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I think this is it...
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I had a good laugh when I read over at another VH site someone said the Roth Army was full of a bunch of bitter communists.
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I always thought we were disillusioned Taoists
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I thought we were just a bunch of drunken perverts.
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It's 2012 for fucks sake. Why the fuck can't people get over their bigoted bullshit already?
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it torques me that this incident is being portrayed as a white on black violence
- every other night in my city there are black on black shootings over drugs or territory - but oh well right ?
this shooter guy has a jewish/white sounding last name,zimmerman- so of course even tho he is hispanic and mentor to black kids, and has black neighbors and family members that vouch he isn't racist - it is still somehow a white's are racist issue ... ugh (ever notice how well blacks and jews get along in cities?- who hates who ??)
- the hoodie - I see white kids and black kids wearing hoodies when they are driving - that is nutz
this hoodie cause is ridiculous - the miami heat and other groups having hoodie rally's are misguided idiots
- I hate seeing groups of kids all wearing baggy jeans, white over sized t's and black hoodies walk down my street - if - if something bad were to happen what do you say - uh one of the kids wearing baggy pants, over sized white t shirt and black hoodie is the one who did it ? great - thug uniform ???
ok - that will help leo's find a perp - that is why idiots dress like thugs, they are either thugs or thug wanna be's
this stupid failure to report news properly is going to create hate violence against whites ala Rodney King
the shooter wasn't white - the kid isn't the 12 y/o in the pictures being published and all the facts have not been released - but why ruin a good race baited story with facts - seems blacks are looking for a good reason to hate on whitey - so have hoodie rallies and vilify whites as racist - even tho the president is black, top entertainers are black - police forces are integrated, affirmative action is still alive
oh yeah, tonight there will be more black on black violence in my city - but that is gang related and societies fault that their is a break down in minority and economically challenged families in neighborhoods that are predominantly minority or mixed race - ugh - media makes me sick
but for now - lets just agree whites are bad, & blacks are victims who need protection from white & institutional racism
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Leonard Pitts, Jr. Tribune Media Services
March 25, 2012
I'm here to explain why George Zimmerman is white.
This seems necessary given the confusion and anger with which some readers responded to my use of that word last week in this space to describe the man who shot an unarmed black teenager named Trayvon Martin to death last month in Sanford, Fla. One person wrote: "Mr. Zimmerman was Hispanic not White plez do your homework before writing your column!!!!"
But it is they who are wrong. There are two reasons. The short one is this:
"Hispanic" is not a race, but an ethnicity. As the U.S. Census Bureau puts it in its 2010 Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin, "People who identify their origin as Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish may be any race."
The long reason begins with an understanding that the word in question -- race -- is a term both meaningful and yet, profoundly meaningless. It is meaningful in the sense that it provides a tool for tribalism and a means by which to organize our biases, fears, observations, social challenges and sundry cultural products. It is meaningless in the sense that, well ... it has no meaning, that there exists no definition of "black" or "white" that carries any degree of scientific precision.
We are taught to believe the opposite, that "black" and "white" are self-evident and immutable. But I invite you to look up Walter White, the blond, blue-eyed "Negro" who once led the NAACP, or Gregory Howard Williams, the university president who didn't even know he was black until he was 10 years old. Dig up the old Jet magazine story about a woman who gave birth to twins -- one "black," one "white." And then think again. Race is a fraud, a cruel and stupid fraud.
The people who came here from Europe did not automatically consider themselves "white." They identified as Irish, Hungarian, Italian, Jewish, Armenian. As David R. Roediger observes in his book, "Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White," they were emphatically taught that "white" was the identity that conferred status and privilege and that it was defined by distance from, and antipathy toward, black. They were advised to avoid being friendly with blacks or else put their whiteness at risk.
Nor did Africans kidnapped into slavery think of themselves as "black." They were Mandinka, Fulani, Mende, Songhay, Wolof. "Black" was something imposed upon them as justification for slavery and other means of exploitation. As one historian puts it: Africans did not become slaves because they were black; they became black because they were enslaved.
Well into the 20th century, America recognized dozens of "races." In that America, people we now regard as white -- the Irishman, Conan O'Brien; the Armenian, Andre Agassi; the Jew, Jerry Seinfeld -- could not have taken for granted that they would be seen that way. People like this had to become white, had to earn whiteness, a feat African-Americans have found impossible to duplicate, no matter how many harsh chemicals they use on their hair and skin.
White, then, is not simply color, but privilege -- not necessarily in the sense of wealth, but rather in the sense of having one's personhood and individuality respected, a privilege so basic I doubt it registers with many whites as privilege at all. We're talking about the privilege of being seen, of having your worth presumed, of receiving the benefit of the doubt and some human compassion, of being treated as if you matter.
Consider that; then consider the fair-skinned Hispanic man, George Zimmerman, who evidently stalked and killed an unarmed kid he wrongly thought was up to no good, yet was not arrested, nor even initially investigated. He said it was self-defense. Police took him at his word and sent him on his way.
Folks, that's not just white. It's blinding.
I was just gonna leave that on my friends message...Why can't we all just get along? Her sister has taken over a friend of hers that I used to be friends with as well. My sister has pulled that stunt on me many times in the past. The problem we have is that they try to put it in our faces like their all cool n shit. We could care less but it's the principle of it all. Why? Who gives a shit when it's the so called friend that's the asshole anyway for dumping you as a freind to be with your sister. If assholes could fly...we'd all be getting shit on let me tell you. No exemptions, then maybe we would all have no choice but to get along....get it?
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Zimmerman is a white racist? I hear all this complaining over how the hispanics are taking over. Apparently they have taken over the Aryan Nations and Ku Klux Klux as well.
When the Klu, klux, klan starts to wear black hoods and and gowns maybe ya better think twice. Never say never. It could actually turn into a different form of them and a different group fighting against each other....In the end it will be brother against brother...Each with a sword pointing towards one another.
Hey, damned if I didn't actually learn something here.... I had no idea Andre Agassi was Armenian. Could have sworn he was Italian.
jhale667 (03-26-2012)
Yeah racists can come in all colors. I was responding to the article that was trying to say Zimmerman was white. Ok. He has a German name but he looks pretty brown to me.
Racism is like war. There are certain people who don't want to have it go away because they profit from it. If there was no racism Al Sharpton would be out of a job.
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this is Tawana Brawley pt II
So what if he DID use the word coon? That's not illegal and doesn't necessarily make him a racist. I live in a racially mixed neighborhood and last Saturday night I walked outside a caught a fucking little coon out by my pool. I knew that fucking coons came into my back yard quite regularly, as there are plenty of coons in the area, so I caught his little coon ass and I wondered if I'd have to shoot him.
But I fed him a little cat food and gave him some water instead. He was sick or injured in some way. Unfortunately he died the next day and I buried him in my back yard.
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sadaist (03-25-2012)
Sad. At least you tried to help him out.
My mom had a family of them outside when she lived in the mountains. We had heard they eat little bird eggs so.........We put out a couple chicken size eggs to see what theyd do with them. The 1 was tripping out on it pretty bad but knew he wanted to eat it. So after rolling it around a while, he climbed on top of it with all four paws and then HUMPed down with all his weight to crush it. SPLAT! Then he joyously ate up all the yummy insides.
You know if you ever have a raccoon pet there is only 1 name you can give it.
BANDIT
of course
Te MAIN point is...police said DO NOT FOLLOW.
yet this John Wayne wannabe followed. And there it is right there. Some punk ass dude with a gun who was playing like he was Bruce Willis or something. Doesn't matter if the kid fought back. Anything chased & cornered has a tendency to fight back....self preserve. Sounds like this guy just really had delusions of grandeur and wanted to be some big bad superhero tough guy.
Sad
that is a lot of inference ..
why not wait for the facts instead of presume
- if you were not there or are not a psychoanalyst
- why psuedo-psychoanalyze like the pundits claiming white on black racism by an adult on a helpless innocent child - and also creating hoodie campaigns while race baiting by claiming it a white on black racist event right?
why ?
seems u live in Cali - your gun laws are super restrictive
florida has lax laws on conceal carry
- that neighborhood has had black males committing burglaries - so a N.W. guy not on duty asks a question - punk kid walks away and puts hoodie up - - guy is suspicious - says hey,approaches other guy/kid - then runs away from kid and gets his azz handed to him by athletic young adult - they tussle - guy shoots 17 y/o young man - seems reasonable - guy is a stake holder in a gated community - guy is minority / kid is a self proclaimed made nigga on his facebook page - 17 is close to 18 - it was no child - it was an adult young male imho
why not wait for the facts to come out - a city counselor in that district has viewed the police evidence and said everything was done approproitly by police - no charges should be filed - that councilor has veiwed evidence we have not and supports police and Zimmerman ... maybe we too should wait to see
I was going down the snowmobile trail and there was this white animal that looked like a ferret and it had a black tipped tail. I've never seen one around here before. It was just running around some trees in the snow. I think it was one of these:
I've never seen a raccoon around here. They always got into our garbage when I lived in upstate New York.The specific epithet frenata, which is Latin for bridle, refers to the facial feature in the dark summer phase that resembles a pair of reins. In length this lithe little carnivore, weighing in at a mere 10 ounces at most, can be 22 inches in length, plus a three- to six-inch black-tipped tail, all carried close to the ground by legs only one or two inches long. Its summer name is stoat; in winter it's an ermine. Its privileged black-tipped tails once were traditional trimmings on the robes of kings.
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