[Sam the Sham]

Odious, whatever you have to say to me, say online. I have no interest in any private dialogue with bottom feeders.

7thson black people have been the engine of American popular culture for most of the 20th century. Charles Barkley and Rodman were much lauded bad boys 20 years ago. The black style of play made the NBA cool and profitable (the absence of which is why an NHL season can disappear without anyone noticing). Things have just got out of hand with young men, lots of money, lots of ego, and no restraints.

[7thson]

Oh, please educate and talk to me as if I am some sort of bumpkin right from the sticks? Why is it that when a white criticizes a black, racism is yelled. That playing card is way too old. You did not answer any of my questions from my last post.

Let's talk about music. I have mentioned on other posts how I have listened and bought music from black artists from Big Joe Turner to Kool and The Gang. Their music and style were unique and cool. But in the last twenty years, nearly everything from the black culture has taken a wrong, bad turn. This fascination with drugs, money, sex, degrading women, respect and disrepect, killing people and cops - that is sick and evil! It does not matter who does it. Whites have always emulated blacks in the music industry and some did it very well - Average White Band is one that comes to mind. But even today's white "gangster" rappers are sick and evil.

You bring this type of culture into sports and the Artest thing is what you get. It is interesting you bring up Barkley. I love watching that guy play. I also loved it when he said when you sign onto the NBA, it's time to leave that ghetto crap back in the ghetto. Instead, too many bring that crap with them.

Whites are not asking blacks to act like whites. What we - and nearly everyone else - want is for people to act civilized. Be polite. Play fair. Play hard. Don't taunt. Create families. Pay attention to the kids you bring into this world. Don't smack women around. Don't shoot people. Realize there are times you have to swallow your pride. I knew blacks in the Navy that would not say please because it was "begging." No, it's being polite and civilized. But when I ask that from blacks as well as everyone I encounter, I am still racist?

[odoso]

You wouldn't know Truth if it walked up to you and spat in your face.

However, the pain in your reply's indicates there is hope that you may one day face the Truth, embrace it and understand it's meaning. Until then, keep up the personal attacks, your quite good at that.