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Thread: What made you laugh today?

671.       alameda
3499 posts
 02 Sep 2010 Thu 07:51 pm

Barba...I don´t know where you have been, but it does not always happen..no matter how many magazines are available for that purpose....

............male infertility.........

Quoting barba_mama

 

 

 It always happens. Not always for the women, but sure enough for the men. Okay, it´s not so special, in a white room with some magazines. But a sin none the less.

 

 



Thread: I am slave....

672.       alameda
3499 posts
 02 Sep 2010 Thu 07:42 pm

Daydreamer....chill out and read my post again.....

I said... 

<, it´s called "White Privledge".......it´s seen in the US with White people having social advantages in comparison to people of color...although it could be in any country and any color.  The weaithy Nigerian´s family.....and on and on...and luck has a lot to do with it. You were lucky enough to be the "right" color, lucky enough to have come from a home were you learned to value yourself.>   .............or in other words...LUCKY!!!!...

Rather, I think calling the ones who were enslaved

<<Birdy, sure, a lot depends on luck. But being an immigrant myself I´ve met the weirdest people ever ..............Anyway, if you´re stupid enough to go abroad without knowing the language or having enough money to get by till you get a job, you´re to blame!>>

Shows an amazing lack of understanding of the situation these poor people are in. I wrote "right color" in quotations....meaning it could be any set of circumstances popular at the time. For sure those who have become enslaved are not stupid...they are desparate, in need of compassion and HELP!

....................and yes, I do actually have a pretty good idea of problems Poles have had through history.......nobody gets a free ride in this life, but some are more fortunate that others.

 

 Quoting Daydreamer

Alameda, I might be what you call "the right colour" (how racist is that?) but you´d have to know more about my country´s history to consider my legacy advantageous. You have no idea what Polish people had to go through in order to escape their communist country, you´ve no idea how they were treated in Germany or Italy...Do you know how many Polish women married obnoxious Germans or Brits just to buy themselves and their children a better future? I don´t think you do! Do you know what conditions Polish immigrants in the US had to endure? You probably don´t because you´re an American citizen sure of her rights and entitlements and your hobby is looking for injustice towards non-white people and ignore injustice to white folks. That´s not really fair, is it? I´m sick and tired of hearing how easy things are for me just because I´m white. Wake up girl! Being white means nothing as long as you have the wrong passport.

Even now, when we´re in the EU, Poles are being discriminated against in the UK and Ireland. Read statistics about how many Poles have been assaulted only because they´re Polish. Or how easily they´re to blame in courts - circumstantial evidence is enough to grant a young Pole double lifetime sentence for alleged rape, while Brits who beat a Pole to death (and it´s captured on CCTV) get 10 years. That´s really fair!

And the racism card is played way too often. A friend of mine is a supervisor in a shop. You know whom she cannot tell to stop fooling around and get to work? Nigerians. Why? because she immediately gets reported for racism. That´s fair in your opinion, isn´t it?

You can write a book on racism. I´m not saying people are still not being judged basing on their colour. Sure they are. But not all of them. Some are being discriminated because of their nationality, religion, disability or gender. And some abuse the discrimination card. That´s life...

So, stop moaning about how easy it is for white people because the colour of your skin is nt enough to grant you an easy life!

 

 



Thread: What made you laugh today?

673.       alameda
3499 posts
 02 Sep 2010 Thu 04:52 am

 

Quoting catwoman

 

 

a gift from god, or a predictable consequence of mommy and daddy having a good time (or "sinning" in your language)?

 

You know, "it" doesn´t always happen....Case in point the multi-billion infertility industry....some spend mega bucks and get nothing...others hardly breath in the same room and bingo....very interesting............call it what you will....but it is not really that predictable.



Thread: I am slave....

674.       alameda
3499 posts
 02 Sep 2010 Thu 04:40 am

 

Quoting Daydreamer

Birdy, sure, a lot depends on luck. But being an immigrant myself I´ve met the weirdest people ever ..............Anyway, if you´re stupid enough to go abroad without knowing the language or having enough money to get by till you get a job, you´re to blame!

 

You know, it´s called "White Privledge".......it´s seen in the US with White people having social advantages in comparison to people of color...although it could be in any country and any color.  The weaithy Nigerian´s family.....and on and on...and luck has a lot to do with it. You were lucky enough to be the "right" color, lucky enough to have come from a home were you learned to value yourself. 

You were lucky enough to not be desperate to anything to help your family survive. People who find themselves enslaved are the victims.....it´s wrong to blame them. I know in Latin America many have lost their farms and livlihoods with the introduction of Factory Farms among other things. Their native corn has even been contaminated with GMO corn. GMO corn that has been patented.....

The real blame has to be placed on human greed, lack of empathy for the suffering of others.



Edited (9/2/2010) by alameda [add]



Thread: I am slave....

675.       alameda
3499 posts
 01 Sep 2010 Wed 08:59 pm

 

Quoting Daydreamer

................Not particularly surprising, how can you expect that somebody brought up in a patriarchial system that grants women a place in the household hierarchy right behind a donkey, would consider it wrong...

 

You just can´t let go of it, hmmm? Just who is this "somebody"? Like the illegal immigrant issue, who hires them? Who takes advantage of the "services"?

It exists all over, and has for longer than we can measure. It´s sad really.  There have been numerous cases of it right in Berkeley, CA, and other supposedly "enlightened" places. I once met a young Mexican woman who was purported to have been forced into involuntary servitude by a "nice white" couple as a house servant/sex slave.

When you have vulnerable people and cruel strong people, and those who want services...you have slavery.  As long as those who partake of the services are able to fool themselves about the status of the service they are using, it will exist.



Edited (9/1/2010) by alameda



Thread: preferred skin color

676.       alameda
3499 posts
 26 Aug 2010 Thu 01:28 am

I once saw two toddlers, they were maybe 12 months old, maybe a little more. One had blond fuzz, blue eyed and pink skinned, the other was dark brown with brown eyes and black hair in little tufts. When they saw each other their eyes got large and they walked around each other looking each other in amazement. There was no hostility, just curiosity. The adults just stood by and allowed the two boys to check each other out.

 

Another time I was in a Department of Motor Vehicles line in the SF Metropolitan Area (a very diverse area) There was a Chinese man holding a baby boy, the child was about 10 months old. The child looked to his side and saw avery dark black man, a blond haired white woman, brown woman, red haired people...each time the child looked at a person not of his race he started screaming loudly hysterically, then he looked back up at his father´s face and calmed down, until he saw another person not of his race. It seems the child probably had not been outside the home very much, or seen any other races. His father comforted him, but I don´t think he actually knew what was bothering the child. It was easy for me to see as I was behind and was able to follow the child´s gaze.

 

I think when confronted with something unusual or different, something we have not seen before, many are fearful. What happens after probably determines out life outlook.

Quoting libralady

Yes you are right, it is rude to stare and I don´t think it is acceptable.  He was two years old and the man opposite did not mind, he started to talk to and play with my little boy to put him at ease.  He just could not take his eyes of him!  Nothing rude or personal just a little boy unsure of something.  The man was very pleasant and when it was time to leave the train we wished each other well on our journeys.

 

 

 



Edited (8/26/2010) by alameda [add]



Thread: preferred skin color

677.       alameda
3499 posts
 25 Aug 2010 Wed 02:13 am

 

Quoting thehandsom

Profanity/swearing is the sewage in the mouth of bourgeois.. lol

But when it is coupled with irrefutable show of jealousy, it slips easily into cheap vulgarity...

Hay allah ya!! lol

 

 

 

Somehow I´m reminded of Rodney Dangerfield here....



Thread: France begins clearing Gypsy encampments

678.       alameda
3499 posts
 24 Aug 2010 Tue 05:48 am

 

Quoting Daydreamer

It´s not only illegal camping, in my earlier post I quoted the EU laws about migration. Since they do not work and cannot provide for themselves, they cannot stay in France......

There are several "problems" here. One is the fact that there has been no accomodation for nomadic peoples in modern "civilization". Number two is the inaccurate discription of "gypsies" or "Roma" peoples. FYI they have a cast system, professions are learned from infancy. I´m sure you would not have a problem with the artists...or would you?

 



Thread: preferred skin color

679.       alameda
3499 posts
 23 Aug 2010 Mon 01:54 am

I have been acquainted with Turkish people, both in the US and in Turkey for many years (well over 20 years). In that time it has been with great saddness that I´ve seen some learn of human color consciousness.

 

Some Turks are very fair, some are dark.....and it´s no big deal.



Edited (8/23/2010) by alameda [change wording]



Thread: Today is 17th August.

680.       alameda
3499 posts
 19 Aug 2010 Thu 09:10 am

 

Quoting AlphaF

Considering the ethnical distribution of population in Istanbul, casualties would inlude a great number of our beloved Kurdish citizens.

Goodness of my heart dictates they should all be ordered out of Istanbul to the safety of South Eastern Turkia, but I am afraid of being charged with "forced relocation".{#emotions_dlg.alcoholics}

 

I have heard there is an issue of (runaway) homeless boys living in Istanbul parks? At least they are allowed to sleep in the parks. Here, they can´t even sleep in parks. I don´t know what they expect homeless to do.  They sleep in doorways, under highway overpasses, or where ever they can find shelter for a while. Sometimes a few hours, other a few weeks. Then they go in and scoop everything up and they are left with even less. We have whole famlies living in homeless camps, particularly since the home mortgage crisis hit. Being homeless has become a criminal activity, as if anyone wanted to be homeless.

 

When I was living in NYC I knew a young boy, only 15 years old who lived in the streets in my area. He had grown up living in the streets. He told me he never could actually sleep.

Of course, these are the most vulnerable people in cases of disasters.

 

 homeless family



Edited (8/19/2010) by alameda



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