Oh That Wacky Kramer...Follow

interesting

I'm direct decendant from Union and Confederate soldiers. Sinse I now live in the Old Line State I guess it's kinda normal.

My great+ grandfather who was in Union army was in the regiment(New York 105th) that occupied Fort McHenry in Baltimore and turned the canons in toward the city to keep the Southern sympathzers in line.... plus they arrested all the polititians after the Mayor had the rail way blown up to prevent soldiers from New England from passing through B-more. He also fought at Manassass, Wilderness, and Antiem.
and this guy's son actually lied about his age to be able to join the regiment with his father.

My great+ grnadfather (from Virginia) who fought for South (of which my middle name was his surname) was a POW at Point Lookout, MD. That place in infamous for it's inhumane conditions.


from the history/ancestry nut

Edited, Nov 22nd 2006 2:43pm by Kelvyquayo

I'm the direct descendant of some Polacks who came over on the boat well after the Civil War was done and over with. I win!

His appearance on Letterman didn't help matters any either.

"Afro-Americans" hasn't been used since the 80's.

Oh, but it does matter what I think. I resent walking on eggshells and being made to feel somehow responsible by association for a problem I neither created nor contribute to (until this thread...). I have never used the "N" word, or any other racial slur, nor do I have any desire to.

As far as the "Black Experience" goes, I agree that it certainly exists and effects an entire population that one can't understand unless a part of. This still does not change the fact that people are overly sensitive to this word, and words in general. No amount of telling me that my opinion is moot will change this fact.

The person who plays the character Borat is a Jew.

Can anyone even think of any White racial slurs that actually have an effect?


The only one that I can think of that really raises my hackles is wehn Latino people refer to me as "Anglo".

Actually, now that I think of it, "redneck" is pretty heavy.
I jokingly referred to this guy as a redneck and he really gave me some bad vibes and some ill peripheral. I really felt like I insulted him.. I wanted to apologize or something.
that must go into the White Trash thing.
i refer to myself as White Trash a lot... but never Redneck. Hillbilly, I do call myself sometimes.
I think it's the same universal connotation involving being poor, uncivilized, and an outcast.
Slap wahtever word or skin colour you want on it. It be waht it be.

Hm. This thread now officially delivers.




and call me gringo all you want. I've never known waht the hell it meant. Although it never seemed as bad as ****, of which I don't know waht that means either.. except maybe some play on the word 'Hispanic'... athough nonetheless it does not sound very pleasant to me either.
I knew a girl once who would freak out at the word.. no matter who you were or how close to you she was... in any context.

So, in other words, the programming has worked perfectly.

Heard a good joke from one of the other comedy club performers being interviewed regarding the incident.

A little white boy's mom is baking a chocolate cake and the boy rubs some of the chocolate frosting on his face and says, "look mom, i'm black." The mother slaps the boy and tells him to go show his grnadmother what he did. Again, the grandmother slaps the little boy and tells him to go show his father what he did. The angered father slaps the boy and tells him to go tell his mother what he learned. So the little boy returns to his mother and tells her he was slapped by his grandmother and his father. "So what did you learn?" asks the mother. Says the little boy, "I haven't been black 5 minutes and already I hate you people."

Nope, not at all.

And, as much as I'd love to explain it to you, I'm off to play some MTW and try to figure out what to do regarding this invasion by the Sicilians while the bulk of my army is on the Iberian peninsula beating back waves of Almohads.

but you go on thinking whatcha wanta

Ok. What do you think of the Boston College group granting a scholarship in which the requirement is to be 25% caucasion? Opposed? For? Why? This is a college btw which has a school sponsored scholarship that grants full scholarships with a requirement that the applicants be 25% Latino btw (which is why this was brought up in the first place).

Is one a valid response to the other? Are either of them representative of racism? If so why? If not, why? You go play you game, but when you come back, I'd love to hear you explain your position on this.