Democratic state Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally, who had scheduled a protest by civil rights organizations, canceled the demonstration after an apparent mix-up over the girl's racial background.
Dymally was quoted in the San Jose Mercury News Thursday saying the child was "a little African-American girl. Would he (Riordan) have done that to a white girl?"
The girl is white, with blonde hair.
Originally posted by huntr1
This is your official Ginko notice
Originally posted by ememdee19
Originally posted by huntr1
Originally posted by vraiblonde
I LOVE it when the race-baiters get busted!
Ooooo I need a dirty woman
Ooooo I need a dirty girl
Originally posted by Voter2002
"OK everyone...protest has been cancelled...false alarm...it was a little honkey he insulted...no harm/no foul..."
Originally posted by Voter2002
They were so quick to play the race card, until they found out it was a white girl.
"OK everyone...protest has been cancelled...false alarm...it was a little honkey he insulted...no harm/no foul..."
I think it was because she had a name like Isis. Little did they know it was a hippie LSD name as opposed to an ethnic made-up name.Originally posted by Toxick
Even more interesting: Why would the NAACP automatically assume that someone was black because they were called dirty and stupid.
Well he was half right. Isis does NOT mean 'supreme goddess' no matter what the baby-naming books would have you believe.
Like I said in the first thread on the subject, they got bit in the @ss by their own stereotypes. How the heck are they supposed to overcome them if they buy into them. Another case of the black man keeping himself down and blaming it on the whites.Originally posted by Toxick
Even more interesting: Why would the NAACP automatically assume that someone was black because they were called dirty and stupid.
Isn't that the sort of stereotypical thinking that they're (supposedly) fighting against?
What a bunch of stupid hypocritical morons.
If Isis does not mean "supreme goddess" what would you call the being that Egyptians considered to be "the divine one, the only one, the greatest of the gods and goddesses, and the queen of all gods"? Sounds to me like the term "supreme" fits the bill fairly well.Originally posted by sifl
Well he was half right. Isis does NOT mean 'supreme goddess' no matter what the baby-naming books would have you believe.
Originally posted by Ken King
If Isis does not mean "supreme goddess" what would you call the being that Egyptians considered to be "the divine one, the only one, the greatest of the gods and goddesses, and the queen of all gods"? Sounds to me like the term "supreme" fits the bill fairly well.
Not argumentative, just asking a question. And from reading your offering I again would say that the term “supreme goddess” fits the bill quite well. It certainly doesn't indicate she played second-fiddle to anyone, thus being supreme or number one on the list of things.Originally posted by sifl
Isis
The name Isis means "seat" or "throne". She was regarded as the symbolical mother of the King. In myth, she sought her dead husband and brother, Osiris, conceived her son Horus by him, buried and mourned Osiris with her sister Nephtys.
Isis was regarded as the "Eye of Ra" and was worshipped as the "Great of Magic" who had protected her son Horus from snakes, predators and other dangers: thus she would protect mortal children also. The ancient Egyptians regarded the Goddess as the "Eye of Ra."
According to Merlin Stone, in Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood, Isis' name means "Ancient Ancient", and She was portrayed as a Creator figure in Her own right; She was said to be the star Sirius, whose tears created the waters of the Nile, for the nourishment of Her people.
Planting and agriculture, spinning and weaving of the flax plant, medicine, and law were all Isis' domains. Yet She was much loved on account of Her tender ferocity on behalf of the helpless, particularly of the dead. It was said that Isis' brother and husband, Osiris, was murdered by Seth, another brother. Osiris' remains were concealed and scattered throughout the land of Egypt. Isis journeyed through many trials and horrors, to recollect all the parts of Osiris' body, and through Her magic, was able to revive him, at least long enough for him to father a son to Her; She called him Horus.
Isis' popularity spread far beyond Egypt; there were temples to Isis in Rome, and then throughout the Roman Empire, including London.
At the apex of her influence, this Goddess of Rebirth was worshiped throughout the Greco-Roman world. Her temples were finally closed in the 4th century AD, but her role as Mother of God, as well as many other Christian borrowings from her mythos, were assumed by the Virgin Mary. Originally Isis was known as Au Set, a predynastic Egyptian Goddess dating from 3000 BCE. She laid upon the dead body of her husband-brother, Osiris (whose annual death symbolized the fertilizing of fields by Nile floodwaters), and conceived Horus, the falcon-headed deity who is the original "son of God(ess)." The name Isis means "throne woman," and she was venerated as the inventor of agriculture, law and medicine, and as the Mother who placed the Sun God Ra in the sky. According to Egyptian scriptures, "in the beginning there was Isis, Oldest of the Old, the Goddess from whom all becoming arose."
http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/scripts/isis.html
Why is everyone so argumentative today?
Whatever. She was probably dirty, too.Originally posted by Ken King
Not argumentative, just asking a question. And from reading your offering I again would say that the term “supreme goddess” fits the bill quite well. It certainly doesn't indicate she played second-fiddle to anyone, thus being supreme or number one on the list of things.
Originally posted by sifl
Isis
The name Isis means "seat" or "throne".
According to Merlin Stone, in Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood, Isis' name means "Ancient Ancient"
Planting and agriculture,
Isis' popularity spread far beyond Egypt; there were temples to Isis in Rome, and then throughout the Roman Empire, including London.
At the apex of her influence
"Oh Mighty Isis!" My sister watched them both religiously!Originally posted by Toxick
You forgot to mention that she was also a KICK-BUTT SUPERHERO in a 70's Saturday morning cartoon!
Her show as paired with 'Shazam' if I remember correctly