Posted on 02/13/2017 11:03:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
Rural SOUTH Louisiana 50 years ago, race was pretty much a non issue...
People were of so many mixes, it was often hard to tell, so the kids never cared.
What was funny tho, on a Friday evening in July he made the local TV news after he was arrested for impersonating a federal officer.........In 2010 the dumbass was arrested for the same crime (plus felony firearm posession) and did 3 years in prison.
Wait...I thought it was only us Southerners that used that word...WTH?!?
My grandfather didn't get corrected either. That was the term his parents used, so he used it exclusively (grandma made sure that mom and her brother never used it). Grandpa was an odd character- hard to talk to about most things, but a very honest, straightforward, hard-working guy with a hell of a temper, and one who didn't dislike anyone on the basis of skin color. In fact, when I was finishing college, he gave me unsolicited marriage advice that included not ruling out a nice (black) lady, after which he told me some things about his life that were really quite unexpected and endearing.
Mr. niteowl77
Uh huh, no significance to the world. BS.
Even with racist caricatures of black people in cartoons and films from the 1930s and 40s and possibly 1950s, you won't find the "n-word" used in them. It is said by a character (played by Timothy Carrey) in Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (from around 1961) and the word packs a punch (from a cold and evil man in the story) because it very crude language.
Apart from some racist klan records, I can't recall seeing the word (prior to 1960s black comedy albums) listed on any track titles except for a 10" single from the 1910s or 1920s.
When Mr. Costner says "that's how you talked (as a child)" all I can respond with is "your mama brought you up wrong then".
There is a new one coming out called Hidden Fission.
It’s about the Manhattan Project in WWII. Not many people know this, but the white scientists were unable to figure out how to put the atomic bombs together until a couple of black ladies explained it to them. Hollywood is correcting the oversight to these ladies
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And later “Hidden Motherboard” will detail the three black ladies who invented computer technology in silicon valley.
“RACISM is very much alive and well in today’s America”........
Racism escalated significantly in the past 8 years due to odumbo being elected not once but twice, he was one of it’s greatest promoters. Can anyone deny that?
Yep in another white kid from Compton. But we move out in 1960 dads family moved out there in the 1914 got a lot of relatives out there including buried out there
When we got married in New Mexico, my wife and I picked her up from the airport. On the trip back to the house, she asked from the back seat, "Got many "n*ggers" around here?" I about drove off the road. Our next door neighbor was black, my running buddy was black and a good portion of the Air Base we were stationed at was black.
To be fair, she was raised among blacks and that is how everyone spoke of blacks back then, including the blacks. She is not a racist. She meant no disrespect. It was the way it was back in the day in the south.
Am I racist? I guess you could make a case that I am. Costner talks about Whitney Houston. I never found her attractive but she was not a cow either like Michelle Obama. Just by saying that, I would be called a racist.
Halle Berry - gorgeous woman. Michelle Obama - a cow. Joy Villa - just saw her but nice looking woman. Whoopi Goldberg - a cow. Rita Moreno - back in the day, a knockout. Queen Lahtafi - a cow. To each their own. There are nice looking black women and not so nice looking black women. Same with any race. And for women, the same goes concerning men.
To me, it has never been about race - it has always been culture. I do not believe in superior or inferior races but superior and inferior cultures.
I didn’t expect it, as I had read Dreams early in 2008, when Hillary was still the presumptive Dem nominee. I can truly say, nothing that happened over the next 8 years surprised me, based on that book. Horrified, yes, but surprised, no. The man simply isn’t a cultural American in my sense of the word. He mostly didn’t grow up here, and his influences were not of the heartland American experience.
Nevertheless, I hoped it might happen, as the media narrative pushed it. But I darn sure didn’t expect it.
Let’s face it. There are black men and women.
Fortunately they make up the majority.
And then there are the folks we see starring in the threads where the majority of the comments, at least at the beginning, go something like this:
“How did I immediately know that the perp(s) here are .... African-American?”
well, he used it thousands of times more than I ever did... but I’m likely one of the racists he refers to
You moved out of Compton right about the time we were moving in. Dad’s military deployments caused us to move out in 1962, but we returned in ‘67. I left for good in 1974. Within a year, my whole family had left.
Like you, I’ve also got relatives buried there.
See the link in my tagline. Obama played from FDR’s playbook of crisis and division. Some of the FDR speeches in that link (a long booklet from 1939) have the same wording that obama used.
And I guess I wasn’t even thinking about the man that obama was, just the fact that a black person was president would put the racial crap behind us. Of course that was before he became president, as FreedomPoster mentioned, it didn’t take long (a month?) and obama was talking race and having the “beer summit”.
“I said the N-word a thousand times as a child. That’s how you talked,” he said. “But there comes a moment when you choose how you are going to be yourself.
“All of a sudden, telepathically you knew that word wasn’t funny; it fell flat like a coke that had no more bubbles in it, and it was gone, eliminated.”
He added that, even in the 1990s, “some people weren’t happy that I picked Whitney Houston to be my love interest in The Bodyguard – and that I kissed her; who wouldn’t want to kiss her?
I'll use a line from another movie (Matthew McConaughey). I call BU!!$H¿TT.
As for "who wouldn’t want to kiss her?" You couldn't find a bucket big enough for me to have that as a bucket list item!!!
BLM are now the slave masters & the Costnerites are the field hands.
BLM thinks they have sumpin to say & we all have to listen....well speak into my pUd.
Truthfully, it took most of my life, for me to even have a tinge of a racist "feeling"/thought. It's just how I was raised and has now been absolutely RUINED by the very people who are supposed to be the "tolerant" ones and their pet "victims". Sadly, now, there's no going back, to where I used to be.
Rita Moreno is Puerto Rican and not a mestizo, mulatto, nor black one.
SPOT ON; sadly.
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