Way OT: Why I'm glad I don't carry a khukuri

lived in GA for 5 yrs....


the best comment I ever heard was this one:
(paraphrasing)

"You can't call me racist, I'm black"


Next to that one was "If a black man calls another black man a n**g**, it's cool, man....but if a white man says it, it's racism".


Both of these comments came from young black males...and were told to me on more than one occasion...to my face.



HD - until you've lived in GA and witnessed the racism firsthand, you won't understand. I don't condone whatever your friend's behavior was, but lemme tell ya....the biggest lesson I learned about racism is that it's a Two-Way-Street.

Getting a smile (or even eye contact) from a black female at any fast food joint, grocery store, [insert cust. serv. job here], etc., is non-existant.

Personally, I grew up in an area where racism was almost a non-issue. Who had time to care?

But I never felt so hated because of my skin color than I did there.


Like I said: Two-Way-Street
 
and the justification for that is that they want to 'devalue' the term.

In response, my 'white' buds & me sometimes call each other cracker, round-eye, ghost face, etc. Hey, we can say it because we're white, right? we just wanna devalue the terms!:D

Keith
 
This may be silly, but the first time a black friend at work accidentally called me the "n" word, I took it as a compliment- not because I like the word, but because he was just seeing me as a person and friend, not as "colour x which is different than my color y". I think he was embarrassed, though... :)

John
 
I always got a kick out of the slang Mountain Men called each other- AB Guthrie- Refering to themselves and each other as "This Child"



munk
 
I went down to Daytona during bike week (I was nearby for work anyway but still planned to spend two days there)...signs all over proclaiming "Welcome Bikers", but only a couple of places would let me in.

The reason? I wear a motorcycle club Patch. Yup...my three piece Patch meant that I was a troublemaker and undesirable.

Forget the semi-naked and the drunks and the loud little men seeking fights to prove themselves all wearing the seemingly required corporate Harley logo...*I* was the problem.

My Patch? VietNam Veterans Motorcycle Club. I left.
 
I gotta say, as bad as thing s have been in America, most of the world is far worse when it comes to group dynamics.
We may have a race problem, but in other countries things are so bad they just call it "civil war".

Guys, dont feel bad. In terms of integration and ethnic diversity, America leads the way.

Believe it.
 
I thought I might start going out wearing gloves and a bag over my head. People wouldnt' know what to call me. They'd stare, point and call me "wierdo", but that would be true anyways.

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Nasty said:
My Patch? VietNam Veterans Motorcycle Club. I left.
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The only difference between ndns and cowboys...... And rednecks and bikers is the way we dress.:rolleyes:
 
It's amazing how civil,courteous,and law-abiding a culture can be when "the right to keep and bear arms" is valued. :D
 
Kismet--I've only heard that song once, and I think that was enough--haunting and beautiful, yet too depressing for me.

Bruise--I love your new look :D :D

--Josh
 
Kismet said:
Not necessarily.
Ever hear the Billy Holiday song, "Strange Fruit?"
http://blood-dance.net/discographies/siouxie/siosf.html
Kis
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A great song and with just a few changes could be a valid comment on Saddam Hussein and what his killers did to Iraqi citizens or what was done in Rawanda.

Imagine the destruction,carnage,and chaos that could be visited on a group of gestapo,kkk,black panthers,pol pottians,african,(you pick the killers) there's plenty to go around, if they were met with deadly force- instead of tears,fear,and cowering.

An academic acquaintance believes that there is never a need for the use of force (read action) she assures me that the basic good nature of man will triumph and allow every problem to be solved through reasoned discussion.

She does live in a fascinating reality and will not acknowledge resistance as an option to counter evil. I cannot offer any example to her that is not countered with "there is something good in all things." I feel sure that she would allow her life to be taken without the slightest hesitation just because it was "meant to be".

It makes me wonder how much rage is being held in check underneath this veneer of pacifism

(Iraqi) Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
(Dark-skinned)Black bodies swinging in the (middle-eastern) southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar(desert) trees.

Pastoral scene of the(Rawandan) gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of (blossoms)magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
(Another assurance- it will never stop)
Here is a strange and bitter cry.
 
See Don Nelson's post Who'd a thunk it ( about WW2's ).

Because I've got a couple dozen khuks and don't carry them it becomes a matter of choosing the right one to do the deed. By the time I make my mind up sanity has usually returned. Same with guns. I carry a 5 shot J frame. It will take care of emergencies, but even with Magsafes it won't to the destruction I desire. Maybe if I pulled a 150 grain buller from a 308 Win. shell, and replaced the 308 Win bullet with a super premium bullet for the 30-30 overdriven 450 feet per second to shoot the SOB with, or a 12ga. loaded with BBs.

Right - by the time up this calm collected compassionate person ( some of the time ) makes up his his mind and examines all the possiblities, I've either cooled dawn or decided on something more appropriate that I probably couldn't get away with doing,
 
and thot you were a Boozefighter! F them anyhow. I alays knew there was a reason that Fla was surrounded on three sides by water, cause no other states wante to be its neighbor!

Yvsa...profound statement indeed. Reflected in the Northern path by the ideal that Valhalla houses the warrior dead (sides don't matter in the long run, just that you fought the fight.)

Keith
 
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