Cash,
I also think that the respect should be on the part of both sides that is why I said:
"It goes for both sides of the argument, it is time to start being respectful."
I too disagree with what prettygyrl says, but I am respectful and tolerant and watch what I say. I do think Prettygyrl could stand to clean up her responses a bit (this is why I said that it goes for both sides), however from what I have witnessed, most of the attacking is coming from the people angry at what pretty gyrl has to say. I too find a lot of what she has to say offensive, but what she has to say stems from something, it stems from the offensive things that she has had to encounter from 'white' people. I don't think prettygyrl is right about everything she says, and I wish I could change her mind, I would be lying if I didn't say that. But there are things she is VERY right about. One being that I will never be in her shoes, and I will never experience anything like the black community has ever experienced. She DOES come from a repressed peoples, and yes, white people did do this. So no, I don't blame her for her thoughts and feelings, but I don't think she's contributing to a solution, and THAT is what concerns me. We (as white people) put her in the shoes she's in and the attitude she has, so we can at least hear her out, or WE aren't contributing to a solution. When prettygyrl first started to post her feelings they were very much without vindictive phrases and offensive language, but people attacked her for what her opinion was. The only reason I pointed prettygyrl out is because she is being pointed out as being the bad person here, and she's not. Nobody is. So we ALL need to calm down. From both sides. We are well educated people, now lets act like it. Like our mother's used to say. . .two wrongs don't make a right.
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