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  Racism has reared its ugly head

  by dinah in

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  hello folks.

  seriously need to vent.. my daughter had a boyfriend who broke up with her today because her parents don't want him seeing a half-black girl.

  he said his parents screamed at him all night.

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  My wife is from Trinidad. She is part Chinese, part Indian, part Spanish, part Caribe and part black all mixed up. She is very beautiful and has a very beautiful, unique skin tone. Some of the other people in her family, epecially aunts and cousins are very jealous of her skin and her hair. Some of them treat her specially because of this, others treat her poorly because they are jealous. I think it is soooooo stupid!

  When my wife came to America she found that a lot of the black girls that she worked with were very catty with her because they were jealous of her hair! I don't know how we got on that topic.... oh yeah, you were talking about your half indian friend who's uncle said he could get 12 camels for her... when my wife was about 12, her grandmother had to chase off all of the men that were offering a dowery for her hand in marriage because she was soooo desireable! Her grandmother didn't like that tradition very much, because she was "sold off to the highest bidder" when she was a young girl.

  So, I guess what I'm getting at is how stupid it is to be treated specially or treated badly just because of what combination of genes your parents happened to mix together, rather than people judging you by your character. But, that's life. I try not to live that way and I don't let that be a deciding factor in my opinion of someone.
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  Racism has reared its ugly head

  by dinah in

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  hello folks.

  seriously need to vent.. my daughter had a boyfriend who broke up with her today because her parents don't want him seeing a half-black girl.

  he said his parents screamed at him all night.

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  I just meant that in the South (ah say, the South) , racism still seems to be commonplace and it's not that big of a surprise that it's come into play.

  Mary, I have lived in both the north and the south. Trust me, there are racists and bigots everywhere. The neigborhood where I spent my childhood had racial tensions between blacks and Puerto Ricans. The Italians and Irish were not very fond of each other, either. The KKK is just as strong in New York and New Jersey as it is in rural Alabama or Georgia. It is just a stereotype that the South has inherited (and in times past deserved it). I've seen all kinds of racism, not just white against black.

  I experienced much "reverse racism" in the area of Georgia that I lived in as an adolescent. I also noticed a lot of what a previous poster mentioned: Lighter skinned black people discriminating against darker-skinned black people. I had no idea such a thing existed until I attended my majority-black high school. Stupidity takes many forms, I guess.

  I've lived in the south for a long time now and I haven't seen racism as commonplace, or at least no more common than anywhere else. I don't let it bother me because I've always judged everyone as an individual, and most people that I know are the same. Anyway, it's time for lunch and I have to go eat pizza. Yay! Talk to y'all later!
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  Racism has reared its ugly head

  by dinah in

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  hello folks.

  seriously need to vent.. my daughter had a boyfriend who broke up with her today because her parents don't want him seeing a half-black girl.

  he said his parents screamed at him all night.

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  My daughter's half black. Well, not really. The black and white mixed together and kinda made tan..... She's beautiful. Nobody would ever suspect that she's my daughter. :) My daughter is so gorgeous I'm more afraid of how many boys will want to date her as opposed to how many who don't!

  By the way, I bet your daughter is super hot, so if those people can't appreciate her, there's probably a line of guys waiting for their chance. Don't even let it bother you! Obviously they're a family of idiots.
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  WT study and talk about sex..

  by chappy in

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  does anyone remember any kind of wt study or talk based on the song of soloman?

  if so, how'd it go?.

  chappy.

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  I'm sure more than a few of you have seen the movie Devil's Advocate. At one point during the movie, Al Pacino give a speech about how "God" plays with our emotions. Basically, the gist of his argument is that "God" gave all of us very strong urges and desires and then forbids us from acting on those urges. I think that western religion as a whole operates this way. Rather than letting people coexist with nature as a whole, we must subdue and conquer nature, including our own basic urges. Sex is one of the biggest weapons that "God" AKA RELIGION uses to manipulate people. Sex, next to hunger and self-preservation is the strongest urge that people have. To severely restrict access to or deny people their basic physiological needs such as food, shelter or sex prevents them from reaching for higher goals. It's basic psychology. Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs.
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  So...I got duped today!

  by lovelylil in

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  i am one of those people who always gives money to those who ask me on the street.

  the reason is because there was a time when i was a kid that my siblings and i needed to beg on the street for food money because mom and dad were both addicts.. anyway, i was on my way into walmart and a lady stopped me and asked if i could give her a few dollars ($5 to be exact) so that she could pick up a prescription for some medicine.

  she explained that she and her kids have been sick with bronchitis and although the kids were better she was not and had run out of money until her check came on the first of the month.. i can also sympethize with having to wait for government checks to buy what you need having grown up on state welfare programs and i reasoned that $5 is nothing for me and my husband because combined we bring in over six figures a year income.

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  Wow, I know I already posted once, but there are a lot of heated comments on this topic. Like I've said before, I've been on both ends of the spectrum. I know what it's like to be in need, and I know what it's like to be able to give. I don't think that most people have a problem with giving, we just want to know that we're really helping somebody. When you give money to a panhandler, they're probably just tricking you and tugging on your heartstrings to get you to give them money. That's why they're out there. There are places they can go to get help and get back on their feet.

  That's why I don't give money to them. I also don't donate to big, faceless "charitable" organizations that eat up most of their donations in "administrative" costs. I prefer to give only when I know that it is needed and that it is in fact going to help someone. I'm not hearltess; far from it. I like to give, I just don't like to get screwed by somebody playing on my emotions.
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  JERK

  by free2beme in

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  in this world there is a title, a title that makes people upset to hear mentioned.

  yet more often then not, it simply fits.

  the title is jerk, or basically someone that is a complete ass and not someone who is being nice or a good person.

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  The Jerk is one of my favorite movies. Oh well.
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  computer help

  by bigdreaux in

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  can anyone tell me what the best program to remove these annoying virisus off my computer is?

  i can barely use it now without getting pissed off.

  ads are popping up every 15 seconds and stuff keeps changing on my computer.

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  Go to http://www.trendmicro.com. Do a free online scan. It will remove viruses and spyware. Free of charge. Even though I have Norton Antivirus and Internet Security, I still to a trendmicro scan every once in a while because it catches stuff the even Norton doesn't catch.
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  for eryn

  by purplesofa in

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  here is something for ya...... i cant make it smaller ......sorry.

  purps.

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  Beaker and Bunson. My favorite.
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  Pioneer brother carjacked and shot dead in New Jersey - where r the angels?

  by truthseeker in

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  i heard this from a friend who attended a meeting last week.. .

  the speaker said that two months ago he heard of a pioneer brother in new jersey who was carjacked and shot dead after he tried to run away.. anyone confirm this?.

  i always shuddered when i heard of witnesses being killed in unnatural ways, especially while out on the ministry - where the hell were the angels flying in midheaven when he needed them?.

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  I knew an old brother in New Jersey who was literally tarred and feathered and ran out of town for being a JW. That's gotta suck.
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  Hypothetical scenario...

  by The Last Nephilim in

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  the "judicial loophole" thread gave me a thought- what would happen if someone faded a la moving far away but then later decided to start all over again and pretend to know nothing about jws and go through the motions of becoming a jw again?

  would there be a record of your first baptism on file at hq?

  if so, what if you deny that it's you, that someone else just has the same name?

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  Hypothetically, why the hell would anybody want to go back?? Geez. Blech!