Never said there weren't. Never said most molesters aren't white men or priests. My point is that people get so offended by stupid shit like the sometimes funny things that people like Ann Coulter say that nobody cares about what matters. The larger point is that saying something you find offensive doesn't kill someone. Gangs do. Why don't we prioritize the things we want to bitch about? I just watched Dirty Harry for the first time since I was a kid and I bet that there are people on this forum who actually believe that Clint shouldn't have tortured the bad guy to try and find a missing teenage girl. If there is a missing child and some wacko says he did it but won't tell......nothing should be off limits. I know the constitution is there to prevent that but our government ignores that document ALL THE TIME. Why not make one more exception huh?
Um, what? Edit: Never mind I read it 5 timers and finally got it. Anyway, these kids shot people because they are gang members. Not because they are black.
That was a good ass show, my gramps used to watch it all the time. Speaking of Lloyd Center, I remember at the age of 4 or 5 I saw my first black person there. My grandmother slapped the shit out of my grandpa when we got home. Why? Because my 4 year old self saw a black guy and pointed and said the N word. My mom grabbed me and ran. I had two black kids in my high school, both were adopted by a white couple. If memory serves they were cousins of Damon Stoudamire. I am sorry that people don't accept that black kids should be expected to overcome their upbringing. I have been expected to my whole life. My uncle taught me that homosexuals are inferior to "normal" people. My sister is a lesbian and I have had to adjust my views. I can't help it that I get a little creeped out when I see two lesbians holding hands in the mall. I know it is WRONG to feel that way but my brain does what it does. My grandfather was a WW2 veteran, an avid outdoorsman. He killed rattlesnakes with a shovel when he went hunting in the eastern part of the Pacific NW. His hands were like leather, he wasn't anything like a man you will find today wearing makeup. I am pretty sure he wasn't born a racist, but he sure as hell was one. He actually looked a LOT like Archie Bunker and you could truly say he was a NW version of Archie. I wish he would have told me what he did in WW2, my grandmother says it took a long time for him to seem even close to normal after he came back. No counseling, just deal with it yourself. I think I am sorta stuck in a time when our culture is changing so fast that I can't keep up. I try to think about an issue outside of what I was taught growing up, I just often have to reconcile my "feelings" with what is right. Those two are often mutually exclusive.
Yeah, it was a bad sentence. Never said they shot anyone because they were black. Plenty of white psychos.
"And every town's got two malls! They've got the white mall....... and the mall white people used to go to. 'Cause they're ain't shit in the black mall! Nothing but sneakers and baby clothes! Cuz' that's all they think we do...runnin' and fucking!" -Chris Rock
Typical. It makes me feel great to honestly discuss my upbringing and have some enlightened geek sitting in a room filled with Twilight posters judge me. My girlfriend was raised in Battleground Washington and had to go live with her grandmother during her high school years. I believe it was Jefferson in Portland. Those amazing black kids sure treated her well, only tried to rape her a few times. I mean, most of them just groped her in the hallways.....not something she should have even worried about. She says she was the only white girl in the school, I doubt that but I wasn't there. Maybe she lied about all of it.
I think Lloyd Center is the only spot to get sneaks in PDX now....either that or the small shops by Chinatown for more legit spots? But washington square blows for shoes. Foot Locker is teh ghey...all about Foot Action USA! They also have a pretty decent sporting goods store on the 2nd floor by Nordstrom with some blazers gear!
Wow. I think my mom said I was right around 4 when the same thing happened. I learned a valuable lesson that words can cause harm, even when no malice is intended. My dad chose that evening to remove the N-word from his vocabulary. Let's just say that Mom "encouraged" him to do so.
