hiya folks.
do you consider yourself to be intelligent?
if so, the following will make perfect sense to you.
Yknot
Shouldn't those questions been asked during the campaign? Obama has so much wealth he largely bypassed the traditional media avenues. That is fine when things go well. When he is under pressure a very different Obama will be seen.
When he does fall it will be a sorry sight to see.
mtsgrad
hiya folks.
do you consider yourself to be intelligent?
if so, the following will make perfect sense to you.
Yknot
The guy hasn't even started the job yet........ give him a break !!!
Obama is just a man......... and like those men before him and those to come after........he has a wife ( or significant other female) who has thought to herself "" what a jackass"". You see regardless of color, nationality, ethnicity, or creed ...... men are men.
As a woman I would like to see a woman US President in my lifetime. However whenever that happens I won't put her so high on a moral pedestal that she is unable to do her job without always having to acknowledge her gender first and the the historical nature of her position.
Obama has spent $800,000,000 putting himself on a pedastle. I think that warrants asking questions about him.
mtsgrad
hiya folks.
do you consider yourself to be intelligent?
if so, the following will make perfect sense to you.
Jefft
Spot on! There was a "Black Student Union" at my Alma Mater (Washington State University) for some time before I got there in 1969. A while back (10 or 15 years) all hell broke loose when some guy tried to start a "White Student Union." There's some confusion about his motives, he may have been making a point, it might have political theater, satire, or possibly even legitimate.
From the outrage you would have thought he was setting up a united chapter of Nazis and the KKK.
The organisation made a mistake. I would have let them set it up, although why do white men need support as they are the holders of power (until 20 Jan!). The group would fold within months. The funny thing about thses groups is even if it is a black group, white members should be allowed to join (if they support the groups objectives). Crazy world huh?
mtsgrad
hiya folks.
do you consider yourself to be intelligent?
if so, the following will make perfect sense to you.
Simon
There is no doubt still racism in some parts of the USA and other countries but IMO it's at the stage where to kill the remainder off we have to give up on the kind of positive descrimination that just promotes bad feeling and resentment.
Positive discrimation is legal in the USA but not in the UK. I think the idea is good but the implimentation has been poor. From research I carried out they would appoint people in jobs because of filling a quota even if they were not fully qualified.
For example, why can there be 'black' youth-centres, music channels and awards and other such things? Surely they are racist? A simple test is to substitute the word 'white' ... and then imagine if there would there be any outrage and rioting.
This is illogical. The reason it can be good to have these groups (I do not agree with all of them) is that they are disadvantaged. They are not part of the old boys network. It also gives them a chance not to feel so isolated.
The more-than-equality mentality has been, IMO, harmful for black people overall (and I know that is a sweeping generalisation) but I guess corrections are like a pendulum and tend to overshoot the mark before landing in the middle for true balance.
I am coming from the angle of someone who has trained in equalities in the past. I got so fed up I gave it up last year!
Nice comments Simon
mtsgrad
hiya folks.
do you consider yourself to be intelligent?
if so, the following will make perfect sense to you.
(leavingwt) I am not American so am talking off the hip. But in your opinion does racism exist in your country?
mtsgrad
hiya folks.
do you consider yourself to be intelligent?
if so, the following will make perfect sense to you.
Hiya folks
Do you consider yourself to be intelligent? If so, the following will make perfect sense to you. (I love this non sensical intro!)
Black people have been discrimated in the USA for many years (unless you count unemployment, incarceration, longer sentences and death penalties as positive).
Countless non white people have discrimintaed against those who are not like them (most cases are not deliberate). Black people have battled racism in ways few people can understand or empathise with.
Then suddenly this black bloke (half black in fact) gets the top job in the world. If he helps black people overtly he is unlikely to be taken serously. If he does not the black community they will dislike him.
If a black person turns around and cries racism holders of power will look at Obama and claim that racism has ended. I have heard countless reporters and news agencies claim that equality has arrived with Obama's election. Our dilemma is that in the same breath as achieving what we hoped and prayed for, we may have at the same set ourselves back many years.
Obama's election good for black people? I just cannot see it.
mtsgrad
r u there?
haven't seen a post from you in 24hours so i'm a bit worried.. (but maybe you're just recovering from new year celebration?
- i hope so.
Maybe he's busy with a booty call?
mtsgrad
as some of you've adviced me lately...i have to "get out there and check my options", so i've a date this coming monday with a man who seems really nice.
wish me luck .
thx.
Newborn
Where did you meet this person? Do they have a blonde, 18 yrs old horny siser?
mtsgrad
FHN said
I don't know how physically intimate your relationship has been, but often once it reaches the complete level a man will lose interest. You have seen each other three times? Hmmmm. I really think it's time for you to find men in your immediate area to spend your valuable time with.
I'm free ( and I have been saving for 7 yrs!)
mtsgrad
