****** is a nice word JimElzie Livingston excerpt from DO'H! Poetic Justice for Politics and Other Troubling Trash Jody: I like '******'. It's more poetic. Softer, you should favor it too. Like Thurmond's habit, who 'eech' chance 'tawks' down to 'y'all' to 'git' k'lina votes. Been in DC 50 years, state superintendent of education sounds like still in a turnip patch. No matter what these black folks call themselves, long as they shake their stuff in other decent folks face, they will be scorned. It's real decent and diplomatic for others to let them off so easy. Think I am going to adopt their self pronounced less hurtful names and keep them that way without decent social adaptations? Everybody else here adapted. Slavery is no excuse. For the most part Africa benefited from their sell more than this nation did from indentured servitude of the Anglos. Charlotte: That's a right long leap of sensibility, and you know it. J: It's being honest, factual and helpful. When in Rome... To give this unique group such unfair advantage as lowered expectations, is much crueler that spouting truths. Only if one thinks one of two things, can their behavior be condoned; Negroes are too dumb to realize if you don't conform in the vast melting pot, you're a great big lump in everybody's way, or they do it just to stir up stuff. Within any organized society, there are limits to diversity, Charlotte. The Afro- Americans, as they are presently called, not yet having brought disgrace to that title, are not gonna lower my standards or dissolve my discrimination that discerns anti-social behavior from simple decency. It is they who foul their own callings, not whites. Time was, almost always, the most dignified persons we had, north and south were the Negroes, and it had nothing to do with demeaning disciplined slavery. Now even totally different animals both in the wild and captivity live with more conformity and decency. C: Growing pain, Jody. There is change. J: Yeah, Ebonics, quanza and other racists in whities face business issuing from unfit over line black leaders that promote dependence by perpetrating dependence on only themselves. While blacks mess over their own in their native land, with all their kings and other such appointed abusers, they won't get that far here; no amount of reparation should permit that. C: That is changing. There are wonderful, outstanding, major contributors to our nation in very important ways. J: Commonly called by these trashy rappers; uncle toms, Oreos, house ******s, right wing hate mongers, and all other nasty hateful names they can come up with. This coming from those who stand to benefit the most, choose to condemn rather than look up to good models. C: You speak of others using nasty hateful names? J: I do, I dare do. C: Things with blacks are changing. There is change!! Doctors, lawyers, judges, mayors, everywhere, all over the south, blacks in every profession, thanks to affirmative action and other social help groups. J: Affirmative action. Jody hushed. Paced. Both were silent. J: A hypothetical. I have just encountered a very serious life threatening condition. Be it disease or accident. It requires some delicate medical intervention. A pioneering approach, if you will. Something that draws on all the imagination, training, skill and ability a medical profession can provide. Would you go to your African- American? C: What? Where the hell's this going? Where would any sensible color blind person go? J: There is some doubt, with good reason, that the black person may be qualified, having gained entry to training, promotion through training, subsidy to setting up business and promotion all because of the advantage given the black by some affirmative action program. Oh, this cannot be proven or fully policed, but you know it happens. And the performing result will stand on it's on. Should they fall short, where then do we look for blame? Further racism? Wrongs of the past? Inherent inferiority? Mistreatment by the majority? Discrimination? C: None of the above. Prejudice or at least discrimination. Your acknowledged discrimination and the everlasting prejudice. J: Talking facts here, Charlotte. In the long run bad Affirmative Action can destroy Negro credibility. C: But there must be trust on both sides. Integrity. Professional hallmark is effective self policing. J: Self policing? What might that be? No such thing as self policing. Out of control dictatorship is what you refer to. C: Back to your issue. Image and conforming. J: I think decent people of any color should never accept from others the eye sore, noise polluting, and dehumanizing behavior anywhere in public and should be allowed to freely openly object to it. C: Now who's policing? J: The majority. The south is crippled with slave descendants who for whatever reason chose to stay south and fight the nonsense rebellious war with this nonsense. C: You have magnified bigoted racism to an abhorrent degree. Discrimination! J: Only ousted the cause. I am, always have been, and will continue to discern what is the best course of behavior in all things that can be improved. It is that vast majority of prop up socialists that promote the word discrimination where it is almost as hateful as '******', even though it is a good and noble proper condition and word. Deal with it. C: Let's do it now! Let's not let all that stand to bounce around in your mostly empty head. You, Jody, are a WASP with a very deep sting... White Anglo Saxon Protestant. There, I've dealt.
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