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i was happy when we made this pick and even more ecstatic when TT was aggresive and went and got the pick he wanted. Good Job
Rumor or not, what's wrong with that? Seriously.I'm not a big Matthews fan because of some rumours of him creating a White Power facebook group...hope that that is just a rumour.
Are Black Groups acceptable to you?I'm not a big Matthews fan because of some rumours of him creating a White Power facebook group...hope that that is just a rumour.
1) Yes, each race's experience is unique in the USA, not only black, from Mexican to my wife's Asian, to Native American, to Irish, Italian, Jewish, etc. The black roots are very unique, as are the recent black immigrant roots from Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, etc. And each has a unique history to it. In the past.FrankRizzo,
I've got three more questions for you if you care to answer:
1) Can you think of anything unique about the black experience in the United States?
2) Why are you proud to be white?
3) You really think if Clay's college career was exactly the same he would have been a top 10 pick if he were black - you really see a lot of racist GMs in the NFL?
Simple reason why. I know you'd prefer to find a "sinister" reason for it, but there's a basic reason for it, and it's your doing.But I do find it curious that you resurrected this thread after more than one year of inactivity. Why was that? What took so long?
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Says Many Black Communities In Decline
April 10th, 2013
PITTSBURGH – Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Tuesday he is heartbroken over the persistent poverty and social troubles among many black communities but has no answers on how to solve their continuous problems.
Thomas spoke to an appreciative audience at Duquesne Law School in Pittsburgh. The crowd of about 1,200 people responded with both applause and laughter as he discussed politics, the makeup of the Supreme Court, race, and his own struggles to find his path in life.
Thomas said he doesn’t bear any ill-will toward other people who hold views sharply different from his.
“If I was going to have hard feelings, it’d be mostly on race issues,” Thomas said. “My heart is broken because I worked in the inner cities.”
He said he’s seen terrible decline in black communities over the years. Many young people have no families and no education and numerous anti-poverty programs have failed to make a difference, he said.
“We should at least fess up and say something is wrong,” Thomas said. (This is THE ROOT of the PROBLEM and it's due to attitudes like YOU have).
While saying he doesn’t have an answer to such problems, he recalled that the Catholic sisters who taught him as a boy in Georgia drove home one point.
“We were told under all circumstances that we were inherently equal,” he said, adding that he’s always been perplexed by people who assume he should think a certain way because he’s black. “My family was not inferior. I have never believed it and I never will.”
Thomas said he was angry about racial injustice as a young man, but he came to feel that anger wasn’t the answer.
“The question is how do you respond,” he said. “How do you deal with difficult things in a way that’s constructive?”
Thomas noted that he voted for Democrats Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 presidential election and George McGovern in 1972, but said he just doesn’t like politics.
“I don’t know how you tell somebody something that is obviously wrong, and you make them believe it,” he said, drawing laughter from the crowd.
Asked if he was surprised to see a black man become president, he said “no” but then took a subtle jab at Barack Obama. Thomas said he always thought a black president would have to be “approved by the elites” in the media and in society.
Like the rest of your post, that’s just not credible. Brian Orakpo, huh? Sure, you must have done a search for Orakpo and this thread turned up, huh? Only problem with that is that name is only mentioned once in this thread – in your most recent post. Maybe you were wondering if Thompson had to choose between Orakpo and Matthews? Opps, Orakpo was taken 13 picks before Matthews. As far as my “intentionally always”… that’s just another crock: Back in April of last year I responded to your post on the same day you posted. And from then until your most recent posts on this thread my forum name was listed as the last respondent. This isn’t a big deal except it’s more evidence of your lack of credibility.You, INTENTIONALLY, always chose to NOT directly reply, even though you are replying. So I never got an alert to anything to lure me here. Why I was here yesterday or the day before is I was looking into draft stuff, saw something interesting about Brian Orakpo, and boom, I found this again.
In response to the possibility that Matthews created a White Power facebook group, you posted “…what’s wrong with that? Seriously.” As I posted, IMO that is as naïve and as stupid a statement as appears anywhere on this site. Do some research: White Power groups engage in hatred and violence. But you think that’s OK because the Black Panthers and others did as well? As I also posted, go ahead and tell all of your minority friends about how white power groups are OK with you – ask ‘what’s wrong with them, seriously?’ If they don’t looked shocked they are either as ignorant as you or they already know you to be a racist. If they do look shocked…The problem I have is that there are double-standards big time, and anyone who tried to do white what's already done black, gets labeled by the paranoid and naive folks like Jack here, as "power" or hateful or racist.
Check post number 42: I directly called you a racist. Only a racist would consider that a “softball insult”.Vainesi here would rather just toss out softball insults here than answer any of these direct questions. You claim you hate all racism, but what do you call all these exampled? Are they fine or not?