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Yvettep
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Post Number: 1791
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 08:54 am: | 
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/21/AR2007032102168. html
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will announce today a $122 million investment to create a new crop of high school and college scholars among some of the city's poorest and lowest-achieving students. It is the foundation's largest investment to date in D.C. education and one of the largest grants it has made for education.
More than 2,000 students will become D.C. Achievers over the next 15 years and receive college scholarships of up to $10,000 each a year for a maximum of five years. The money is meant to jump-start low high school and college graduation rates among students living in parts of Northeast and Southeast Washington, where statistics show that within a span of five years, 66 percent of high school students fail to complete high school and just one in 20 high school graduates earns a college degree.
The grant is a monumental leap from the $4.8 million the foundation awarded the D.C. public schools last fall for several low-performing schools and smaller investments in years past at some charter schools. The D.C. College Access Program, or DC-CAP, the city's largest nonprofit college counseling program, will administer key elements of the D.C. Achievers program.
Nine percent of D.C. high school graduates who attend college finish within five years. The program aims to double the college completion rate beginning with the Class of 2010 and triple the rate for the Class of 2014.
The Gates Foundation, which has donated $1.5 billion nationally for education and more than $13 million in the District, has been working with D.C. officials for three years to determine the best way to be a catalyst for improving urban education in Washington. City leaders last fall released the "Double the Number for College Success" report, which tracked students over five years and found that the District had a 43 percent high school graduation rate.
"We are honored to be able to partner with the leaders of the District of Columbia to pursue this ambitious goal," said Jim Shelton, education program director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. "We hope that this investment can serve these students well and spur broader improvement in D.C. education."
The announcement for the scholarship program is scheduled for this morning at Frank W. Ballou Senior High School in Southeast Washington. The program is a collaborative effort involving the foundation, DC-CAP, the D.C. College Success Foundation, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, the D.C. public schools and charter school leaders.
About 175 juniors at six traditional and charter high schools -- Anacostia, Ballou, H.D. Woodson, Friendship Collegiate, Maya Angelou-Evans and Thurgood Marshall Academy -- will be selected by the end of the school year for the scholarship. Designed to tap hidden potential, the program will have broader selection criteria that will consider students' grade-point averages and grades, but also their "resilience" and "commitment to education."
Students at the six high schools will learn about the program and receive application packets through school assemblies scheduled over the next few weeks. Once selected, the students will be part of a summer college prep program and will be assigned "college liaisons" who will advise and mentor them through the college application process.
The D.C. College Success Foundation, a nonprofit group that awards college scholarships and mentors poor students, will receive $112 million of the grant. That foundation will partner with DC-CAP, which has hired six college liaisons to work with students at the six high schools, and also do outreach at middle and junior high schools in nearby communities.
DC-CAP, which is privately funded, will receive the remaining $10 million of the grant as the first contribution to its $40 million capital campaign. The money will allow the nonprofit, which has college resource centers at 17 high schools, to award more scholarships and expand its reach for the first time into four charter high schools beginning this fall. (Washington Post Co. Chairman Donald E. Graham is chairman of the DC-CAP board.)
Yesterday, School Superintendent Clifford B. Janey said through his spokesman that the investment meshes with his academic blueprint for improving students' achievement, the master education plan.
"We are grateful for the mentoring guidance and financial support this generous investment will offer to students who might otherwise not be ready or able to attend college," Janey said. "This investment fits perfectly with what [D.C. public schools are] already doing and highlights the need for the entire community to get involved in making sure our students succeed."
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Tonya
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 10:15 am: |
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Wonderful. Bless them. It's music to the ear after learning about these findings.
Study finds one-third in D.C. illiterate
WASHINGTON A new report finds that about one-third of the people living in the nation's capital are functionally illiterate. That compares with about one-fifth nationally.
The study by the quasi-governmental State Education Agency was ordered by the mayor in 2003 as part of his four-year adult literacy initiative.
The agency's director says the growing number of Hispanic and Ethiopian immigrants who aren't proficient in English has contributed to the city's high functional illiteracy level.
Adults are considered functionally illiterate if they have trouble doing such things as comprehending bus schedules, reading maps and filling out job applications.
The D-C Chamber of Commerce says the city lost up to 107 (m) million dollars in taxes annually between 2000 and 2005 because of a lack of qualified job applicants.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
http://www.wric.com/Global/story.asp?S=6250418 |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 3931
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 10:31 am: |
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Boy that's great, he ups some money to send them to college and goes down the street to Congress and begs Congress to send their jobs overseas or let foreigners come in and take them.
All Capitalist robber barons make moves like these (which I suppose they get a hefty deduction for off their taxes) to brighten up their images.
Nobody is going to benefit but the colleges which will get fresh infusions of cash.
Why don't he just give the Negroes some money?
Or maybe pay off some of the people he ripped off stepped on and ran over on his way to the top?
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Yvettep
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Post Number: 1792
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 10:38 am: |
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You're 100% right, Chris. Those kids should refuse that tainted money and join the majority of D.C. kids not graduating high school or college... |
Abm
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Post Number: 8982
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 10:44 am: |
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Yvettep & Chris,
I kinda agree with both of you.
Tonya,
Considering that most foks become functionally literate in grade and high school, COLLEGIATE scholarships will NOT help to address the illiteracy problem. |
Yvettep
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Post Number: 1794
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 10:50 am: |
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BTW, I may have already mentioned this here, but one of the DC charter schools mentioned in the first article is one that I became aware of as a result of that Cosby-Washington Post Summit that was took place a while back, the Maya Angelou Public Charter School:
http://www.seeforever.org/ and http://www.seeforever.org/MAPCS/index.htm
This appears to be a very exciting experiment: I'll be interested to see what comes of the effort. |
Chrishayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 10:59 am: |
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You're 100% right, Chris. Those kids should refuse that tainted money and join the majority of D.C. kids not graduating high school or college...
(I am objecting to the buttkissing you are doing for Gates. He ain't even giving you anything and you can't WAIT to kiss his butt.
It's the least he can do. He ought to do more. In fact, He ought to be in jail and his fortune confiscated.
Screw him. And if he reads this and gets pissed and takes them away he wasn't nothing in the first place.
I tell you white folks ain't God, but they sure knew what they were doing when they brought US over here! |
Chrishayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 11:02 am: |
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Answer my question. Why don't he pay off their parent's mortgages? Why don't he give them some money to start their own businesses?
Why don't he just hire them at Microsoft and train them there right out of high school. You don't know crap when you get out of college and gotta learn on the job anyway.
Them scholarships are going to be millstones around their necks. Let them start demonstrating, or doing something against global warming or unrestricted granting of visas for the jobs that they are training to get after school.
The Negroes have been down so long all massa has to do is pat them on the head and they think they gone to hebbin'.
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Yvettep
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Post Number: 1795
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 11:07 am: |
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I am objecting to the buttkissing you are doing for Gates
How, exactly, is posting an article to this forum about this initiative "buttkissing"? I'd start a thread about you, too, if I ever came across an article of your helpful deeds. Regarding "it's the least he can do" I say the same thing as what I have said about Oprah's efforts: It is my goal to try to worry more about what is the least I can do instead of focus my energy on what other folks do with their time and money.
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Cynique
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Post Number: 7940
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 11:09 am: |
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You seem to be conceding that black folks are born losers, Chrishayden, that they're a lost cause and white folks are really superior when it comes to maintaining the upper hand. Maybe you should just think of Bill Gates as a modern-day Robin Hood. He robbed from the rich and gives to the poor. |
Chrishayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 11:12 am: |
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Quit licking butt and stand UP! |
Yvettep
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 11:32 am: |
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Chris, boy, I'm through with your Scrooge self! I really think you just don't want any Black folks to succeed. Anyway, I sure hope you're typing all this on a Mac or else you need to stop frontin'! |
Chrishayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 11:43 am: |
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(Them kids should take that money and feel no gratitude whatsoever. "Where the rest of it at!" That's what their attitude ought to be.
I'd take one of them scholarships and go around and say Bill Gates ain't nothing but a mangy old pimple faced dog--behind his back of course. I'd show him some respect. Unless he forks over the whole 40 billion to me he ain't got nothing coming.
I ain't here to make him feel good. Gimme the cash. He ain't nothin but trash!) |
Chrishayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 11:46 am: |
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I'd start a thread about you, too, if I ever came across an article of your helpful deeds.
(Now, Yvettep. How long have you known me? What do the Bible say about giving your alms in secret?
If I was really doing something, you'd never hear about it. This is floorshowing. He must be facing indictment.
"Get a photoop with some hopeless pickaninnies," his lawyers tell him. That's what everybody does. Or go on BET.
If you ever hear about old CH doing some "good deed"--rest assured that he's frontin'--trying to buy off the jury or facing some charges like Bill "Drug em and Love em" Cosby! |
Cynique
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Post Number: 7945
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 12:21 pm: |
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You're in rare form today, Chrishayden. Don't try to rain on Mary Sunshine's parade. She's protected by the umbrella of her good will. |
Yvettep
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 12:50 pm: |
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If I was really doing something, you'd never hear about it.
Mmm hmmm. Thing is, the same holds true if you weren't doing anything! LOL
Anyway, have a nice rest of the day, typing on your Mac running Firefox...
~"Mary Sunshine" |
Mzuri
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Post Number: 4128
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Didn't Bill Gates invent the 3.5 floppy disk that Chris can't function without???  |
Latina_wi
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 01:42 pm: |
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This is a brilliant opportunity though I can see where Chris is coming from.
I know this is cynical, but everytime I see gestures like this, made my big capatialists I think 'wow, that will knock a big chunk of their taxes'.
I do think Gates has his heart in the right place though, he has done some great work overseas. However, Chris is right in pointing out his hypocrisy. |
Mzuri
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 01:55 pm: |
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LW - Bill Gates is worth about $60B - to him $122M is like one of us throwing 50¢ into a wishing well. He's not getting any significant tax breaks from the above donation. He's trying to make a meaningful contribution to humanity.
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Latina_wi
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 02:16 pm: |
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^^^Good point. I genuinely do think that Bill Gates is one of the very few capitalists that actually wants to use his money to better the lives of those less fortunate.
But there is a degree of hypocrisy that he probably outsources a lot of his company workload overseas when he could keep it at home and benefit his own american people.
But maybe he feels that countries like India et cetera need the opportunities more because they get less than americans. That is another way you could look at it I suppose. |
Abm
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 02:20 pm: |
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Latina_wi,
Gates smartly gives to India because, sadly, it's on course to becoming a better, more reliable source of intellectual capital than the US. And in the business he's in, what he's doing is akin to planting seedlings in a field that yield him an abounding harvest. |
Mzuri
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 02:34 pm: |
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LW - I understand your sentiments regarding Gate's outsourcing IT work, but the sad reality is that a great portion of the U.S. population is illiterate, and that's probably not factoring all the immigrants who don't even speak American.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8NVBUV81&show_article=1
Our school systems are lacking and we are not producing the calibre of job applicants that today's high tech corporations require. They have no choice but to recruit from techno savvy foreign universities since we aren't keeping up.
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Cynique
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 02:44 pm: |
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What Gates is doing is an act of charity. Although charitable acts can be condescending, when grouped with "faith" and "hope", they can also be commendable. Faith, hope and charity are what Gates' billions are providing for the DC schools. A wealthy man who does good deeds doesn't have to have to answer his critics. Sometimes the end justifies the means. |
Chrishayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 02:53 pm: |
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- I understand your sentiments regarding Gate's outsourcing IT work, but the sad reality is that a great portion of the U.S. population is illiterate, and that's probably not factoring all the immigrants who don't even speak American.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8NVBUV81&show_article=1
Our school systems are lacking and we are not producing the calibre of job applicants that today's high tech corporations require. They have no choice but to recruit from techno savvy foreign universities since we aren't keeping up.
This from a high school dropout. As soon as a Negro gets $5 over his or her CARNOTE they start braying about what's wrong with everyone else.
Read that part in the Gospels where it talks about seeing the mote and missing the beam.
BS: The people want too much MONEY and that's the bottom line. |
Mzuri
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 03:23 pm: |
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Actually Chris, I am a grade school drop out since I never really went to high school but for a couple of months. And if that's your attempt at demeaning my intelligence, try again because it's far above average and most people who know me think I'm a genius. Just for your FYI - my annual income is in the six figures - I'm trying to get to seven. And my car is paid.
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Chrishayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 03:30 pm: |
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And if that's your attempt at demeaning my intelligence, try again because it's far above average and most people who know me think I'm a genius.
(Yeah but you live in Texas! Texas Genius IQ: 60!
(Now go back to the original point about him outsourcing the jobs--it is because Americans want too much MONEY!) |
Mzuri
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 03:35 pm: |
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Go fukc yourself Chris Hayden. Btch!!!
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Chrishayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 03:43 pm: |
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Go fukc yourself Chris Hayden. Btch!!!
(Look at that spelling! We all need to move to Texas! We can be billionaires!!! |
Mzuri
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 03:47 pm: |
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That's to subvert the smut filter dodo bird. But yes, you should come to Texas and that way you won't freeze your ass off everytime the wind blows.
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Cynique
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 06:27 pm: |
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You are a very extraordinary person, Mzuri! |
Moonsigns
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 23, 2007 - 02:45 pm: |
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I think it's better that these children be given a chance to leave (the armpit of) D.C. rather than rot their lives away -or die young.
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Lil_ze
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so moonsigns, unless the white man gives us "poor negroes" a chance, our lives would be spent "rotting away" or "dying young"?
thank you WHITE WOMAN for your typical WHITE additude. |
Moonsigns
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Lil_ze:
"so moonsigns, unless the white man gives us "poor negroes" a chance, our lives would be spent "rotting away" or "dying young"?"
Moonsigns:
Out of every 100 D.C. students that enter the 9th grade, only 33 will graduate!!!! And if, and when, they do graduate, they will (most likely) face a young death if they stay in their environment. DC has one of the highest rates of homicide in the nation.
So, with that being said, this has nothing to do with color but everything to do with opportunity. I couldn't care less who gives these children the money the deserve and need, just as long as they get it. In this case, it happens to be the Gates. And because you're the one who takes obvious issue with the Gate's skin color, as it pertains to the much needed donation they're giving to children who'd suffer without it, I suggest you come up with a better plan.
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Lil_ze
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first of all moonsigns, did i make ONE mention of the skin color of bill gates?
no i didn't.
and it is YOU moonsigns who is CLAIMING that children would "suffer" without the donations of the whiteman.
black people have gotten along with or without the handouts of the so-called whiteman.
ps- moonsigns, have you slept with a NEGRO today?
im sure that your WHITE FATHER is very proud of his negro loving WHITE DAUGHTER.
you should feel proud. |
Latina_wi
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MZURI:Just for your FYI - my annual income is in the six figures - I'm trying to get to seven. And my car is paid.
Ever thought about becoming a lesbian Mzuri....?
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Renata
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LOL.....Lil, I'm willing to bet money that Moonsigns loves negroes more than you do...LOL. |
Renata
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Besides, it wouldn't be wise to piss off the mothers who are raising all of those "prettier" black women you prefer. |
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