Dan did not try to suggest he was an expert in any way. Not only was he actually referring to a comment by Mrs. Jones, but he specifically said "in my observation".
I think the entire topic was biased to begin with because if we are ever to get OVER race we need to stop making it a bigger deal than it is. That's my opinion and I am sticking to it. HOWEVER, on this topic, I wanted to make it clear that his observation is not expert AND it has its own biases period. Race is a touchy subject itself, but if you are going to respond and try to paint blacks one way and whites another, and always trying to make blacks so much MORE racial than whites, then this situation will never ever go away.
I see you go on the attack on this subject every time there is a thread that even comes close to discussing race.
Then you must be blind as a bat. Let me challenge you to go over the last two months and post every racial comment I have made regarding racial subjects on this forum. Don't try to sermonize me, I don't respond regularly to racial topics, but when I do, I am a grown woman and entitled to my opinions, and if you don't like it, scroll past it. And if you want I can refer to the few PMs you have sent me stating how much you applauded my opinion and my sticking to my guns on the occasions when I did respond to racial topics. You need to get your opinions and your criticisms straight.
It's as though you scan through each post barely taking in the meaning, looking for anything that you can get on your soapbox over. How is this country supposed to forget race, if we can't be honest and sincere? If we must police our language and thoughts to the point where we are saying nothing?
Oh please! You think it is just a one way conversations, whites complain about blacks and no one can say anything back? That's not the way it goes. If you can hurl the challenge then by prepared for the response, that's life, that's the way it goes. There are two sides to this debate regarding race and actually many sides, but the point is that no one holds the cornerstone on it, and until you can handle the challenge that you created, then your sermonizing makes absolutely no sense to me.
You contradict your own comment within it's very content.
Actually that is YOU. You want sincere honest response, but it is just the responses that you approve?!. Everyone is trying to generalize stereotype and paint blacks ONE WAY, negative, close minded, and it seems like anytime anyone responds to it, people have a problem. It's makes no sense. The honest dialogue to me is really about closed dialogue. The closed dialogue is really and essentially about whites complaining about black people and no one can say anything in response to it. And NO I am not referring to this silly debate that is really small in the first place, but my overall observation on people who claim they want honest dialogue on race, but do the back pedal when blacks or whites or hispanics or asians or gays start responding to the gross inaccuracies and stereotypes that abound.
Do you have some deep need to prove to others possibly even yourself, that you, as a white woman, are NOT racist? This is not the way to go about it.
I laughed so hard. You don't know me, you have no idea who I am or where I come from. Don't embarass yourself by ASSUming anything at all about me. You are making a total fool of yourself.
