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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 01:20 PM
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God forbid some black people move into your apt complex.
But, there are some nice black people who moved in, so you are not a bigot. But the school is going to hell in a handbasket because the free and reduced lunch population is about to go up.

Oh and the black people just need Jesus Christ to help them through since they haven't gotten past their slavery past - which is why they don't think they are good enough.

:nuke::nuke:




I just have to say - that bitch better be damned glad I wasn't there to hear this shit come out of her mouth.
Although my wife made her "remember her lunch appointment" quickly enough. :thumbsup:
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 01:22 PM
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1. I hereby give you permission to live up to your name.
:hi:
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 01:30 PM
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13. I dare say if I ever see her again, it will not be pleasant.
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 01:23 PM
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2. Stalk. Stalk.
I respect you even more today than I did yesterday, kick-ass-bob. Thank you from sayin'. :thumbsup:

Heidi, who has little patience with bigots
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 01:25 PM
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4. Which is another reason I give you these
:loveya:
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 01:29 PM
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10. Oh.
I thought you were just usin' me, on Minnie's behalf, as a conduit to The Wiley and Excellent Cat Named Ginger. ;)

You know I :loveya:, Joby. :*


The glorious Minnie
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 01:30 PM
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12. WTF! That is my cat, dammit!
:o
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 01:33 PM
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16. NOOOOOO.
That's Jobycom's beautiful girl, Minnie. :thumbsup:
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 03:03 PM
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19. Umm
Minnie is not amused.
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 03:56 PM
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21. oh, no - that is definitely Link.
his eyes are even turning more yellow than green.

:D
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 04:10 PM
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23. Oooo. Got any pics?
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-16-06 09:13 AM
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30. I'll have to scrounge one up...
I don't have access to any right now.
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 01:29 PM
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11. Didn't you see the part about the nice black people?
She's not a bigot. :sarcasm:



:hi:
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 01:32 PM
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15. .
"But they're cleaner than most coloreds." <----------- The only remark that has ever caused me to swear at a stranger. :grr: That remark came out of the mouth of a white woman with an abandoned washing machine and sofa on her porch, and about 14 sh!tty-diapered spawn in her house. :grr:
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 01:35 PM
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17. I think my head would explode at that.
Apparently my lady used the term "dark skinned people" to describe them (as if that is any less racist???)
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ContraBass Black Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-16-06 11:38 AM
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44. That's so that she can throw in Arabs, Indians, and some Hispanics.
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 02:05 PM
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18. Yes, where did THAT particular stereotype arise?
I know a fair-skinned A-A woman who had an elderly woman say this to her face. "But you're so clean. I had no idea you were colored." The woman was ancient, somewhat attled and incontinent, so my friend only gently rebuked her.

But you know, there's no racism in America and those people should just get over it. :sarcasm:
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MissMarple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 06:11 PM
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29. Then you get to include all the dark Italians,Greeks,and Middle Easterners
There was a huge amount of prejudice against them in the 19th and 20th century. Not to mention the Irish in the northeast.

I think there still is in many parts of the U.S. That is why it so easy for so many people to hate and vilify liberals, it is the same model of verbal abuse, suspicion and lies. Many folks just LOVE their prejudices. It give focus and validation for their shallow, silly, hatefilled lives.
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ContraBass Black Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-16-06 11:37 AM
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43. Damn near dropped a drink on my keyboard at that.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 01:24 PM
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3. I don't know what you are talking about
But I'm behind you! I know exactly the attitude you are describing.
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 01:26 PM
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6. Sorry - this was some friend of our next door neighbor that came over
for something. She lives in the Apt complex next to our neighborhood and started spouting this to my wife.
My wife is especially irritable right now (if you know what I mean :P ) so that lady did not stay very long and got quite an earful.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 01:25 PM
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5. I moved into an all Hispanic (I mean it) building once
Edited on Wed Feb-15-06 01:50 PM by new_beawr
Several of the neighbors expressed their relief that I was not African American........
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 01:27 PM
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8. I wonder what this woman's response would be if hispanics started
moving in there.

Hell in a handbasket! HELL IN A HANDBASKET!!!
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StaggerLee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-16-06 11:14 AM
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38. Sounds like my uncle
At one point he was pissed that his daughter was dating a black man.
He's been married to two white women and had the fore mentioned daughter with the first wife!

:wtf:

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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 01:27 PM
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7. WTF?
:wtf:

Where did this happen? :grr: :grr: :grr:
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 01:28 PM
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9. in my fucking HOUSE!
Not more than a 1/2 hour ago.

I think I am going to have to Febreze the whole place down.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 01:30 PM
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14. How bizarre!
I wouldn't know what to say to someone who said that crap in my house. Unfuckingbelievable.

I'm glad Mrs KAB got rid of her.
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-16-06 10:59 AM
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35. Weird shit.


Why is it that people don't think about what they sound like when they talk like this?


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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 03:12 PM
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20. wow. just....wow.
I really shouldn't be THIS shocked by the stupidity of others at this point in my life but DAMN! It's time to break open the bleach and scrub the walls. The stench of asshole can sometimes linger a bit.

My condolences to your wife who had to deal with that crap.
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 03:57 PM
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22. I believe they prefer to be called "You People"
at least that's what Ross Perot called them at the NAACP convention in 1992.
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AbbyR Donating Member (734 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 04:19 PM
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24. OK, question:
What DO you say to people like that? I'm always shocked into silence. I had an old woman come into my office one day complaining about a city council member. She called him a dumb N* and I just about fell over. You can't slug a 76-year-old woman, but I was tempted to give her an earful. But I was at work... Yeah, I know, no excuse. But shock does funny things to people.
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-16-06 09:15 AM
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31. My wife used diplomatic (to an extent) fury.
I would have just gone with fury - especially in my own house.
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 04:27 PM
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25. She assumed that they were low income because they were black?
I would think that would have to do more with the price of the apartments than their race. If they are cheap apartments, anyone moving in regardless of race might be low income. If they are expensive apartments, that is probably not the case. I live in a small mostly white town in Wisconsin. There are a lot of poor white people who live in cheap apartments.
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-16-06 09:17 AM
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32. I don't think they are cheap or expensive, just the middle of the road
stuff. I honestly don't know what she was thinking about that - probably just that she doesn't want to be exposed to drugs and gangs, since that is what all black people are into. :eyes:
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-16-06 02:14 PM
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47. I was referring to the "free and reduced lunch" comment
Not that there is anything wrong with getting free or reduced lunches either. Eligibility is based on income, not ethnicity.
It is interesting that she called them "nice" and then assumed all these things about them. It is weird how some people hold to stereotypes.
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cassandra uprising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 04:43 PM
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26. The born again land lady in the last apt Chavez and I lived
in said to Chavez, tell your girlfriend not to get scared when she's in the basement doing laundry and she she sees a (whisper with me folks) blaaack man. He lives upstairs and he's friendly.

Chavez had the :wow: shocked reaction. What the F do you say to these people?

Oh and she also thought that one on the sister's who lived downstairs from us was 'mildly retarded' -Also African-American. And she was of complete mind unlike this woman.

This was in Connecticut, but we're not racist up here in the north :eyes:
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-16-06 09:19 AM
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33. Apparently you Yanks just whisper, whereas we rednecks
just yell it out. :P
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 04:48 PM
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27. sounds familiar...I lived in two different apt. complexes.....
.....one was FHA income based almost all white poor people...HORRIBLE experience.....moved to another complex...within two years it went to an income based situation...white poor neighbors...again...HORRIBLE....mostly black tenents moved in after it went income based and THEY complained about havin' moved from the *southside* o'town to get away from obnoxious neighbors only to have this complex turn into what he'd just moved away from...it really isn't a race thing...it's a POVERTY thing...usually. :evilfrown:
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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-15-06 05:44 PM
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28. We recently rented
a house we own to a black man and his white wife. He is from Louisiana. She is from here.

A while after they moved into our house a house down the street sprouted the confederate flag. A sign on the porch says; "If you can read this you are in range."

This is in a small yankee village on the shore of Lake Erie.

My wife is a white southern girl. She is okay with our tenants.

Go figure.

180
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-16-06 09:27 AM
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34. We'll get her a ticket
for the 'Celebration of African American History' at my son's school this month. Big soul food dinner before the show. YUM!
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-16-06 11:05 AM
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36. One of my college friends once said something awful like that
She was showing me her new apartment and said she liked it because it was big enough and because the management kept blacks out of the building. I asked her why that mattered, and she just said she didn't want black neighbors. I told her it was illegal for the apartment manager to deny housing to people because of race, and her response was "how is anyone going to prove that's the reason".

She's not a friend anymore, for a lot of reasons, not just this attitude. Mostly, because she and her boyfriend got into cocaine.
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-16-06 11:07 AM
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37. You know, it's not really safe to assume that someone's one of "us"
I have two black nieces myself. I wonder how many people who've spouted off in front of me know that?
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-16-06 11:17 AM
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39. Well, we live next to our God-fearing Kirk Cameron loving neighbors
and we are friendly with them. That must mean we are bigots.
:shrug:

Even I lost myself with that one...
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ContraBass Black Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-16-06 11:22 AM
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40. I'm black. Most of my friends are white. About half of my Friends
talk about Hispanics like they talk about cockroaches.

I wonder what they say about black people when I'm not there.

Some of them are learning. The others are being discarded.
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-16-06 11:25 AM
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41. I don't understand that at all. Well, I guess I do, but I don't like it.
Then, I hear some black people talking about the hispanic people the same damned way that some white people talk about black people.

That really mystifies me. :(
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ContraBass Black Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-16-06 11:35 AM
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42. I'm tempted to launch into a massive smackdown of righteousness
Every time, but then I'd be in jail for beating many of my friends senseless.

The stern look and cold silence are somewhat effective. I might try a five-minute hard stare next time.
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-16-06 12:16 PM
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45. Here's what I'd really like to do
My nieces are adopted. We're 100% Irish but by a quirk of nature, my brother and one of my black nieces do look somewhat alike. As it happens, my other niece resembles my sister-in-law. One of these times I'm going to whip out a family photo when one of these jerks starts spouting off, but I'm not going to mention that these two girls are adopted. Let the bigots try to figure out if I'm passing or what.
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Hosnon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-16-06 12:51 PM
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46. Tell them they can just move if it bothers them that much. nt
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 03:47 AM
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48. Some people are just ignorant twits
This particular twit obviously hasn't had enough of Jesus Christ herself or she wouldn't be thinking and spouting off the way she is. I don't remember anything in his teachings that teach racism. :eyes:
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