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After all this time you would think that a person that was only "attending" school in LA would get such things... anyone care to ask her where her parents are, where they live? Oh yeah it was a horrible catastrophe but every single person could tell their sob story to the officials but they only do things for the ones(students) they can use in a media blitz.
Good lord, if I was as much as a capitalist as these people are turning into I would be in a better place, but I do refuse to give up my dignity/sell out for anything for free education and isn't there by-laws mandating against the recruitment/pay you to come to our school deal? I mean come on!!! They can't pay to play but they can pay to whatever the hell she's doing.
"Oh its a travisty what the white man did by not building a 45ft tall wall around where I lived to protect us black folk from the storm surge!" Allright you can try to play that card but hey now wait a minute here.... didn't you choose to live there/go to college there? Therefore you null and void any type of "we should feel sorry for them" type of gifts? If you are proven to be null and void from compassion Fay Yusuf of choosing to live or attend school down there then you just plain mis-thunk. In other words made a poor decision. No matter where you live there is potential for natural disasters, but yet you don't see MN or WI residents mass migrating and expect that your new local economies and infrastructures of where you moved to.. to support you?
Heres a experiment for you kids at home:
Now this has no condesending meaning at all but a example of the laws of nature.
Put 5 mice each in five different 25gallon aquariums and 100mice in one 200 gallon aquarium...
Feed them and water them for 6 months (1/8th of a mouse's life) remove the 200 gallon tank and split up the mice equally between the 5 25 gallon tanks...
You go from 5 to 25 right away... even with a food increase and water increase you will still have pandemonium.
My point:
When you are trying to fit 10lbs of shit in a 5lb bag its hard enough but when you are part of the 5 extra lbs and you start to bitch and complain about what the bags made of????? That is just crossing the line.
I am so sorry if I offended you X:Fay Yusuf but come on!!!! You really thought that your ego was not going to get attended to when it grew to the size of the Dome and suffocated the janitors and Vikings chearleaders practicing.
I am not racist. I just hate assholes of all colors equally.
I especially like this comment......" white people should be reminded of the pain and turmoil they have caused black people, and all non-white people in this country."....
WTF do I have to do with what people 100 years ago did? How is what people 50 years ago did my fault? Why do I have to be punished for other peoples actions/racism/crimes? Fucking hypocrites.
Last edited by Shadowgray03; 12-14-2005, 05:18 PM.
When I was growing up, there were five words my parents could utter that would make me feel cower. Five words that would make my heart ache. They cut through the flesh and right to the marrow. These were words that none of us wanted to hear. Were the epithets? No. They were worse... "I am disappointed in you." These words had meaning because of how our parents felt regarding our behavior. If uttered publicly, they were even more lethal. I can only say to you, Ms. Yusuf, "I am disappointed in you."
I'd like to hold up the mirror here for you to see what falderal flies from your ignorant fingertips. Sadly, you have looked completely past the generosity and kindness of Minnesotans and have used the very position you are in now to attack those who have helped you. Shame on you! We have words for this type of behavior in my home - inexcusable, inappropriate, ungrateful and shameful.
Sadly, you do not proffer any original thought for us to consume. Instead, we get tired, retreads of racist themes from someone who can not look past some grime to see the new car she has just been given.
If I had been the one with but $45 in my pocket, no place to live and no way to get to MN after the Katrina disaster, I can tell you how incredibly grateful and peaceful I would feel. Instead, you bite the hand which feeds you and verbally slap anyone who does not look like you. We are all now lumped into one broad category as being outside the "group" who call themselves "African Americans".
Hyphenated Americans? Hmmmm… I have long thought about this term and I do not use it. You are dark skinned. The differences are superficial. I notice the fact that you have extra pigment compared to me and some familial genetic traits that appear different from mine, but it is observation alone. It is fact. But you see, Ms. Yusuf, that is not how I will judge you. I will let your behaviors drive my opinions. Yes, I’ll judge you by the way you act. With all of the thousands of people who I know personally, all across this country, I can’t think of a single time when one purposely uttered such words as you have decried. Remember, an artist uses pigment to bring vision to life. Painter uses a broad brush to hide what is beneath. Sadly, you can not yet be called an artist.
I am of German descent. I am first-generation American. You could call me a German-American, but I never think this way. It is nothing but divisive. It builds no bridges. It segregates peoples for the sake of establishing victim status, which can then be used as a lever to gain new “rights” that do not exist. This country was not built by propagating the differences between peoples of ranging origins. No. Instead, it was the very “melting pot” of all who came here that has forged a fabric so resilient that it can withstand even the most harrowing of assaults and remain strong. I implore you to read some of the speeches of former President Theodore Roosevelt to find his thoughts on a “divided America” and what that would do to us.
Young woman, calling yourself an African American does just this. It’s comical, really, that a person who comes from African and becomes an American citizen is “not allowed” to apply for jobs that seek African Americans if he/she has less pigment in his/her skin. Yes, a Caucasian African American is DENIED the very “rights” that dark skinned people from the same land scream to receive.
It Go ahead, assault us – we fought for your right to express yourself. Generations from all lands have fought for the very precepts upon which this country was founded to ensure the right for you to become educated and to have opportunity.
I’ll leave you with a few other words of wisdom that my parents passed along to me. They have helped me and I hope they will help you too. Stick and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me. There may be a few people in this great land who are ignorant and use bad language and say unkind things. You know what? That’s life. It remains strange to me; however, that you are willing to complain about a word’s usage by one group of people and find no complaint about it when another group uses it. The very “black culture” you associate with is the fertilizer for the continued use of terms like this. Again, if it is a bad word, it’s bad for all. Period. Situational ethics do not work.
Being a young and impressionable woman, I am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt here. I think you might be able to reflect on your words and see the error of your ways. I think you might be able to see that it is YOU who hold fast to the stereotypical definition of someone consumed by racism. Focus on what you can do to better yourself and less time on complaining about others. You’ll live a more fulfilling life and be much happier. This is my hope for you.
Captain Obvious reporting for duty.
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There = a place
Their = belonging to someone, possessive
They're = contraction of they + are
When I was growing up, there were five words my parents could utter that would make me feel cower. Five words that would make my heart ache. They cut through the flesh and right to the marrow. These were words that none of us wanted to hear. Were the epithets? No. They were worse... "I am disappointed in you." These words had meaning because of how our parents felt regarding our behavior. If uttered publicly, they were even more lethal. I can only say to you, Ms. Yusuf, "I am disappointed in you."
I'd like to hold up the mirror here for you to see what falderal flies from your ignorant fingertips. Sadly, you have looked completely past the generosity and kindness of Minnesotans and have used the very position you are in now to attack those who have helped you. Shame on you! We have words for this type of behavior in my home - inexcusable, inappropriate, ungrateful and shameful.
Sadly, you do not proffer any original thought for us to consume. Instead, we get tired, retreads of racist themes from someone who can not look past some grime to see the new car she has just been given.
If I had been the one with but $45 in my pocket, no place to live and no way to get to MN after the Katrina disaster, I can tell you how incredibly grateful and peaceful I would feel. Instead, you bite the hand which feeds you and verbally slap anyone who does not look like you. We are all now lumped into one broad category as being outside the "group" who call themselves "African Americans".
Hyphenated Americans? Hmmmm… I have long thought about this term and I do not use it. You are dark skinned. The differences are superficial. I notice the fact that you have extra pigment compared to me and some familial genetic traits that appear different from mine, but it is observation alone. It is fact. But you see, Ms. Yusuf, that is not how I will judge you. I will let your behaviors drive my opinions. Yes, I’ll judge you by the way you act. With all of the thousands of people who I know personally, all across this country, I can’t think of a single time when one purposely uttered such words as you have decried. Remember, an artist uses pigment to bring vision to life. Painter uses a broad brush to hide what is beneath. Sadly, you can not yet be called an artist.
I am of German descent. I am first-generation American. You could call me a German-American, but I never think this way. It is nothing but divisive. It builds no bridges. It segregates peoples for the sake of establishing victim status, which can then be used as a lever to gain new “rights” that do not exist. This country was not built by propagating the differences between peoples of ranging origins. No. Instead, it was the very “melting pot” of all who came here that has forged a fabric so resilient that it can withstand even the most harrowing of assaults and remain strong. I implore you to read some of the speeches of former President Theodore Roosevelt to find his thoughts on a “divided America” and what that would do to us.
Young woman, calling yourself an African American does just this. It’s comical, really, that a person who comes from African and becomes an American citizen is “not allowed” to apply for jobs that seek African Americans if he/she has less pigment in his/her skin. Yes, a Caucasian African American is DENIED the very “rights” that dark skinned people from the same land scream to receive.
It Go ahead, assault us – we fought for your right to express yourself. Generations from all lands have fought for the very precepts upon which this country was founded to ensure the right for you to become educated and to have opportunity.
I’ll leave you with a few other words of wisdom that my parents passed along to me. They have helped me and I hope they will help you too. Stick and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me. There may be a few people in this great land who are ignorant and use bad language and say unkind things. You know what? That’s life. It remains strange to me; however, that you are willing to complain about a word’s usage by one group of people and find no complaint about it when another group uses it. The very “black culture” you associate with is the fertilizer for the continued use of terms like this. Again, if it is a bad word, it’s bad for all. Period. Situational ethics do not work.
Being a young and impressionable woman, I am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt here. I think you might be able to reflect on your words and see the error of your ways. I think you might be able to see that it is YOU who hold fast to the stereotypical definition of someone consumed by racism. Focus on what you can do to better yourself and less time on complaining about others. You’ll live a more fulfilling life and be much happier. This is my hope for you.
I really like this one. Quite intelligent. Good job GTO!!!
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