Comment by I-RIGHT-I — February 23, 2006 @ 11:48 am

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Comment by unbelievable

If I knew how to post a pic I’d show you one.

So was I. You labeled me as a “moonbat” and an unwashed lesbian man-hater before you ever got to know me, just because I’m liberal. And how that you know me a lot better, you won’t tell me anything personal about yourself because you think I have ulterior motives. I couldn’t come up with a better allegory than you did on accident.

There are certain communities of people I do not trust. It’s unfortunate but that’s the way it is.

Yes, I agtee that it is unfortunate that we live in a culture that teaches white people to fear black people when you are far more likely to die at your own hands than at those of a stranger. We fear the things that will sell television shows. Think about it.

What those communities and this country needs is revival and I’m not talking about that “praise Jesus, hand waving, swooning, strutting, vocalizing” nonsense that passes for worship in so many of those churches.

You’re Southern Baptist… :)

They need to get with the program and fight the ghetto sub-culture. Denounce it, curse it, ridicule it and shame anyone that dares emulate it.

I was getting attitude from a girl in my class this week who is usually one of my better students. She’s smart, funny, beautiful and I just like her. For some reason she wasn’t paying attention last week and failed the last test. She was trying to blame me in teh classroom and was shooting empty threats about her father coming to talk to me if everyone failed. I told her that when I had mostly A’s on that test, and even my special ed students were passing it, I thought she needed to examine her own behavior. She wanted to sulk and fight.

Today, after things got really heated, I took her into the hall and I told her that I believed in her and that I knew she was capable of anything she wanted to do. That she was smart and beautiful and that I knew she was capable of doing better – she just shouldn’t let herself down in order to impress her peers. She cried a lot, I cried a bit, and I hugged her. I told her I’d help her help herself. And I meant it. It’s why I am here.

At the end of the day she made a special effort to come by my class to tell me to have a nice evening.

Do you think that would have been possible if I’d dismissed her as just another black kid with an attitude?

Instead they want to teach Ebonics and pretend that Kwanza wasn’t made up by a black felon. I’ll keep my powder dry thank you.

Comment by I-RIGHT-I — February 22, 2006 @ 9:36 pm

Look, I don’t disagree that there are some bad cultural habits being passed from generation to generation – in every culture – that does more harm than good for the people of that specific society.

But, at the same time too, I believe in picking your battles. If people want to celebrate an obscure holiday, what does it matter to anyone else really? I used to send my Jewish friends Channukah cards, and they used to laugh because I was the only one they’d receive one from (it’s not their big holiday, I was told).

Acceptance is just so much easier. And I think you know that or you wouldn’t bother talking to me at all, moonbat that I am (are you going to tell me what that is? :)

Comment by I-RIGHT-I — February 22, 2006 @ 2:47 pm

You already do…

Comment by unbelievable —

Actually I don’t. I was speaking metaphorically. There are certain communities of people I do not trust. It’s unfortunate but that’s the way it is. What those communities and this country needs is revival and I’m not talking about that “praise Jesus, hand waving, swooning, strutting, vocalizing” nonsense that passes for worship in so many of those churches. They need to get with the program and fight the ghetto sub-culture. Denounce it, curse it, ridicule it and shame anyone that dares emulate it. Instead they want to teach Ebonics and pretend that Kwanza wasn’t made up by a black felon. I’ll keep my powder dry thank you.

Comment by I-RIGHT-I — February 22, 2006 @ 2:47 pm

You already do…

Comment by unbelievable

That’s a nice thought and something worth considering. Do you suppose it would be a problem if I answered the door with a gun in one hand?

What ‘numbers’? I don’t know what you mean by that. And, while we’re at it – what’s a ‘moonbat’?

But in general I find scant evidence that commonly held prejudices and stereotypes are wrong and my “friends of color” agree. They don’t like or associate with people caught up in the American Negro sub-culture either.

Scant evidence isn’t the same things as judging people before you know anything about them. If you assume the worst in someone, regardless of their traits, you will usually get it. This is my problem with those who announce and live by stereotypes instead of treating each individual as an individual.

Don’t take this to your usual extremes. I’m not saying trust everyone you meet. Just don’t close doors on people because they share a trait with others who fit that scant evidence of the sterotype.

For example… I have several kids in my classes who are black. They range the spectrum from personality to academics to behavior – just as the white kids do. For me to treat them all equally is the same as assuming that all the white kids are smart, or studious, or equal in any other regard. It isn’t accurate and it isn’t fair. And while there are kids who fit the stereotypes, across the board, they are the minority. Not the other way around.

I just believe that if we expect more from humanity, instead of lazily applying labels and stereo-types, we might be surprised to see just how much of it we get. I see it routinely in my classroom. Some kid who turns his or her life around because someone else believed in him or her. And, a kid who gave up on life, because the system had given up on him.

I’m not about throwing money at programs and people and expecting it to all be better. That’s assinine and highly naive. I expect us to get to know our neighbor, one another, and to care. It’s what has gotten us into so much trouble. Isolation, segregation and hate for the unknown.

I doubt that. Women don’t learn the same lessons, but just in case please do tell what education you’re talking about.

I’ve experienced far more of the world and of life than they have. Partly because I was born first, and partly because I’m not afraid to try new and different things. I’m not afraid of ‘failure’, as I believe there are choices and consquences, and very rarely true failure. And it’s only from taking risks that we can learn anything at all.

I didn’t say that you weren’t annoying I said you’d cover your real feelings.

Comment by I-RIGHT-I — February 22, 2006 @ 11:16 am

So you’re saying that I’m annoying then? :)

But, you’d be wrong. I try to be supportive and constructive with my criticism, and perhaps that is a natural feminine trait in itself that I will concede, but I don’t intentionally hide anything. Most of the time people know what I’m thinking by the look on my face before I ever utter a word.

I just think stereo-types close doors before we’ve ever had the opportunity to get to know the person in front of us. And when we close doors, we miss an opportunity. Because everyone single one of us has things to offer. Every single one.

Yes. Mine are against eating animals, and not against the skin color of my friends.

There you go with the damn numbers again. My friend’s skin color does not matter to me either, because they are my friends. But in general I find scant evidence that commonly held prejudices and stereotypes are wrong and my “friends of color” agree. They don’t like or associate with people caught up in the American Negro sub-culture either. When they use the N word to describe those losers it certainly isn’t a term of endeament. They mean it in the same way any good little KKK redneck would.

Your brothers are simply more honest than you. It’s a trait of men to be brutal and brutally honest.

My brothers are less educated than I am. And I don’t mean college.

I doubt that. Women don’t learn the same lessons, but just in case please do tell what education you’re talking about.

Women would rather lie than chance a confrontation.

Comment by I-RIGHT-I — February 21, 2006 @ 4:17 pm

Did you really say that to me? I think you know better.

Comment by unbelievable — February 21, 2006 @ 4:28 pm

I didn’t say that you weren’t annoying I said you’d cover your real feelings.

124 – unbelievable,
iri lacks two things: a brain and a soul. How the repugs taught a one-celled animal to type eludes me.

Comment by WaltTheMan

So I guess this means a contribution to my election fund is out of the question?

Comment by I-RIGHT-I #123

Insidious-Rejected-Inbred

…even Rip Van Winkle awoke…

Yes. Mine are against eating animals, and not against the skin color of my friends.

Your brothers are simply more honest than you. It’s a trait of men to be brutal and brutally honest.

My brothers are less educated than I am. And I don’t mean college.

Women would rather lie than chance a confrontation.

Comment by I-RIGHT-I — February 21, 2006 @ 4:17 pm

Did you really say that to me? I think you know better.

Comment by unbelievable

Everyone has prejudice. Period. Your brothers are simply more honest than you. It’s a trait of men to be brutal and brutally honest. Women would rather lie than chance a confrontation.

Comment by I-RIGHT-I — February 21, 2006 @ 2:16 pm

She is German and Irish (blue eyes and light brown hair).

What happened to him was that his war-hero uncle beat him as a child for playing an innocent game of kick the can with a little boy who just so happened to be black. It’s why I say the system (culture) is the problem and not people. I believe we are all born innocent, and become a product of our environment. And hate breeds hate. Fortunately, my mother hates no one. And as a result, since she was my role model, I am not prejudice. My brothers are different stories.

Comment by unbelievable

That’s what happens when you marry an Italian woman.

Comment by mr ho

You couldn’t trap road kill. Speaking of road kill, how was your dinner last night?

Comment by mr ho — February 21, 2006 @ 12:28 pm

I watched my father, for 12 years, battle cancer before it finally killed him. And he had he hated everything.

I couldn’t agree with you more mr ho. Hate only hurts yourself. Acceptance is much kinder to all involved, especially yourself (since that is all you can change anyway).

Comment by I-RIGHT-I — February 21, 2006 @ 11:25 am

Lemme see IRI I have No DUIS.
Bush has 2
Cheney has 2
hmm
I dont hate because I can control My Bias.
Hate, as that what drives you to continue your hateful diatribes here, creates a very unbalanced mindset.

Hate will eat you Alive IRI If you Keep Basking in it