typical ghetto bs to call me an oreo and think of me as an uncle tom. ive heard it before. I'm damn lucky i didnt grow up in the ghetto, and i dont feel the need to appologize for it...but my parents did (look up stuyvesant ave in Brooklyn and Newark NJ, and you see where my family came from) and fought there way out of it to give me a better life and opportunity which i havent wasted (as many have with similar opportunities..black and white).....i dont even attempt to state how hard people in the ghettos have it as start in life compared to me, but i face racism and discrimination also, and drugs too..i grew up on the lower side of middle class, thanks to my parents working 2 jobs each, havinf family and going to night school, and have been taught by those who did start in poverty/ghetto areas, that there is only one way out..education/hard work (and i have never touched drugs) and obviously crying about all the problems you are up against, and bitching and spitting out youre venom doesnt get you anywhere. Many blacks and other races have made there way from poverty, the opportunities are there for everyone. to be honest, I dont pay that much to politics, not nearly as much as I should, and I am not up to speed on all the middle east stuff you refer too, so if that makes me uneducated, or *******, so be it. I live in houston, and no i havent heard from blacks or anyone else from Lousiana who have relocated (temporarily or permanently) here , in my town, about the killing of blacks by the army? If all youre comments are solely about how bad it is for blacks, i have agreed with you over and over in my posts. however, i take each situation on its own merit. OJ, Vick or any others. read what i have written. I cant tell if you hate me for me being an uncle tom, or you hate all whites,jews or what? but you are typical in being jealous of those who have made it , such as OJ and Bill Cosby. Bill Cosby gives back to the black people in many many ways, as does someone like Al Sharpton, but who is really more help in the long run? OJ had it all, but blew it, so if white people want to see justice for him, I dont have problem with it. and if the army has killed blacks for no other reason (during Katrina????) well that is an atrocity that i would vehemently speak against. I am proud to be black, but more than that I'm proud to be an American which is red white and blue. you think i'm a slave to the white man i take it..well i nobodys slave. and i fight against 'keeping the nigger in his place' ideal every day of my life. everything i have said relates to that, i just say it in a respectful way, even to you..i dont need to call you names as you have me. OJ deserves whatever he gets, as does Vick if he broke the law, as do me or you or mandingo or Pimp or Bill Clinton or Condy Rice. you have no idea who I am, and you are a fool if you think i am against you or the black race. but crying about how bad everyone has it in the ghettos doesnt help them. keeping kids in school, off the streets and off drugs, out of gangs...that is the only way out (unless you are blessed by god with some special athletic/artistic talents) . and you state 'their' education, again that is the whitey...again you can cry about the past atrocities and the present ones, and the future ones against blacks..or you can use that energy in positive ways to do things to over come them. look blacks are only waht about 13% of the population in usa? we will always be a minority. but hating all whites, hispanics, asians etc.. because how hard we have it or had it doenst do anything but keep us treading water. Alpha/mandingo you are not better than me or anyone else. i'm sure you have youre strong points..alpha you are obviously well read and not ingnorant...but you arent better than anybody..not by just saying it..only if you have earned it. maybe you have i dont know you, and if you have then you have my respect, but respect is earned not a right. and whether you accept me with open arms, well if you dont that would be youre choice, but a mistake, cause we are on the same side. that is the reality.
