White Men

[thesummerqueen]

I, for one, resent my inability to tan. I just freckle.

My family's history is interesting on a historical level. But defining me by the fact that I happened to have been born to white parents, or what country I was born in, or many other factors I can't help, isn't nearly so important as what I choose to do with my life or how I treat others - hopefully I help other people get by and give them compassion...though it's hard to do on this forum. :/

Which isn't to say that I'm insensitive to the fact that racial, sexual, and financial disparity exists and is A Thing that need to be Worked On. I recognize that I, for the most part, living a really easy life. But I don't like having assumptions thrown onto me - like when I was in high school and the black kids would start shouting shit at me just for being white and talking about how my ancestors owned slaves, despite the fact that the earliest of my family's immigrants came here into the north to escape their own persecution - not to hold other life in bondage - and never did any such thing. That's just as racist as my father's habit of assuming all black people are criminals.



I should add to the OP that I do believe that the view counter also includes guests - so maybe people who just found the web page and not forum participants. So unbunch your thong and get over yourself. There are a lot of people on here who say stupid shit all the time and sometimes the whole forum decides they just don't have the energy to deal with it.

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Oh, also - I doubt it's a form of conquest that's winning the Dems votes so much as the shitbags of crazy milling around the Republican party and turning their own members against each other and away from their former party.

There are plenty of women and minority voters who would approve of less gov't spending and other Republican ideals, except the social progress currently being fucked over by Republicunts (as Min so aptly calls them) turns them off completely.