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NEVER FORGET

If Freerepublc.com had been around upon our return home from the Vietnam War long ago,

...a then Free South Vietnam would still be Free today.

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm

Instead, came a most horrid:

..”JOURNEY from the FALL”..

http://www.JourneyFromTheFall.com

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806248/posts

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts

NEVER FORGET

It isn’t only liberal trolls that get booted. I was once booted for sharing a conservative view some of our founding fathers might have shared with respect to affirmative action. On a thread extolling the virtues of diversity as it manifests itself at an all black college I momentarily waxed sarcastic and was booted in minutes. Apparently in our free exchange of Ideas all races are equal, but one race is more equal than the rest. I’ve at one time or another seen many slurs, foul language, demeaning talk, perversion, religious intolerance, and insults cast about on this board but the only word you seemingly can’t say here begins with an ‘N’. I guess I find it funny that Whites, Hispanic people, Asians and others are deemed to be able to take the slurs that come with the territory but one race of people are deemed to be needing protection. To my mind that comes across as condescending to the poor group who has been deemed too feeble minded to not take take their slurs in stride. A part of my heritage is Polish and I don’t get upset if someone tells a Pollack joke. My family even tells them and Bohemian jokes too which is another part of our heritage. It seems as if we here treat Blacks as if the whole race must suffer from some kind of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder over what happened to some Black’s ancestors at the hands of some White’s ancestors here in America. Well I think that also is a subtle form of Racism. And honestly my Mennonite ancestors didn’t come to America until after Slavery was abolished and moved to what had always been a free state. My English side of the family all fought and died on the side of the Union in the Civil War. If I now owe Blacks some courtesy above and beyond what I would give to any other group or expect from them I’m mystified as to where this debt came from. And if you want to play the victim card, I say get the Catholics who slaughtered my Mennonite and Anabaptist ancestors all across Europe to come kiss my butt for a change. My ancestors suffered far worse than the ancestors of most Blacks and I defy you to show me the slaughter of Blacks in America that would approach the wholesale slaughter and torture of my ancestors at the hands of the Catholics in Europe. If slurs and epithets against Blacks are somehow worse than the slurs and epithets against other people I guess I need an explanation, because I grew up believing God created us all equal and I’d be willing to give up my life fighting those opposed to that precept if need be. I don’t think you can ask for a stronger commitment to human equality than to be willing to die for the equality of others as some of my ancestors did in the Civil War. Nor do I think it is responsible for people of any race to let members of another race stew over injustices of the past. History has shown that this stoking of past injustices leads to wars and bloodshed in the future. If I can forgive the Catholics and live grudge free I’m better for it, and if Blacks can give up their latent demands for social reparation they will be better for it also. An early test of when you’re starting to be over something is when you come to the point where you can joke about it with others. It is too bad that We won’t let blacks get to this point, but instead enable their resentment to continue undimmed by keeping them the perpetual victims who deserve pity and not a ribbing from a friend.

I love FR content; hate the interface. Nothing personal, but does anyone know if there are any plans to update it? There are some very user-friendly forum sites on the Internet that put FR's interface to total shame. Anyone else feel this way?

I'm sure there will be loyal followers and maybe even sentimental attachment, but by actual objective comparison I can't see anyone arguing the FR interface superior to any of the other large forum sites out there. It's rather painful, I think, and is more than skin deep. I navigate a lot of forums, and as I said, content aside, I really cringe when I come to FR after visting other forums.

It seems like a worthy concern for the flagship conservative forum. I have attempted to bring new people here and their first comment is, invariably, "Yuck, what is up with this site?"

Another example of Conservatives being left in the dust (I hope not)...

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