I was raised to respect and treat blacks as equals and was taught about past transgressions. Skin color meant nothing to me for 50 years. For my entire life, I tried to pass on my upbringing to the next two generations (my kids and grandkids and their friends and family). Now, at age 55, I am becoming more and more enlightened by the behavior of a large segment of the black population.
To the huge segment of the black population that continues to act like thugs; live your life with the mentality that life owes you something at the expense of others; and your hatred of white people that have done nothing negatively to you - CONGRATULATIONS!!! I like many others, have become tired of your act and, because of life's experiences, and not because of learned prejudice, have become non-sympathetic to your cause. Bluntly, I couldn't give a crap about you living in squalor, without family or values. Keep killing each other and aborting the next generation. You deserve your fate. I'm sick of you act.
No regrets...Go Gordon
I too have a similar upbringing and am not what one would characterize as racist or prejudical regarding race... but although the word "nigger" is seen as outrageous in civil conversation, when this whole rioting and looting started in Ferguson and there was office conversation with one person asking "What are they trying to prove?", the only response I could offer is that regardless of word policing and political correctness... and it would probably get me in trouble here on FR... there is such a thing as a "nigger"... the looters proved that... and they happen to be black. I really wish I could post this without fearing that I am offending someone...it is what it is really... and it just seems that at some point someone has to stand up and say, "no, I am not going to be coy and refer to looters and gangbangers with alternative code words, like 'Amish', 'Thugz', "ferrels' or what-have-you. These inner-city criminals are simply... niggers"
Bear in mind there’s a difference between treating blacks as equals (ie, capable of being just as bad or good as whites) and treating them as god almighty, incapable of being wrong no matter what they do.
Ditto. Many of us were intentionally deprived of life changing opportunities through Affirmative Action PAYING restitution for what now seems NO RESULT.