What difference would it make? You already believe that you know me better than I know myself. :laugh2:Quote:
Originally Posted by natepro
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What difference would it make? You already believe that you know me better than I know myself. :laugh2:Quote:
Originally Posted by natepro
And still.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack the Ripper
World Wrestling Federation Heavyweight Champion... the UUUUUUULLLLLTIMATE WARRIOR!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by natepro
how about, equality? :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by natepro
imagine anyone now saying they are taking back the swastika, away from the Nazis and back to what it was before they used it. stop.
go ahead and counter what I said. you can't.Quote:
Originally Posted by metswon69
to think they are united in the use of the N word is simply not true.
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna19680493
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NAACP delegates ‘bury’ N-word in ceremony
Hundreds of onlookers cheered Monday as the NAACP put to rest a long-standing expression of racism by holding a public burial for the N-word during its annual convention.
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“Today we’re not just burying the N-word, we’re taking it out of our spirit,” said Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. “We gather burying all the things that go with the N-word. We have to bury the ’pimps’ and the ’hos’ that go with it.”
He continued: “Die, N-word, and we don’t want to see you ’round here no more.”
The N-word has been used as a slur against blacks for more than a century. It remains a symbol of racism, but also is used by blacks when referring to other blacks, especially in comedy routines and rap and hip-hop music.
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Black leaders, including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, have challenged the entertainment industry and the American public to stop using the N-word and other racial slurs.
sorry but they are not unified in the use of this word.
it is ignorant to think this word is racist and horrible, and then also think it is endearment. it can not be both.
It doesn't have to be united. There are no united causes (even things that inherently should be) and there are plenty of black people who believe the use of the word amongst their own is fine. If they didn't, they wouldn't use it. Go ahead, go try to tell black people what they can do with the word. I'm sure that will go over swell when your *** is sitting in a hospital bed.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpecialFNK
If its anyone's place, its certainly not yours.
Terrible comparison. Swing and a miss is the termQuote:
Originally Posted by SpecialFNK
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Thank you. Gussie was a good friend. He loved Aretha Franklyn and was amazing playing craps when we were in the rear. He could make them bones talk. We kept in touch over the years and when he got killed like that, I was really shocked.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack the Ripper
You don't know what you are talking about. Not in combat anyway. You didn't give a crap what race anybody was when your *** was on the line. You only cared if the guy next to you was on the ball and could cover you and live up to his responsibility. Sure there was some racism back then, but most of that was in the rear where people hung around with their friends. There were some gangs of different sorts but not in combat units actually and certainly not condoned by the commanders.Quote:
Originally Posted by natepro
Nope, Gus and I were friends. Good friends. HE didn't take any crap and neither did I as well as others in our platoon. We looked after one another.
if you haven't been in combat, you do not know what it is like and what becomes important to you. Little stuff like your skin color doesn't mean a damned thing to you. It don't mean crap actually.
Its really the way to get along and look at things. Adding fuel to a fire sometimes get people burned. What is your advice for dealing with police? I'm curious. How do you interact with cops.Quote:
Originally Posted by natepro
You know Nazis didn't create that symbol, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by SpecialFNK
https://www.everythinglubbock.com/ne...hat-you-think/
But yeah, super hard to imagine anyone saying that.
Is it difficult being this consistently wrong all the time? Are you just a masochist?
That's all well and good, but it doesn't erase what happened to black soldiers in the military.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bird of Prey
And speaking of combat...
https://www.dispatch.com/in-depth/ne...ry/3627846001/Quote:
It has been widely reported that Black men were drafted and placed on the frontlines of the Vietnam War at a disproportionate rate. Despite making up only 11% of the civilian population, they accounted for 16.3% of the draft and 23% of combat troops in 1967.
Yes. I actually believe saying "the n word" instead of the actual word is less appropriate when quoting someone.Quote:
Originally Posted by valade16
Furthermore, if you believe Joe Rogan should be canceled for his use of it, you also must believe Joe Biden should be immediately impeached and removed from office as well.
The difference isn't profound between 11% to 16% for starters. Secondly, a lot of the people not drafted were people who received deferments while in college and there were more white people in college on a percentage basis than blacks. Then after a while they eliminated the draft and went to a draft lottery system which mostly solved that disparity.Quote:
Originally Posted by natepro
Your blurb was about stats from 1967. Don't know if things changed later or not but that was still fairly early in the war. I got drafted in 1969 out of graduate school. I believe it was the highest draft class in Chicago for that war.
I've read quite a bit about what people say about the blacks bearing the brunt of combat back then and I say its pretty much bullcrap based on what I saw. We had everyone imaginable in combat back then. All races, creeds and areas of the country. One huge melting pot of ***** and elbows. It was very tough to get through and still really is but I did learn a lot about people and their make-up and what is and isn't important in life. I always felt that after I got home that anything that was in front of me was going to be a piece of cake and it has been.
The difference isn't profound between 11% to 16% for starters. Secondly, a lot of the people not drafted were people who received deferments while in college and there were more white people in college on a percentage basis than blacks. Then after a while they eliminated the draft and went to a draft lottery system which mostly solved that disparity.Quote:
Originally Posted by natepro
Your blurb was about stats from 1967. Don't know if things changed later or not but that was still fairly early in the war. I got drafted in 1969 out of graduate school. I believe it was the highest draft class in Chicago for that war.
I've read quite a bit about what people say about the blacks bearing the brunt of combat back then and I say its pretty much bullcrap based on what I saw. We had everyone imaginable in combat back then. All races, creeds and areas of the country. One huge melting pot of ***** and elbows. It was very tough to get through and still really is but I did learn a lot about people and their make-up and what is and isn't important in life. I always felt that after I got home that anything that was in front of me was going to be a piece of cake and it has been.