Actually, the post that had the "n word" in it was KEPT. It was one that was free and exempt of anything worthy of censorship....

That's right. There are others just like him left in the world and everyone has their day. Not many people will leave a legacy of wine and roses behind on this earth. His "legacy" is one that cannot and will not be forgotten or pushed off "into the sunset." Keep it on your mind because as long as I'm alive, I will fight to change what his "legacy" has has done to my people.

Um, and there are STILL people in the US House and Senate who voted against the Civil Rights Act.

Not too many left, but a few.

I can't believe some of the stuff that's being said here. If you're not black, why the hell are you trying to tell black people how they should feel about Strom Thurmond's death? IMO that's extremely, extremely invalidating.

Just because something happened 50 years ago doesn't make irrelevant. It still happened. And I certainly don't feel that appointing one black person to some committee makes up in any way for the fact that Thurmond actively campaigned for the deaths of blacks and against them acquiring any sort of rights.

Just because the feeling of the day among white Americans was generally anti-black doesn't excuse his behavior, either. The longest filibuster record was set when he was trying to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act -- which means there must have been a decent amount of Americans who wanted to see people of different races have equal rights, or else the Civil Rights Act would have never been proposed in the first place.

Edited to add: I agree with Honeykiss -- if this thread was meant to be ONLY for those paying their respects to Strom, it should have been labeled such in the first place.

Some of you people in this thread are nucking futs and I'm going to break it down like so:

This was a thread making an acknowledgement that Thurmond passed away.

People are all entitled to their opinions. If some are praising him how can others not bash him? Just because someone simply passes away doesn't mean that everyone should stash their negative views of the man away. So he did some good for the country, as I see it there was a time where he also did some bad. Whether he "changed" because of it really isn't up to me to decide and to be honest, I don't think many, if any are qualified to make such statements. I've seen no such evidence to support such a stance.

Now play nice before I start owning people....

a very interesting point, and choice of words.

Owning. I think thats a well placed play on words considering the topic of this thread.


I just wonder what we can argue about tomorrow.

Ignorant ass comments like this:

As long as we have people that can still make comments like this and stand behind them, then I am more than entitled to refute (or "argue" about) them, regardless of who it is referring to.

I have no qualms about the arguing i just wonder what it will be tomorrow, the day before i think it was political party. Maybe tomorrow we can debate the issue of abortion.

I swear some ppl are so dramatic. It has nothing to do with the sense of "owning someone as in my property." I knew someone would twist it though. It's "internet speak" for me basically whooping up on someone if they don't "play nice." Had you paid attention to the rest of my post, I was actually saying that it should be allowed for ppl to bash Thurmond if they want.

I never cared for the man either.

just making a joke. i know you don't actually own people. but if you did that would be interesting

As true as that may be, how the hell is anyone supposed to know your internet speak? How many people actually use that term? If I took it out of context, I apologize; however, your use of terms for this thread was a little...odd.

LOL, that post wasn't in reference to you. I know you were making a joke as I was making a joke in "whooping on ppl by 'owning' them."

Understood, it might have been odd, but it is actually funny, or can be if you know it. Quite a few ppl know about the "ownage" that I place on the GC. I guess you just have to know me though. It wasn't meant to be disrespectful and it wasn't made with any reference to slavery and/or slave owners, just to clear it up.


Owned in damasa terms:

http://www.brawl-hall.com/gallery/da...5/ownedkid.jpg

that picture is so true of being owned. poor kid. did you do that, its nice work.

I can say one positive thing...he hired the 1st Afro-American staffer.