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Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 410
Registered: 07-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 02:55 am: | 
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Slaves to Multiculturalism?
Written by prodigal child
I spent this past Labor Day weekend at an African Arts & Culture fest on Chicago's Southside. It was 4 days of African and African-American culture — politics, music, dance, clothes, worship, food, art... It was peace 'n' luv like I hadn't seen in a long, long minute. Every tongue of the Diaspora was there — West Indies, Africans, Caribbean Islanders, southern black folk, you name it. It was 4 days of dialoging and sharing of our own cultural fruits with each other. The luv was thicker than the Shea Butter the cats from Mali were selling. It felt like family. But it also got me thinking about multiculturalism and hiphop.
Is the movement that's forcing black folks to embrace multiculturalism actually sacrificing black folks' culture?
You can't turn on the TV or open a book without hearing someone tout multiculturalism. There's multicultural stars like Tiger "Don't call me Black" Woods and Vin "All Of The Above" Diesel. MTV is eating big-time off the multiculti plate — even though they wouldn't play black artists at all in the early 80s. Clubs and radio station formats are multiculti. Fashion is multiculti. The whole world is turning beige.
I peeped a recent Donahue interview with Russell Simmons. Big Rush said whites and non-blacks purchase 80% of all hiphop albums. 80 percent. Add into the mix that some 40% of all hiphop gear like Russell's Phatfarm gear and Diddy's Sean John and Jigga's Rocawear threads. Combine that with the fact that black music (i.e. hiphop, soul, blues, R&B, gospel) black art, black fashion and black entertainment is run by primarily white-owned multinational conglomerates (i.e. Viacom, Universal, Sony, Nike, Disney, etc.) and you have the dynamic of a mostly white consumer-base dictating black culture to white manufacturers and marketers. That's "them" to talking to "them" about what they accept from "us".
I hit a few reggae spots recently and two-thirds of the crowd was Asian and white kids rockin' dreadlocks, drinkin' red stripes and doing their Bob Marley impression. I see the same deal in hiphop, jazz and blues spots all over the world. Remember rock 'n' roll before multiculturalism got hold of it? When black folks were creating it, rock 'n' roll was deamed "race music", "nigger music" and "jungle music". But Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Pat Boone, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Metallica, Aerosmith and friends come along co-opting it and suddenly, rock 'n' roll is white and acceptable. Remember house music before multiculturalism got hold of it? It was black soulful dance music from Detroit and Chicago. Multiculturalism shows up and suddenly house music becomes "techno" and "drum 'n' bass" and very, very white.
If a Japanese kid, a German kid or a White American kid wants to ignore their heritage to go on cultural safari, that's on them. At least they have the comfort of knowing their culture is still in tact. And when little Samantha Suburbs gets bored with having sex with black guys from the 'hood, she'll settle down and go mainstream. When Trevor Mainstream is ready for a career, he'll pull up his pants, lose the backwards baseball cap and go back to his roots, too. Meanwhile their safari jumping "let's go multiculti" leanings are destroying our cultures.
You can't go to Japan and tell Japanese people what their culture is or what it should be. You can't go to Russia or France or Italy and dictate their culture to them. Can't do it to the British, the Irish or the Spanish or the Greeks. Yet, when it comes to the African Diaspora; from America to the islands to the motherland, everyone else wants to dictate blackness to us, participate in blackness and profit from blackness all in the name of multiculturalism.
But black folks don't have the luxury of playing the multiculti game. We have spent the last 500 years piecing together our identity and heritage. We've been fighting a storm of lies, half-truths and disinformation about what we are, where we're from, what we've done and where we're going. Now, on top of all of this we're supposed to let everyone else co-opt our flavor in the name of unity?
But I can't front. I believe in true multiculturalism — it's a beautiful thing. But what's going on in America is not multiculturalism. Multiculturalism only exists when the cultures that come together are on equal footing. If one culture is respected less, seen as a product/commodity for the rest to control, or viewed as a marketing tool for selling chicken, sneakers, cars and CDs, then it's not multiculturalism — it's cultural colonization. It feels to me like black culture is only accepted when non-blacks get to define it, control it and profit from it.
Multiculturalism seems to be liberal code for "Black culture belongs to us now and we'll define it and use it as we see fit". Culture is the soul of a people. And when you control a people's soul, you control those people. They enslaved us once before. If we're not careful, multiculturalism will be the next set of shackles they throw on us.
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2653
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 6 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 10:22 am: |
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Oh, boo-hoo. So should "us" stop eating tacos and pizza and eggs rolls and bagels and sushi and Polish sausages, and quit drinking Latte and Cognac and Beck beer and stop wearing Levis and Tommy Hilfiger and Reeboks and not drive Toyotas, and never listen to Beethoven and make sure to bypass Shakespeare. Or should "us" realize that diversity expands instead of constricts, and that multi-culturism is the one of the more interesting things that America has going for it; it's a relief from the exclusivity of racism. |
Moonsigns
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Username: Moonsigns
Post Number: 672
Registered: 07-2004
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 10:52 am: |
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CYNIQUE:
"diversity expands instead of contricts, and that multi-culturism is the one of the more interesting things that America has going for it; it's a relief from the exclusivity of racism."
MOONSIGNS:
I agree with you, Cynique!
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Yukio
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Username: Yukio
Post Number: 784
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 01:28 pm: |
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Cyn and Moon: I think the article is problematizing multiculturalism as praxis--curriculum, popular culture--and multiculuralism as idea. The thrust, as I see it, of the article is stating that black folk do not have ownership of their culture. He or she is differentiating between the monopolization of the idea by profiteers and liberals who produce a watered down multiculuturalism through restaurants, commendeering MLK's birthday for shopping, and teaching course about people of color that vindicate the exceptionalism of US Culture and, on the other hand, the actual integrity of other cultures that have value independent of White Euro-Americans. Prodigal child affirms multiculturalism the idea rather than its present formulation.
Cyn:
I'm not sure how you see racism as it relates to this article. Please if you will explain. |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 1486
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 02:01 pm: |
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Cynique:
It shows how hollow and bankrupt your vision is that you reduce acceptance and toleration and blending of all cultures to stuffing your face, guzzling booze, strutting around with clothes with manufactuer's names on them (probably fake) and listening to music and attending plays that most white folks don't even bother with.
It is probably because you have given up all hope of anything meaningful and you find solace in wretched symbolism.
To paraphrase Mr. T, another Chicagoan, I don't hate Cyqniue, folks. I pity her.
Cynique, you have potential, but you have lost your way. You are cool but you have no groove. I have been wondering how to straighten you out and I finally figured it out.
I hereby challenge you to a Texas Death Match in a steel cage at Wrestlmania. |
Cynique
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Post Number: 2656
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 03:22 pm: |
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Oh drop dead, ChrisHayden. I see things different than you, and you have a problem with anybody who isn't cross-eyed like you. You think that intellectualzing multi-culturalism makes the argument advanced against it profound. What has this man said that hasn't been said over and over ad nauseum. And what is your reason for things not being the way he thinks they should be. blah blah blah. Chrishayden, marching in place, trying to explain the 20th century world to the 21st century, despite the fact that he can't see past his snotty nose. What blubbering jerk. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1488
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 03:42 pm: |
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Cynique, talking to you is not like talking to the 21st Century, its like talking to the Stone Age.
Now how about that Death Match so I can lay the smackdown on your candy ass! |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2657
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 03:48 pm: |
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Yukio, who really does have control of their culture in America???? Why are blacks who want to escape racism and be accepted by the main stream so against sharing their culture? And you act is if there aren't any black entrepreneurs who capitalize off of the popularity of black panache. And as much as you want to disparage the black middleclass, a lot of them are in the business of blackness, not to mention street vendors and hustlers. All of these columnists who think nobody but them is aware of what's going on, just keep talking about who ain't makin it, and act as if all the nonentities in other ethnic groups are doing so great despite the fact that it has been established that in a captialistic society there are the "haves" and the "have-nots". And, tell me, what is the alternative to multi-culturalism? Should all blacks just congregate in one place and shut the rest of the world out while maintining a monopoly on their "culture." Yes, I simplifying the situation, but you are complicating it with a lot of socio-economic theoreums. |
Renata
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Post Number: 98
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 03:49 pm: |
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Quote:
"If one culture is respected less, seen as a product/commodity for the rest to control, or viewed as a marketing tool for selling chicken, sneakers, cars and CDs, then it's not multiculturalism — it's cultural colonization. It feels to me like black culture is only accepted when non-blacks get to define it, control it and profit from it."
Explains it all.
Things that are considered "black" are manufactured by white people, for white kids. And they tell the world it's "black". And we believe them.
And Ms. J from Gambia could come here and wear BLACK clothing made by black people for black people (and at a fraction of the cost of what white manufactured articles cost), and we're ashamed to be seen in it. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2658
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 04:00 pm: |
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Poor Chris. He just can't deal with people who aren't in lock step with his archaic ideas. And his inadequacies reduce him to challenging a female to a smackdown because he's too cowardly to confront another male. And he should be because they kick his sorry ass every time. Go on over in the corner, and read a comic book, Chrissy, you poster boy for arrested development. |
Yukio
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Username: Yukio
Post Number: 785
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 04:55 pm: |
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cyn: I dont know where your tone came from, but I will respond in like manner.
There is a Euro-American tradition of expropriating other cultures for the purpose of maintaining white supremacy. It is that simple not a "socio-economic theorem."
"Why are blacks who want to escape racism and be accepted by the main stream so against sharing their culture?"
I'm not one of them, so I couldn't answer your question.
Sharing suggests ownership. This version of multiculturalism that prodigal child is criticizing is expropriation.
Perhaps, your equate criticisms of multiculturalism as a desire for segregation. I don't think this is what the article is talking about.
"And you act is if there aren't any black entrepreneurs who capitalize off of the popularity of black panache."
Blacks who capitalize off of "black panache" are guilty. Your point? I'm not acting as if anything. You are ass-u-ming too much.
"And as much as you want to disparage the black middleclass, a lot of them are in the business of blackness, not to mention street vendors and hustlers. "
a)Again, where do you get this rubbish from. At what point did I mention the black middle class? I would hope you are not conflating what was written elsewhere with my position here.
b) Are these people in the business of exploiting blackness or something else? I don't believe that black folk do no wrong (Public Enemy says, referring to the killer of Huey P. Newton "Hand of a nig pulled the trig") Also, one has to differentiating what people are doing on the ground (street vendors et al.) and those who wield read power, such as curriculums, university courses, text books, and advertisers.
c) When I have talked about the middle-class, I was talking about it as a category not everyone who belongs to the middleclass. Perhaps, you have middle-class guilt?
"And, tell me, what is the alternative to multi-culturalism?"
As I stated, Prodigal child envisions a different implementation of multiculuralism, as I do! As I stated, it isn't the idea or concept it is the praxis.
Praxis:ACTION, PRACTICE: as a : exercise or practice of an art, science, or skill b : customary practice or conduct
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2660
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 05:31 pm: |
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OK, Yukio. My rant was left over from sparring with Chrishayden. And I had as hard a time figuring out what you were saying as you had in relating to what I was saying. I never know if you and I are agreeing or disageeing but that's OK. I still loves ya! LOL |
Th_ethiopian
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Post Number: 3
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 07:16 pm: |
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take it easy on Cynique folks........shes a classic example of a house nigger....... i bet u would give condeliza rice and colin powell a run for their money........cynique is the perfect example of whats wrong with the black american mentality in this country........she doesnt know her enemys.....she thinks white ppl care about her sorry ass.....hahaha...wake up and smell the coffee cynique.......u been hangin around moonsigns too long or u must be really really dumb.
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2661
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 10:14 pm: |
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Coming from a hybrid, myopic, carpetbagger like you, ethiopian I consider those words a compliment. I am opinionated and an independet thinker and it rubs a lot of people the wrong way because I don't have a cookie-cutter mentality. BTW have you thought up a retort for the pathetic demise that befell your fearless leader ol Hallie, an impotent excuse for a leader, undoubtedly cut from the same scruffy cloth as you. Crawl on back to your second rate existence, trying to make a living here in America. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2662
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 10:38 pm: |
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And, oh yeah. I have no delusions about how white people feel about me, ethiopian. But it doesn't devastate me because the reason I am a survivor is because I don't need the approval of white people to make me feel validated since I'm comfortable with myself. And being the individuial who I am, I like Colin Powell, but I can't stand Codoleeza Rice. That's because I think for myself. Do you, you white-worshipping, ground scratcher? |
Nels
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Post Number: 95
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 01:10 am: |
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Cynique --
"Should all blacks just congregate in one place and shut the rest of the world out while maintining a monopoly on their "culture."
Perhaps your detractors should join their compadres at Destee.com. |
Roxie
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Post Number: 217
Registered: 06-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 08:47 am: |
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Renata:
--Things that are considered "black" are manufactured by white people, for white kids. And they tell the world it's "black". And we believe them.--
That explains UPN and the dreadded "Oreo" phenomenon.
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Cynique
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Post Number: 2664
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 10:39 am: |
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Nels, yes, this cabal of "group thinkers" who never deviate from the party line should all fall in behind their knock-kneed drum major Chrishayden and stumble on into never-never land. There, in the prison of their sameness, they can talk a good fight and be free from all of those old bad profiteers who are co-opting rap music and the hip-hop vibe. Apparently the sum total of what these mopes consider black culture to be is bad-mouthing women, glorifying violence and wearing droopy clothes and tawdry jewelry and rarely reading a book. Such broad vision. Puleeze. Pardon me while I adapt to the real world and appreciate all of the diversity that makes it an interesting place. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1491
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 01:41 pm: |
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Cynique:
What the heck are you talking about. Did we forget to take our lithium again this morning? |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2668
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 02:36 pm: |
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Don't blame your inability to comprehend on me, Haydenchris. I always did think you were kinda dense. (Notice the use of the word "we" when Chris makes reference to taking lithium. That explains a lot about his erratic outbursts. Poor sap apparently thinks that because he needs tranquilizing, everybody else does too.) |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 1492
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 03:02 pm: |
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Cynique:
Re Smackdown
http://www.wwe.com/shows/smackdown/
Re me challenging you-
C'mon! You know this is your web page!
http://www.wwe.com/superstars/halloffame/fabulousmoolah/profile/
I'm the one risking his life!
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Rustang
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Username: Rustang
Post Number: 145
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 06:04 pm: |
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Chris,you are,without question, the rudest example of a half-raised idiot that I have ever had the misfortune of being exposed to.Since you were obviously raised by wild dogs or something, let me explain how things work in civilized company.Men do not talk to ladies in the manner that you have been addressing Cynique.They just don't do it.Independent of topic, point of view,etc..They just don't do it.You want to threaten her with physical violence? You must be a real tough guy.How about this,tough guy.Instead of challenging an elderly lady why don't you try your luck with me instead?.I will be more than happy to kick you to sleep if you like. I bet your a real bear around a pregnant woman or some little kids or something.Let's see how you do with a grown man.Or are you as cowardly as you are moronic? |
Th_ethiopian
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Post Number: 6
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 07:04 pm: |
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"Coming from a hybrid, myopic, carpetbagger like you, ethiopian I consider those words a compliment. I am opinionated and an independet thinker and it rubs a lot of people the wrong way because I don't have a cookie-cutter "mentality. BTW have you thought up a retort for the pathetic demise that befell your fearless leader ol Hallie, an impotent excuse for a leader, undoubtedly cut from the same scruffy cloth as you. Crawl on back to your second rate existence, trying to make a living here in America."
^^^^^ SHE SURE IS ONE MAD AUNT JEMIMA......WOW I DONT BELIEVE IM BEING INSULTED BY AN OFFSPRING OF A SLAVE....... WHAT A DUMB HIGH YELLA BEEYATCH |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2672
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 10:32 pm: |
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'Can't be "high-yellow" and an "Aunt Jemima", you dumb, seedy-assed ethiopian. Now scurry on back to your rag-pickin job. BTW, you'll never get a white woman doing that for a living, even a fat one, so brush up on the english alphabet and maybe you can get a janitor job, ol spam of Judah. LMAO. Don't give up, maybe you'll find a hard-up woman to marry you so you won't get deported. |
Cynique
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Post Number: 2673
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 10:43 pm: |
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Jeeeeeze! Who said chivalry was dead? I appreciate your concern, Rustang, and I'll even forgive you for referring to me as "elderly", but have no fear, I don't take Chrishayden seriously. That's why I didn't even bother to respond to his nonsense. I think he's secretly into bondage and fantasizes about me being his dominatrix. Not a chance. I like macho men, not wimps. Incidentally, Chris is 55 years old and I think I can take him in 3 falls. But thanks anyway, Doug. I appreciate the thought and I'm touched.  |
Th_ethiopian
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 11:25 pm: |
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cynique..............is a perfect example of niggers gone wild........dumb didy dumb....what a low life high yella whore. |
Cynique
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Post Number: 2675
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 12:22 am: |
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Ha-Ha. You say that from the gutter as you look up to me, you sorry, green-card carrying lyin of Judah. Now bug off, you bore me. You are no challenge because you have no command of the english language. Phew. You stink. |
Anunaki3600
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 03:50 am: |
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Cynique, YOU are one tough lady. You must be like Crocodile dundee. You can handle color-struck ethiopian refugee and Chris the lady wrestler at the same time. How do YOU do it??? Any good tips? |
Rustang
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Post Number: 146
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 08:40 am: |
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He's 55? I would have thought that he'd secure himself a Darwin award long before he reached that age. Nothing short of divine intervention could have prevented him from wandering out in front of a slow moving train or something. Vegas has set the odds at 5 to 2 with you as the favorite, btw. |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 1496
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 09:54 am: |
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Rustang you can kiss my ass. If we were in jail you'd be sweeping out the cell and washing my drawers.
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Yukio
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Post Number: 787
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 12:46 pm: |
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multiculturalism at its best! |
Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 441
Registered: 07-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 01:37 pm: |
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(Can't be "high-yellow" and an "Aunt Jemima")
THAT'S NOT TRUE. |
Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 442
Registered: 07-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 01:39 pm: |
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(...I'll even forgive you for referring to me as "elderly"...)
THAT'S NOT TRUE, EITHER. |
Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 443
Registered: 07-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 01:43 pm: |
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(multiculturalism at its best!)
NOW, THAT'S TRUE! |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2676
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 02:05 pm: |
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Who put you in charge of what's true and what is not true, ol legally blind "tonya"? Everybody doesn't exist in the world where you make the rules. The image of Quaker Oats' "Aunt Jemima" is chocolate brown, not high yellow. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2677
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 02:12 pm: |
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And, oh yea, "tonya", what's not true about Rustang calling me "elderly." Are you saying I'm masquerading at being elderly? Guess you think everybody is a fake like you. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1497
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 02:23 pm: |
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Rustang:
By the way you decrepit old goat--how was your swim?
Tonya and Cynique:
Remember the teachings of our lord and saviour. Respond with love to sarcasm and hard words. Cynique, if Tonya striketh thee turn the other cheek. Tonya, if Cynique taketh thy robe give her thy cloak also.
Love one another.
Try to be more forgiving, forebearing and longsuffering--
Like moi |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2678
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 02:39 pm: |
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"Cynique, YOU are one tough lady. You must be like Crocodile dundee. You can handle color-struck ethiopian refugee and Chris the lady wrestler at the same time. How do YOU do it??? Any good tips?"
Aw shucks, Anunaki3600. Aint nothin to it, really. I just eat razor blades for breakfast, and when folks who can dish it out, but can't take it, decide to attack Cynique, they're in for a good slashing. BTW, I think a wrestling match between the ethiopian and chrishayden should be staged. They could call it the clash of the losers. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2679
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 02:45 pm: |
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Yukio, you forgot to put an "LOL" after your multiculturism remark. (Aint it enriching how an ethiopian and a house nigga introduce each other to their unique ways of life. Aaah, diversity! So cultured!) ROTFLOL. |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1499
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 02:49 pm: |
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Cynique:
"I eat razor blades for breakfast"
(Holding self back with difficulty from scoring a home run on her!) O Lord she has set herself up! What a maroon!
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Tonya
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Tonya
Post Number: 447
Registered: 07-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 02:49 pm: |
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(Tonya, if Cynique taketh thy robe give her thy cloak also.)
That advice would have to come with a naked man. Gotta stay warm somehow
Tonya
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Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2680
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 03:18 pm: |
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What do you eat for for breakfast, Chris? Viagra mashed up in your oatmeal hoping that maybe one of them will improve the quality of your life? heh-heh. BTW, I aint really interested in getting along with "tonya" - or you, either for that matter. She can throw her cloak on a puddle of water so I walk over it and not get my feet wet. |
Tonya
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Tonya
Post Number: 452
Registered: 07-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 04:23 pm: |
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Don't worry, Cynnique -- I dont get down like that.
But, you be sure to lick those lips when you're through....
Sweet like a lollipop, babe!
Tonya |
Rustang
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Rustang
Post Number: 147
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 06:21 pm: |
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Chris, have you been listening to your gangsta hip hop records again without adult supervision? Jail is not where you and I will meet.Jail is where I will probably be after you and I meet.But who knows? After I bust you in the mouth so hard that your ears whip around and slap me on the wrist the judge might decide to take your word for it. |
Libralind2
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Libralind2
Post Number: 213
Registered: 09-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 10:19 pm: |
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Lets see..song:
"We Areeeeee The Worlddddddddddd" AND famous last words.?
"Cant we ALL just get along...???!!!"
LiLi
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Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1501
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 11:27 am: |
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Cynique:
I eat you and your stooges for breakfast.
Rustang:
No, the IC Unit is where you will be after you meet these lefts and rights ,uppercuts and combinations I got for you
Libralind2:
We ARE getting along. You should see us when we are feudin fightin and a fussin. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2683
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 03:13 pm: |
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Amusing words coming from Chrishayden, Kola Boof's biggest stooge. Now, Chrissy, if you'll just "get along" and accept the fact that you aren't the Alpha Male on this site, maybe your blood pressure will go down.
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Moonsigns
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Moonsigns
Post Number: 692
Registered: 07-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 03:25 pm: |
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CYNIQUE:
"Now, Chrissy...."
MOONSIGNS:
"Chrissy"...HaahaaLMAO!!!! Damn, Cynique, you are funny as shyt!!!!!!!
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Yukio
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Yukio
Post Number: 789
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 04:23 pm: |
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Cyn: My bad...LOL!
I must stop this misinterpretation thing.... |
Rustang
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Rustang
Post Number: 148
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 05:30 pm: |
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To Libralind2,we're just playing.Nothing to be taken seriously.I was actually thinking of inviting Chris over for dinner some evening.He could bring his boyfriend and we could play bridge.
Chris,you might want to consider how that's going to look in papers.I can see it now. "Chris Hayden,gay author of nothing noteworthy,found wandering the streets semi-conscious with a push broom and boxer shorts lodged in his colon."That might be a little hard to explain to your fan. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2684
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 10:20 pm: |
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Ooooh. Glad that's not to be taken seriously... On a different note, are you a bridge player, Rustang? I love the game, but it's kinda hard to find bridge players these days. |
Rustang
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Rustang
Post Number: 149
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 09:14 am: |
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Yeah, I love the game.My wife and I have probably contributed mightily to the divorce rate among white folks, but it sure is a lot of fun. |
Libralind2
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Libralind2
Post Number: 217
Registered: 09-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 09:56 am: |
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Well..if you two are playing..whew
LiLi |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1505
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 10:20 am: |
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Rustang:
I ain't got a boyfriend and I don't play games.
What will be harder to explain to your fans is why you will be found semi conscious, dressed uplike Marilyn Monroe and murmuring "Hurt me, daddy. Hurt me!" |
Rustang
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Rustang
Post Number: 150
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 06:35 pm: |
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Chris, since you are obviously as lacking in wit as you are in intelligence, I suppose that I will have to spell it out for you.I have come to inspire you and deliver you from your wretched practise of dumbing down the outline of The Lord of the Rings for a living.Your next novel is to be titled Nothing Noteworthy, a gripping and suspenseful tale of how the man you know that I am saves the galaxy from the machinations of the man you fear that I am and his lackey,the disgusting little pervert you pray that I become,with the aid of the counsel of the Noble Ancient One you hate that I become.The last lines of the book are to have the protagonist return to his home to have his lovely wife ask him "So how was your day? Anything interesting happen?" A far better read than if you come from the heart with something like A Fairy Tail.If you need more details, ascend Olympus and there you shall find me. |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1514
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 06:48 pm: |
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Now that has possibilities---more! |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 2689
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 08:35 pm: |
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Rustang! First Bridge, now Lord of the Rings! I love that trilogy! (I knew there was just something about you that I liked.) |
Rustang
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Rustang
Post Number: 151
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2005 - 01:27 pm: |
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To Chris: The bad guy has figured out a way to fold the space/time continuum over on itself many times over in a specific location.His plan is to do that to the supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way, causing the black hole at countless times in it's history to be present at the same place and time, thereby increasing it's Schwarzschild radius by several orders of magnitude.This will cause it to go on a 'feeding frenzy', since the Schwarzschild radius is directly proportional to the mass, to re-achieve equilibrium.Soon, all matter in the galaxy would be accellerated to near-light speeds and the supermassive black hole would swallow the entire galaxy in a few hundred years.He, of course, plans to bail through a conveniently located worm hole, allowing him to escape to the crab nebula.
To Cynique,Lord of the Rings has been one of my favorites (like many other people)for years.Actually, chess is my main game, but I dearly love bridge against suitably proficient opponents.I don't really see bridge enjoying the popularity it once did, though.Kind of sad, really. |
Kola_boof
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 580
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, October 09, 2005 - 03:07 am: |
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The article is very good and I'm in agreement with it.
It's not much different than what Toni Morrison and a lot of others have been saying.
And like Egypt's Nawal El Sadaawi, I think the American concept of "multiculturalism" is a farce and basically enables White Supremacy and dictates to the masses what is "black" and erases blackness at the same time.
Multiculturalism is yet another grand DUPE for those who've been duped since this country started, and that includes the naive White women right along with us blacks.
I'm blessed that my children's father is of a like mind with me and helps me to FENCE our family in.
We give others their FREEDOM and playing field and we live our lives in OUR TRUTH, separately.
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Nels
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Username: Nels
Post Number: 108
Registered: 07-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, October 09, 2005 - 03:30 am: |
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Cyn --
"this cabal of "group thinkers""
As they continue to reflect, there's nothing like watching a definition re-write itself. |
Serenasailor
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Username: Serenasailor
Post Number: 5
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 07:30 pm: |
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Cynique you are very ignorant and you missed the whole point of what she was saying. Also Kola Buff I agree with you 100%. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 3218
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 12:39 pm: |
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You're pretty stupid yourself, Serenasailor, if you think that everyone who doesn't agree with Kola is ignorant. Your comment has absolutely no point of reference and is a response to a thread started in October of last year. Get with the program, airhead. There are always 2 points of view and you sound like one of those people who becomes discombobulated if someone challenges what you've convinced yourself of as being true. You obviously are not serene, Serena, and as a sailor you sound like you're drowning in a sea of illusions. |
Serenasailor
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Username: Serenasailor
Post Number: 18
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 07:15 pm: |
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Anyway I am not going to spend my time debating with the likes of you Cynique. However, I will say that Multi-culturalism is a sham in the fact that white ppl are the ones controlling it. Have you ever noticed how whites are more accepting of other ethnic groups such as Asians, and latinos? Have you ever noticed that white ppl when they talk about multiculturalism they will purposely excluded blacks. Multiculturalism means every race has an equal footing. It doesn't mean that white ppl can pick and chose what races of ppl they will include and which ones they won't. White ppl are more willing to accept Asians and Hispanics into their communities, schools, and will even intermarry with them. But for some reason they still denounce intergration with blacks. Multiculturalism is really a totem pole in which whites have created. Whites on top, Asians second, Hispanics third, and blacks on the very bottom. The tricky thing about this is that you can't accuse white ppl of racism, because hey! They have their token minorities.(I.e Asians and Latinos). Don't believe multiculturalism it is a SHAM!! |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 3248
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 06, 2006 - 01:18 pm: |
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Thank goodness you aren't going to "waste" your time debating with me because I won't have to waste my time listening to the points you think you are making when it all you are doing is parroting the same ol tired arguments that people of your ilk keep recyling. You are a monumental bore. zzzzzzzzzzzzz |
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