Colored folks, this is a joke people, not being racist (Page 14/17)
Taijiguy DEC 06, 06:49 PM
You miss the point Mach. If a person here tired to establish anything specifically for caucasions, privately funded or otherwise, it would be labeled as "racist" in an instant, and the litigation would be started before the ink was dry. Yet, other groups can have them, and it's OK. But hey, it's all in the spirit of equality, right guys?
Mach10 DEC 06, 06:58 PM
Oh I dunno. At my university, to my knowledge we have a Ukranian fund, Swedish fund, Finnish fund, French(france) fund, Francophone (quebec) fund that I am aware of.

Last I checked ALL of these are (by inference) caucasians...

I think it's all in the wording. African Heritage Fund doesn't say black. It says African which IMPLIES black... Would a white South African immigrant be exempt?

FieroGT87 DEC 06, 11:59 PM
 
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Originally posted by Taijiguy:

You miss the point Mach. If a person here tired to establish anything specifically for caucasions, privately funded or otherwise, it would be labeled as "racist" in an instant, and the litigation would be started before the ink was dry. Yet, other groups can have them, and it's OK. But hey, it's all in the spirit of equality, right guys?

Thats very true, and a very good point. Equality isn't it great in America.

If I remember right this sort of thing aready went throught the courts with all white country clubs etc. It's a simple double standard in reverse against white males for the most part.

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FieroMad DEC 07, 01:21 AM
As an Irish-American, I got a scholarship because I had red hair and green eyes.

There are plenty of scholarships for whites in America. White Americans can live anywhere, are less likely to be denied a job because of their skin. Whites are far less likely to be denied access to equal educational opportunities. Whites didn't have to have the Federal Government escort them into school. Whites have not been subjected to state sponsored segregation. Whites seldom have been lynched because they were white. If you think that it is all fair now, you show just how shallow and naive you are.

You guys whining how bad white people have it make it hard to be a white person. This thread needs to go away and take the ignorance with it.

Have a few images of equality..
http://www.musarium.com/withoutsanctuary/photos/12.jpg 5 black males strung up.
http://www.musarium.com/withoutsanctuary/photos/prologue1.jpg Blugeoned and painted up .
http://www.musarium.com/withoutsanctuary/photos/97.jpg Bonfire
http://www.musarium.com/withoutsanctuary/photos/21.jpg A postcard?
http://www.musarium.com/withoutsanctuary/photos/42.jpg humilate, injure, then hang
http://www.musarium.com/withoutsanctuary/photos/77.jpg Show me state "stretch" machine
http://www.musarium.com/withoutsanctuary/photos/88.jpg Castration & hanging, a family sport.
I have ommitted lynching photographs from after 1960 because they are far more graphic. I have ommited the pictures with sometimes thousands of grinning murderers.

So whine about how bad it is because you are too slow to find a scholarship for "Whites Only". They are out there.

When you have funded education with something other than property taxes, de-institutionalized racism, and stop teaching your children your stupid ideas, then after a few decades you can start your whining. Until then, being black in America is still a second class ticket. Blacks have been turning the cheek for about 350 years on this continent, many of you can stand to do it for a few dozen.

It takes extreme nerve or a case of head up your butt to whine about equality. Not that those frustrated bigots, who spotlight extremes of the black community as the norm will ever admit that the US has balanced the books. The losers will be the first to say, I didn't lynch no one or It is time for blacks to get over it or Gee, THEY get to be quarterbacks now.

Even sadder, most of those that believe whine white male heritage is endangered are Christians until it comes to race equality. Take that thread about the world being created literally in six days and Genesis, you would figure that we all have common ancestors. So does that mean these were folks lynched by their brothers? Can someone tell me if this treatment is the behavior of good Christians? Let this one go away. I've tons of images that cast a different light on good Christians grinning as they practice a litte equality.

Edit by Cliff Pennock: Changed images to links. Please, if you really have to post graphic images, use links instead so people actually have a choice if they want to view them or not.

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Cliff Pennock DEC 07, 05:36 AM
[Ctrl-V]Haven't read this thread entirely,[/Ctrl-V] but I'm pretty sure it has "evolved" into Trash Can material.
topcat DEC 07, 05:18 PM
Wow, what a thread. I stayed away from this thread by design. I saw the title, and thought... nope, do not do it... Do not read any of it because you will have to respond, and I for one do not have the time in the day to try and convince those with narrow points of view that being called "colored" in and of itself is offensive.

I mean really stop and think about it, when was the last time it was acceptable to be called "colored"? Was the topic's title "Colored Folks, this is a joke..." refering to Black people or White people that turn gray, red, blue, and other shades of the rainbow throughout their life? I am sure it referred to blacks; and the mere nametag of colored brings back memories of the civil rights struggles from the 1950 timeframe when it was not a good time to be "colored".

As already stated, this is beyond being PC... some true colors are being shown (pardon the pun).

I for one am glad that I took the time to read this thread, to see who it is that I am dealing with. Another part of me is extremely disappointed.


Cheers!

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Bradbitz11 DEC 07, 09:12 PM

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Originally posted by topcat:

Wow, what a thread. I stayed away from this thread by design. I saw the title, and thought... nope, do not do it... Do not read any of it because you will have to respond, and I for one do not have the time in the day to try and convince those with narrow points of view that being called "colored" in and of itself is offensive.

I mean really stop and think about it, when was the last time it was acceptable to be called "colored"? Was the topic's title "Colored Folks, this is a joke..." refering to Black people or White people that turn gray, red, blue, and other shades of the rainbow throughout their life? I am sure it referred to blacks; and the mere nametag of colored brings back memories of the civil rights struggles from the 1950 timeframe when it was not a good time to be "colored".

As already stated, this is beyond being PC... some true colors are being shown (pardon the pun).

I for one am glad that I took the time to read this thread, to see who it is that I am dealing with. Another part of me is extremely disappointed.


Cheers!

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I think that "Colored Folks" was the "Title" of the Joke, he wasn't addressing the "Colored Community"...

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ditch DEC 07, 10:23 PM

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Originally posted by topcat:

Wow, what a thread. I stayed away from this thread by design. I saw the title, and thought... nope, do not do it... Do not read any of it because you will have to respond, and I for one do not have the time in the day to try and convince those with narrow points of view that being called "colored" in and of itself is offensive.

I mean really stop and think about it, when was the last time it was acceptable to be called "colored"? Was the topic's title "Colored Folks, this is a joke..." refering to Black people or White people that turn gray, red, blue, and other shades of the rainbow throughout their life? I am sure it referred to blacks; and the mere nametag of colored brings back memories of the civil rights struggles from the 1950 timeframe when it was not a good time to be "colored".

As already stated, this is beyond being PC... some true colors are being shown (pardon the pun).

I for one am glad that I took the time to read this thread, to see who it is that I am dealing with. Another part of me is extremely disappointed.


Cheers!

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I think we should give it a rest and let this thread die. Some people have no problem with the joke and others are offended by it...so be it...it's obvious that nobody is going to change their opinion on this one.

The fact is that it wasn't intended to be offensive. Sometimes things go that way and there's nothing that can be done about it.

This is just one of those things that should have not been posted. It was bound to offend someone and that's completely understandable.

Dave

Blue Nite DEC 09, 01:11 AM

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Originally posted by Wudman:

[QUOTE][b]Originally posted by Blue Nite:



We shall try this another way..

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Wow, apparantly you didn't catch the last paragraph in my post. You totally lashed out at me for no reason. I asked you a reasonable question and you just ripped me to shreds. I'm blown away by your needless rage and short-fused responce to my meek little question.

You did reaffirm something I've already learned, not about philosophy, but in life: no matter how hard you try to not offend, your efforts will always come up short. I also see that everyone is very short-sighted in lots of things, as your post and most other posts in this topic have proved.

knee_scraper DEC 09, 08:34 AM
I have been lurking for quite some time on this one. Everone PREACHES acceptance, yet no one is accepting of someone who is prejudice. I am a prejudice person. Why? I don't have a clue. I don't do it on purpose. Is it such a bad thing to admit that I will judge a person by how they look before I give them a chance? Is it my fault that people have to earn my respect before I will give it to them? Can't anyone accept my differences? I didn't think so.....