Posted on 05/13/2008 5:36:19 AM PDT by Nextrush
works for me....or will that hurt someones feelings....??
Why are you continuing to send your daughter to that school?
Off topic, but I saw BB King perform live a few nights ago. 82 years-old and the most gracious performer I’ve ever seen. He talked more than he played and told anecdotes from his life.
One of the first things he did was to dedicate the evening to the audience, their parents and grandparents as they are the ones who brought about changes that made the world a better place from the one he was born into in the Mississippi Delta in 1925.
He said a great confusion in his life once came from the times he used to sneak into a public park at night and drink from the white water fountain. “I couldn’t undertand it. That white water tasted just like the colored water”.
Also, he said he “didn’t like the way the rappers today are treating the ladies, that is wrong”.
Like I said, it’s off topic but a great example of a man who lived through and forgave the racism of the past and doesn’t participate in the victimization and race baiting that is so common today.
Is your girl ok?
The Braves baseball team moved to Atlanta in 1965.
Before that, there was a minor league team called the Atlanta Crackers.
Did you call the cops?
Yeah, segregation didn’t cause any animosity. If you’ve heard of any (say, from 1955 and 1968 or so) don’t worry about it, t’weren’t nothin’.
Good grief.
I love stories like that. This is a great country and it has made so much progress on race — it bothers me that some folks can’t see it. I saw BB King years ago — great night.
I think it’s 100% on-topic, FRiend. BB’s got enormous class, and thre should be more folks following his example.
Let me know when a public school day goes by where teens DON’T insult someone at all in a day.
When will attacks on nerds become the things of headlines?
Same thing happened to my daughter, in a classroom, by a black male. He actually jumped her and hit her while calling her whitey, cracker, etc..
No newspaper articles. In fact, I had me a fit at the school with the Principal and the school cop and they shrugged the whole thing off.
Only whites are punished when using racial slurs or what not. Blacks get away with it ALL the time.
I went to a racially mixed high school and nearly all of the racist name-calling came from the blacks towards the whites. Nothing happened to them of course and the police wasn’t called.
Maybe they learned it from watching Reverend Wright.
For Pete's sake!!! Why didn't the schools I grew up in call the police when blacks roughed me up? Because ... it was just boys being boys. Stuff happens. Toughen up and move on.
“Julie Randall Romig, spokeswoman for the Central York School District, said the district was notified of the harrassment. “
Its unclear whether the kid or the bus driver notified the authorities. In any case what used to be a case of bad manners is now turned into a huge incident. Seeing how these acts are now simply a weapon used only against whites, any sympathy I used to have is gone.
I'm sorry she has to go through that.
“I am sickened to hear the blacks whine every time a white kid farts in their direction.”
This will be nasty, but black people are the most spoiled and pampered race on this planet. Never held responsible for their actions, handed everything to advance themselves on a platter, and if they feel uncomfortable about anything all they need do is whine and people will scramble to accommodate them.
Has anyone ever noticed how many black people immigrate to the U.S. from the Caribbean and from Africa? This must be a really terrible country.
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