Radical and Controversial

[_Opi_]

I think that women are overly-objectified in the media. I hate rap videos. Its disgusting to watch women shaking their ass with a thong on. These rappers treat us as objects to be acquired and that pisses the hell outta me. And I really despise those men that try to immulate the image of "pimps" or "rappers". Its degrading and misogynistic.

I believe that we black people come in my different shades, shapes and features. If someone does not fit the stereotype of how a black person should look like, we should [not] put them on the spot for it. Comments such as " oh, what a light-skin you have or what a straightnose you have" are not compliments and it makes the situation really really awkward. (You'd be surprised how many times I've heard this).

I believe that Africa has so much natural resources, that these countries should get their acts together before they become the next Iraq.

I believe that there is One God and that He was never in the human form. I think that over the centuries, people have mixed up the concept of religion with culture, and that's why you have so many branches or sects of one religion.


I think that parents nowadays don't raise their kids right!!

[stardusttwin]

Originally posted by Steeltrap
Interesting point. I don't think that is a bad thing, particularly when it comes to body image issues. Many of us know that we are not going to have blonde hair, blue eyes (except for contacts) or a 22-inch waist and don't torture ourselves with eating disorders, etc. We deal.

But there is a thing as TOO much self confidence....if your waist is 35 and you wear a 44DDD you have NO business trying to squeeze in the same mini skirt that said 22 inch waist Barbie doll wears...the "I love how I look and I'm gona flaunt it" mentality has gone too far!!

On a serious note I think oversized confidence is more pervasive than just clothes. I mentor a teen who is always complaining how the teacher disrespects her - by correcting how she be talking and marking up her papers with red ink - she swears she is a great writer and the teacher is just hating. I've tried to explain that if she insists on speaking TWO languages then she needs to master both - English class is not the place to express your ebonic skills do that in creative writing...her head is so swole she thinks I'm a hater too. After a while I just stop talking about school with her- I have my degree.

While I don't want to dissuade her enthusiasm I've read her "work" and the truth is at 17 she is barely writing at a level I wrote at in 8th grade...the red marks are corrections in grammer and spelling....but you can't tell her anything. She knows everything and can't be taught anything while rocking a 65 average...

God bless all of you teachers...I don't have the patience at all.

[Steeltrap]

Originally posted by stardusttwin
But there is a thing as TOO much self confidence....if your waist is 35 and you wear a 44DDD you have NO business trying to squeeze in the same mini skirt that said 22 inch waist Barbie doll wears...the "I love how I look and I'm gona flaunt it" mentality has gone too far!!

On a serious note I think oversized confidence is more pervasive than just clothes. I mentor a teen who is always complaining how the teacher disrespects her - by correcting how she be talking and marking up her papers with red ink - she swears she is a great writer and the teacher is just hating. I've tried to explain that if she insists on speaking TWO languages then she needs to master both - English class is not the place to express your ebonic skills do that in creative writing...her head is so swole she thinks I'm a hater too. After a while I just stop talking about school with her- I have my degree.

While I don't want to dissuade her enthusiasm I've read her "work" and the truth is at 17 she is barely writing at a level I wrote at in 8th grade...the red marks are corrections in grammer and spelling....but you can't tell her anything. She knows everything and can't be taught anything while rocking a 65 average...

God bless all of you teachers...I don't have the patience at all.

Trust me, I don't approve of the squeezing into a miniskirt AT ALL. I'm a woman of size, and I dress classically and appropriately. All I am saying is that if I had a daughter, I would be mortified if I found her torturing herself to be skinny if it's not meant to be. And no child of mine would look tacky.

[Dionysus]

Originally posted by stardusttwin
But there is a thing as TOO much self confidence....if your waist is 35 and you wear a 44DDD you have NO business trying to squeeze in the same mini skirt that said 22 inch waist Barbie doll wears...the "I love how I look and I'm gona flaunt it" mentality has gone too far!!

On a serious note I think oversized confidence is more pervasive than just clothes. I mentor a teen who is always complaining how the teacher disrespects her - by correcting how she be talking and marking up her papers with red ink - she swears she is a great writer and the teacher is just hating. I've tried to explain that if she insists on speaking TWO languages then she needs to master both - English class is not the place to express your ebonic skills do that in creative writing...her head is so swole she thinks I'm a hater too. After a while I just stop talking about school with her- I have my degree.

While I don't want to dissuade her enthusiasm I've read her "work" and the truth is at 17 she is barely writing at a level I wrote at in 8th grade...the red marks are corrections in grammer and spelling....but you can't tell her anything. She knows everything and can't be taught anything while rocking a 65 average...

God bless all of you teachers...I don't have the patience at all.

That's exactly what I'm talking about, my mother has tons of students like her. I had a lot of classmates like that in high and middle school. I'm not really talking about overconfidence in body image wise, I mean overall.

[Imperial1]

2pac is the most overrated rapper ever.

Imperial1

[Im_just_me]

Out of pure curisoity(sp?), what makes you believe that? Please read my signature below and tell me that you don't feel that way.

[SKEEphistAKAte]

I think that anybody-no matter what race- who voted for Bush in this last election is less intelligent and more gullible than people who voted otherwise.

[Angel11E01]

there will be an American Holocaust.

[Wonderful1908]

This country must be paralyzed by fear and that common sense is being put on hold. Otherwise how could W win this election?

[Love_Spell_6]

Anytime 89% of one race of people vote the same way...there's a LOT of brainwashing deeply ingrained in that community

And further...I think EVERYONE is brainwashed to a certain extent..its just that some of choose what to be "brainwashed" by and others just let it happen to them..

[enigma_AKA]

True indeed, everyone IS brainwashed to a certain extent!

But when you've got people in the midwest and south (both of which I found, have states that have the lowest IQ's--GO FIGURE! --voted for Bush this and previous election) concerned more about morality then the issues that will detriment the US for years to come (spending on social programs, the not-so-fiscal fiscal policy and so on), I'll say that there is some SERIOUS brainwashing going on....or maybe they are really that stupid! The US has already, through a policy of isolation bad policies and I-am-better-then-you-therefore-I-don't-need-you-rhetoric gradually lessening madour status as the hegemon we 'd like to think we are, or THE ULTIMATE superpower. Simply put, we're already becoming the laughing stock of the international body (fighting a war on "terror", no less---how do you fight something so abstract? Can you fight a war on stupidity, perhaps? A war on social decay?) and we're going to succumb to a pathetic position with no clout.

enigma_AKA

[MeezDiscreet]

Originally posted by enigma_AKA
True indeed, everyone IS brainwashed to a certain extent!

But when you've got people in the midwest and south (both of which I found, have states that have the lowest IQ's--GO FIGURE! ...

[enigma_AKA]

This was in response to an e-mail I recieved. Though I did do a google search and came up with this...

http://www.stargeek.com/item/119445.html

I think that the less informed you are, the more likely you are to vote on surface value, such as morality, etc.

[K.O.T.S]

Originally posted by enigma_AKA
True indeed, everyone IS brainwashed to a certain extent!

But when you've got people in the midwest and south (both of which I found, have states that have the lowest IQ's--GO FIGURE! --voted for Bush this and previous election) concerned more about morality then the issues that will detriment the US for years to come (spending on social programs, the not-so-fiscal fiscal policy and so on), I'll say that there is some SERIOUS brainwashing going on....or maybe they are really that stupid! enigma_AKA

well @#$$%%^!!!! can you be more insulting to this area? i am from texas. i did not like bush when he was my governor as well as my president. however, he has a definate stance, a not so good one, but a definate one. almost nobody knew what kerry stood for, just that he "wasn't BUSH". so is voting for ANY candidate just because he is not the other make a person more intelligent. i love your point on the war on terrorism and see that you have educated views, but it does it have to come at the expense of this area?

People claim Members of GLOs are brainwashed too. Does that make us Stupid?

[stardusttwin]

Originally posted by K.O.T.S
well @#$$%%^!!!! can you be more insulting to this area? i am from texas. i did not like bush when he was my governor as well as my president. however, he has a definate stance, a not so good one, but a definate one. almost nobody knew what kerry stood for, just that he "wasn't BUSH". so is voting for ANY candidate just because he is not the other make a person more intelligent. i love your point on the war on terrorism and see that you have educated views, but it does it have to come at the expense of this area?

People claim Members of GLOs are brainwashed too. Does that make us Stupid?

I've tried to stay out of these debates...either you areone side or another. But please try to make me understand...if you don't LIKE the job Bush did as govenor why would you vote for him for President?

I think thats what so many people just don't get. The economy is in pieces but Bush is my man, I don't agree wiht the war but Bush got us into it and he's my man, I don't like what happened to my health care premiums but Bush is my man, I'm against abortion but will support a man who oversaw multiple executions while govenor...(how about turning the other cheek instead of going after Sudam who beat your daddy?)....the list of hypocrisy goes on an on.

And while I don't know where you are from its ironic that the city that was affected most by the terrorist attacks voted overwhelmingly against Bush - because we've already seen first hand what the rest of the country can't see through. A couple of sound bites and a convention does not mean you are "supporting" this city. The support for the troops is even worse. Why are families raising money to send their sons/daughters materials that should be provided for them? Why are the troops STILL having to fight on a person by person basis when they return home injured and are denied their pensions or basic long term health care? We are woefully underfunded and underprepared...while cities in west suburbia are staring at unused equipment they have little use for.

I'm glad middle america is rallying behing their man. It seems like they view the events or this war as a bad doomsday movie...things come flying out of the air and we conquer at the end all tied up in 90 minutes or less. However the real life affects of 9/11 and this war were not tied up despite the "mission Accomplished" press clip. Its not fun to watch things blow up when they don't show you what happens afterwards in the minutes, hours, days or months of a real attack, long after the rest of the country went back to their every day life. Rally behind the troops this war until MY son, daughter, family member is called to serve....Maybe watching the coffins on a daily basis will finally make it real....

Ya'll don't get why we have no faith in this man to keep us out of trouble. However, the fear is real, the results of this election will be far reaching. And when it happens again in another city here in the US there will be no joy in saying I told you so.