JAMESTOWN How America Invented Race | The History of White People in America
Race: A social construction like Sant(a) Claus. Back in the day y'all were English or Scot, Protestant or Catholic, land-owning or not!
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Race: A social construction like Sant(a) Claus. Back in the day y'all were English or Scot, Protestant or Catholic, landowning or not! - video representation.
Let's get some CRT understanding up in this 'mug'!
We used to really, really, really, love each other!
C'mon 'haters' watch the video and let me here your thoughts.
No interest in how racial actiivities in America started?
more interest in ending it than rehashing stuff we can never change
You can't change it! And tell me, how does that make some conservatives you know feel, Texan? And what about ending racism in the country would you like us to fake now—colorblindness? Race-neutrality? Tell me why if you can. Because looking at Texas in the news, I see a great big 'way-back' machine gearing itself up! Won't be long before 1776 is new again there!
Yea , understanding the history of something ALWAYS is cause for repetition is what that sounds like….
Tell you why what?
In 2010, the Black population in Texas was 2.886M, in 2020 it was 3.444M, an increase of over half a million or 11.82%.
You must be a lot smarter than those Black people or do you think that they are just Uncle Toms and Aunt Jemimas?
Really …
So they say.
the conservatives I know know enough to realize that they can't change the past either.
your 'fake' comment is ridiculous nonsense.
fake neutrality????
wtf are you going on about now?
And that gives Texas 'approval' to go conservative-'crazy'? How? Populations, as your numbers illustrate move around what part of that don't you understand? Furthermore, don't try to take credit for population 'shifts,' because one has to wonder since there is 'talk' of Texas secession (Karen songs) again if they can't wholly run themselves while in the union—how many blacks and whites, for that matter, will leave the United States for Texas alone? We might find out-or not!
You're colorblind in Texas, right? Race-neutral, eh? Well, what about this headline:
Race-neutral, colorblind, Texas is trying to disenfranchise its voters, WHY IS TEXAS ATTEMPTING TO 'EAT' ITS OWN?
please tell me you aren't gullible enough to fall for that secession stuff.
PLEASE!
I guess you are gullible if you believe Biden!
lmao
How what?
I don't understand what part you are asking.
Where did you get the idea that I was? I'm not Black or Texan.
I'm not confident that you will ever find out.
name something, anything in Texas law that is disenfranchisement of anyone.
I dare you.
Wow, that's a helluva headline.
Don't you worry about me, Texan. It's Texas conservatism or bust? Whatever makes a black Texan think he or she can properly operate in a regressive environment for long? Beats me!
No doubt.
Worry about republicans in the car you're riding in; it's where it's headed that should concern you. So why is Texas 'eatin' its own? And exactly how are minorities to function in Texas if their liberties and freedoms are 'managed' by a white majority who only want them there in a subordinated set of circumstances?
worry??? not MY problem!
whatever are you going on about?
@4.1.8 and now girls have to 'make' every baby because Texas 'says so.' Why does Texas regress its young girls and women to repositories for 'seeded' things they do not want, or stuck looking at for life(!), and has great potential to destablize the mental and physical health of female Texans? This can not have a happy ending, for Texas that is. Ultimately, Texas may become a rest 'home' for retirees and 'old blue bloods.'
Nonsense. Come back when you got something interesting.
Jesus, dude. you are ALL OVER THE PLACE!!!
Hey! How about that video! Did you know that class superceded race as something to divide over before skin-color subordination? Interesting stuff!
the loss is all in your deluded mind
Hey Trump-'man,' don't start talking about presidential enabler dreams, visions, and delusions. Back to the video: So,. . .what you think about it?
I come and go as I please, I’m not looking towards you for guidance.
Oh no! The GOP-Texas (styled) has declared our current president as "acting" legit. That's a form of disenfranchisement. What does it bode for Texas and 'us'?
Say it isn't so, Texan! Say Texas GOP is not 'bunkersville-baby!'
And yet Brown people and Black people keep moving there in greater numbers, what do you see that they don't?
Just like people move around the country into Texas; some, many, a 'tide' can wade out of Texas. Ultimately, Texas will be an aging conservative wasteland if it keeps regressing into by-gone era of yesterday! What could it do? Pass laws that says once in Texan-Always in Texas? I don't think so. People can move away and at the new rate of change. . . some are moving out-ultimately!
That is unadulterated bullshit.
Please learn the difference between laws and what some political party says that carries no force of law.
No one in Texas is disenfranchised, that is just a liberal lie pushed hard by the likes of Joe Biden, Stacy Abrams, etc., etc.
I dared you to list something that disenfranchises Texas voters.
Now I challenge you to do it.
Instead of merely repeating what others have told you, read the damn law and then you can discuss what in it disenfranchises voters.
Smart money is you won't even bother,
You are going to have to start making some sort of sense here.
Oh, there it IS--the infamous and ever-present VICTIM card!!
Wow, who couldn't see THAT coming?
Yes, why are Black people moving out of California?
It is hard to follow a train going down several tracks all at once.
And into that conservative hellhole that is Texas?
The video is bullshit, just like everything you are writing
Perhaps they're conservatives...
Jed Clampet told em to
Oh just stop it, Texan. The GOP is 'disenfranchising' Biden as Texas' Presidential leader. And then there is this:
2. Resolution against the Gang of 20 Gun Control bill:1591
Whereas those under 21 are most likely to be victims of violent crime and thus most likely to need to 1592
defend themselves. 1593
Whereas “red flag laws” violate one’s right to due process and are a pre-crime punishment of people not 1594
adjudicated guilty. 1595
Whereas waiting periods on gun purchases harm those who need to acquire the means of self defense in 1596
emergencies such as riots. 1597
Whereas all gun control is a violation of the Second Amendment and our God given rights. 1598
We reject the so called “bipartisan gun agreement”, and we rebuke Senators John Cornyn (R-Texas), 1599
Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lindsey Graham 1600
(R-S.C.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.).
Been here too long? Drought? Cost of living? Fires? "Rough patch"? But, don't get it twisted. Texas is only as good as it can be and of course, nature has its role to play too. Of course, now, Texas is beginning to think it's because of extremism and so on and so it goes. Don't try to make this complicated. You understand people migration or at least you should!
Who is your President?
When does his term expire?
Get real yourself instead of parroting useless things told to you.
I already told you------stop confusing LAW with what a political party says.
You claimed voters are disenfranchised, and I have given you EVERY chance to back that stupid-ass claim up.
You haven't even attempted to do so.
Epic fail.
Go ahead, spin THAT or just pull out one of your trusty little cards.
Amen, brother, amen!
Must be a conservative thing. Get a set of rear view mirrors and move along now!
You will have to do better than that! Please, carry on. . . . (With insights, that is.)
Like you have regarding your claim of disenfranchisement?
Perhaps. But. Not all black Texans are anglicized, conservative Christians wishing to live up (or down) to a white way of life. Some black and brown minorities want a continuation of the diversity of cultures and people standards they found in the state when they settled there. Not these regressing forces wildly at work under the 'new and reinvented' Gov. Abbott!
Thank you for that earth-shattering news.
244. Voting Rights: We support equal suffrage for all United States citizens of voting age. We oppose any 1399
identification of citizens by race, origin, creed, sexuality, or lifestyle choices, and oppose use of any such 1400
identification for purposes of creating voting districts. We urge that the Voting Rights Act of 1965, codified 1401
and updated in 1973, be repealed and not reauthorized.
Disenfranchisement is a removal of privileges and/or rights. I never told you that I was just dealing with the voting laws or laws alone, you tried steering me into your 'lane' and I have not been (nor do I plan) driving in it. You're not the boss of me-I thought you knew already. Moreover, the Texas GOP is 'Trump/Abbott' or vice-versa country. Don't even waste my or anybody's time trying to deny that whatever is in the platform has not passed or will be slated for passage and signature in the 'great' state of Texas!
So let me get my little cards out. . . oh, okay- here's another. And it does (good for your 'concern') have to do with voting. That is, making conservatives feel they are in a safe space when they vote the 'conservative way' :
2. Voter Registration: We support restoring integrity to the voter registration rolls and reducing voter 1381
fraud by : 1382
a. repealing all motor voter laws. 1383
b. requiring voters to re - register, if they have not voted in a five - year period. 1384
c. requiring photo ID of all registrants. 1385
d. requiring proof of residency and citizenship along with the voter registration application. 1386
e. retaining the 30 - day registration deadline. 1387
f. r equiring that a list of certified deaths be provided to the Secretary of State in order for the 1388
names of deceased voters be removed from the list of registered voters. periodic checks on 1389
the voter rolls to ensure all currently registered voters are eligibl e. 1390
g. giving the Secretary of State enforcement authority to ensure county registrar compliance 1391
with Secretary of State directives. 1392
h. revising Title 19 funding to avoid incentivizing retention of ineligible voters. 1393
i. use any undedicated federal election funds re ceived to improve the security of our online 1394
voter registration data.
.Why do you keep answering questions no one asks while avoiding (deflecting) the ones that are asked?
They listen to a fictional Hollywood character?
Sounds good to me.
It also does nothing to disenfranchise anyone.
You should really stop pushing myths.
Why do you keep 'talking' when it surely would serve you to listen? Okay, I have more:
Now Texan, try an gaslight me (it won't work) that you do not approve with any of this from the Texan GOP going forward and becoming law. Please, proceed. . . .
I know it sounds good to you and you trust Abbott and other republicans to make it so in Texas in time. It won't disenfranchise your privileges, some conservatives, I mean it would be ridiculous to 'suffer' through damages or exclusion of 'self'!
You're welcome. I have more anytime.
Speaking of listening......I have stated my views on abortion many times here.
I think a woman should be able to have as many abortions as she wants and can afford.
I ALSO think abortion is a piss poor solution in this day and age and the myriad ways to prevent pregnancies.
I also think parents of minors should be notified. Or, failing that, lower the age of consent to whatever age you deem appropriate for a minor to get something as serious as an abortion with all its ramifications without notifying the parents.
Now, do you understand that you simply have no idea what I support and stop telling me so?
I am still waiting for you to read an actual Texas law that supports your ridiculous claim that the law disenfranchises voters.
To some liberals, almost any thoughts qualify as earth-shattering news.
Do you support: Trump for president? Abbott for Texas governor? The Texas GOP is your party affiliation? The Texas house and senate majorities? Then, who gives a shit about your pretenses that don't hold diddly? Yeah, you listen! You're not part of the solution, but part of the political loss of liberties in Texas!
Cheap shots are not beneath you, I see.
No.
Yes.
Yes and yes.
I don't know besides me. If it didn't hold some particular interest for you, why bring that up? Not something I ever mentioned, so it must be just you.
"Political loss of liberties".
Sheesh, can you possibly be a little more dramatic?
Undefined rubbish that you can't even substantiate.
BTW, still waiting on that Texas law you claimed disenfranchises voters.
Don't make wild claims to me and not expect to get called out.
Some liberals is what I stated, but hey, if the shoe fits.......................
Gaslight somebody who is feeble. That ain't me. You support Texas Governor Abbott and the Texas GOP platform and the Texas House and Senate republicans. Nuff said. You are the political enemy who talks too much and long all the while pretending to explain little. Well, I see you, Texan. Oh and Trump is an "in" with GOP Texas any time he wants it! Just as soon as he announces he is running- your 'fake-out' will light up in blaring 'MAGA' living color.
Blah, blah. Hey! How about that video?! Did you see that Africans were not always slaves in the 'old days' - how about that, huh? Race is a social construct - that means the GOP can change back to the good guys again: What? What's the matter with that?!
Hey, it's okay if you can't find the law that you claimed was disenfranchising voters. I knew you couldn't and just wanted to see what lengths you would go to avoid admitting you were just parroting someone else and never bothered to look at the law.
I understand, truly.
Well, shucky dern, neighbor!
My old damn history books never told me that.
Must a'been those nasty Democrats down here in Texas who were controlling the schoolbook choices back then, them shifty old varmints.
Who died and made you the arbiter of who is good?
What's the matter with you?
Far better than listening to the continued LEADER of the GOP
213. Nullify Unconstitutional Ruling : We believe the Obergefell v. Hodges decision, overturning the Texas 1191
law prohibiting same - sex marriage in Texas, has no basis in the Constitution and should be nullified.
Deal with the issues, Texas GOPer. Disenfranchising and repression is what some conservatives are about. It will be interested to watch just how Texas' experiment in disenfranchising liberals continues to fare in coming years.
How do they target just the liberals for disenfranchisement?
I understand that this year’s turnout was higher than the last six midterm primaries. 55% of the voting was early and 45% voting on election day.
This is getting to be hilarious.
You keep quoting stuff that isn't law, but STILL can't find the one law you claim is disenfranchising voters.
Weak sauce.
You keep parroting that line, but somehow, each and EVERY time you are asked to document it, you deflect to something--anything--else.
Why can't you defend your spurious claims here and now?
Stop playing the liberal victim card--liberals can easily vote in Texas despite the lies you have willingly swallowed pushed by a complicit media and your heroes Biden and Abrams.
They simply don't, but some people are easily bamboozled as evidenced by the lies they push and believe.
How do legislatures target anything? You should know, you 'survey' a great deal. Database filtering. As for what people do to overcome other people's bull patty - it's call hustle. Even when it should not be.
Hogwash, and that is putting it mildly.
What is sad is a state that promises liberty, freedom, and success while it compels girls and women, and by extrapolation their boys and husbands to move away from a state that now insist they live up to a conservative standard and nothing else. And homosexuals won't be happily married in Texas (oh, the foreshadowing) so they better get their behinds in drive to move away (why the "h" wait to be told to piss off), because conservatives don't value them as people.
Texan you talk a lot of bull crap and it's evidenced by your look over here and not over there where "patty" is continuing or setting up to begin.
Let me be clear. There are liberals in Texas, who will either hold the line against conservative utter take over and oppression or they will have to leave an area of the country where the good they bring is considered of little worth or even taboo.
Liberals can take Texas. . . in time. But, that is why Abbott is locking down the state ASAP. You can write like somebody who does not have a clue, but you have one or two clues up your sleeve alright! And that 'head-trip' thing you think you are advancing. . . yes, I see it and raise you: I think it's pathetic that a state as big as Texas is so ass-backwards that it wants to be a place for 'blacks and grays' and not for the colors of a rainbow. It's a metaphor. Figure it out and keep that 'blank stare' you often put into a comment for someone who cares. I do not.
Wow, such a prediction!
They haven't done much in the last 28 years!
Spewing wild notions without any evidence isn't a good look.
You claim a whole bunch of shit which you somehow always fail to document.
People are free to move anywhere they want in America.
Got the part of Texas law that you claim disenfranchises folks yet, or have you given up looking because you couldn't find the part that you invented and claim is there?
Hispanic Texans may hold the key to their future. There is growing evidence that Texas Hispanics are less satisfied with liberals. The 2016 and 2020 election results in South Texas showed a significant rightward shift in historically deep blue counties along the border. And the 2022 primary elections featured a record number of Hispanic Republican candidates, as well as record Hispanic Republican turnout.
A recent survey found 87% of Hispanics were proud to be Texans..
Texas Hispanics to care more about the issues of border security, immigration reform, education, jobs and the economy, and health care. On state issues, 87% of Texas Hispanics said that property tax was a major burden to them and their families. This was the majority sentiment across the board with 80% conservatives, 71% moderates and even 61% liberals.
78% of Texan Hispanics support school choice. Fully 89% of Hispanics surveyed agreed that parents should have access to materials taught to their children in schools.
73% of Hispanics surveyed agreed that there is a crisis at the border.
Texas Hispanics are moving away from the boilerplate positions of today’s Left.
Abolish Abortion : Since life begins at fertilization , we urge the Texas Legislature to abolish abortion 1241
through enacting legislation that would immediately secure the rights to life and would nullify any and all 1242
federal statutes, regulations, orders, and court rulings that would deny these rights .
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Do you like to meander from one topic to the next or do you need a compass to stay on azimuth?
Still quoting EVERYTHING but the ONE thing you were asked for multiple times, I see.
Have you learned that what you are quoting aren't laws?
Maybe you have been looking in the wrong places for proof of your hilarious claim.
Here--I want to help you out:
The new Texas voting law includes these 7 major changes (wlky.com)
A liberal slur for Hispanics, say it's not so.
Stop rehashing. You posted about abortion already in post 4.1.51, and I told you my views yet once again in post 4.1.54.
Don't you remember--it was less than 24 hours ago!
There is your database cause and effect 'targeting' (filtering), which you call 'hogwash.' Such bull patty from a Texan. The inverse is Texas can use databases to disenfranchise (remove privileges and rights) anybody if it singles them out.
Play dumb some conservatives. The truth will find you all ou t!
Do you see anything in the video for this article to address, moan, groan, complain?
Seriously, you now want to discuss the video? It well down, for a simplistic, catchy version of history. I prefer this one however:
How ridiculous!
Your own quoted source says something COMPLETELY different.
Here, I will point it out for you:
Why on earth would you be against due process for anyone?
What you write and what you quote are often times completely unrelated to each other. I suggest taking time to read your sources and understanding what you read before embarrassing yourself with posts like this.
They aren't singling anyone out, they are ensuring there are legitimate reasons why someone would be placed in the registry---specifically, a conviction.
You can't bull patty me, stop trying.
Can you translate, I've never learned gibberish.
His very own source proves him wrong.
I suppose that's what happens when you just cut and paste without reading.
Can you translate, I've never learned gibberish.
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believe some might beg to differ, but, I don’t , beg.
I will be more generous and assume that he took the time to read it but didn't understand what he read.
Maybe so.
Maybe it was his rush to own some conservatives, who knows?
Good for you, everyone needs a clean windshield.
You're old probably like me. The video with rap is for a, different age group. The obvious aside, what about the content of the video do you wish or can you comment on-keeping in mind it is part of a series.
Reread what you quoted:
Texan, you suggested that databases can not be used to target people, I demonstrate from the Texas GOP platform where the "Central Registry" is being utilized to do just that-purposes aside. The inverse being, that databases can filter people in or filter them out!
Insult me one more time. I don't have to be insulted by you or anybody else. Try me.
It takes wit and humor and decency to understand/translate iggy's comments.
I read it Texan. (Sigh.) I am going to let you have this one, this time. But, passivity can only go so far.
I understood it, Drinker. This one slides by. . . .
You don't give orders here, Texan. Your view on abortion is that of the Texas GOP- deal with that or curse the Texas GOP! You will not straddle the fence.
Fittingly said, buy one so transparent
Transparency is what it’s about.
Like I send, the video is fine, engaging and relatively accurate for a simplified history. I’m surprised that you didn’t seem to want to discuss it.
Gee, CB, I don't know what to tell you.
Should you believe what I tell you and your own eyes reading it or just invent some more crap?
I gave my views on here before, I know you have seen it, so why do you insist on deflecting and deliberately lying about my views--which are displayed in 4.1.54?
And this:
Texan, you are part of the problem for liberals in Texas. People who are not bothering you. Why do you want to take away the rights and privileges of liberals? Why do you want liberals to become conservatives?
No sense in arguing with someone who can not admit what his own source claims.
Kind of par for the course--make claims, don't substantiate them, then run when confronted.
Why bother?
You'll just read it (probably for the first time) and then pretend I said something else.
That IS what you are continuing to do despite the clear evidence right in front of your face.
Why can't homosexuals live in relative peace in Texas where they 'boost' the state population, wealth, and funds without conservatives trying to compel them to become the equivalent of outcasts having sex in odd places, and must hideaway from getting a scarlet letter "H" for indecency?
I breathlessly await your informed answer.
So that's a no? You won't do the right thing, just because? Or will you just refuse to give me the satisfaction of telling you how to do it. I don't need it anyway. Texan, I'm good without satisfaction.
I await yours. Please proceed. (Psst. You live in Texas and support the major party setting up a 'deliverable.')
Oh, for Pete's sake. I am the least thing liberals need to worry about in Texas. What liberals should be worrying about is the erosion of Hispanics from the Democratic Party, but I get that it is easier to ignore that than admit they have taken Hispanics for granted and not listened to them.
I don't. Why do you ask asinine questions like that?
I have high hopes that America can become smarter.
Well, you did ask yourself.
So, no answer, as usual?
Then don't get your little feelings so butt-hurt.
Small things are interesting to you. Check.
In World War II, Germany leadership hated homosexuals
Texan, why does your affiliated Texas GOPers hate homosexuals and want them to go back to living in sin? Please share.
Don't know, don't care, it has zero effect on me.
You sure demand a lot of answers, but NEVER answer any questions yourself.
That is a real weakness when debating.
You keep right on deflecting and avoiding questions.
You are really good at avoiding all questions and at inventing things people don't say.
What makes you think that they don't? I understand that Texans have elected gay mayors and legislators.
Have you grown used to that?
Oh, one of those woke 'news' commentators probably told him that lie.
Facts don't really matter when you can just make up any old narrative to fit your immediate needs.
Here are some facts to counteract the ridiculous claim:
Guess CB should visit Texas once before foaming at the mouth over made up crapola.
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Okay Drinker. why does Texas GOPers hate homosexuals and want them to go back to living in sin? Please share your thoughts on this one.
Texas GOP party, Texan. I have not asked you a damn thing about what the liberals in Texas are doing, in spite of you.
What does that even mean?
In spite of me?
Wow, who knew I held so much power!!!!!!!!!
LMAO!!!
Just accept you were once again proven wrong no matter how you deflect.
Want to stump him?
Just ask him to support his silly claim about voters being disenfranchised in Texas.
And watch the spin cycle begin anew!
Something about filtering liberals in a database, you can’t make that up!
"Butt-hurt? Please Texan. I called you, the british term of phrase: "Love" and got chastised and ticketed for it. And now you try to bait me with butt-hurt? Let it go.
So you deflect. A bible-belt son who does not know what the meaning of sin is. A rarity. And still stalling on the question. We're done here
Damn, you don't know databases can be filtered. That's rich. Databases can be 'pivot tabled' too.
I know how to filter a d base, I don't know how Texas disfranchises liberals with a dbase, please explain.
I developed pivoted tables in Excel, I can only hope that didn't disfranchise anyone.
Thank god!
gee, that is fascinating.
my, did I strike a nerve?
we are done?
so no more running or deflection from you?
excellent!
Then you should presume legislatures that know how to find democratic party voters with a (d)atabase and republican party voters -"habits" can nuance provisions in law to suit a specific or narrow demographic. "H" a pivot table can tell you damn near anything specific you want about a voter pool. But, you know this already. This was another "Drinker" episode in prolonged pettiness.
the rest of your 'response' is the usual nonessential glibness.
Religious much?
Then maybe you can answer the question Texan won't about Texas GOP:
Okay Drinker. why does Texas GOPers hate homosexuals and want them to go back to living in sin? Please share your thoughts on this one.
In my butt? Of course not! Let it go all the same (before you do).
/sarcasm.
Of course, it has "zero effect on you!" (mockingly) Are you homosexual, Texan? I would guess not. The question:
Presupposes Texas GOPers want homosexuals to marry opposite sexes or go back to being stigmatized as "down-lowers" or sex with strangers because of a lack of legitimacy in intimacy.
Do you care to explain why GOPers in Texas, with whom you admit to and assent to affiliate with, want to make unconstitutional same-sex marriages in Texas?
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No, not at all.
I don't know, I can only speak for myself.
Such biting sarcasm!
And yet you 'speak' so often and glibly for Texan. It must be kinship or camaraderie, huh?
No, just with the glibness that your comments warrant.
And, your comments exhibit malignant glee you derive from bothering CB...
From outside it looks like you target him.
Why don't you pick on someone else now?
Okay. Do you support the Texas GOP platform:
Yes or No?
If yes, will you support a change to the constitution to allow homosexuals to live normative marriages amongst spouses of their own choosing?
If no, explain why it is healthy, decent, and wholesome to stigmatize this group of citizens; and, what social construct you use to derive your understanding of what is taboo and socially unacceptable about homosexuals.
I'm filtered in Drinker's 'database.'
Seriously, some conservatives target me, because I get up in their lying, deceptive, commentary as a black, homosexual, Christian male. I "require" special attention and focus. And so, that is the way it is!
It is the same bull patty they do in congress; stop up their 'ears' and start 'flashing,' 'waving,' 'gyrating,' 'banging,' 'jeering,' 'sneering,' and trying to draw the crowd after the fiasco!
JBB, thanks for an assist, nevertheless! (Smile.)
One more thing. My whole life story has been one of being something of a proverbial lightning rod for controversy similar to some others here. That does not bother me. What "icks" me is the depth and length of insincerity some conservatives will go to in order to not defend truth or accept others (group/s) having a hard time in and throughout their journeys through this country and this wider world.
It is simply. . . inhuman to turn off one's humanity.
And, so the struggle continues in its new chapter!
What does that mean?
I respond to you when you write “bull patty”.
Assistance can only help.
What makes you think that I bother CB, perhaps he is more resilient than you give him credit.
I reply to his comments like he to mine.
Why would you think that CB can’t speak for himself?
From outside it looks like you are targeting Drinker
No, you really don't. You are not that special.
I don't need rear view mirrors to move forward.
And yet. . . HERE. YOU. PRESENT. ON. CUE.
Sounds like you miss me.
Some conservatives don't move forward, Right Down The Center. Use the rear-views or you will crash abruptly into the past that's doing its best to get out and away from this shameful present!
And look you're here now. How can I miss you, if you're here!
Welcome and let's get to work again. How about the video? You mentioned it was bullshit. About where/how/when/who/what?
No, you respond because you are one of several NT versions of Congress' 'Jim Jordan's" willing to defend conservatism even when and where it is wrong-headed. Let's be clear about that much anyway.
It was not a serious attempt to do much of anything.
I am moving forward, I will wave as I pass you by.
Well that's pretty abstract. Care to be as clear as you can be?
Humor. I get it. Har! Har! Har!
You are not moving forward, if you are extending to the citizenry rights and privileges they 'endured' in the receding past. I mean you can say anything, but the truth will eventually straighten itself out.
Sometimes you have to drive around the block to move forward. What are you talking about?
Not really, watched it twice. If he had a point to actually make he did not do it in a way I could understand or relate to. Twice was enough.
A circle. Okay. When you do 'dough-nuts' in your vehicle you end up back at the starting block. Now then, what are YOU talking about? What did you drive around to bring back into the present?
You never explained what you were talking about when you said" if you are extending to the citizenry rights and privileges they 'endured' in the receding past."
Well, now that's dense. Let's cut the crap! You are here to waste time, admit it. You've got nothing constructive to add, but just thought you would come in and throw a couple of 'digs,' 'discounts,' and "ain't shits" before you move on. Right?
I release you to go collect your group "high fives."
How did you come to the mistaken impression that you’re giving orders here?
Shall I be as obtuse as you? What rights and privileges were endured in U.S. history and by whom? When something has been endured, it was suffered, accepted with great patience, and was vexxing. For example, in the video, interracial marriages (though of as "holy" unions before God) were overruled and endured nullification in Virginia.
How is that even possible if conservatives SAY their view of marriage is it a sacred space? Please explain that past denial of proper rights and privileges.
Well, interracial marriage came back to this country through a SCOTUS decision. But, it is not in the constitutionally ratified document. . . . So what does that mean to conservatives who view the constitution as sacred: There is no constitutional right to interracial marriage.
It's just a lighthearted example, though. Cheers.
Please cite an example.
Exactly, please clarify.
Forgive my lack of manners: Please be quiet and let someone else speak for a change. I've been going around in circles with you all day. Don't be selfish!
I feel emancipated. You still have not clarified your statement" if you are extending to the citizenry rights and privileges they 'endured' in the receding past.". Why not?
I think that vexing is spelled with one x.
Hang around longer. I did but you didn't wait for it to be properly posted. And for the record, you blamed the video for you not getting its message in typical abstract fashion that occurs often with conservatives.
And there should be no law against it. I am not a constitutional scholar but I am sure there is nothing in the constitution forbidding it.
Forgive my lack of manner:
I forgive more than that.
I’m sorry, whom have I inhibited? Is someone unable to speak up?
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Unfortunately I am not getting more mellow with age. If someone wants to convey something to me do it, don't dance around it or try to be cute. That is what the video was doing for me .
Is there something in the constitution forbidding abortion? And yet, I am pretty sure there is angst in the country over it being banned or at the least reverted back to states to pick and choose over participation. Interracial marriages can suffer the same state 'participation' fate.
Well, it was clearly meant for a younger audience than you and me. But, I coped with the soundtrack and concentrated on the meaning in the wording. Then, much was open to me. I, we, can't let ageism be the thing that stops us from participation in the life of what is wholesome and proper for this country!
Exactly, Joe Biden is a good example of that.
I don't believe that interracial marriage can be compared to abortion. I believe interracial marriage is accepted by the vast majority of people and the probability of that changing is quite low.
But we can choose to pass up on one thing that does not work for us and find something that does.
I will answer anything you ask after you answer my question.
The point is not the acceptability to abortion (to conservatives) or acceptability of interracial marriage. The point is neither are explicitly granted in the Constitution, but are adjudicated by what some conservatives like to lambast as "unelected officials." What say you to that?
I don’t know how RDTC could be any more clear than what he wrote in 4.1.182.
I know you think I am wrong. It is what you do (here). Also be consistent, Drinker!
Let RDTC speak for himself!
I will see if I can do that. What is your question, Texan?
Racists are afraid of mirrors
Interesting! And a good one!
A knee slapper, for sure.
So are you saying you have not seen yourself for a very long time?
F U wish 2 C my light refraction re-imagined,IM O K. With that, R. U. Wood B the Urning ?
They're experts with dog whistles
You've got the sharpest ears in town. You keep your ears open and listening until your gigahertz.
To think that none of this had to be in the colonies. We were so 'close,' before doggish men and women messed the people up with the politics of division that turned to hatred!
Do you speak this way in real life or just here?
Why use fewer words when you can try to bamboozle with lots of them?
Maybe he treats it like piece work and thinks the more words, the greater the reward.
I don’t think that I’ve ever used the word doggish before.
Embellishing to own some conservatives?
That hasn't worked for him yet.
Before I continue there is one word used in the video that I find offensive - "Frankenstein." I condemn the message it conveys as a taunt.
Okay. Race is a social construct. And we have a firm idea on how it got its start in this country. Poor people, of all stripes, used to have a 'common bond' and were TOGETHER.
Agree, what's next?