RE: Where are the black friends?
October 10, 2016 at 1:57 am
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2016 at 2:02 am by Athene.)
Okay. Never mind, Kitan. 
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Where are the black friends?
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October 10, 2016 at 10:20 am
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2016 at 10:24 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You know, I can go weeks without seeing a black person where I live? The same is probably true of the country club where your model racist lives. Even if they wanted to have black friends, it's unlikely that they'd be able to find any. That makes their situation explicable......even though the comment, as defense of a racist statement, isn't.
They see their "black friend"... maybe..once a year at a corporate dinner party. He;s not around enough to look thm in the face everytime they say something racist and say ":hey, asshole, stop being a racist". That he keeps coming to the corporate swoiree is taken by said racist, to be silent consent to his racist personality and a lack of dissent to his racist statements. Maybe, and I doubt that this thought ever occurs to the "i have black friends" folks..... black people have better things to do than follow old white men around pointing out every racist thing that falls from their lips? Talk about a tiring job. Bet it would pay zero dollars an hour too...just like old white racists like it.
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I got these. Do they count?
![[Image: 8ZAGnFt.jpg?1]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i.imgur.com%2F8ZAGnFt.jpg%3F1) ![[Image: dYKeVxv.jpg?1]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i.imgur.com%2FdYKeVxv.jpg%3F1) But seriously, the black woman I worked/traveled with was constantly asked if I was a racist/bigot. Apparently I looked the part. And of course none of the people that asked took the time to talk to me. Did they just want someone to immediately dislike?
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RE: Where are the black friends?
October 10, 2016 at 10:42 am
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2016 at 10:46 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm a giant redneck with a shaved head and full ginger/blonde/lilly white beard, who flies the stars and bars over his house...without a single black friend of note......
For some odd reason, though, I don't find myself fending off accusations of racism left right and center, and the racists around me have no trouble identifying me as an outsider to their little clique. If racist assholes were thinking people...which they aren't...they might start to wonder just why it is that they find themselves fielding such objections despite their non neo-nazi appearance, lack of rebel paraphernalia, and scads and scads of "black friends". They're doing everything "right", it must be frustrating for them, to be so transparent....
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
I work with loads of black people. They love me. They're great.
Except for the one Jamaican guy, I don't know what he loves or what he thinks because no one can understand him when he talks. Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them. Impersonation is treason. RE: Where are the black friends?
October 10, 2016 at 1:07 pm
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2016 at 1:07 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
"The blacks love me"...hmn, where have I heard that before?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
I don't have any IRL black friends. Not because of racism, but because I have like only two or three IRL friends total, and I live in rural New Hampshire, which is painfully white.
I have no issues with minorities at all. If I did, I wouldn't have allowed the many nurses, doctors, and various other people of minority decent/status/whatever you want to call it operate and take care of me with the 43 surgeries I've had down in Boston. Shit, I think my usual anesthesiologist was Muslim. How scandalous! So, I guess I can say I'm not a racist (at least, I don't think I am), but I can't claim to have black friends to prove it.
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 (October 10, 2016 at 1:20 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: So, I guess I can say I'm not a racist (at least, I don't think I am), but I can't claim to have black friends to prove it. ![[Image: 1763865-token.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=static.giantbomb.com%2Fuploads%2Fscale_small%2F3%2F31475%2F1763865-token.jpg)
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Consider me a satellite forever orbiting, I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder RE: Where are the black friends?
October 10, 2016 at 1:40 pm
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(October 10, 2016 at 1:20 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: So, I guess I can say I'm not a racist (at least, I don't think I am), but I can't claim to have black friends to prove it. I've often wondered why racists think that having black friends -could- prove they weren;t racists. My grandfather is as racist a person as anyone here has ever met, probably quite a bit more racist than anyone some of you are ever likely to meet. -and yet, for 30 years, his constant fishing companion.....has been an elderly black man who calls him boss with a less-than-subtle contempting treble in his voice. The irony, is that this man is one of my grandfathers remaining, living, friends...and looks set to outlive his other equally racist, white, friend hands down. Sometime, in the not too distant future, they will be the sole survivors of their peers, just the two of them (both racist as hell), sitting in a little 8 foot john boat for 15+ hours a day, everyday....until they both finally just give up and die of sunstroke. Parse that shit, lol.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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