On 15 May 2005 18:31:54 GMT, Steve Cipoletti I guess they don't get sarcasm where you live? I *know* it was an idiotic lame - that's why I posted it, to get down to the level you guys feed on. Duhurrr... By Howie CarrBy Howie Carr You, too, could land a cushy council seat May 15, 2005 By Howie Carr Are you still looking for that dream job? It's not too late, friends, but you have to... After years of psychological study, I know latency when I see it. I didn't say I had limited experience with blacks, I said I don't have many black friends, there is a big difference. My day job puts me in contact with all races and all walks of life - I've met plenty of blacks, worked with many of them. I just don't hang out with many, and that's purely circumstances - I'm not into a lot of what they are into, culture-wise, and vice-versa. My issue arises when you start painting *all* people of a given race based upon your experiences. I don't care how many black people you have met, you haven't met them all. I doubt you've even met a fair cross-section. For example, someone who works in the prison system is bound to have a lower opinion of some races than someone like myself who deals with the same races in a business environment. That's natural - we tend to gravitate to what we see on a consistent basis. I'm not faulting you for that, we all do it. What I'm saying, however, is that I feel you are basing your entire buttessment of a race on the negative contacts and those alone. I'm not near the idiot you want to think I am - and you're doing the very same thing to me that I feel you're doing to others, buttuming things based on a past history of others. I'm fully aware that there is scum in the black community, just as there is in the white. The question is do you judge all based on a portion? Do you think I like the fact that someone might judge me, as a white man, because of the actions of bigots on a newsgroup called alt.flame.african americans? No, I want no part of being lumped in with you fools simply because I have white skin. You are no more indicative of white people than Snopp Dogg is of blacks. I don't necessarily disagree with that, many of us grow up with the mentality of black=criminal. I know I did, and I still fight it even though I'm well into my thirties. I remember standing in line at a movie theater and a young black kid came up behind me - my gut reaction was to check my wallet. Why did I do that? He was just some kid standing in line for a movie, no different than I was. He didn't make any threatening moves, didn't brandish any weapons, didn't even say a word to me. Yet, why did I have that reaction? Could it be years of mental conditioning on the subconscious level that blacks are criminals. We see it every day - I can't tell you how often the media here in Oklahoma City goes live with the story of the Big Black Dude(tm) that just committed a liquidate, felony buttault, or is on the run as a suspect versus the number of times the same is done for a white suspect. But the facts are that whites commit more crimes here than do blacks. I used to work with a guy - big, muscular, black dude - if he was behind you on a darkened street, you'd probably have the same thought as Jesse Jackson. But once I got to know him, it turns out he's a former Houston cop who retired from law enforcement because his wife wanted him to find a safer line of work. Just goes to show that you can't judge the proverbial book by its cover.
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