Why this forum is like home...

Kind of funny, but it's the opposite for me. I'm not used to this much civility in the place I've considered home. My family has always had a cutthroat, no holds barred, arguing style. Everyone hit where it hurt the most (and being family, did it knowing all the right spots). Ethnic slurs were not uncommon in family arguments.
 
Multiple slavic ethinicities in various combinations along with some Italian, German, etc.

20-30 years ago around here when the neighborhoods were more ethinically divided and a lot of people still had parents and grandparents that were immigrants or the first-wave native born, those were considered significantly objectionable enough to each other to be mentionable.

And even 15 years ago I had an Irish girl I was hanging out with ask me, "You aren't Italian are you?" (I'm not) because her dad hated Italians (though her precise description of his feelings is best left off the forum)...
 
I was thinking more along the lines you were a Great White Shark and your Dad was a Rottweiler or something.....

A kid threw a rock, hit me in the mouth, went through the cheek into a tooth. I was so mad. I fought him, and when I got him on the ground, I just kept swinging and screaming: "You dirty Jew, you dirty Jew."

An adult came down the sidewalk and pulled me off him. It looked pretty bad, me beating this kid because he was a Jew, right? I had no idea what a 'Jew' was, only knew it was something 'bad', so that's what I called him.
Kinda funny. Everyone was relieved when they found that out....they were thinking we had some kind of race tension in our middle class suburban neighborhood.

You can't see the hole where the rock flew in.


munk
 
You can't see the hole where the rock flew in
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Munk, that is so sad.

The fact that you remember this, and display it for us, reinforces the belief - MY belief, that a man with a conscience should be our mod!

I salute you and your conscience:thumbup:
 
munk said:
I just kept swinging and screaming: "You dirty Jew, you dirty Jew."

An adult came down the sidewalk and pulled me off him. It looked pretty bad, me beating this kid because he was a Jew, right? I had no idea what a 'Jew' was, only knew it was something 'bad', so that's what I called him.
munk
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My first year away from home at college, I roomed with these guys from a small town in Iowa - and I'm sure I was the first non-Christian person any of them had ever known as a friend. One of them told me this story.
He came home from Sunday school one day and in a conversation with his father mentioned that they had learned that Jesus was a Jew. His father disagreed and it got pretty hot, so my friend said that he'd call the pastor and prove he was right. When the pastor informed his dad that indeed, Christ was a Jew, he slammed the phone down and said,"Well, my Christ wasn't no Jew."
It's OK to laugh. We're family.
 
Of the Jew hate the meanist and heaviest point of course is that the Jews killed Christ. Christ Killers, we heard.

You know, it wasn't that long ago we had slavery in this Country, and not very long after that ended women had to fight to get the right to vote. We are very young.


munk
 
As a society, we are young indeed.

A friend once told me a tale of a dinner conversation during a conference of historians. One scholar after another gave a brief talk on his favorite period of his National history...a Chinese Professor mentioned Ming, a Frenchman Louis 16th, and so on. When it was the Americans turn, he simply stated "Gentlemen...in comparison to your rich histories, we barely have current events."

Our country has made almost all of the common mistakes and even come up with a few new ones...but its strength is found in its self regulating nature. We make Grand mistakes, but also offer Great freedoms...not only for ourselves, but for the rest of the world, both in principle and fact.

I have faith that sooner or later, we will get it right.
 
Our country has made almost all of the common mistakes and even come up with a few new ones...but its strength is found in its self regulating nature. We make Grand mistakes, but also offer Great freedoms...not only for ourselves, but for the rest of the world, both in principle and fact.

I have faith that sooner or later, we will get it right.
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And isn't it nice to hear THAT sentiment these days---thanks Nasty:thumbup:
 
I'd almost forgotten that great idea, the one of Hope, and there were men to will it forward: 'Let's get it right, let's get it done best we can.'




munk
 
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