Being a black man
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How does this apply to those of mixed decent?Nupe2 said:Yeah, that's right...all black people steal, all koreans eat dogs and own grocery stores in the ghetto, all white people are rich, all hispanics are illegal, all jews own everything, all italians are in the mafia,.......
you sir are truly the dimmest of the dimwits.
What would Marcus "Yun Harrison Rodriguez Weinstein Vivaldi" be doing?
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sushisamba said:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/01/AR2006060102184_5.html?sub=AR
"Gilliam manipulated the image of the "suspect" in the newscast, sometimes depicting him as black, sometimes as white and other times not at all. Afterward, the participants were asked to identify the suspect's race. Most of the viewers accurately recalled whether a black or white face was shown. But [B]60 percent of those shown no image remembered seeing one, and an overwhelming majority of those said they saw a black face.[/B] In fact, they had not seen a face at all. To Gilliam, that meant that when people saw crime, they often expected a black man to be linked to it -- not necessarily because of blind racism but because of the images they had consumed their entire lives."
I definitely blame the media for fostering stereotypes. The question is, when you see a black man approach the door to 7/11, is the stereotype that he'll open it or not?
Depends on how he's dressed..
Although if it's a white person and he's dressed well, I can bet he won't...
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Criminals have no color choice,either you have something they want or you don't.cdsulhoff said:
It's really not a color issue on those who get incarcerated. Fact is, it's a social issue. I will go out on a limb here and say that 95% of criminals were raised in households that have one parent that works two jobs, a parent or parents that are drunks,drug addicts and abusive or have no clue who one of their parents are.
Unfortunately this describes a very high majority of blacks.
I know this may sound communist, but I say if the law catches any juvenile doing any of this gangster pimp smack da ho beotch, joyride, get over sell crack and rob to get da Benz sheot. I say put their little azzes in a military camp until they are 18 years old, then automatically enroll their butt for a 4 year hitch in the military for payment of teaching them how to live.
No way for putting them in the military. We don't need that social experiment, again. If they do crimes as a juvenile and it calls for a ten year sentence make them do the full ten years, just transfer them to the adult prison when they hit 18.gumbo said:
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"15 minute!"
Can anybody pick this up for me?
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"15 minute!"
Can anybody pick this up for me?
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Has anybody started a dinner thread yet?
He didn't say put them in the military - he said a military camp. I think that's a brilliant idea. If the camp doesn't "take", then obviously they wouldn't go into the regular military. But a lot of times what these kids need is discipline and self-respect, plus a good dose of "yes, you CAN".Ken King said:
Gumbo is right when he says it's a social issue, not a color issue. Nice kid with good parents doesn't end up in prison for dealing crack or jacking up some liquor store.
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You know the funny thing is, most of these kids respond well to discipline.vraiblonde said:
Even though a lot of them turn to gangs, gangs still have rules.
It's all about searching for respect with most of these delinquents.
The sad thing is they just don't know how to go about getting it.
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ok.....maybe i'm a lil slow BUT
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Just remember that black Marine in Atlanta! HoooRah! 
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"I know this may sound communist, but I say if the law catches any juvenile doing any of this gangster pimp smack da ho beotch, joyride, get over sell crack and rob to get da Benz sheot.
I say put their little azzes in a military camp until they are 18 years old, then automatically enroll their butt for a 4 year hitch in the military for payment of teaching them how to live."
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The point is, as I read this conjecture, is that many of today's youths simply just do not have a handle on how to live their lives substantially, or with any sort of responsibility: to themselves or towards others.
Too much reliability on the music pumping out of their boomboxes, or I-pods; I don't know, but the world to them seems to revolve around what comes down along the airwaves.
I don't think it's real, not from my experience, but I'm from a different generation, values were different then.
Just my point of view.
I say put their little azzes in a military camp until they are 18 years old, then automatically enroll their butt for a 4 year hitch in the military for payment of teaching them how to live."
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The point is, as I read this conjecture, is that many of today's youths simply just do not have a handle on how to live their lives substantially, or with any sort of responsibility: to themselves or towards others.
Too much reliability on the music pumping out of their boomboxes, or I-pods; I don't know, but the world to them seems to revolve around what comes down along the airwaves.
I don't think it's real, not from my experience, but I'm from a different generation, values were different then.
Just my point of view.
gumbo
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Ken King said:What does this mean?
It means, break um down, build um up and teach um.
Apparently you haven't been through a boot camp.
I have seen Drill Sargent's take some of the most incorrigible low life's this planet has to offer and make up standing young men out of them in 3 months time. (back in the day when the judge would give the choice,jail or service)
Boot camp then off to military academy.
They screw up..The brig, back to boot camp, double the time, then back to the academy.
This will break down any kid and if it doesn't he or she is clearly psychotic or has some other mental illness, in which prison is surely not going to help.
People with money have been using military academy's to straighten out unruly kids for years.
It's all about self worth, respect and dignity and everyone should have the opportunity to learn these values of life, even if your mother is a crack whore and you don't know who your daddy is.
The last I recall the military still teaches all three of these values.
Fact..All people change when you take them out of their environment.
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I think it's YOU that needs to read, Mr. GrumpballKen King said:
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sushisamba said:The question is, when you see a black man approach the door to 7/11, is the stereotype that he'll open it or not?
I don't think. I open the door for everybody, and almost everybody has held the door open for me (Must be my big smile, and dorky walk)
The "Everybody" part is not stereotyping.
Isn't this just common courtesy?
I say "thank you", and the other says "you're welcome".
I don't see in black and white, as far as people are concerned.