I can tel that you are quite angry about a few things. And you made some very good points. However, let me break some things down for you that perhaps you missed in being so worked up.
Ok, I've had my coffee and enough time to work up a good rant on this topic.
First of all it is telling that you had to "work up a good rant". That says to me that this issue isn't as big anymore as you and Cog dumbass are trying to make it.
It's not the concept of "reparations" that pisses me off so much as it's this mind-bogglingly retarded sense of entitlement that quite a few blacks I've either read about, seen, or heard in the news media or have talked to personnally. While I think "reparations" are a crock of crap to begin with, it's the sense of entitlement that really pisses me off.
Please list all of the well-known blacks that you have heard of, and links to their statements that justify this claim. I myself have never wanted reparations, and for that matter, neither has either side of my family, and some of those f*ckers are pretty damn ignorant. They're walking statistics and they don't want reparations. What some do want is a chance to be seen outside of stereotypes. But I tell them that they day they stop perpetuating is the day they break the cycle.
Now here this. I do not owe you crap. Other than courteous and civil treatment in public, unless you're a former or current service Marine, you do not rate a damned thing from me.
Semper Fi
Little story. Years back when I was a newly minted Sergeant in the Corps, one of my collegues, a black Staff Sergeant, suggested that "white America' somehow owed "African-Americans" for slavery.
"Even me, Staff Sergeant," I asked.
"Well, you are white," he replied.
"We, Staff Sergeant, considering that half of my familly came to the US in the early 1930's to escape the Nazis, one quater didn't come here till the 1890's, and the other quarter had been roaming the great plains for a few thousand years before this country was even around, I submit that I don't owe you crap," I fired back.
See, for one, the majority of "white" people in the US, their ancestors immigrated well after Slavery had ended.
Even though I have not seen a statistic on this, I am inclined to agree, and that is one of the reasons why I thought reparations was stupid.
For another, a large percentage of "african-Americans" arrived AFTER slavery had ended as well.
Um, ok. Proof of how exactly all those folks from Africa were able to book passage and come over to this place where the streets were supposedly paved with gold. How did they hear of it, and hear that it was a safe place to come, especially in light of memories (that are still alive today in certain parts of west Africa) of the slave trade?
you can take your sense of entitlement and your ideas that I somehow owe your people money and place it where it belongs... Round filed, and promptly shunted to the recycle bin.
You can take a file and start rubbing down that chip on your shoulder.
Everytime I hear raging idiots [insert GIMR: they are] like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton start spewing their BS I have to ask the entire Black community if these boneheads really speak for them.
You're amusing. When did you ask me or those I know? Let me answer for us. NO.
If they don't speak for the entire community, then why do the members of your community not tell Sharpton and Jackson to sit down and shut up? I see the same thing in the Arab community when they say "oh, terrorists are bad" yet they don't really do anything to proactively correct the situation.
As much of a wonderful American as you are, you obviously don't understand the principle of free speech. They're gonna talk, so what do we do, shoot them in a drive-by?
It's called guilt by association,
No, it's called too much caffeine.
and untill the more sensable members of the black community do something to correct the saituation they are every bit as guilty for promoting the stereotype of race-card playing blacks and two-faced racist hypocrisy.
Perhaps you can be a little bit better than Cog and give us some documented proof that the black community is as racially depraved as you say. I have promoted no such stereotype, though I have known some who have. I was emphatic when speaking with them, in explaining the error of their ways. I've done it with parents and peers. What have you done other than this rant?
If you haven't personnaly earned it, then you DO NOT deserve anything.
Common sense. Do you feel you have earned my respect as a black person?
I've heard some blacks complain that they should be given things, like an education, or better housing, or money, or cars, or jobs. Well, I earned my education, I earned my home, I earned my money, I earned everything I have basically through hard work and smart investing.
Again, common sense. Take a look at this: Ignorance on whose part?
Not only that, I've had an ongoing fight with a cousin who stays on public assistance. I'm pissed because she's f*cking lazy and incompetent. Yet because she opens her legs at intervals inconvenient to her life and that of society's, she gets medicaid, food stams, and a section-8 apartment. I, who am ill, who work full time and go to school full time have to struggle, and have two jobs if I want to survive outside of mom's house. She is in the whole "black persecution" thing. And I try my best to persecute her dumb, narrow black ass as much as I can. I will not let her sit around and smoke weed (and don't attach cultural stereotypes of any kind to that please) while I work.
If I can do it, then everyone else has no damned excuse for not doing the same. You want to get that college education? There are ways to do it, but only IF you put in the effort to obtain it. There are ways to get that nice house with the nice car and the nice job with the nice salery. It's called get off your ass and apply yourself. I did it, therefore everyone else can too baring a medical condition that prevents it. Last time I checked, skin tone was not a handicap.
You really need a reality check. How many black people have you come across, other than a few who think the way you assume?
Oh, and if someone could tell every ethnic group in the US to knock it off with that retarded hyphenated-American crap, I'd appreciate it. Clue you in on something, if you were born in the US to naturalized citizens or legal immigrants, and in some cases even if your parents hopped the fence, you are an AMERICAN.
True, but I think a refresher lesson on American history would explain why this phenomenon exists.
Having pride in your herritage is a good thing, knowing where you came from, adding to the diverse cultural melting pot that is this great nation and all that. But when it's at the expense of civic and national duty or pride, then your pride in your herritage becomes a detriment to our society as a whole.
How has calling me an African-American or someone else a hyphenated American cost you money? Can you please give a specific example?
Also, that "InsertEthnicityHere-American" stuff is silly as hell. I mean, if I did that I'd be a "German-Norwiegan-American Indian-American". Say that crap five times fast, send me a recording, and I'll mail you a cookie.
And I'm an English-Irish-African-Native-American. Say that. What is your point?
It gets worse though. Let's say you've got a guy whose parents are originally from Spain. You'd see that guy bebopping along and assume he's a "Latino" or "Latin -American". And you'd be a dumbass too. Or how about a guy whose parents came from Jamaca? If he a African-Jamacan-American?
Worst case, how about a white guy whose parents where racist appartide supporting Boars from South Africa. Technically that white guy is an "African-American". So is the Arab kid whose parents came from north africa.
See who retarded that Hyphenated-American crap is yet?
I think your points ran out before your caffeine supply did. You made some valid points, then you got really ignorant with it. I'm disappointed.
