASE YOUR HEIGHT</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.heelsncleavage.com/" rel="nofollow">NIPPLE COVERS</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-37457196132483891302009-01-02T08:50:00.000-05:002009-01-02T08:50:00.000-05:00"When you are with your friends and people you tru...<I>"When you are with your friends and people you trust, there is no telling what you might want to call us. I am guessing "colored" would be tame in comparison to some of the other names."</I><BR/><BR/>If this is your attitude after decades of efforts and billions of dollars to "fight" "racism" then in all seriousness we need to be looking at racial separation. It reminds me of Rampage Jackson's arrest; he evaded the police because in his mind LA cops are so racist that his life was in danger.<BR/><BR/>If it's really that bad, then let's be honest with ourselves and declare our attempts at bolshevik-style multiculturalism to have have failed, and that they were misguided to begin with. It is impossible for us white folks to accept black people when you think we are all hugely racist in the year 2008. Look at catnip's comments above, he sees society as "us" versus "them".<BR/><BR/>Why do negroes insist on living in white countries? Has any American negro ever moved to Jamaica, or Ivory Coast, or Somalia? Why not? If whitey were really as bad as you make him out to be you would have done what all of our ancestors have done at one point: find a better place.<BR/><BR/>We have done quite enough to accommodate the negro and if it isn't enough we must insist that you leave America. Try your whiney victim act in Mexico and see how long it lasts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-86362836096851902432008-11-20T06:39:00.000-05:002008-11-20T06:39:00.000-05:00Thanks again Black Diaspora. I sincerely appreciat...Thanks again Black Diaspora. I sincerely appreciate your advice. Take Care.Dark Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051316480970381291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-83293472572913408782008-11-19T17:55:00.000-05:002008-11-19T17:55:00.000-05:00I would have assumed she was being ironic...but I ...I would have assumed she was being ironic...but I don't know her.<BR/><BR/>When my dad was stationed in Nebraska (early 60s), I couldn't go swimming in the pool in town. There was a sign there. No Coloreds or Indians. (My family is a mix of french canuck, mohawk, onondaga, and cree.)<BR/><BR/>'Colored' was the word nice women with pocketbooks used in public. But I've always assumed it wasn't the word they were thinking. Because I was called 'red nigger' by Nebraskans not carrying pocketbooks. And up here in Montana, I've been called prairie nigger (as recently as 2006)...so it's to those sorts of people I am my snottiest. <BR/><BR/>I use words that are meant to annoy...e.g. when I read posters grouse about Obama, I write something like, "oh <I>nooooo,</I> a colored man - leader of the free world!" <BR/><BR/>colored. <BR/><BR/>They know I'm laughing at them, but they never seem to know what to say back. Sometimes it even shuts them up. <BR/><BR/>No matter the result, it just makes me feel better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-49427015522610944832008-11-19T03:27:00.000-05:002008-11-19T03:27:00.000-05:00@dark moon: Most people see a walking pathology. N...@dark moon: <I>Most people see a walking pathology. Nevertheless, even with my goals, I am very angry.</I><BR/><BR/>Life is your greatest gift. It was a gift that you gave yourself.<BR/><BR/>Nothing about your life is happenstance: you created it the way it is for a reason. But if you attempt to discover that reason, you will live your life searching rather than "being."<BR/><BR/>You will live it looking backward rather than forward.<BR/><BR/>You will live it planning to do, rather than just doing.<BR/><BR/>If life is the greatest gift that you have given yourself, then this moment is the greatest gift of all the moments of your life.<BR/><BR/>For in this moment everything can change: change is only a thought away, a choice away, the choosing of which can change everything.<BR/><BR/>I like you black moon. I like the plans that you have set for yourself:<BR/><BR/><I>I am finishing a master’s program and I plan to purse a PhD. I hope to one day create a community center for Black children, etc and I wish to be a social advocate for change....</I><BR/><BR/>Those are laudable goals, and say a great deal about the person you're <I>being</I> and wish to be.<BR/><BR/>Value, then, those goals, more than the anger and the rage that would consume you.<BR/><BR/><I>What you're "being," black moon, is more important than what you're "doing."</I> Make sure, then, that you're <I>being</I> the highest concept of yourself that you have ever imagined.<BR/><BR/>Let me give you one of life's little known secrets. If you think this through, it has the power to change you, but you must have a willingness to change.<BR/><BR/>Here it is:<BR/><BR/><I>Nothing in your world is real.<BR/>The meaning of everything is the meaning you give it.<BR/>You are who you say you are, and your experience is what you say it is.</I><BR/><BR/>This is life simply told, and simply expressed. There's is nothing more to say.<BR/><BR/>I wish you well.Black Diasporahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08890792781361839105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-41380121885199208932008-11-19T00:50:00.000-05:002008-11-19T00:50:00.000-05:00Black Moon:Your frustrations are shared by a lot o...<I>Black Moon:<BR/><BR/>Your frustrations are shared by a lot of black men, but here and now, Granny is telling you to look up and know that you're somebody too. Don't ever let no one make you feel different or invisible or kill your spirit, because YOUR SOMEBODY! Your existence doesn't depend on the negativity that others may try to project on you. It depends on what you choose to believe.</I><BR/><BR/>Thank you granny standing for truth. I do appreciate your point.<BR/><BR/>I Do not have any inherent insecurity in myself (except what is expected) but I am angry that I must continually answer for everything Black people when we do something wrong and that I must continually prove my worth, because most non-blacks feel they are justified in casting me in the role as defective. It is infuriating that when Whites commit heinous crimes, it is an aberration and there is great pains to use science, morality and such to explain this abomination, but when good occurs, it is naturally assumed and applauded as something White people are supposed to do. Interesting still with Prop 8 and other voting assumptions of Blacks that we are voting monolith who are homophobic and who vote like slaves to a Democratic ticket, but the voting patterns of whites are always divided along social--economic, gender, and other markers that perpetuate the point of complexity.<BR/><BR/>I do understand granny that it is expected that we have to be completely perfect to even get grudging acceptance, but for the lip service that is paid to Western/American individualism, blacks are the only group in which we are foisted on as a monolith of something that is palpable decay. You have to be extraordinary. You have to transcend something, the race, gender, even mortality to even be considered remotely acceptable.<BR/><BR/>Of course, I will say again, I sincerely appreciate your point and maybe as you say, keeping your spirit alive so it won’t be deformed, is the key to freedom, but my anger and frustration is at something that is not inevitable, it can dismantled if anyone really cared. Finding a way to save one’s freedom is difficult to come by when so much energy has been regretably being placed into being seen as bloodless, safe, and sanitized. That is something I won't make the mistake to replicate again.<BR/><BR/><I>dark moon, I really wish to give you an answer that will resonate, that will compel a reevaluation of your perspective.<BR/><BR/>So in that spirit I respectfully offer you the following:<BR/><BR/>It's not for others for whom you and I live. Ultimately, we live life for the self.<BR/><BR/>In an earlier post I quoted a modern-day master who said:<BR/><BR/>Life doesn't happen to us; it happens through us.<BR/><BR/>Granny said that life is about choice, and indeed it is: Given the things that have happened to me, I could have expressed bitterness, anger, rage and hatred, but I didn't--or let me say more accurately--I didn't for long: those things passed.<BR/><BR/>I realized that if I acted the way that others did, and, by responding in kind, I became them. And that was not something I wanted to do or be.<BR/><BR/>Either I used my experiences to enhance who I wished to be--someone compassionate, tolerant and forgiving--or I would waste this golden, and blessed opportunity.<BR/><BR/>Because I saw the ugliness of hatred, hatred became something I didn't wish to be.<BR/><BR/>Because I saw the bitterness of intolerance, intolerance became something that I would shun.<BR/><BR/>Because I saw how the soul is destroyed by revenge, forgiveness became the wellspring from which I drew to keep my soul intact and to uplift it.<BR/><BR/>Therefore, I used my experiences to elevate the best of me, rather than the worst of me.<BR/><BR/>My urging is this: Don't ally yourself with the forces that would dehumanize you, render you invisible, and dismiss you.<BR/><BR/>Use those forces to rise above them, and transform yourself into the image of your own creating, your own choosing--not that of those who would fashion you in their own image.<BR/><BR/>I learn years ago not to take another's assessment of me as my own assessment. <BR/><BR/>If I did, I unwittingly became a conspirator in my own demise: the demise of my self-definition, my self-worth, my self-perception, and my self-evolution.<BR/><BR/>I hope that this answers your question: "How has it humanized you?"<BR/><BR/>In a nutshell: My experiences under racism have shown me more clearly--than perhaps it would have otherwise--those attributes that I didn't wish to have for myself, my life, and my soul--but those attributes that I wished to embrace, and imitate.<BR/><BR/>Because of those experiences, my soul development, my soul experiences have been phenomenal.<BR/><BR/>Isn't that what life is all about? I would change nothing! It's all been perfect: the good as well as the bad. <BR/><BR/>Both have benefited me, and have given me the poor-man's edge over the wealthy.<BR/><BR/>I repeat: It's risky being white.</I><BR/><BR/>You know your words are deceptively simply, but I know that I am not nearly as evolved as you black diaspora and I admit that I do find it hard to relate in that you were able to get past the rage and simply exist. I work very hard and struggle and although my story is certainly not unique, I am finishing a master’s program and I plan to purse a PhD. I hope to one day create a community center for Black children, etc and I wish to be a social advocate for change—there are so many things I want to do that is creative and artistic. Most people see a walking pathology. Nevertheless, even with my goals, I am very angry. I find it difficult to assuage, placate, and to soothe white people and non-black people. I have to explain my existence in one form or another. I can’t cut myself off from the majority—I have to deal with Whites and others because that is what blacks usually do. <BR/><BR/>. I always thought the biggest freedom was being wrapped in whiteness. It is a balm and gives you a sense of identity and purpose. It allows you the freedom to exist without being troubled by a difficult identity and you have the knowledge that most want to model their success and to be White.<BR/><BR/>As I said I have not evolved to where you can exist with such serenity above the fray. Maybe one day, but anger although tiring, seems to propel me forward and demand. <BR/><BR/>Pardon the staccato stream of conscious response, it is less structured when you are discussing Soul Force. Soul Freedom.<BR/><BR/>Thanks again black diaspora and grannystandinfortruth. I do appreciate the effort and response.Dark Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051316480970381291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-51331750119614397722008-11-17T21:32:00.000-05:002008-11-17T21:32:00.000-05:00@dark moon: "I see that being Black has dehumanize...@dark moon: <I>"I see that being Black has dehumanized me in that I am rendered invisible and my ideas and existence are dismissed."</I><BR/><BR/>dark moon, I really wish to give you an answer that will resonate, that will compel a reevaluation of your perspective.<BR/><BR/>So in that spirit I respectfully offer you the following:<BR/><BR/>It's not for others for whom you and I live. Ultimately, we live life for the self.<BR/><BR/>In an earlier post I quoted a modern-day master who said:<BR/><BR/><I>Life doesn't happen to us; it happens through us.</I><BR/><BR/>Granny said that life is about choice, and indeed it is: Given the things that have happened to me, I could have expressed bitterness, anger, rage and hatred, but I didn't--or let me say more accurately--I didn't for long: those things passed.<BR/><BR/>I realized that if I acted the way that others did, and, by responding in kind, <B><I>I became them</I></B>. And that was not something I wanted to do or be.<BR/><BR/>Either I used my experiences to enhance who I wished to be--someone compassionate, tolerant and forgiving--or I would waste this golden, and blessed opportunity.<BR/><BR/>Because I saw the ugliness of hatred, hatred became something I didn't wish to be.<BR/><BR/>Because I saw the bitterness of intolerance, intolerance became something that I would shun.<BR/><BR/>Because I saw how the soul is destroyed by revenge, forgiveness became the wellspring from which I drew to keep my soul intact and to uplift it.<BR/><BR/>Therefore, I used my experiences to elevate the best of me, rather than the worst of me.<BR/><BR/>My urging is this: Don't ally yourself with the forces that would dehumanize you, render you invisible, and dismiss you.<BR/><BR/>Use those forces to rise above them, and transform yourself into the image of your own creating, your own choosing--not that of those who would fashion you in their own image.<BR/><BR/>I learn years ago not to take another's assessment of me as my own assessment. <BR/><BR/>If I did, I unwittingly became a conspirator in my own demise: the demise of my self-definition, my self-worth, my self-perception, and my self-evolution.<BR/><BR/>I hope that this answers your question: "<I>How has it humanized you?"</I><BR/><BR/>In a nutshell: <I>My experiences under racism have shown me more clearly--than perhaps it would have otherwise--those attributes that I didn't wish to have for myself, my life, and my soul--but those attributes that I wished to embrace, and imitate.</I><BR/><BR/>Because of those experiences, my soul development, my soul experiences have been phenomenal.<BR/><BR/>Isn't that what life is all about? I would change nothing! It's <I>all</I> been perfect: the good as well as the bad. <BR/><BR/>Both have benefited me, and have given me the poor-man's edge over the wealthy.<BR/><BR/>I repeat: <I>It's risky being white.</I>Black Diasporahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08890792781361839105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-87677038234702181162008-11-17T19:15:00.000-05:002008-11-17T19:15:00.000-05:00I love granny! :) Granny, I hope you don't ever st...I love granny! :) <BR/><BR/>Granny, I hope you don't ever stop reading and posting on this site.<BR/><BR/>Your knowledge and perspective is always appreciated. Even if we don't always agree.field negrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15411743587725023134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-86469568448813230402008-11-17T16:46:00.000-05:002008-11-17T16:46:00.000-05:00black diaspora:"being black has made me more compa...black diaspora:<BR/><BR/>"being black has made me more compassionate, more tolerant, more forgiving than perhaps I would have been otherwise."<BR/><BR/>I can relate to that, and I truly understand what you saying.<BR/><BR/>"Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;"<BR/><BR/>Sharon CT:<BR/><BR/>Me, myself, and I would prefer for people to just call me by my name, and I'll do the same. I'm like you that's too many syllables for me. (smile)<BR/><BR/>Black Moon:<BR/><BR/>Your frustrations are shared by a lot of black men, but here and now, Granny is telling you to look up and know that you're somebody too. Don't ever let no one make you feel different or invisible or kill your spirit, because YOUR SOMEBODY! Your existence doesn't depend on the negativity that others may try to project on you. It depends on what you choose to believe.GrannyStandingforTruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18393482390585845081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-74672461105104816352008-11-17T14:47:00.000-05:002008-11-17T14:47:00.000-05:00What may surprise some whites is that, if I had my...<I>What may surprise some whites is that, if I had my life to live over, I would live it again as a black man.</I><BR/><BR/>This doesn't surprise me at all. When I was a little kid I remember hearing that "Negroes would rather be white," and thinking to myself that this was the most bizarre thing I'd ever heard.TrueBluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03247629724349664650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-88864849624523437412008-11-17T12:42:00.000-05:002008-11-17T12:42:00.000-05:00Granny, being black has made me more compassionate...<I>Granny, being black has made me more compassionate, more tolerant, more forgiving than perhaps I would have been otherwise.<BR/><BR/>It's risky being white.<BR/><BR/>What may surprise some whites is that, if I had my life to live over, I would live it again as a black man.<BR/><BR/>Being black has its advantages: it humanizes.</I><BR/><BR/><BR/>Wow. That is quite interesting. How has it humanized you? For me, being black has probably given me a greater perspective of non-blacks--a greater hypervigilance and deep artisitc insight, but I see that being Black has dehumanized me in that I am rendered invisible and my ideas and existence are dismissed. I must add that I don't think that is victim language, but the experience of being negated that makes me angry and frsutrated--not at peace.Dark Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051316480970381291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-54245018751880819102008-11-17T10:59:00.000-05:002008-11-17T10:59:00.000-05:00black diaspora, your words take us all to new heig...black diaspora, your words take us all to new heights.<BR/><BR/>"And if y'all would prefer "African-American," would y'all do me the favor of calling me "European-American?""<BR/><BR/>Too many syllables for me. You can just call me an Omerican.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-25049373937776164202008-11-17T04:10:00.000-05:002008-11-17T04:10:00.000-05:00Granny, being black has made me more compassionate...Granny, being black has made me more compassionate, more tolerant, more forgiving than perhaps I would have been otherwise.<BR/><BR/>It's risky being white.<BR/><BR/>What may surprise some whites is that, if I had my life to live over, I would live it again as a black man.<BR/><BR/>Being black has its advantages: <I>it humanizes</I>.<BR/><BR/>And I can savor the sweet smell of freedom, since it was denied me for so long.<BR/><BR/>And I can bask under the sun of expanded opportunity, since much of my life was lived under the shadow of limitations and restrictions.<BR/><BR/>But through it all, only that which defined me as physical was limited: my soul soared to new heights, took in an expansive view that extended beyond limitations and restrictions into the eternal.<BR/><BR/>I agree that we kill each day, and yet there's one death, loss of life, that is prized above all others:<BR/><BR/><I>23 ¶ And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.<BR/>24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: <B>but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.</B></I>Black Diasporahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08890792781361839105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-63990075342943871182008-11-17T01:15:00.000-05:002008-11-17T01:15:00.000-05:00black diaspora:Their behavior was cruel and cold-h...black diaspora:<BR/><BR/>Their behavior was cruel and cold-heartless, simply put. Notice that I said heartless instead of hearted, that was no error on my behalf. Those people don't possess a heart at all. It is similar to how whites who had black children in slavery days did some of their children. <BR/><BR/>There are two emotions that are the strongest in the world and are brothers, and that is love and hate. Cain killed Abel didn't he? But Jesus defeated the Devil. All were brothers. <BR/><BR/>In the bible when it says "Thou Shalt Not Kill" people don't realize that most of them do it on a daily basis in little subtle ways, because you can kill with your mouth. You can kill a person's influence, You can kill a person's spirit, you can kill speaking ill will towards someone.<BR/>Nevertheless, Jesus can resurrect.GrannyStandingforTruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18393482390585845081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-7276668630594767582008-11-17T00:20:00.000-05:002008-11-17T00:20:00.000-05:00@granny: To this day, her white side of the family...@granny: <I>To this day, her white side of the family will have nothing to do with her and denies her as their flesh and blood.</I><BR/><BR/>Granny, a very, very, very, wise man once said, and I paraphrase:<BR/><BR/><I>"Life doesn't happen to us; it happens through us."</I><BR/><BR/>The reaction of the white family to their black kin makes you wonder what beliefs, experiences, fears, perspectives, and perceptions are lurking in their hearts to caused them to process their [non-]relationship with their grandson, and granddaughter in the manner that they did.Black Diasporahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08890792781361839105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-67669125194408356522008-11-16T23:52:00.000-05:002008-11-16T23:52:00.000-05:00I view it differently than you do, but not so diff...I view it differently than you do, but not so differently that we're on different planets. To me, the idea of racism as a disease tends to obliterate the subtleties that often make all the difference. We could write books about this, and of course people have, so for now, just one example.<BR/><BR/>Someone can have what you or I might call a racist, or bigoted, viewpoint toward a group. They've looked from afar at (fill in the name of the group) and have concluded bad things.<BR/><BR/>Is that person a bigot or a lost cause? Maybe yes, but probably not, at least not at every moment. The same person who will say "#$%&%$ (group name $#%@#$%@)" will think twice and reach out.<BR/><BR/>I know this from direct personal experience as the victim of a hate crime. I don't do the Victim-for-a-Day thing, so that's as far as I will go, but suffice to say that people can be a lot more complicated than the labels will suggest.<BR/><BR/>It's a much more mixed bag than everyone thinks it is. People change, and even some very "bad" people have the seeds of good within them. This is all a matter of balance, of course, and there are plenty of people who just need to be kept away. But there is a lot more gray than the black-and-white thinkers will admit.<BR/><BR/>It's much easier to imagine that X is on one side and Y is on the other side. That can certainly be the case, and maybe it usually is the case, but it's often enough not the case to make conversion and persuasion worth trying.TrueBluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03247629724349664650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-16770422944957415322008-11-16T22:02:00.000-05:002008-11-16T22:02:00.000-05:00Racism is like a deadly disease it destroys people...Racism is like a deadly disease it destroys people within and out and spreads. One of my daughter's best friends, mother was white and her father was black. Anyway, her father and mother divorced when she was younger and still in school, but maintained a friendship, and parted on friendly terms. He was too into the church for her. The mother retained custody of both her and her brother, finished raising them, and made sure they finished school. The girl and her brother were very close to their mother. Their mother was good people. <BR/><BR/>One day, the girl's mother was in a freak accident, hit by a train, and died. Her mother's parents claimed the body. The girl's white side of the family didn't allow her and her brother to come to their own mother's funeral. They wouldn't have nothing to do with them period and even went so far as to deny that they were even her children even though the woman birthed them into the world.<BR/><BR/>A few years later her brother died of an illness, and they didn't bother to come to his funeral either, nor visit him while he was hospitalized, or even send so much as a card. To this day, her white side of the family will have nothing to do with her and denies her as their flesh and blood. <BR/><BR/>She is married now, with two children, lives in TX, and is doing real good. The young lady always was a nice respectable young lady and a very pretty girl. However, the sting from the hurt still lingers in her mind, because my daughter mentioned it to me, and was telling me that she had talked to her recently.GrannyStandingforTruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18393482390585845081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-10854189946468833792008-11-16T21:11:00.000-05:002008-11-16T21:11:00.000-05:00Grinder:"Only on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and ever thi...Grinder:<BR/><BR/>"Only on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and ever third Sunday." You tickled granny with that one. LOL!<BR/><BR/>"I think relationships between black people and white people are getting better. I really do. I think that the political divide between left and right has gotten much worse in my lifetime"<BR/><BR/>Yup, me too, I think there are still some problems that need to be worked out, and that there are some folks that will never change in their attitudes, but that's their problem the way I see it. As long as they don't mess with me, and my family, I could care less how they feel, no one is gonna steal my joy.GrannyStandingforTruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18393482390585845081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-12877018331887642282008-11-16T21:05:00.000-05:002008-11-16T21:05:00.000-05:00Whoops, it was a moderate automatic preference for...Whoops, it was a moderate automatic preference for the Democratic Party, and a moderate automatic preference for Coke over Pepsi. That was one test. The neutrality on gay vs. straight was a third test.TrueBluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03247629724349664650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-79523891945234720442008-11-16T21:01:00.000-05:002008-11-16T21:01:00.000-05:00I do have one question for you since you brought u...<I>I do have one question for you since you brought up Bill Crosby and that is are white people perfect and without flaws and shortcomings?</I><BR/><BR/>Only on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and ever third Sunday. Seriously, no. I think relationships between black people and white people are getting better. I really do. I think that the political divide between left and right has gotten much worse in my lifetime, apart from any racial considerations. I worry about that more than I worry about the black-white divide. <BR/><BR/>On a related subject, I took <A HREF="https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/" REL="nofollow">an interesting test</A> that measured "automatic preferences," and it showed that I have a moderate automatic preference for white people over black people, and a moderate automatic preference of Obama over McCain. I took a different one that said I am neutral on straight people vs. gay people, and that I have a strong automatic preference for the Democratic Party.<BR/><BR/>None of it really surprised me, although I thought my preference for white people would be "slight" rather than "moderate."TrueBluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03247629724349664650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-86513599939106885472008-11-16T20:36:00.000-05:002008-11-16T20:36:00.000-05:00I believe that we didn't start using the word blac...I believe that we didn't start using the word black, until James Brown came out with that song, "Say It Loud, I'm black and I'm proud." It was a political statement against negative references to the black race as being inferior. It was to uplift the black race and let them know that "black is beautiful, just as intelligent, and let it be known blacks should be proud of who they are as a race of people.GrannyStandingforTruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18393482390585845081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-73148125243196245752008-11-16T20:19:00.001-05:002008-11-16T20:19:00.001-05:00Therefore I take a measure of pride in my distinct...<I>Therefore I take a measure of pride in my distinctiveness, just as I'm sure those who are white, or of any other racial group, take pride in their distinctiveness.<BR/><BR/>By referring to myself as black, I don't dilute pride in my origin of choice although, like many blacks in this country, we all come from a mixed racial heritage.</I><BR/><BR/>I agree with this summation. I also identify as simply Black (American) and very rarely use African American--if at all. <BR/><BR/>Lindsay Lohan using the term colored is no different when Paris Hilton used the term N*gger. Although both were born after the Civil Rights Era, they are both from privelege which has always held a low opinion of Black people, if they thought of them at all. Of course, I don't think being younger somehow automatically allows you to transcend race. There has been increased racial incidences on College campuses and universities, especially now that Obama is President elect--and these are being perpetrated by young people who are supposedly free of racial memes.Dark Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051316480970381291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-65667269560537864382008-11-16T20:19:00.000-05:002008-11-16T20:19:00.000-05:00Grinder:I was being sarcastic with anonymous 4:08 ...Grinder:<BR/><BR/>I was being sarcastic with anonymous 4:08 for a reason. Now about the "nigger" remark being said by whites, maybe, some of you missed my post where I said I should have been more specific. That is where the misunderstanding came in, which was my fault. So forgive me for not making myself clear enough. Granny is not a professional writer and sometimes I think faster than I type. Therefore, I've never said, or claimed to be perfect, I make mistakes too, and I stand to be corrected. I truly understand about how stuff sounds on the Internet. <BR/><BR/>Granny comes from a multiracial family, some are my blood relatives, and some are through marriage, and they come in all genders, sexual orientations, wealthy, middleclass, and poor; good and bad. Granny is a very family orientated person and a people person who has learned alot about human nature over the years of my lifetime. People are put in others paths for a reason and a season. And I do have one question for you since you brought up Bill Crosby and that is are white people perfect and without flaws and shortcomings?GrannyStandingforTruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18393482390585845081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-2735542871034213332008-11-16T20:16:00.000-05:002008-11-16T20:16:00.000-05:00Grinder:I was being sarcastic with anonymous 4:08 ...Grinder:<BR/><BR/>I was being sarcastic with anonymous 4:08 for a reason. Now about the "nigger" remark being said by whites, maybe, some of you missed my post where I said I should have been more specific. That is where the misunderstanding came in, which was my fault. So forgive me for not making myself clear enough. Granny is not a professional writer and sometimes I think faster than I type. Therefore, I've never said, or claimed to be perfect, I make mistakes too, and I stand to be corrected. I truly understand about how stuff sounds on the Internet. <BR/><BR/>Granny comes from a multiracial family, some are my blood relatives, and some are through marriage, and they come in all genders, sexual orientations, wealthy, middleclass, and poor; good and bad. Granny is a very family orientated person and a people person who has learned alot about human nature over the years of my lifetime. People are put in others paths for a reason and a season. And I do have one question for you since you brought up Bill Crosby and that is are white people perfect and without flaws and shortcomings?GrannyStandingforTruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18393482390585845081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-83883339071775674282008-11-16T19:44:00.000-05:002008-11-16T19:44:00.000-05:00Here in the Appalachian part of Pennsylvania, "col...Here in the Appalachian part of Pennsylvania, "colored" is still the polite term of choice, I'm afraid, and it's used by people of all ages, though I do hear "black" and "African-American" with growing frequency. I wouldn't be surprised if the situation has reversed by the end of the Obama presidency - we'll see. <BR/><BR/>I'm not convinced that language influences thinking as much as we'd like to think, though. I once heard a young guy refer to something that was slapped together as an example of "African-American engineering." I was like, dude, I'm glad you didn't say "n*****-rigging," but that's still racist as hell! But I'm not sure he took my point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com