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Is the white boy Jesus?
Dying for the sins of whites against blacks , both influenced - by society - and parental episodes of weakness - releasing bigotry - we, we all, both black and white,
Following childhood, Our Individual Experience, due to a confluence of Circumstances Creating Divisions (CCD); in; Media, Executive policy and – Our local neigbourhood, work environment, law enforcement affect, and justice delivered. -?
Our Children may have experienced in life, and through their parents; understandable bigotry,
do the parents have a plan, these issues arise, do we think, or do , we react?
When conditions change,
Is fomenting hatred good for your babies future,
white or black,
Do you want them to suffer - as you have – and - are now participating in.
We are the adults,
Exerting racism,
And/Or receiving it?
If you cannot heal you’re wounds for the sake of your children,
You are not Developing Wisdom with Experience, DWE
Humans do this, about 65 percent of them,
Our genes allowed us to be self-aware,
Now we need to learn how to live with this power:
Self destruction ?
Or love?
Fear ?
Or altruism?
Tough decisions for every individual…sorry, this is all I can do for you at this time.
New thought
We all have to stop pumping these racist splinters into our children’s psyche,
IF you have,
Explain the rage you felt when you spoke to them and explain how you feel it is wrong now.
You don’t have, to say your sorry, just correct your small brain ( ) mistake.
And your children
Black or white,
Will grow into thoughtful nuggets, instead of dogmatic racists,
Be based on reflection, and experience not dogma, hate, and being ignorant on purpose , to feed your anger,…and fear.
Jena "idyllic?" Not hardly.
Jena should have been famous for something else, as well as the collective fate of the unfortunate six. It was the town where for-profit prison scamsters hooked Governor Edwin Edwards with six-figure bribes to build their gulag. Edwards is doing ten years in the Federal pokey for that lapse of judgment, snared by Patrick Graham, a Texas wire-wearer trying to reduce his own anticipated sentence.
Jena hosted the GEO Group prison where so many kids suffered broken bones at the hands of staff that a judge was forced to close it down for half a decade. It was the place where a brutal guard kneed a prone youngster in the back with such force that the boy's intestines exploded into his colostomy bag.
I'm delighted all those latter-day Freedom Riders showed, but they should have had a better look-around while they were there.
-- Frank Smith, Bluff City, KS
Don't try writing facts,
This is politics,
Your in the party of waste, fraud and abuse (each word applies)
And your representitives lie, cheat, sin, and steal using and abusing the law.
Therefore anything you say is suspect, untill verified, and we know you guys have been cooking the books for at least the last six years.
'Unworthy of your trust' should be the republican motto for the Bush years, at least.
Could not the Jewish geniuses, be-bop over to Iran, say, at night, and take over a couple of missile sites and lob them at, ummm, the Green Zone, what a swarm that would make.
and he made perty good sense, for the mostly.
Translation seemed to confuse his intent, and understanding of the questions.
I get the impression he is a really great guy.
Back to square one.
*Bush, George
Can I have her brain to play with...please...pretty please.
"" Or perhaps it is the medical and insurance industries he means to do no harm? As he stated, the costs of keeping the patients alive runs into the billions.""
As I understand it, insurance does not pay to keep anyone alive,
Most policies have a catastophic limit, 80,000 - 150,000 or so,
Anything above that and You are on your Own,
If the Dr. or hospital can legally or surrepticiously(sp)kill you, your dead. ie... get your family to agree
I am white, some mixed Indian, but close enough,
Since childhood I have been verbally assaulted by blacks, in passing, strangers, in excess of easily 200 times. When giving some thought to the number of occurrences in 365 days times my age- minus the unproductive years, infancy, and now a homebody, it comes to about 300-400 times. This include black women of 15 years +
I have been physically assaulted by blacks, strangers, about 11 times, none which caused hospitalization.
I have never been physically assaulted by a white stranger, probably 20 times by acquaintances. None by black acquaintances,
I have been verbally assaulted, in passing, maybe 20 times by whites. Maybe 2 women.
I know nice black folk; I've seen a lot of mean, angry, black folk.
I've seen their behavior in crowds, i.e. Restaurants, bars, pool halls; I traveled in the US a lot in the past, east and west coast, about 400 trips.
Just sharing my experience.
My behavior? No challenge, staring, no fear displayed, just passing, or found myself in a gathering of angry people.
While doing necessary functions. Either for work or sustenance.
I have drawn no conclusions at this time, I wonder at upbringing, and frontal lobe quality of care in childhood - and education.
Nothing much I can do about it.
And I expect this experience is similar to other white males in this area over 45 years,
And expect this is why both black and white judges and prosecutors are energetically locking up blacks at an alarming rate, black women also,
My black acquaintances friends’ numbers are much higher than my own for blacks on blacks, and close or higher than my own for white on black. Varies as to where they are from… I have lived within a 3 mile radius since birth.
We have quite a bit of anger management work to do with our children, and adults sadly.