Hassata's Ramblings and Miscellaneous Postings

[hassata]

I hear you. You, unlike the author of the article, are not extrapolating your specific, unfortunate, and obviously difficult situation to an entire segment of the population.

[hassata]

Just awesome

 

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[leafer]

I agree, but with some realistic observations:

 

Unfortunately, there are those in the black communities who fuel the offensive sterotype. My neighbors across the street are some of them who do. I can ignore them driving in at 2AM with their boomy stereo's cranked and then standing outside their car continuing to drink (after having driven home drunk) with the radio even louder. The elderly man beside them though is reacting badly to the stress.

 

4 weeks ago, I was looking at 9mm casings on the road between my house and their's where someone dumped a clip into their home. In a neighborhood of retired people and working middle class, the house across from mine is a rental house. The tenants have bene raided by ATF, a group of bounty hunters, and staked out by the police at 3AM which turned into a 2 hour standoff which ended in a female resident of the address being arrested.

 

They have a friend, whome drives a gold-colored Calillac, that the police told us to not even make eye contact with. He's under suspicion for more than one shooting, but they lack concrete evidence and have only heresay from others on the streets and their gut intuition.

 

Loud arguements with many a profane word being yelled, all in front of about 5 children where the oldest is 12 and hearing one of the kids yell "F*ck her up Dad!" is not uncommon.

 

The most offended I was with this group was when Grandma was walking to the house with the 5 year old and the young child was taken with my motorcycle I was getting ready to ride. He was told not to look or speak to me becuase white people hate black people. I suppressed my urge to confront her on that point. A few days later, when the child's ball rolled into my yard (for the hundredth time lol) I gave it back to him and said "Grandma is wrong - not all white people hate black people. I don't hate you. I only hate those who give me a reason to hate them. Now, let's see if you've gotten better at catching this ball :)"

 

Oh yeah - the neighborhood petition to have this group evicted was shot down.

 

It infuriates me that there are those on both sides who perpetuate the tension by recycling the stereotypes. It infuriates me more that black pop, rap, and movie stars do the same.

 

Just a very sad, and pathetic situation :(

 

And I used to live in Anacostia, Washington D.C. It's all blacks there. My cousins are half blacks. I don't think I'd be typing this today if I were to live among white supremacists. There's always that other side of the coin.

[cichlidfan]

Just awesome

 

Two thumbs up!:thumbup::thumbup:

[Speed]

One of the most offensive things I've ever read. Doubly so coming from someone so 'intelligent'.

 

Where are you from Hassata? Am I remembering wrong that your sig used to say Amman, Jordan? Anyway, yes, I'm white, and from Alabama (where blacks where subject to some of the most harsh racism for a long time) and yes, that article says several things that I find offensive too. But here in the US, it's simply a fact that blacks are still poorer on average than whites. This leads to the unavoidable consequence that they engage in more violent crime, which helps to fuel some of the racism. If you compared blacks and whites of equal average income, I'd bet you'd see the same level of violent crime/robberies/etc. But blacks and whites do not make equal income. I think the problem has a lot to do with the fact that it's a lot harder to chance your socioeconomic class than we'd like to think; if you're born in the ghetto into the kinds of family environments that exist there, then there's a very good chance you're going to live in the ghetto all your life. Given enough time, I think we'll see the problem correct itself. I don't really think it's necessary to over-complicate the situation much more than that.

 

Anyway, it's not like it's a horrible problem though, and it is slowly getting better all the time. And that article was certainly very offensive on many topics, especially towards the latter half. I've got to wonder... if parents are having a "race" talk with their kids at such late times, that article HAS to be written by a yankee. Someone who only has occasional contact with black people, up north. I have come to suspect that people who live up north and don't come into contact with many blacks might these days be MORE racist than white southerners, who actually live with black people and know them better. Hmm... probably would need to ask a black person about that, they'd certainly know better than I would.

Edited April 12, 2012 by Speed

[cichlidfan]

On a different note...

 

I want to know what Mower did to that poor girl in post #173!!:D

[hassata]

:D

 

I agree Speed-it's socio-economic as much as anything. I'm from Jordan but spent about 20 years in the U.S. (NYC, Western Mass, DC, New Orleans-my favorite). P.S. The article was written by an Englishmen who just recently became naturalized after living in New York for 15 years. Take from that what you will lol. Here is an interview: http://collectedmiscellany.com/2003/11/an-interview-with-john-derbyshire/

[hassata]

And more from Boston Dynamics on the road to the apocalypse lol:

 

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[hassata]

Resident Evil 6 Collector's Edition? 1 Grand.

[hassata]

Life on mars:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47031923/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.T4dWxO2i5OS

[Speed]

Life on mars:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47031923/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.T4dWxO2i5OS

 

That's an incredibly vague article.

 

The Viking results have always been a little interesting, but I don't think that this guy's findings will add much weight to the biological explanation. There are delusional scientists who make announcements like this all the time.

[Cedaway]

And more from Boston Dynamics on the road to the apocalypse lol:

 

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Next stage, Caprica? And then, we're all F***d up!

[Cedaway]

 

:pacman:

[hassata]

Next stage, Caprica? And then, we're all F***d up!

 

And now a brain to go along with it lol.

[hassata]

The former heavyweight champion said that back in 2009 he was in a hotel room with seven prostitutes, a morphine drip in his arm, a pile of cocaine and a bottle of cognac

 

I wanna party with this guy lol.

[cichlidfan]

And now a brain to go along with it lol.

 

They are really building a massive flight simulator...

the ‘brain’ will feature thousands of three-dimensional images built around a semi-circular ‘cockpit’ so scientists can virtually ‘fly’ around different areas and watch how they communicate with each other.

 

...so they can do this!!!:D

[cichlidfan]

The former heavyweight champion said that back in 2009 he was in a hotel room with seven prostitutes, a morphine drip in his arm, a pile of cocaine and a bottle of cognac

 

I wanna party with this guy lol.

 

He doesn't strike me as the sharing type!:P

[hassata]

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:D

Edited April 17, 2012 by hassata

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[hassata]

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[hassata]

We Ate A Bacon

 

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[hassata]

Ridiculous