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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] The longest post yet-Anger
  • Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:13:02 -0500

Please find and re-post the post where I said that black people are stupid.
I am trying very hard to overlook the names and slurs you are throwing
in my direction. I have been trying to be accommodating to you, to calm
you down, but you continue to attack me. I honestly don't understand
why. If we are miscommunicating as you suggested earlier, there is no
need for name calling.

paxamicus AT earthlink.net wrote:
And how does this, ANY of this,
pertain to you saying "poor black people" are too stupid to know better about Obama?

I never worked the backside, but there are tests in place to catch that stuff. I let the powers that be handle it.

Individual PEOPLE might not get it, but I promise you, there are many
many educated people of any variety of colours who do. Except maybe
all those stupid red necked Georgians? (Do you SEE now how
offensive that it?)


On Nov 7, 2008, at 7:49 PM, EarthNSky wrote:

Moon, You said you had worked side by side with "unpapered
Mexicans", which to me sounds degrading, like they are dogs or
something. Are you sure they were all Mexicans? No Guatamalans or
Salvadorans? Let me ask you this.. Say you are in a big barn full
of race horses and you are working with 'immigrants' who speak
Spanish(how's that for unlabeling due to race?) Suppose you hear a
group of those immigrants talking about a horse who appears to be
doped. When you go to tell the barn owner what you have heard,
what do you say? A. I heard the Hispanics talking of doping
allegations? B. I heard the immigrants who speak Spanish talking of
doping allegations. C. I heard people talking about doping
allegations D. I heard that there are doping allegations. E. I
heard the aliens talking about doping allegations. F. I heard
unpapered Mexicans talking about doping allegations. G. I heard the
illegal immigrants talking about doping allegations. H. None of the
above.

Now, if you choose C or D, the next question the owner asks you is
going to be 'what people?'. If you choose G, that is threatening
to the owner. If you choose E, the owner will call 911 for you. A
seems most logical to me, but that would be labeling and grouping-which you don't like, so perhaps you would say B.? B just
seems awkward to me.

I am writing this to you in two parts because I wrote the above as
a draft this morning. This evening, I see that we are having a conversation concerning Spanish profanities.<G> Moon, if you are
working side by side with someone, how can you claim to know them
if you do not speak their language? I can vacation in China, ride
the bus with a bunch of Chinese folks, but if I don't understand them, I am not getting, what was your term, a 'broader experience'?
I know you are ticked at James and probably me right now, but he
does have a point that just traveling around isn't enough to
understand and have a grasp of a cultural situation. You have to
live in it, talk to it, work with it, and become part of it in
whatever way you are allowed to. When you said you had a better
grasp on these types of things because you have lived in various
places, that is what was interpreted as being arrogant, because in
effect, you are saying that our experiences don't count. Yet, we
are the ones who interact and live with these peoples(Hispanic,
African American(is that better for you?) etc. etc. Well, I'm
probably not helping, so I'll shut up. Oh, and I don't hold
anything against you-just figure you are under a lot of stress or
something.

Bev










paxamicus AT earthlink.net wrote:
I did not mean to twist your words, and if I did, I misunderstood
you. Please feel free to correct.

All "black people" are not the same. Period, full stop. We are
all individuals. Shall I call all poor white southerners
"crackers"? I think not.

The governor of Alaska IS a liar.

I have lived abroad. I have worked side by side with illegal immigrants, and celebrities. I have lived in the north and the
south. Yes, my cultural experience is slightly more broad than
someone who has spent their whole lives in one place.


On Nov 6, 2008, at 12:57 PM, EarthNSky wrote:

This is not the Moon I knew. The posts I have seen from you in
the last day or so have shocked me. You have twisted my words
and implied things that I have not even thought of, called me a
bigot, called the Governor of Alaska a liar, and now this. I
don't know how, nor do I have to time, to answer this post,
only to say that I am not substituting the phrase 'black
people' for the n- word. In addition, you claim to have a
broader cultural experience? Please.


Bev

paxamicus AT earthlink.net wrote:
Maybe they haven't down there because people still insist on identifying people by colour. Substitute "nigger" for "black people" and you will see how offensive it is. I am willing to
bet that I, little oil-sucker-downer-finger-on-the-bomb that
I am have had slightly broader experience than you in this
matter.


On Nov 6, 2008, at 12:15 PM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

How many PEOPLE? PEOPLE! NOT BLACKS! They, like you,
are INDIVIDUAL
PEOPLE.

How utterly naive. If we all just hold hands and sing a
chorus of "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" then all the
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