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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
RocketJock. I appreciate your post my man. Sometimes I should think my words out better myself before saying or especially typing them because that's what really can get you into trouble. I'm not a racist, although I suppose my tendancy to say what I think might make somebody question that from time to time.

Where I grew up, that's all there was around me.... white Christians. Then everything did change. I'm not saying it's bad. It's just different. I'd really like for the verbal attacks to stop though because us white guys that are just bystandards to the ebbs and flows of demographics got feelings too.

Not only did TV do a disservice to us whitebread kids, but our own schools did as well. They left us completely unprepaired for change. They pitted us against each other for years... just look at any movie about high school in the 80's and you'll know what I mean. Blacks amaze me in how they are so united in this idea of rising up. They might hate each other for any other reason under the sun, but they've got that. White people have this general distrust of their own kind and have no common ground to stand on.

Today this disservice extends to every American of any color.... While we've been getting the 3rd rate educations with our beloved No Child Left Behind Act, they've been teaching the Indians and Chinese tech skills and 3 or 4 different languages. That's where all of our tech jobs have been going. They didn't have any money over there to educate the kids... how did they get it done? They certainly didn't have the billions of dollars a year we so obviously misspend.

I appreciate your words on political correctness too, although I don't think it's a joke at all. I think, though valid in certain situations, it's basically no more than a means for suppression of free speech. It's very easy to take something out of context and call somebody a racist, and once you've successfully gotten the collective to think somebody is racist then you've successfully ensured that their entire point will be lost, no matter how valid it was. Destroy somebody's credibility and they might as well just shut up because they're done.

Look at what they did to Bill Cosby. I think last year he was saying some of the smartest things that anyone had been saying to our youth, and look what they did.... they framed him for supposed date rape and you've barely heard a peep from him since. R Kelly pees on an underage girl and he's still a role model.

Anyways..... We've hijacked this thread for too long and I could write books about what I think. I'm just glad we're cool.

About Christmas... I don't even know what religion if any I buy into man. I guess that I've just had so much change happen around me that it might be nice just to have a thing or two that reminded me of my childhood. Maybe I should just distance myself from Christmas completely. I'm thinking that I'm taking an attack on Christmas as a personal attack on me and considering where I stand, I don't think I should be taking it to heart.

So, mea culpa too. Merry Christmas.



"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

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Originally posted by SignyM: December 1, 2006

Hey, I'm for ANY reason to take off work and be nice to people! So keep the days off, just call it something else.

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