Posted on 10/15/2005 10:21:03 AM PDT by paulat
I'm not sure what you're referring to....
It would seem, for you to be interested in participating in Free Republic, that there were positive influences in your life that allowed you to grow and learn and not be dragged down by negative influences. Perhaps you could share with us what the good influences in your life were ... and then perhaps we could better understand your experience. It seems that you followed the example of earlier white folks from the 9th Ward ... and worked your way out of it. That has always been the American dream ... to rise above our origins. Unfortunately, too few seem able to do it now.
Re: Thomas Sowell's book
I'm wondering if Sowell's theory is the same one I heard on a documentary about a year ago, one about Chicago, comparing the poor white south to the black inner city, tracing back to a large influx of black workers into Chicago from certain areas in the rural South where EVERYONE (black and white) had nothing and the same way of living.
Serious question....Do you know what "keeping it real" actually means? I have a guy at work that wears this emblazoned on his shirt....i'm curious.
Dr. Sowell is the most brilliant black, intellectual conservative of our time. He is at the Hoover Institute. When Dr. Sowell speaks, all should listen.
I remember seeing a political cartoon years ago.
A simon Legree character with a whip is preparing to beat a slave. The slave on his knees says, "You may owns my body but my soul belongs to, uh, to, uh, to youall, massa!
I do believe this Simon Legree character best represents the Democratic party in the US.
I don't either, but its not far off from some of the comments made by white Southerners on another thread discussing why the South lost the Civil War. "The South shall rise again" and the "slave syndrome" are two sides of the same coin. It gets tiresome.
However, to be fair to both sides, the USA was born with a birth defect in the Southern part of its anatomy, slavery. It still requires corrective surgery for both black and white, North and South.
I also wrote to, and left a phone message for, the writer of this article. From his name, he may be an American of Japanese descent. If so, it is particularly pathetic that he did not spot the errors in the professor's arguments. I gave him two hours - didn't hear from him - posted the article up.
Congressman Billybob
You are a real PISSER!
I'm not sure that sounds good.
youve never heard of "Neverland"
I, too, am suffering. I am suffering from the legacy of my great-great-great grandfather, who died of scurvy in the horrible Andersonville POW Camp in the Civil War. I am tormented by the horrible conditions at that camp, and ultimate sacrifice by my ancestor of that "last full measure of devotion," as Lincoln characterized it, so that the slaves might be free.
You could say that I'm suffering from "Post-Traumatic Andersonville Slave-Freeing Syndrome," and I and all the rest of the descendants of those who served and died in Andersonville, so that slaves might be free, deserve to be compensated for our troubles. We are owed it!
So, as soon as the slave descendants get THEIR slavery reparations payments authorized, I and my fellow sufferers of "Post-Traumatic Andersonville Slave-Freeing Syndrome" will expect the checks to be endorsed over to us, because we are traumatized by the experience of our ancestors, who died to free the slaves, so it is only fair and fitting that the reparations for slavery be transferred to us..... because we suffer; we are victims; and we are owed.
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Congressman Billybob
What about babs striesand and madellin notsobright and the first honorary jewish president BJ Clinton
A state of being, wherein the person, normally an african-american, lives a hyper-real ghetto existence, where all efforts at education, legal employment, nuclear family, advancement, and solidarity with the larger community are spurned as "white". For example, no wife, but a Ho, no formal schooling, but the school of hard nocks, not a father but a baby daddy (i.e. child support provider) constant cursing, illegal employment (usually in the drug or sex trade), etc. These are akk considered to be authentically black.
What's that phrase...an idea so foolish only an intellectual could believe it?
Thanks for the answer....is that what the thump thump on the chest indicates? Know what i mean?
Then, when you are continually impressed with his abilities, you will pass the recommendation along to others.
Congressman Billybob
even in this country wherever saudis and rich Muslims live not to mention those with latino housekeepers.
Do I qualify was millions???
Pls read the threads before you post. This is amply covered earlier.
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