RIP Rush.
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A lack of self awareness. Not a lack of decency, which I fully believe you have. I think you absolutely would not have had an identical reaction to Larry if you thought he was African American. You would have donned the kid gloves.
Can't speak for Phibes (though I can guess), but for me that is bullshit of the purest ray serene.
Didn't have to pull a race card with Larry, he waved his indigenous ancestry in everyone's face. Granted he was self-deprecating about it but he nevertheless did it regularly.
Nobody cares about Larry's ancestry. My point, hopefully obviously, was to illustrate that African Americans, at least within America, are considered exceptional. Any of them who manages to reach the echelons of middle class existence are so much more than welcome. I don't work with a lot of them, in fact it's extraordinary when one is hired into a technical position. When I worked at the headquarters campus, the African American people were in maintenance and reception. I don't believe this is because hiring managers were intentionally trying to not hire them into technical positions. I blame it on pop culture and how it views African Americans, the hopelessness, which is relentlessly reinforced. Telling kids that they are going to be repressed is really bad.
These sorts of ideas are not original to me, lots of smart African Americans would concur. It's just that the media doesn't tell anybody about it.
You don't say.
“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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A lack of self awareness. Not a lack of decency, which I fully believe you have. I think you absolutely would not have had an identical reaction to Larry if you thought he was African American. You would have donned the kid gloves.
Can't speak for Phibes (though I can guess), but for me that is bullshit of the purest ray serene.
Didn't have to pull a race card with Larry, he waved his indigenous ancestry in everyone's face. Granted he was self-deprecating about it but he nevertheless did it regularly.
Nobody cares about Larry's ancestry. My point, hopefully obviously, was to illustrate that African Americans, at least within America, are considered exceptional. Any of them who manages to reach the echelons of middle class existence are so much more than welcome. I don't work with a lot of them, in fact it's extraordinary when one is hired into a technical position. When I worked at the headquarters campus, the African American people were in maintenance and reception. I don't believe this is because hiring managers were intentionally trying to not hire them into technical positions. I blame it on pop culture and how it views African Americans, the hopelessness, which is relentlessly reinforced. Telling kids that they are going to be repressed is really bad.
These sorts of ideas are not original to me, lots of smart African Americans would concur. It's just that the media doesn't tell anybody about it.
You don't say.
Well, you don't say. I do say. Exactly one of us values an opportunity to use his words to explain his thoughts. The other poses.
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“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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Then stop posing, Mr. Horace.
I'm rubber and you're glue, whatever you say to me sticks to you.
Dosen't bother me. The term African-American is specific to the USA so I will not comment on its use or reference. I have however known and worked with black African immigrants as well as black immigrants from the Caribbean. All were highly educated and motivated in their jobs. Some years ago when I worked for an oilwell drilling equipment company, I went out to a rig site where there were two black labourers who looked after cleaning, storage and simple maintenance of the drilling tools. The Tool Push introduced them to me as Midnight and Five To. When I gave the Push a confused look, he said," we call them that because no one can remember their names. But this one, Midnight, is darker than his friend here, so we call him Five To 'cause he's not quite Midnight. We call them that so's we can tell them apart".
So yeah, that's my experience minuscule as it is. I guess that is how pop culture works up here.
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Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@doctor-phibes said in RIP Rush.:
I knew a black guy once.
So there. No kidding. A real black guy!
It was amazing.Do you know John, from London?
Yes YES I knew him. But I thought he was from Liverpool.
What kind of a name is LiverPool, anyways?
Must be near London, right, or a bit north. Everything's north of London.
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I shouldn't bother, it's full of johns.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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Medal of Freedom.
I figured that was it.
So I tried to confirm that the Medal comes with that benefit or perk. I couldn't find it.
Copper, how can a dead guy receive a benefit or perk?
Never mind. I know what you meant.Wait. A perk would be "buy one, get one free!"
A benefit would be "dug 6 feet for the price of 3!"
I still know what you meant.
