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Originally posted by VirtuousErudite
This whole conversation is going no where fast. It started off as an intelligent discussion and it has turned into an emotional bunch of mess. Those people are only citing posts that they can pick apart to make thier own arguments stronger and are totally ignoring numerous posts that differ from their ASSUMPTIONS of what African Americans believe. I find it interesting that certain people DID NOT want this conversation to take place at all, those people came to this forum and it has turned into nothing but emotionalism and attacks, and now it will DEFINATELY be closed soon because they can prove that this thread is against GC terms. I wonder did they accomplish thier mission and did we fall right into the trap????????
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Sorry for being gone so long. Just wanted to let you know that I have
never asked for this thread to be closed and I also have
never asked for anyone to be banned because of posts they made here. I didn't set a "trap" and I surely didn't have an underlying "mission" when I posted my thoughts. In fact, the ONLY "mission" I had was to state my viewpoint -- which happens to be the same "mission" that I am on anytime that I post on GC.
I strongly resent the implication that the white GCers who have posted on this topic jumped into the thread in an attempt to stir up controversy and get the thread deleted from GC. If you don't want us to give our viewpoint, then don't post a topic titled "White or Homosexual Members" on a message board that has both white and homosexual members!
I cannot believe that you actually have accused us of having a secret agenda just because we posted about a topic that concerns us and is staring us in the face everytime we visit GC! Do you have any idea how crazy that notion sounds?
This whole thread seems like a no win situation. If whites are offended but don't post, then we're cowards and, if we do post, then we're on a "mission" to get certain black members of GC banned and a black thread deleted?!?! Puhleeze. Whether or not you choose to believe it, we're not part of some big conspiracy against the black GC community. We're not out to get you, we're not "oppressors", and we're sure as heck not trying to act as your "masters" as another poster in this thread has claimed.
Honestly, I think some folks are being way too hasty in judging the motives of white GCers who took an interest in this particular thread. I, for one, simply felt that I should speak up since I was being called a coward by some of you for being offended by the thread and not publicly saying anything about it. Then, when I did speak up, I was accused of contradicting myself, not reading the entire thread before posting, and being blind to the fact that racism exists -- all three VERY untrue accusations, by the way. And people wondered why I didn't want to speak up before???