Ku Klux Klan Planning March in Jena, LA

[DSTCHAOS]

LOL. Silly dillies.

I really try to read and understand AKA Monet's posts sometimes. When I get to a post like that one, it reminds me of why I tend to skip over her posts.

ETA: I believe she was essentially saying that younger people don't understand the history of these words.

My response: Well, teach them the history and let them make the choice. Because there will still be older and younger people who use these words. If "outsiders" try to use them, especially in a derogatory fashion, we shall handle that as it comes.

The End. Right?

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

LOL. Silly dillies.

I really try to read and understand AKA Monet's posts sometimes. When I get to a post like that one, it reminds me of why I tend to skip over her posts.

Truth: is it the grammar? That is NOT my strong suit and I really suck at it. I work very hard to craft my sentences properly...

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

Truth: is it the grammar? That is NOT my strong suit and I really suck at it. I work very hard to craft my sentences properly...

This is deja vu`.

I stepped away from the thread and came back with renewed patience. I now see what you were saying. I don't disagree with you, necessarily. I just don't see your goal. Is it to do away with these words? Bury the "nappy" word?

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

I hate you.

LOL..... good. because I'm out to get you.










We're ALL out to get you.











ALL OF US.

[DSTCHAOS]

LOL.

So, yeah, "happy to be nappy" and the Klan is trying to be relevantly newsworthy again.

Hippos are sooo dangerous. I'll "Random Thread" about it.

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

LOL..... good. because I'm out to get you.






We're ALL out to get you.















ALL OF US.

Well, here I am!!! CUM & GIT ME!!!

[DSTKellie]

Again I must applaud you NappyBison for your maturity and composition skills.

AKAMONET was that really neccesary?!?! I think you are very intelligent but your message sometimes gets lost with your over zealous attempts to prove how much information you can retain. Lighten up a little seesh

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

Well, here I am!!! CUM & GIT ME!!!

Disturbing on so many levels.

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

I just don't see your goal. Is it to do away with these words? Bury the "nappy" word?

Bury words, no. But to realize "meaning" behind "these" words--one's that are designed to subjugate us. Whether we like it or not, "we" are still defined what OTHERS say, regardless of how strong we "think" we are.

If it may be said of the slavery era that the white man took the world and gave the Negro Jesus, then it may be said of the Reconstruction Era that the Southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow. ... And when his wrinkled stomach cried out for the food that his empty pockets could not provide, he ate Jim Crow, a psychological bird that told him that no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than the black man.

...

And his children, too, learned to feed upon Jim Crow, their last outpost of psychological oblivion.

--Dr. Martin Luther King

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by DSTKellie

Again I must applaud you NappyBison for your maturity and composition skills.

AKAMONET was that really neccesary?!?! I think you are very intelligent but your message sometimes gets lost with your over zealous attempts to prove how much information you can retain. Lighten up a little seesh

Thanks for the vote of confidence! But sometimes I have stoop to some people's level and ack a fool just as much as them! LOL

[DSTKellie]

^^^

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

Bury words, no. But to realize "meaning" behind "these" words--one's that are designed to subjugate us. Whether we like it or not, "we" are still defined what OTHERS say, regardless of how strong we "think" we are.

I think that mission was accomplished before you began typing.

At the end of the day, I'd rather those who are "nappy" in the African diaspora (because not everyone is) to own this and not be ashamed of it. If they called it "thick and beeded scalped," the point is all the same. You can't stop people (including OTHERS) from thinking or saying whatever they choose, you can focus on how to address it when it begins to pose a problem. That's why there's a difference between "racism defined as hurt feelings" and "racism defined as negatively influencing life chances."

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

Thanks for the vote of confidence! But sometimes I have stoop to some people's level and ack a fool just as much as them! LOL

Perhaps you missed her point.

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

I think that mission was accomplished before you began typing.

How much progress has been made for ourselves?

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

At the end of the day, I'd rather those who are "nappy" in the African diaspora (because not everyone is) to own this and not be ashamed of it. If they called it "thick and beeded scalped," the point is all the same. You can't stop people (including OTHERS) from thinking or saying whatever they choose, you can focus on how to address it when it begins to pose a problem. That's why there's a difference between "racism defined as hurt feelings" and "racism defined as negatively influencing life chances."

Michael Richards, Don Imus or "Jim Crow" were not trying to "hurt feelings". They did not give a rat's ass about their target's feelings. Whether they like realize it or not, they were "negatively influencing life's chances" through dogmatic obtrusive dehumanization. Then for at least "Mikey" and "Donnie", they met with Jesse and Al to "relieve" themselves of their hatred pangs.

What makes it worse is when these fools use these words publicly, the redeem themselves with Jesse or Al, kids are watching and so are others who make policy. Redemption should NOT be an arbiter through undesirables, redemption should have meaning in one's heart if they truly want to be forgiven...

At least the Klan will do that crap up front close and personal. Which is worse?

I have fought with the Klan, face to face, word for word. As my ancestors and parents are. I ain't skurred of 'em. But what about these kids today?

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

Perhaps you missed her point.

What do you think?