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I stand by all my comments...
As my cousin would say... TACK... TACK... TACKY!!!!!
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That probably wasn't the right choice of words, but it has been the running joke (word of the day) with me and friends this week...
Anyhew...
I am a black woman, born in the North, of Carribean parents, raised in the south in an all white neighborhood, and educated from k-12 at a school CREATED to keep people like me out, and a graduate of an HBCU.
I know racism... I know it... I lived it... people who are from other places other than the south, cannot possibly understand what it is like. You may understand the You just can't. I've been called everything you can think of. Spit on. And I still have compassion for people.
My comments are not borne of what I read in the newspaper, or get out of some message board. I only comment on what I know intimately. I know Caribbean-American life. I know single motherhood. I know the South. I probably shouldn't be this way, but I rarely give credence to anyone's opinion if they have nothing more than someone else's opinion to back it up.
I am not putting down anyone's comments, really. I just think that when speaking about someone's actions, that is one thing, ("his politics were deplorable, "he made racist decisions) but when you say he was a bad person (evil, the devil incarnate, he should rot in hell, etc.) that isn't fair. You don't know him.
If people judged us solely on our actions, (we've all had too much to drink and made an @$$ of ourselves - bad decision, or been pissed at a boyfriend and talked about his mother - bad decision) what would the verdict be? That is the question of the day!
Any comments... anyone... anyone?
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