Got my TIMESAVER DVD
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kirsten777
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Love that quote - and so true!!
kirsten777
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Actually, I'll take it a step farther back and say that technically America's first languages were:
Abenaki | Acolapissa | Algonkin | Bayougoula | Beothuk | Catawba | Cherokee |
Chickasaw | Chitimacha | Comanche | Delaware | Erie | HoumaHuron | Illinois | Iroquois | Kickapoo | MahicanMascouten | MassachusettMattabesic | Menominee | Metoac | Miami | Micmac | Mohegan | Montagnais | Narragansett | Nauset] Neutrals | Niantic] Nipissing | Nipmuc | Ojibwe | Ottawa | Pennacook | Pequot | Pocumtuc | Potawatomi | Sauk and Fox | Shawnee | Susquehannock | Tionontati | Tsalagi | Wampanoag | Wappinger | Wenro | Winnebago
1/4th Cherokee here and darn proud of it.
Thank you Amber !!! I was just going to mention the First Nations of this continent - people always seem to forget that not only where they here first, but their land was taken away from them through trickery, lies, and out and out slaughter.
That is a great idea!
kirsten777
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Whites have never had to walk down a street scared for their safety and life. Whites have never been barred from restaurants, bathrooms, fronts of buses, jobs, rights as a human being. Also, the NAACP was created to protect and help African Americans during a time when there weren't many protections to begin with. I have never been pulled over because I am white - and yes it still happens to African Americans and other cultures, to this day. I have never walked done a street where someone was hurling racial slurs at me. I have never been hated because of the color of my skin. Colleges are forced to have a "quota" so that schools who would otherwise discriminate, can't (some still do anyway)- though I do believe that everyone who is admitted based on their scores should have an equal playing field.
Just my .02.
kirsten777
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Well, you may have misspoken, but it did give us a chance to talk about Christian Bale and that's always a plus!
Wow, I need a cigarette!
netsnotes16
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So could this be the real cause of my hot flash(es)! LOL
While I agree with much of your post, I just have to say, there are some streets in Richmond that anyone, black or white, would be scared for their safety and life.
Now, more hot Brit Boy pics, please!!!!
Liann
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Been to downtown Baltimore lately?
I grew up south of Baltimore and I had a very close black guy friend who I couldn't even visit where he lived because in his words "The people in my neighborhood HATE white people. You wouldn't be safe on my street." I'm not supporting either side of this argument cuz' I just want everyone to get along, but I do believe racism and discrimination can be found on both sides of the fence.
TeTe - I'm working on finding another hot Brit for you!
Here you go!
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carres1973
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LauraMax
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Tami, I am aware of all but the last of those issues. However, I don't consider any of them discrimination (or reverse discrimination). I consider them social justice. While my town is 48% AA, in an FD of 47 firefighters, only one of them is black. We are actively recruiting minorities. Why dont' they score as high on tests? It's called cultural bias. Since this post is already obscenely long, maybe you can google it so I don't have to explain it any further than I already did.
When an AA grows up in a poor neighborhood, attends a school where there's one textbook per classroom, as opposed to a white who grows up in an affluent neighborhood, gets her own textbook & sometimes even a laptop to take home w/her, then you do not have equal opportunity. My brother is a HS teacher in north Philly, he said almost all of his students live in single parent homes on some kind of public assistance. Some of them are even homeless & living out of a car. It's a wonder they even make it to school every day. Just curious, what kind of neighborhood did you grow up in? Did you get your own school books? Did you have 3 square meals on your table every day? Did you have your own clothes, & enough to wear something different 5 days a week, that didn't come from the Goodwill or a hand me down? Did you have parents who supported you? Did have role models who didn't sell drugs or were professional athletes?
That's why affirmative action is OK from my perspective. BTW, I didn't get into a PhD program in the late 90s, while 3 of my fellow AA classmates who had much lower GPAs than I did were accepted. You know what? I was fine w/it. Disappointed I didn't get to follow my dream, but glad they got the opportunity to follow theirs.
Sparrow, Colin's OK, but can we please have more pics of Mr. Bale? Thank you in advance.
sparrow13
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He's Irish but I'll overlook that
Carrie
LOL! I was waiting for it...I figured it was okay....spittin' distance.
carres1973
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Sparrow, Colin's OK, but can we please have more pics of Mr. Bale? Thank you in advance.
I have seen this pic posted before, but sometimes repetition is a good thing
!Carrie
ETA: How do I get it big in the message?
ETA2: Trying by borrowing from an earlier thread by Sparrow...oh yeah!!
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LauraMax
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I have seen this pic posted before, but sometimes repetition is a good thing
Carrie
ETA: How do I get it big in the message?
Holy crap. I need a napkin to wipe off all that drool. That's another scene from American Psycho. God I loved that movie!
Oh BTW NY25 & others interested, you should read the book if you liked the movie for reasons other than Mr. Drool.........errr I mean Mr. Bale. If you have the stomach for it--the book was much more psychotic than the movie. I'm no shrinking violet, but some of the scenes were incredibly shocking.
carres1973
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Tamrahan
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I'm not saying that AA's have never been descriminated against. and I'm not saying it doesn't happen today it does but it is two sided. Whites get called all kinds of racial slurs, heres 480 of them. http://www.rsdb.org/search?q=white
Reginald Denny beaten for no other reason than being white and being in the wrong place at the wrong time. http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/la_riot/article/0,28804,1614117_1614084_1614511,00.html
There are places where I just wouldn't go because I'm white and I'm not welcome only for that fact.