All I care about is right now is being of African descent and young people coming up through the world having relativitist thinking without much consideration or care as to how it came to be that way.

It all seems copasetic until some lunatic starts calling a group of "us" in a tirade like Micheal Richards or some random smoked out reggae fan says he discovered ganga and do a "King" move on us making quadrillions.

Connotative definitions operate in a real time context. What one generation finds altruistic is later found to be dull then either good or evil.

Now many of us are old enough and strong enough to mutter through the mire and tell this young lady here is what you are going to face in real life or you all can curse me out and make yourselves feel better because you like the debase me. Either way, I have not lied. You look at all her posts and then make your decisions as to what to say to this child...

Sure, she could problem weather her own storms, that is a part of growing up, at the same time, we who have been here awhile have seen a shift in behavior and there is a reason.

What in the hot-as-hell are you typing about?

What is your problem?

^^^ What is YOUR problem?

I hate you.

LOL. Silly dillies.

I really try to read and understand AKA Monet's posts sometimes. When I get to a post like that one, it reminds me of why I tend to skip over her posts. :D

ETA: I believe she was essentially saying that younger people don't understand the history of these words.

My response: Well, teach them the history and let them make the choice. Because there will still be older and younger people who use these words. If "outsiders" try to use them, especially in a derogatory fashion, we shall handle that as it comes.

The End. Right? :D

Truth: is it the grammar? That is NOT my strong suit and I really suck at it. I work very hard to craft my sentences properly...

This is deja vu`. :)

I stepped away from the thread and came back with renewed patience. I now see what you were saying. I don't disagree with you, necessarily. I just don't see your goal. Is it to do away with these words? Bury the "nappy" word? :)

LOL..... good. because I'm out to get you.










We're ALL out to get you.











ALL OF US.

LOL.

So, yeah, "happy to be nappy" and the Klan is trying to be relevantly newsworthy again.

Hippos are sooo dangerous. I'll "Random Thread" about it.

Well, here I am!!! CUM & GIT ME!!!

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g8...ons1xr6rq1.jpg

Again I must applaud you NappyBison for your maturity and composition skills. :D

AKAMONET was that really neccesary?!?! I think you are very intelligent but your message sometimes gets lost with your over zealous attempts to prove how much information you can retain. Lighten up a little seesh:rolleyes:

Disturbing on so many levels.

Bury words, no. But to realize "meaning" behind "these" words--one's that are designed to subjugate us. Whether we like it or not, "we" are still defined what OTHERS say, regardless of how strong we "think" we are.

Thanks for the vote of confidence! But sometimes I have stoop to some people's level and ack a fool just as much as them! LOL

^^^;)

I think that mission was accomplished before you began typing. :)

At the end of the day, I'd rather those who are "nappy" in the African diaspora (because not everyone is) to own this and not be ashamed of it. If they called it "thick and beeded scalped," the point is all the same. You can't stop people (including OTHERS) from thinking or saying whatever they choose, you can focus on how to address it when it begins to pose a problem. That's why there's a difference between "racism defined as hurt feelings" and "racism defined as negatively influencing life chances."

Perhaps you missed her point.

How much progress has been made for ourselves?


Michael Richards, Don Imus or "Jim Crow" were not trying to "hurt feelings". They did not give a rat's ass about their target's feelings. Whether they like realize it or not, they were "negatively influencing life's chances" through dogmatic obtrusive dehumanization. Then for at least "Mikey" and "Donnie", they met with Jesse and Al to "relieve" themselves of their hatred pangs.

What makes it worse is when these fools use these words publicly, the redeem themselves with Jesse or Al, kids are watching and so are others who make policy. Redemption should NOT be an arbiter through undesirables, redemption should have meaning in one's heart if they truly want to be forgiven...

At least the Klan will do that crap up front close and personal. Which is worse?

I have fought with the Klan, face to face, word for word. As my ancestors and parents are. I ain't skurred of 'em. But what about these kids today?

What do you think? ;)

Actually, I kinda disagree...any man who hides behind his wife's or mama's good sheets and too scared to say how he feels to my face or too scared to say or do something without a rabble and some cops who feels likewise is a coward to me.

Heh

That's what the Klan said when I fought with them and the National Guard was between us... Besides, there are skinheads that just wear jeans, t-shirt and steeltoed boots, and Dr. Duke wears a suit...

Some Klan members wear sheets and some wear suits (and you would never know they were Klan members). They often march without their faces covered.

Whatever the case may be, they get no props from me.

I believe you missed her point but it's not surprising.

You also missed my point.

Please enlighten me since you are so familiar with the GC population's "poignancy"?

All I got to say is we have FAR to go...

Youtube of what some typical southerners really think, like the Kard Karrying Kind.

She did...but why bother. :rolleyes:

Please enlighten me since you are so familiar with the GC population's "poignancy"?

Are you implying that the people you are typing to aren't poignant?

If so, how EYE-RON-ICK.

:D, anyway.

You ASS-U-ME too much... :p

And yet some manage to still be "happy to be nappy." Thank God for mutitasking.

[Southerners don't monopolize the market on bigotry and pardon me for not being excited by drunk white men at a game. Even if you were just trying to prove a point with that Youtube. I talk to people with bigoted ideas everyday and instead of being excited I discuss, inform, and move forward.]

This thread went from an article about the KKK being their racists selfs to a very disturbing picture of Richard Simmons that only made me throw up.....interesting...

Richard Simmons on a platter is a nightmare.

I don't do multitasking...

There is no discussing or informing with anyone who is drunk... And yeah, we can all K.I.M.

*sigh* I don't expect every black person walking the face of God's green Earth to be a human history book. Yes, some terms used today are derived from negative meanings: Jigga Boo, N*gga, etc. but then there are some which no one can truly pinpoint an origin. Most of these terms used today where created by slave owners to pit us against ourselves in the first place.

Ex: Lighter (mulatto) skinned blacks vs Darker skinned blacks
"Good hair" vs "Bad Hair"
Bourgie vs country (that n_ _ _ _ _ thinks he's better than you)



One really has to question why we are hating on ourselves in the first place and why we don't tackle this self hate in the second place :confused:

I know. Just teasing for your use of "poignant." :p

She was just telling you that you are too intense for no reason. It wasn't about you "getting down on the level of the folkseses" or whatever you responded.

Of course it's okay to be intense sometimes when others aren't, but do so in a way that we don't need an interpreter. :D

Exxxxxxxactly. :D

Uh...I was saying that I discuss and inform with the sober on a daily basis and don't care about the expressions of the drunk.

I am trying to be a FOX New Channel Radio Shock jock... :rolleyes:

Blame it on Gangsta Rap...

I think folks the spew bigotry and hatred are unworthy enough for me to say anything to them. Why?