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Fri Mar-14-08 06:44 AM
Response to Reply #25 |
| 26. Again, you don't know what you're talking about |
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He was not taking the lord's name in vain. It was an imprecation. Educate yourself about "hellfire and brimstone" sermons and they're history in this country. It's not a style of preaching I find appealing but it certainly has a long history.
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| -Can White people legitimately rail against centuries of institutionalized racism |
cali |
Mar-14-08 05:54 AM |
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Cali, I kind of feel uncomfortable watching the White Media talk about and criticize all this. |
hnmnf |
Mar-14-08 05:58 AM |
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Re: "some perspective". 52% of the population would like appreciate some perspective& balance |
Iceburg |
Mar-14-08 06:02 AM |
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As a Canadian, What are you doing in the Primaries area? |
slampoet |
Mar-14-08 08:39 AM |
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Looked like they were discussing the primaries. |
bilgewaterbill |
Mar-15-08 08:45 PM |
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LOL, I agree |
Texas Hill Country |
Mar-15-08 09:49 AM |
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Better get used to it... |
niceypoo |
Mar-14-08 09:32 AM |
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Cali, if that was all, no big deal, but that's not all |
MassDemm |
Mar-14-08 05:58 AM |
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So what? |
shadowknows69 |
Mar-14-08 06:04 AM |
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Thank you. |
Window |
Mar-14-08 06:29 AM |
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Thank you, redo. |
elixir |
Mar-14-08 09:17 AM |
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I still remember the outrage |
NOLALady |
Mar-15-08 09:47 AM |
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It most certainly is if he attend weekly sermons espousing these ideas to his family |
elixir |
Mar-14-08 09:09 AM |
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You're hung up on the "goddamn America" |
cali |
Mar-14-08 06:08 AM |
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Interview with a Diane Sawyer like character comes to mind |
hnmnf |
Mar-14-08 06:10 AM |
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I am also caught up in him gyrating sexually behind the pulpit. nt |
MassDemm |
Mar-14-08 06:11 AM |
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Take a cold shower. lol. n/t |
greguganus |
Mar-14-08 09:43 AM |
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And you say that like it's a bad thing. |
thunder rising |
Mar-14-08 06:11 AM |
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This is church, not my back yard bbq picnic. He's a minister. |
MassDemm |
Mar-14-08 06:13 AM |
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He wasn't using it in vain. Your ignorance is frightening |
cali |
Mar-14-08 06:15 AM |
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Who died and made you the Church Lady? |
JVS |
Mar-14-08 06:29 AM |
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I have used the lords name in vain many times, I have broken the commandment. I have |
MassDemm |
Mar-14-08 06:37 AM |
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Again, you don't know what you're talking about |
cali |
Mar-14-08 06:44 AM |
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does sexually gyrating behind the podium at the pulpit and saying riding dirty |
MassDemm |
Mar-14-08 06:47 AM |
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If you read the rolling stone article, he also says "shit" is that part of fire and brimstone? nt |
MassDemm |
Mar-14-08 06:48 AM |
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zOH NOES! HE SAID "SHIT"! |
JVS |
Mar-14-08 06:57 AM |
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and he gyrates sexually behind the pulpit saying riding dirty. Oh no is right! nt |
MassDemm |
Mar-14-08 07:16 AM |
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how many times you gonna post "sexually gyrating"? I'm getting excited. n/t |
greguganus |
Mar-14-08 09:47 AM |
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sexually gyrating! |
JVS |
Mar-15-08 09:26 AM |
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We interrupt this thread to provide a translation of the post #31... |
elixir |
Mar-14-08 09:20 AM |
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Thank God for babelfish. |
DuStrange |
Mar-14-08 09:25 AM |
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Probably lots of shit in hell. I mean, it IS hell. n/t |
greguganus |
Mar-14-08 09:45 AM |
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no. but you're changing the goal posts here. |
cali |
Mar-14-08 06:51 AM |
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you need to look at the whole story, not just the part that you think makes it ok. |
MassDemm |
Mar-14-08 06:53 AM |
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Are they changing the goalposts or just moving them. Because if they're |
elixir |
Mar-14-08 09:21 AM |
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I didn't find it disgusting. |
kwassa |
Mar-14-08 08:36 AM |
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JVS-OMG I Love The Church Lady |
UALRBSofL |
Mar-15-08 08:42 PM |
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That was the exact opposite of using the Lord's dam in vain |
theboss |
Mar-15-08 09:55 AM |
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Not in vain, God has apparently answered their prayers, but not as they thought |
thunder rising |
Mar-15-08 08:32 PM |
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HELP WANTED - NO IRISH NEED APPLY |
polticalpout |
Mar-14-08 06:05 AM |
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Comparing what the Irish went through |
cali |
Mar-14-08 06:11 AM |
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See post 15; something somewhat similar actually did happen, although not in the 1800's. |
Spider Jerusalem |
Mar-14-08 06:15 AM |
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Sorry but you are wrong. The Famine gave the Irish no choice. Millions died. |
slampoet |
Mar-14-08 09:06 AM |
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Here! Here! |
NDambi |
Mar-14-08 09:14 AM |
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Yes, but you asked for an example of institutional racism..I think |
elixir |
Mar-14-08 09:28 AM |
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Except that lasted about a decade. Not centuries. |
Spider Jerusalem |
Mar-14-08 06:15 AM |
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Actually you are dead wrong. The know nothings reformed under the Klan. |
slampoet |
Mar-14-08 09:10 AM |
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That took a while, though. |
Spider Jerusalem |
Mar-14-08 09:17 AM |
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Discrimination and exploitation of Irish by English/WASP's lasted a decade? Okaaaaay... |
BadgerLaw2010 |
Mar-14-08 09:45 AM |
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You should try reading the whole post and not just the headline. |
Spider Jerusalem |
Mar-14-08 10:29 AM |
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Or white mormons who were violentry drive out of the US |
Radical Activist |
Mar-15-08 08:38 PM |
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Would a bunch of Irish-Americans be left to drown in New Orleans? nt |
thecatburgler |
Mar-15-08 08:41 PM |
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Beautifully said. Thank you! |
EffieBlack |
Mar-14-08 06:11 AM |
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Thank you, Effie |
cali |
Mar-14-08 06:12 AM |
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I think you said it very well - I understand EXACTLY what you're saying! |
EffieBlack |
Mar-14-08 06:26 AM |
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I just hope when I get back in a week, all this morbid, Obama is done feeling is gone |
hnmnf |
Mar-14-08 06:15 AM |
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What if I was black in a previous life? |
shadowknows69 |
Mar-14-08 06:15 AM |
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I actually agree with many of Wright's points |
usrbs |
Mar-14-08 06:21 AM |
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There is some truth to what he's saying. Apparantly, it's not sugar-coated enought for the PC police |
InAbLuEsTaTe |
Mar-14-08 11:26 AM |
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There has been institutionalized type of racism to a degree in the past |
mmonk |
Mar-14-08 06:25 AM |
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What are you talking about? Are you talking about Caucasians as in Georgians, Armenians and |
EmilyAnne |
Mar-14-08 06:35 AM |
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When I have time. |
mmonk |
Mar-14-08 07:20 AM |
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Part of the U.S.'s more sordid history. |
mmonk |
Mar-14-08 07:42 AM |
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Here are some examples. |
slampoet |
Mar-14-08 09:30 AM |
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None of these are examples of institutionalized racism against Causasians. Sorry. |
EmilyAnne |
Mar-14-08 06:56 PM |
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So United Coal isn't an institution. The Chicago Police Aren't? The BRITISH EMPIRE IS NOT ? |
slampoet |
Mar-14-08 08:01 PM |
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Mountain Meadows |
Radical Activist |
Mar-15-08 08:43 PM |
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but not racism against Caucasians, only ethnic discrimination against Caucasian ethnicities |
kwassa |
Mar-14-08 09:50 AM |
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However, institutionalizing it can have similar effect. |
mmonk |
Mar-14-08 10:57 AM |
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oh, very much so, just as genocidal and inhumane as racism |
kwassa |
Mar-14-08 11:24 AM |
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Opens for me. |
mmonk |
Mar-14-08 11:46 AM |
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They do it everyday. nt |
Kahuna |
Mar-14-08 06:25 AM |
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Lets be honest, they're doing it to Wright at this moment |
C_U_L8R |
Mar-14-08 07:22 AM |
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Why is it that Chris Matthews is the only one that makes sense on this whole thing? |
hnmnf |
Mar-14-08 07:24 AM |
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Matthews used the Wright issue to make the point that Obama needs to prove he loves America |
mtnsnake |
Mar-14-08 09:18 AM |
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Ask a white kid in a black high school ... |
BearSquirrel2 |
Mar-14-08 07:47 AM |
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Rec'd! n/t |
rucky |
Mar-14-08 09:12 AM |
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What if Clinton went to church and her minister said.. |
elixir |
Mar-14-08 09:13 AM |
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If this is what was said |
ProSense |
Mar-14-08 09:24 AM |
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"What if Clinton....... |
BigDDem |
Mar-14-08 09:35 AM |
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So, white people cant rail against racism because of their skin color? |
niceypoo |
Mar-14-08 09:26 AM |
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The MSM message is also two-fold: Don't get out of line |
underpants |
Mar-14-08 09:26 AM |
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Can rich people work to end poverty? |
Freddie Stubbs |
Mar-14-08 09:27 AM |
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So "White People" Are Racists, And Should Murder Themselves For Blacks, Even Though They Did Nothing |
fbuzz |
Mar-14-08 09:33 AM |
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Let's Pin Scarlet Letters On White People! Oh, I'm So Sorry For Being "White". Who Is "White"? |
fbuzz |
Mar-14-08 09:34 AM |
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Murder themselves for "blacks" ?! |
bunnies |
Mar-14-08 09:39 AM |
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Black People REALLY Need To Get Over It |
fbuzz |
Mar-14-08 09:38 AM |
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oh, boy, you've stepped in it now. |
kwassa |
Mar-14-08 09:53 AM |
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Damn! I typed 5 different responses to you, but deleted them all. |
greguganus |
Mar-14-08 09:57 AM |
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Actually, there was slavery in the North |
WesDem |
Mar-14-08 11:06 AM |
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Get over it...How would you like if I say "GAY PEOPLE NEED TO GET OVER IT" U MAD NOW |
easy_b94 |
Mar-14-08 11:29 AM |
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You have to be one of the most ignorant people on DU... |
bicentennial_baby |
Mar-15-08 09:57 AM |
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Folks in "the North" discovered... |
misanthrope |
Mar-16-08 04:49 AM |
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Need help here |
Windex |
Mar-14-08 09:58 AM |
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many AA folks believe it |
cali |
Mar-14-08 08:06 PM |
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Tuskeegee. n/t |
rucky |
Mar-15-08 08:47 PM |
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Aids in Africa. |
votesomemore |
Mar-16-08 05:38 AM |
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White people can rail against it, but they look like assholes for getting mad |
izzybeans |
Mar-15-08 09:41 AM |
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Excellent analysis...as usual. Thanks, Cali...K&R n/t |
Hepburn |
Mar-15-08 09:57 AM |
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Yes they can and they do. |
Radical Activist |
Mar-15-08 08:35 PM |
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Why did your other thread get locked, Cali? |
Mike03 |
Mar-15-08 08:43 PM |
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Better idea: Get to work on the real issues that maintain the racist status quo |
JoFerret |
Mar-15-08 08:44 PM |
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You forgot... |
misanthrope |
Mar-16-08 04:52 AM |
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Yes, they can, actually. |
boppers |
Mar-15-08 08:46 PM |
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Sure you're equating all of these with the institutionalized racism |
cali |
Mar-15-08 08:48 PM |
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No, I'm not equating. |
boppers |
Mar-16-08 04:32 AM |
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"White people have been the perpetrators of it, not the victims..." |
misanthrope |
Mar-16-08 04:41 AM |
#102 |
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