SBGold said:
Whoa hold up pardner. Your MaGA friend just posted in this thread about side shows in LA. That was all about race. He has never posted about white kids motocross trespassing in the Appalachias, I'll tell you that.
I'd say about 98% of my thoughts and posts are not about race AT ALL. I wish the same could be said about MAGAs.
Thanks for your time City. Beautiful day in the City today, the best damn city in America
I don't have any friends who identify as MAGA. What is that anyway? A political party, or what? Do they have an initiation and do they pay dues? Are they registered anywhere?
Just because someone here posts what you see as side shows in LA, what makes you jump on the racial aspect of it? That is your interpretation. There are some who see racism everywhere, and become obsessed with it, and must call it out. OK. But do they ever call out the reverse, when they see it? Or are they blind to that. I think that it then becomes prejudice. Just because you see white skin in a parent, does that mean the person must be racist? And when do her kids become racist? Are they born that way? Or do they acquire it?
I was once living in Manhattan, 122nd St and West Amsterdam, Morningside Park. I have told the story before. The Black man who owned the corner Diner, where I ate all my meals, and I became fast friends. One night, I was having dinner there, and on the stool next to me was a young Black man, who told me he was a student at Hunter College. He said he was studying Sociology.
He said he was flunking out. He said all his papers were getting an "F" grade, and asked me if I would read one of his papers and tell him what he was doing wrong. The next time we met, he gave me a paper to read. There were so many mistakes, I could hardly begin to make sense of it. Spelling, grammar, punctuation, paragraphs, all of it was a mess. I went to his apartment and we went over it. I told him to rewrite it, and he gave me other papers to read. We had several meetings that summer, and he started writing better papers. He began getting C's. He even got a B on one or two papers.
One day, I showed up for our usual weekly meeting, and he was all dressed to go out. He apologized profusely, saying he had forgotten about our meeting. He said he gotten a phone call, and he had to go down to 125th street in Harlem, and "meet the brothers". He said he would have liked to invite me to come along, but he said, "The brothers just wouldn't understand". I understood the predicament he was in.
We have lost a lot of ground since the end of slavery and the first few years of Reconstruction, when hundreds of thousands of Black men in the South registered Republican, and within a few years had sent two Black Senators to the US Senate, along with one Black Congressman, and even better, they had taken control of the State Legislatures of all ten Southern States. During that time, however, the Democrats regrouped, and formed the White League in Louisiana, the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi, and the Red Shirts in Alabama, who proceeded to terrorize or murder Blacks and many of their White sympathizers. The Democrats soon regained control of all the Southern States, through these paramilitary groups, who threatened and beat and lynched their way back into power. They gave the South Jim Crow laws, and another 90 years or so of Democrat rule, and oppression of the Black Americans and their sympathizers in the South. Tragic.
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