What is gang dress? You said "a hoodie drawn over ones' face" (which I'm guessing is a loose hoodie worn inside?). That's not "gang dress." That's what people, in, say, Michigan, wear in the fall/spring. It's just that certain people are equated with "gangs" when they do it, and others are "casually going out."
Pacopoolio
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Officer Wilson not indicted in killing of Michael Brown
by Simon inafter a thorough investigation and weighing of the evidence the grand jury has decided not to indict the officer.. the reaction so far seems as predicted - people refuse to accept that the result represents justice despite claims that is what they wanted.. there is now violence and vandalism, including gunshots.
let's hope the police contain the troublemakers.. .
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Officer Wilson not indicted in killing of Michael Brown
by Simon inafter a thorough investigation and weighing of the evidence the grand jury has decided not to indict the officer.. the reaction so far seems as predicted - people refuse to accept that the result represents justice despite claims that is what they wanted.. there is now violence and vandalism, including gunshots.
let's hope the police contain the troublemakers.. .
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Pacopoolio
A person who walks around dressed like a gang member is going to be watched as a potential gang member. It won't matter whether the person is black or white, or lives in the projects or Beverly Hills.
The problem with your premise is that it's been proven that black people and white people wearing the same clothes or doing the same actions are viewed and reacted to differently. The black teenager is viewed as a "thug" by the same people that view the white person as "normal."
For somewhat comedic representations of this, look at the video setups that have been done that show a black male, a white male, and a woman cutting a chain on a bike or fiddling with a car - and see how people IMMEDIATELY call the police or confront the black male, ignore the white male or ask him if he needs help, and go over and help the woman "steal" the bike or car. -
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Officer Wilson not indicted in killing of Michael Brown
by Simon inafter a thorough investigation and weighing of the evidence the grand jury has decided not to indict the officer.. the reaction so far seems as predicted - people refuse to accept that the result represents justice despite claims that is what they wanted.. there is now violence and vandalism, including gunshots.
let's hope the police contain the troublemakers.. .
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Pacopoolio
Preface: I'm black, and grew up in poverty in black neighborhoods Detroit, and rose up gradually through the classes to be around a 1%er now. I have also taken numerous sociology and psychology classes and read hundreds of related studies on social and biological influence on development.
I'm prefacing because people keep saying "you aren't black, so you don't know" in responses: I -am- black, and DID make the class jumps where other people haven't, and not only have I seen with my own eyes what happened, but have compared it with wide scientific studies on related issues.
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The BIG thing that people ALWAYS miss in these types of discussions is that no one is in control of the person that they are. People are just made up of a mix of the chemicals that make up their body combined with the influences that they have in their lives. Everything that makes you, you, is determined by outside sources. The right wing type "bootstrap" mentality is just egocentric self-fellation that ignores the reality; every success that someone has is based on a large amount of combining luck. For instance, yes, I worked hard to go from powdered milk and government cheese and a barely running Chevy Nova that I grew up riding in to the best steakhouses and the fastest sports cars. However, me "working hard" was entirely contingent upon the right influences happening in my life at the right time, combined with having the emotional and psychological makeup based on early developmental influences and genetics, to make the "right" choice at the right time. And even still, hundreds of people with more potential than me, all around me in various stages of my life, are now living in relative poverty or "the system" just for their lack of right thing/right time situations.
THAT'S why people attempt to attack privilege or point out how race holds people back. If you're talking about LARGE NUMBERS of people, a negative start will result in a negative finish for the majority. True, there are special butterflies like myself that get lucky enough to "make it," but on the flipside, there are equal percentages of people that start off with every advantage in the world and fail spectacularly. That's the high and low end of the curve, not the masses in the middle that generally follow the curve.
And since, in America, many black people in this countries are only ~4 generations from those directly affected by slavery, many of all races still alive that lived through segregation, etc. - its ludicrous to think that we can be "post racial" enough this close to those times where an average black person's life and perspective would not be markedly different from those of other races. This gets even worse in places where races compete for the same resources, as people's natural tendency to "other" due to visuals, combined with the relative recent nature of BLATANT oppression (with many in power still alive from that era who held negative viewpoints at that time and still do), creates a certain "boiling pot" of social-racial issues, that can easily explode.
Any people that constantly feels oppressed will lash out when pressed too much; normally over a specific, publicized issue that puts it over the top. This has been true throughout history, all over the world. It's an expected outcome. The people of Ferguson, along with many black people in America, feel constantly oppressed, for obvious reasons if you even attempt to empathize with their backgrounds and every day life, and what's happening now is a sad result of the social conditions that heated the pot in the first place.
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I cant access my proper account. HELP SIMON!
by TimothyTr injust a message to say that i have not been able to access my proper account for a long time now.
the account is under timothyt.
i go to log in and it just wont let me.
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Pacopoolio
This is happening with a lot of people (including myself). There's a glitch with the forum software in which the password ceases to work, and if you request a new one, the software glitches and won't allow it to happen.
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Satanism going to be allowed in Orange County.
by quellycatface inseriously, i watched it on cnn last night.
it sounded like a wind up first of all.. .
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Good; I don't see why it wasn't before.
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If a parrot spoke to Eve instead of a serpent??
by jam inwould that change your view on the account???
that's.
plausible.. .
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Pacopoolio
Parrots don't know what they're saying, but it doesn't stop them from repeating things. I was assuming that the parrot had never heard any words except the ones recorded up to that point in the Bible. So about 50% of the time he'd recite a short poem about women ("This is now bone of my bones, squawk !"), and half the time he'd say not to touch that tree. Parrots actually do learn the words and do know what they're saying. Anyone that has owned an African Grey or something can easily attest to that. You're repeating early 20th century thinking (and the kind of thing that Awake magazine used to spread to make animals out to be dumber or robotic instead of self aware, thinking creatures, so that Bible theology would work better). They definitely relate words to actions or ideas, and what they say is based on their moods, wants, and desires.
Parrots are extremely intelligent animals, as are crows (who can also speak if they want to).
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Atheists and Anger...
by new hope and happiness inare you an angry atheist?.
personally i wish i could say anger is to strong a word, but from my point of view :-.
a)i am angry that religion teaches children to hate " worldly people" at least that was my experience ad a j.w.
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I'm annoyed at how, even at the very best, religious thinking holds people back because it teaches them to believe things based on wants as opposed to facts, or that appeals to authority are a good thing, or that false either/or dichotomies actually exist, which then bleeds into other facets of their thinking (political, social, etc.). And at the worst, well, people die and humanity as a whole is held down.
"Angry atheist" as the religious frame it is a pure projection, though - it's basically them thinking "how would I feel if I lost my religious hopes" and projecting it onto everyone else.
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Evolution is just a theory
by venting inthis ticks me off!
last sundays watchtower talked about how organised the heavens are.
how it works so acuratley.
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Pacopoolio
I, sadly, used to think similarly. Losing a bunch of debates online years and years ago taught me that I needed to research more. Sadly, most of the rank and file doesn't think they can be wrong about something they want to believe so they'll never get to that point.
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Pixar the production company is jealous of Caleb and Sophia video's
by life is to short inso said the co last night.. apparently a jw was on a flight and just happend to sit next to some big wig from pixar and when the man from pixar heard that he was a jw the pixar man just gushed over what great work that the watchtower has done in producing the caleb video's.
he siad he only wished pixar could do such great work.
the co said we are able to do it because we have free labor and jehovah behind us.. my husband stayed home from the meeting but wanted to tie in by phone and that is what the co said in his talk.. the co also talked about all the changes that have happened in the last ten years and how if some of the friends did not like it they needed and to quote him "they just needed to get over it" these changes are going to happned period.
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Pacopoolio
I don't want to believe this, because it's so ridiculous, but then again, I remember at a District Convention where a speaker said "Spielberg is making a major movie about Jehovah's Witnesses in concentration camps" some time after Schindler's List, so who knows what idiocy they state from the platform.
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Name Some Things That JWs Look Down Upon That Normal People Wouldn't Even Think About?
by minimus injws look down on others for saying, "bless you" if someone sneezes.
it has something to do with the demons.
another example is that it is considered satanic if a man took his hat off for a lady!
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Pacopoolio
Reading the Bible in context outside of assigned Bible reading. Reading anything but the NWT for reference. Watching science shows.