thoughts on racism

[tonioseven]

No problem! After the birth of my first son, I started driving like an old man pretty much anyway I don't care for teh playing 0f the race card either; I believe that if somebody has done me wrong, it'll work itself out. I'll get over it and move on if at all possible

[BLU CIVIC]

i know i'm going back a few posts...but , as you all may or may not know, they're wentn't any african slaves in america....they were indentured servents....worked in the fields or housekeeping then after a couple years they got a few acres of land...tools and were sent on their way....but everyone always finds a cheaper method of doing things...hince slavery

and the railroad thing...things like that just makes me mad b/c it's giving"us" a bad rep., i think they suck just b/c they didn't do any of that work and the want to reap those benefits...let say my great great great grandfather was president and was killed during the first year of his presidency....does that mean i can go back and say "he died during his first year of office and i want to finish his other 3 years"...sorry it doesn't work that way....what's done is done and if, only if, there was something in writing that justified their claim, then i don't see a reason as to why they need to be compinsated for anything....my ansestors picked cotton...i want my share of fruit of the looms :hehe: not to make a joke out of some of the things that they take seriously but i bet it's just a whole lot of people who aren't so well off backed by people like oprah, jessie, that reverend guy, and anyone else who has money to back them and if they win it will be called "another win for african-americans everywhere"...i'm sorry, where's my trophy

[YogsVR4]

Cash reparations would be huge mistake. Putting $$ in peoples hands only makes other people angry and frustrated. See the Oklahoma City bombing survivors and their reaction to the 911 fund.

[NSX]

Originally posted by YogsVR4
Putting $$ in peoples hands only makes other people angry and frustrated.

That works both ways...in the end, money is the ultimate evil. Look at what we've become...conditioned to work for money...

[boingo82]

Originally posted by NSX


That works both ways...in the end, money is the ultimate evil. Look at what we've become...conditioned to work for money...

If I had a dollar for every time someone said that...

"Money" as we call it is nothing more than a standardized work exchange program. I work at a newspaper. Rather than they pay me by giving me 71,568 newspapers per year as pay (that's what my wage converts to in subscriptions) they pay me in "money", which enables me to trade my work at the newspaper for tangible goods and or services produced elsewhere. Do you have a better idea?? Like maybe we can do things commune-style, everyone doing what they're best at and sharing in the common wealth? Yeah, that'll work. Everyone will just sit around on their lazy asses because there would be no direct incentive for them to work.

Know what's the root of all evil? Life.

[NSX]

Originally posted by boingo82
Know what's the root of all evil? Life.

Then again; I guess we could then argue there is no evil; just differing thoughts. Where's the ideal world they have in Star Trek...:o