Oh give me a break! I was raised in a predominately black town, where if you weren't black you were an outcast. In my graduating class of 342, there were only 7 white people. SEVEN! So don't talk to me about all that discrimination crap. If someone wants something bad enough, they will get it, no matter what obstacles are in the way.
Is it ok to be proud of your skin color?
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Oh give me a break! I was raised in a predominately black town, where if you weren't black you were an outcast. In my graduating class of 342, there were only 7 white people. SEVEN! So don't talk to me about all that discrimination crap. If someone wants something bad enough, they will get it, no matter what obstacles are in the way.
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All Else Failed
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That would make a good inspirational poster, but that is not always the case with some people, no matter what color they are.
Do you actually think before you post sometimes? I mean, you contradict yourself in so many ways, it's quite amusing! :smiley24:
BadBoy@TheWheel
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You know......Just a random thought here, but did this thread just run way off the tracks or what?
It even spilled over into another thread, like a bar fight out into the streets...
BadBoy@TheWheel
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It even spilled over into another thread, like a bar fight out into the streets...
:24::24: Right you are
Here is my take....After this I am out of this one, promise.
The issue is, after all these pages of posts......This thread was initiated regarding skin color.....Technically I think that is where the rub lies, in this day and age, some still wear skin color like either a cloak of decency, or a crown of thorns.
Either way it is wrong, and nearsighted, heres why:
You dress up a horse thief in an Armiani suit and you know what you have?
A well dressed horse thief, nothing more nothing less, his exterior has nothing to do with the REAL MAN/WOMAN.
Skin color is no different, it's what you look like.....It's not WHO you are, and I'll be honest, I was brought up in an environment where we were held accountable for OUR OWN ACTIONS, we didn't point fingers and blame anyone, we were taught to judge on content of being rather than color of skin. Frankly I am apalled that in 2008, we are actually debating about it being cool, shiek, or fortunate to be any color, the truth is we shoudl all be grateful of the concept that we are free.
WE ALL ARE FREE, more especially if we all got up in the morning, got dressed, went to work, became productive members of society and provided a constructive, healthy home environment for our families and children, skin wouldn't be an issue.
I think it's a infantile response to use skin color/ethnicity to compensate for an inadequacy we feel we might have, or to use it to blame an entire culture for our own inner struggles.
I guess I am just on an island, but it scares me in this day and age that skin color has anything to do with who and what we are.
I judge by what type of person you are, and that is how I want to be treated, I earned the job I got out of college because I graduated with a 3.8gpa, and I got a masters not because I'm white, I am disgusted at the very thought that it went any other way.
If you really want pride, accomplish something, anything up to and including reaching out and learning about different cultures. I think you will find that we are all pretty much the same person deep down inside.
Agreed.
True. The focus instead, should be on one's surroundings.
All Else Failed
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Oooo I have an idea! For all of you that masturbate over your skin color, why don't we all just skin ourselves and make a flag out of it! That would be the ultimate way in showing our pride!
satinbutterfly
Miss Piggy
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:homo::clap GREAT idea AEF!!!!:clap:clap
Or we could kick you in the nuts!!! :clap
:willy_nilly::willy_nilly: OMG NOOOOO...YOU RACIST!!!!!!!!!!:eek
I'm not racist... Not at all. I actually had some black friends back in high school and I talk to a couple in college.
If a black person is a hard worker, talks intelligent, doesn't have a history of crime and has goals and dreams, I admire that.
But.. if they are the total opposite which, trust me people, I see it 97% of the time I will not even look or talk to them.
If a black person is a hard worker, talks intelligent, doesn't have a history of crime and has goals and dreams, I admire that.
But.. if they are the total opposite which, trust me people, I see it 97% of the time I will not even look or talk to them.
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