Another one is "tenant" when the correct term is "tenet."
Posted on 11/09/2019 5:30:13 AM PST by JeanLM
I went to see Robert Redford in "The Old Man and the Gun" for free at the local library. The audience was 80% 70's aged women probably there to see his supposedly last movie. It was in many ways a remake of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" I had two thoughts: 1. It unnecessarily gave a criminal life a glossy favorable review. 2. It interjected an interracial marriage into the story with the cop who finally catches the "hero" having a black wife. Now I have nothing against black and white marriage, but I know something of its history. Until 1967 interracial marriage was illegal in Texas and other southern states. The cop in the movie was my age and I know a white cop marrying a black women in those days anywhere would have been impossible. I have noticed in TV shows and commercials that mixed race marriage portrayals are common. There appears to be an agenda here. In 2010 in the US only 0.3% of the marriages were between a white man and a black women. In the 60's, when the cop would have been married like I was, the number was near zero. Interestingly there were 8.6% of marriages between a black man and a white woman, a significantly larger number.
Married a Mexican lady 25 years ago. I am happy.
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Well, just don’t ever plead “Please clap.”.
Almost all the commercials on TV are now featuring interracial couples. Either married or girl and boyfriends......
Good for you. Just goes to show, people should marry and get involved with whomever they choose, regardless of what others say.
Or “gets my dandruff up”. Are there any thread categories about mangled word usage?
Sometimes it’s embarrassing to be a FReeper. Like when I read posts like yours. Isn’t there a racist site you’d be a lot more comfortable with?
Oh, go ahead and castigate me. I couldn’t care less.
Black women, in general, have bigger butts than white women.
Black women, in general, have larger breasts than white women.
The flattened nose is a common phenotype in blacks of both sexes.
Curly (nappy/frizzy) hair is also a common phenotype in blacks of both sexes.
If those statements are borne out by the facts, then they are not racist, they are simply truth. That the truth offends you says more about you than about me.
For what it's worth, if you can refute the assumptions I've made above, then I'll retract my statements and apologize.
In 2013-2014, 36.4% of non-Hispanic whites were considered obese, 7.6% extremely obese.
In that same period, 48.4% of non-Hispanic blacks were obese, and 12.4% extremely so.*
To the degree obesity in women is generally reflected in the size of their hips and their breasts, it is fair to say that where a greater number of women are obese, a proportionally greater number will also have larger butts and breasts. So in fact, my characterizations, general though they are, are correct.
* -- https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/overweight-obesity
Hi.
“Of course there’s an agenda. And of course Hollywood is distorting history to push it. It’s what they do.”
Of course, but Hollywood calls it “artistic license.”
5.56mm
There are some great Redford movies:
3 Days of the Condor.
Butch & Sundance
Jeremiah Johnson
The Sting
As a director:
The Milagro Beanfield War
A River Runs Through It
A definite agenda as is the LBGTXXXYYYZZ whatever agenda.
True. Thats why my list was so short.
“”Now I have nothing against black and white marriage, but I know something of its history””
I don’t believe that for a minute. I don’t mind saying that I take another look when a mixed race couple appears either in public or in entertainment. I believe it to be true of anyone being raised in the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s etc. I wouldn’t pretend that it didn’t make any difference and then go on to point out the many reasons why it would. It wouldn’t even be necessary for the writer to point out their knowledge of the history of the time. Just because society makes some changes along the way doesn’t mean we all have to pretend we were “there” all along.
License, yes. Artistic? No.
Another one is "tenant" when the correct term is "tenet."
Autistic maybe ?
Oh, no wait that’s Me🤐
they prolly are...
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