Yup. I remember it. I also remember the pastor thinking God had played a cruel trick on him because, when He finally gave him someone black to pastor, my wife didn't have rhythm! Don'tcha just love the Lord?
I still remember a day we had tea together... Your wife and I.... I always thought she was sooooo quiet, but that day, she talked and talked. It was just her and I and she opened up! It was nice!
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I never met a chocolate I didn't like!
*sigh* I did nothing yesterday.... I wasn't finished so I did nothing again today!
I still remember a day we had tea together... Your wife and I.... I always thought she was sooooo quiet, but that day, she talked and talked. It was just her and I and she opened up! It was nice!
That's my wife! Once you get her talking she won't shut up!
Who let the Puerto Ricenos en la casa!!! My wife told me that you were here. I thought I would jump over and say hello. With Rico and LordChocolate in the house at the same time, THERE GOES THE HOOD!!! Keep the faith brutha! Say hello to the family for us.
FTW, Racism is a scourge of society and the church. A racist "christian" is not a christian but a tool of the devil. <-YES HE DID JUST SAY THAT!!
Excellent, Rico. That really resonated with me. Thanks for sharing your heart!!!!
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Cant help but wonder if Rico's experiences garnered more empathy and positive responses from you all because he wasn't black???
Not minimizing what he went thru. But the extent of what he has been thru has been some fights, some name calling, some discrimination on the job.
I am sure Rico's grandparents or great gp didnt get their foot chopped off or castrated or land stolen from them. As unfair as those actions against him are, they did not have the opportunity to become generational curses to his family. It is just warfare he has had to deal with in his life.
Now imagine if Rico was a black man. Not only does he have to fight the warfare from present demons, but he gotta go back and fight demons that make our men flee our families instead of sticking it out for the long haul because that spirit was set in place by slavemasters centuries ago who tore our families apart. Made our men feel like they couldnt take care of their families anyways. So that is how our men feel today...the system can do a better job than I can of supporting my family. I cant take care of them on $6hr.
Or they sling caine or rocks...only to be incarcerated and still taken from the family.
Or they get killed n the trade or die high on the heroin.
I love my black men! And thank God for them! They go thru so much in this country!!!!!
I can attest, when blacks speak of racism we are not talking about slavery, lynchings, etc. We all know you all cant get away with that nonsense.
No...he is right about that. It is the way the majority controls the minority in our everyday affairs that is racist.
Now I will be real. I dont give a hootenanny about someone racial profiling me, or prejudging me. Someone callin me a n _ _ _ _ wouldn't even faze me. Im bigger than that.
What gets me all in a dustball is how the economic, educational and political structure is set up in this country to the disadvantage of the average black person, avg single mother in particular.
Again, I dont have that kinda time and this forum doesnt have the memory for me to record here what kinda racist junk I have encountered in the workplace, my kids at school, and here in N.O. the government....it is pathetic!
Lets just say I have wisened up lately.
Thanks Rico for sharing your experiences!!!!
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Going up in the Spirit Realm....
Cant help but wonder if Rico's experiences garnered more empathy and positive responses from you all because he wasn't black???
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GBG, you just don't get it. Really. You have pigeon-holed white folks the same way some white folks have stereotyped black people. It is ignorant. You reveal your own feelings when you tell me what kind of music I "get off on", even though you don't know me, and you assume that because I'm white that I prefer Michael W. Smith.
Never once in reading Rico's essay did the thought that he is white or black even cross my mind. I was paying attention when he said he is Puerto Rican. But that didn't add or take away from his credibility, it was just an integral part of his story.
It isn't what you present, it's the attitude with which you present it. If you alienate your audience, no one is going to hear a word you have to say. Period. It doesn't matter what color you are--what matters is whether you know how to put your viewpoint across without being offensive or without making the listener or reader feel attacked. Quite frankly, I have been reading your posts and YOUR posts make ME feel discriminated against as a white woman.
Is that what you intend? Or does it not matter since I am part of the "majority" race?
From what I read on the other thread, I think 1399 is black, although I'm not certain. I read his posts and appreciated them, and was not offended by them. They provoked thought and conversation. Not offense and defense. When you step into the conversation I immediately feel "on guard." I don't feel that way with Rico, and he belongs to a minority, just like you do. Albeit, according to you, his experiences can't even compare with what African Americans have gone through.
I'm having a hard time with your posts, because I feel that your posts are racist, and full of stereotypical thinking, and I dislike that coming from you just as much as I would dislike hearing a white person make racial slurs against black people. When you assume that I like ________ for dinner, _________ kind of music, ________ kind of clothes, enjoy __________ kind of entertainment, and only attend ________ churches, just because I'm white, YOU have entered the ugly arena of racism, and you apparently are unaware of it.
I'm been trying to have an open conversation with you since you started posting on the Obama thread, and all I get are what I view to be attacks on whites, rather than logical and fair arguments. Rico and I have been able to argue on many topics and remain friends at the end. This one is no different. I completely appreciate what he has shared here. You shouldn't take appreciation of his experiences as a slight against your own. I am so surprised that you would even make the connection that we might only appreciate him more because he's "white." Did you read his essay? LOL!!! He isn't white! He's Puerto Rican.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Again, I dont have that kinda time and this forum doesnt have the memory for me to record here what kinda racist junk I have encountered in the workplace, my kids at school, and here in N.O. the government....it is pathetic!
I do believe the leaders in N.O. are predominantly black: the Mayor, DA, school board etc. Why not talk with them about your situation.
I still remember a day we had tea together... Your wife and I.... I always thought she was sooooo quiet, but that day, she talked and talked. It was just her and I and she opened up! It was nice!
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