Token black guy. Didn’t you get the memo? 
Actually I didn’t know that.
I don’t see color.
At least not on Message Boards.
You’d think that as a Charter Member I would be able to, but the pricks weren’t even nice about it when I asked.
I stand corrected, although I don’t recall saying genrally, just that I had seen examples of it. Different thing.
Of course you do have a point, being neither black, nor American, I am not in a position to know what you have encountered in your life.
Also, I don’t believer there is a genetic link for racism, but a strongly ingrained cultural phenomena.
Hopefully we can overcome this in time.
Ooh, yeah, mommy, hurts so good!
Now, just make sure you don’t tell Himself, 'cause I don’t need any jealous men hunting my * gay ass down! After all, darlin’, I’m a lover, not a fighter. 
*Well, regardless of that sign that I’m planning to hang over my bed that says “Fuck, or Fight”.
Well, hold on, now, 'cause if I understand correctly, both **Hippy Hollow ** and **5-4-Fighting ** were here a while before I happened along. I don’t think they’re going to appreciate losing “token black guy” status to the likes of me.
What, man, you tryin’ to stir up shit between the bruthas?
Oh, ingrained culturally? I agree. And thanks for your clarification.
And here’s to hoping that “in time” < several more lifetimes.
I’m sorry to hear of your experiences, and while I certainly don’t want to give you the impression that I’m trying to minimize them or the pain they caused you (because I’m not), you are correct that, for people who aren’t black in America, these kinds of things are “just not as constant” as they are for blacks.
I mean, hell, even though I was born in 1970, I still have to think in terms of being careful about how I dress and conduct myself in public. Not only so that people don’t make negative judgments about me, but also to prevent them (although I know that that’s not really possible) from making negative judgments about other * black people based on my actions.
*I was raised to conduct myself with dignity in public “just because,” so even without the racist stuff, I’d still do so, but I think you get my point.
Oh, no argument here; I totally agree.
No argument here, either, but my point is that I (and many other blacks), as “umpteenth”-generation Americans (and I have a “normal,” “non-ethnic”–allbeit uncommon, especially outside of the South, but not alltogether unheard of–first name) don’t have to do anything other than be black in order to be treated like space aliens. Actually, being treated like a space alien sounds tolerable compared to some of the treatment that I and other blacks have posted about on these boards. I mean, when you have to wonder if the (non-black) person you just sat down next to on an open-air-can-be-seen-by-everyone-in-the-area-in-broad-daylight train station bench–and not right next to them, but with room for several more people to fit in between you–got up and moved to another bench did so because you’re black or for some potentially innocuous reason…well, yeah, good times. (Perhaps not the best example–though it did happen to me fairly recently, and, honestly, I don’t smell bad or anything like that–but I hope you get my point.)
Oh, and Sampiro? That was funny.
Guess I didn’t get the memo either. I didn’t know either of them were black and/or male. :smack:
Anyway, you’ve been selected. Make the necessary changes and move on…
Heh-heh.
Okay, sir, I’ll wear that crown proudly. Just as long as you can get me one that fits comfortably over my kippah.
How? Please explain.
Hopefully in our lifetimes.
(bolding mine)
Y’know, I do believe you’re right. I’d never considered it in that way before. I’ll try and bear that in mind for next time. I also take some small hope in the possibility that even if my grunting some sort of monosyllabic agreement and walking on is a bit weak on my part (and it is), it will possibly be that one day that guy will wake up and realise he has no friends. So all is not lost, even if we don’t step up to the plate as we should, every time. But I do like your take on it. It’s new to me, but it works.
Whatever happened to Askia?
I haven’t seen anything from him in a really, really long time.
Didn’t he change his username or something?
As near as I can figure, “Craig” said “nigger”. That makes him an asshole.
Weirddave got all tormented and apologetic and “curse my race!” about it. That makes him a pussy.
You vastly overstate my angst over this incident, but if coming to the pit and ranting makes me a pussy, whatever. Meow.