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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: terry on February 20, 2009, 08:58:51 AM
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Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Feb-19-09 07:38 PM
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Apology for a term, but see what my 84 year old mom said today about our President
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My mom was taken to emergency by rescue squad last night. She has lived alone since dad died in 94. In the hospital today she used the word colored about one of the rescue personnel. Even though I was raised in a non minority neighborhood, I was not ever taught anything racist. To my mom it is just a word she has never updated from her generations vocabulary.
Later while we talked waiting for a wheelchair to take her down downstairs she said this. "President Obama is doing a great job!". Yes she is a life long Democrat. But she is bombarded with right wing slant in ALL her social groups. We are a very red state after all. Anyway, I was so proud of what she said even while her mind was clouded with pain killers.
She is doing fine at home. She has a lengthy test to take next Monday. I'll be kind of quiet for me for the next week to 10 days because of a heavy personal schedule of assorted things.
OS
What a disrespectful moron.
I can't even imagine.
link (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5093403&mesg_id=5093403)
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In my lifetime there have been several terms that were considered appropriate to describe a person as it related to their race.
They have all been relegated to being "racist" as the need for that arose.
It is a farce.
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What does NAACP stand for again?
:whatever:
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What a disrespectful moron.
You're being way too polite. This idiot starts a thread just so he can belittle his mother. He's trash.
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Belittle his SICK, ELDERLY mother. Oh well, Zero threw his white grandma under the bus, so why can't we all? Notice how he thinks everyone is going to miss him so mcuh while he's attending to personal business. The world doesn't revolve around you, Omaha.
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What does NAACP stand for again?
:whatever:
..any thing they can get their hands on.
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I always assumed "people of color" were by definition colored. It's like calling a member of the group "people of blue-eyes" blue-eyed.
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So what are white people?
Tanslucent?
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So what are white people?
Tanslucent?
No, they're Eeeeeeviiiiiiiil. [/DUmmie mode]
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My 90 year old grandmother says "colored" too. She's got bi-racial great grandchildren who completely adore her. Nobody cares if she uses words that were considered polite for her generation. We're all just grateful she's sharp as a tack and healthy. I can't imagine all the history my family would've lost without the stories she tells about her life. She's the wisest person I know. I can't imagine letting a word or two get in the way of our relationship. She practically raised me and I'm the better for it. I wouldn't have known what "normal" was if I didn't have her and Pa.
I don't know whether his aim is to prove how tolerant he is of someone so backwards he, or how long suffering he is for having to put up with someone who embarrasses him in public. It's his own inability to see beyond his fear of being seen as a politically incorrect hick. Because he's with a sweet little old lady who uses a perfectly decent but out of style word, he seems more worried about what people think of HIM than the health of his mother. With sons like that who needs muggers? That stupid asshole owes his mother a public apology.
Cindie
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What does NAACP stand for again?
:whatever:
That's the first thing I thought of, too. :cheersmate: What complete morons.
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So what are white people?
Tanslucent?
"Whities" or "crackers."
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So what are white people?
Tanslucent?
Close...
Idiots who are working to pay for the stimulus package.
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Jukin never has and never will call them afro-Americans.
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Omaha Steve is just being silly, and he knows it.
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Omaha Steve is just being silly, and he knows it.
I was just thinking the same thing . . .
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My 90 year old grandmother says "colored" too. She's got bi-racial great grandchildren who completely adore her. Nobody cares if she uses words that were considered polite for her generation. We're all just grateful she's sharp as a tack and healthy. I can't imagine all the history my family would've lost without the stories she tells about her life. She's the wisest person I know. I can't imagine letting a word or two get in the way of our relationship. She practically raised me and I'm the better for it. I wouldn't have known what "normal" was if I didn't have her and Pa.
I don't know whether his aim is to prove how tolerant he is of someone so backwards he, or how long suffering he is for having to put up with someone who embarrasses him in public. It's his own inability to see beyond his fear of being seen as a politically incorrect hick. Because he's with a sweet little old lady who uses a perfectly decent but out of style word, he seems more worried about what people think of HIM than the health of his mother. With sons like that who needs muggers? That stupid asshole owes his mother a public apology.
Cindie
I think he needs a public BEATING!
I'm up for it.
I lost my "Nana" 2 years ago, she was 96! Grandpa has been gone almost 15. I miss them both immensely! Their knowledge of history evidently cannot be replaced, unless through those of us willing to share it.
It is certain the schools have stopped teaching it in favor of the liberal's idea of history.
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I have an uncle who (bless his heart) refers to all people of African ancestry with the "N" word, though his pronunciation is not the common one most of us know. To him, it's not a term of degradation, it's just a word for a particular race of people. He would tell you that if that term offends you, that's your choice.
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I think he needs a public BEATING!
I'm up for it.
I lost my "Nana" 2 years ago, she was 96! Grandpa has been gone almost 15. I miss them both immensely! Their knowledge of history evidently cannot be replaced, unless through those of us willing to share it.
It is certain the schools have stopped teaching it in favor of the liberal's idea of history.
Yeah, I wish I still had my grandmother...and could care less what terminology she might use.