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[pkang0202]

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[RJjr]

Instead of picking on black people, we need to figure out a way we're going to pay back all of that money we've borrowed from the Japanese and Arabs.

I would also like to urge all the people who owe me money, who happen to all be white people, to please repay me during our lifetimes.

As for the Harvard professor, you can bet your ass this isn't the first time the cops have effed with him. He's probably gotten a dozen or more DWBs over the years. It kind of reminds me of how I always get pulled for extra security screening at airports. Even though I'm mostly white, the whole Extra Security For the part-Hebrew/part-Native American/probably part-Arab Guy Routine at airports while all the "pure" Whiteys looks at me getting patted down like I'm a criminal makes me have a LOT more sympathy for the absolute bullshit blacks and other racial minorities have to put up with from white cops. I mean, you can see how people here on Dave's ESL Cafe talk about how Native Americans are responsible for the crime in Canada, or how Muslims cause problems rioting in Europe even though non-Muslims are rioting ad nauseum in Europe over the economy, soccer games, and so on.

I'll tell you right now, if a cop was to show up at my door right this minute and ask for my identification, I'd tell him, "Check the name on the mailbox. That's my name." If that wasn't good enough, I'd just go to bed and ignore him.

[RJjr]

[RJjr]

I definitely believe Ogletree over the police. It reminds me of one time in middle Tennessee, a cop zoomed past a friend of mine, Dwayne, on the interstate, well above the speed limit. He followed the cop off the exit and when the cop pulled into the parking lot of a Kroger grocery store, Dwayne asked the cop's badge number. The cop asked why and Dwayne said, "You were speeding to get groceries? I need your badge number." The cop was pissed and asked my friend for his ID. They were both acting pissed off by that point and Dwayne told him, "You see, that's the beauty of it. I don't have to show you my ID under these circumstances. But you, by law, have to give me your badge number." The cop was so pissed and walked off. Dwayne complained to the sherrif and later on told me the cop in question was disciplined. Both Dwayne and the cop were white males.

[RJjr]

One other thing in defense of African-Americans...

There are three cemeteries on my family's land, that I know of. One is a Cherokee burial ground. Another, the only one of the three that is marked, is my family's cemetery with a wall and tombstones. The third is a slave cemetery with no walls, no tombstones.

When I went to college, I was able to grow acres upon acres of tobacco on my family's land to pay for my tuition. Tobacco farming is good money and I graduated college a year early with no debt. Without the land, I don't know how many years it would've taken to pay for college.

I don't know who the descendents of the slaves my ancestors owned are or where they are. But they're out there somewhere. When they got accepted to college, they didn't have the luxury of planting tobacco or any other crop on a big farm. They never even got the promised 40 acres and a mule. That never panned out either. For every generation, they've been at a big disadvantage. When I was in college, I bought food and other items from blacks working minimum wage jobs on campus and I knew how lucky I was not to be bussing tables for minimum wage to pay my college tuition.

Even today during this bad economy, being a descendent of the white folks from the plantation, I sold hundreds of dollars of corn, beans, squash, and okra today all before the clock hit noon. The descendents of the blacks from the plantation don't have that luxury or even 40 acres and a mule to fall back on. They're out there somewhere having to hope and pray that the human resource directors and bosses will judge them by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin for what few job openings there are these days.

And it's not fair to compare immigrants to the descendents of the black slaves. My ancestors who came here from Europe had the opportunity to come to America by choice with whatever they wanted to bring. Immigrants from Asia had the opportunity to come to America by choice with whatever they wanted to bring. Today, immigrants from Africa get to come on their own free will with what they've got. When Sharpton's ancestors came to America from Africa, it wasn't an opportunity and they didn't get to check money out of the bank and pack the Samsonite suitcase before they came. They've had to scramble for every penny and it's been a lot harder for them to leave things to their children and grandchildren.

Think about all of the things your parents and grandparents have given you. We're lucky that our people didn't come out of slavery and squalor and have been able to amass wealth generation after generation and pass it on to each new generation. It's been a LOT harder for blacks.

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