The Term African American

[RoyalEmpress33]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

Royalempress,

You take these things way too seriously. That's why your feelings are hurt. You could care less about what I say if it didn't mean to much to you.

Because I come from a different generation, just one removed from full segregation, the thought patterns of my own family members being water canonned reminds me of the strides people forced into a color.

The question is about fairness and what someone ELSE wants to name and identify somebody who has been subjugated.

You wanted to be called something that is a color definition. I questioned your intent. And as I and many other on here can see you completely FAIL and LACK a basic comprehension of yourself. And everything you fathom in this world will fail until you FREE YOUR MIND AND LIVE BY YOUR OWN TRUTHS!

Now, I don't give a rat's ass what you call yourself. But there will be plenty of others who will call you out your name. Be mediocre. Lie to youself. It is your life.

But, in front of me, I will call you on it. Grow up and be a woman, independent and stand on your own two feet. And stop being a whiner and a baby because you cannot have your way.

Keep saying dysfunctional stuff around here. Hayle post it in the AKA Ave. But, your comments were weak and I told you how they were.

Ok, I understand now, we are from different generations. I didn't know that. I was in a crappy mood yesterday and probably shouldn't have responded in that manner. But I will say this though. If my way of thinking is some how awkward to you, as they are to many who can't fathom or agree with my way of thinking, that's fine. No feelings of mine are hurt actually but I felt misunderstood. No one is whining because frankly, I have nothing to complain about. If however I feel as though someone is trying to insinuate something that's not true, as I felt you were, I'm going to speak my piece as well. I am not lying to myself about anything. How could I? No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't do it because I know where I came from. I simply responded to what you first typed about my own personal outlook, and asked you to back up your claims, and thus far, you haven't. Therefore, your own statements (not inquires) are "weak" and I told you how they were. But anyway, all of you, have a great weekend!

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by RoyalEmpress33

Ok, I understand now, we are from different generations. I didn't know that. I was in a crappy mood yesterday and probably shouldn't have responded in that manner. But I will say this though. If my way of thinking is some how awkward to you, as they are to many who can't fathom or agree with my way of thinking, that's fine. No feelings of mine are hurt actually but I felt misunderstood. No one is whining because frankly, I have nothing to complain about. If however I feel as though someone is trying to insinuate something that's not true, as I felt you were, I'm going to speak my piece as well. I am not lying to myself about anything. How could I? No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't do it because I know where I came from. I simply responded to what you first typed about my own personal outlook, and asked you to back up your claims, and thus far, you haven't. Therefore, your own statements (not inquires) are "weak" and I told you how they were. But anyway, all of you, have a great weekend!

Can someone please explain to me why folks need to back up claims these days? Your the second kid on here who has said this bullisht to me. WTF?

Are kids these days that crazy to be so petulent?

Okay, I get it. You didn't have that kind required reading in school. "The Power's that Be" cut all that kind of stuff out...

Okey, we were required to read in my high school and college books and they open from left to right.

We had to read titles like Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, William Faulkner

Plays we had to read to graduate were Importance of Being Earnest, Glass Menagerie, Julius Caesar, Waiting for Godot, Raisin in the Sun.

I chose to do extra reading from like, Native Son, Invisible Man. Poetry from June Jordan, more Alice Walker.

Then, I chose to read Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Adolf Hitler's Mien Kampf, and the orginal reasons for South Africa's Apartheid, written by Rhodes (of Rhodes Scholars), Alfred Nobel (Nobel Prize), and DeBeers (Diamonds).

I read books by Greek and Roman authors. Of course not in the original language. Such as Antigone, Lysistrata, Odyssey, the Iliad.

Then I was forced to write papers on the Divine Comedy, Milton's Paradise Lost/Regained. I almost learned Latin.

Of course I read Jane Erye but I like the movie "Sargasso Sea".

And I have always read scifi, like tall the Dune books, Star Wars and Issac Asimov's Foundations Series... We had to read Ray Brabury's Farenheit 451, And we also read "1984" and "Brave New World".

And I did side read rather than my scientific reading, such as Physics, General Chem, P. Chem and Molecular.

My back up is my life and it cannot be stored on a jumpdrive. This is the way WE HAD to do it in the old days, B.C. before computers.

When I was young, we had to go to the library and read the book before we could see certain movies...

And old professors are EXPECTING these concepts from you.