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I take away from your comments that we in this thread who are white have little or no legitimacy in offering social criticism about race in America because we have never walked in the shoes of Black men, and worse by doing so we are engaged in "unthinking, unquestioned white arrogance." If I have mis-read your meaning, please correct me. Thanks.

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ORIGINAL: mons

Lookno nookie

I am so sorry you had to go through that, that girl will get it back if she has not already!
How in the world did she get away with that? But I say that a girl like that someone will
beat the hell out of her, playing games that will ruin a person life!

You could sue her, I wonder oh Look and to be place in jail for hours! Why I wonder did they
not do what they do now charge a person for false information!!!!!!

She had to be mentailly ill Look to do something like this too you, and at the age of 13 she is a sociopathill!
To have that feeling to hurt you and then to hurt herself psychically, she is a nut!

My son brought home a girl and he loved her, when she walk in my door I knew this was trouble, she pick her teeth with
a fork during dinner with us, my son later asked me did I know she was bad and I him : the minute I meant her I knew she
was not all there!

'I know one girl like her and in 4 grade she was wearing and doing things like someone older we found out years later'
she was much older, and had been left back in school many , many times!

This one girl I am speaking of in the 7th grade she had girls hook on drugs and selling their bodies to older men!
She was so pretty I mean very beautiful but she was a sociopath! No feeling of empathy towards anyone!

I do not know if you have heard of "exspongement" you can go back and have that
erased from you record! I found this out about my son when a policman who happen to
be from England!

He thought it was a joke to arrest my son for nothing!

He broke up a fight and when I asked him "if he did not do anything why did you assert him?" he
said "just because I felt like it"

This is why also we in the community have a long standing tale of caution to our sons!
It is a long standing things that was done when my brother was young and it is not just
white policemen, it is anyone whom happens to work in law inforcement never talk back, keep
your hands where they can be seen, basically "keep your mouth shut" If you do not listening to
these simple things they can arrest you for anything it your word agianst their's !

But now they have cameras now so it is much better and they all are on check, this is for all officers and they
have black officers who are just as bad, we know my brother missed school and was playing around well someone
who happen to look like him, the officer hit my brother, they did nothing to him at all !

take care
best regards
mons

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

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I take away from your comments that we in this thread who are white have little or no legitimacy in offering social criticism about race in America because we have never walked in the shoes of Black men, and worse by doing so we are engaged in "unthinking, unquestioned white arrogance." If I have mis-read your meaning, please correct me. Thanks.

No, that's not quite where I was coming from. What struck me about the thread, and prompted my comment, was the undercurrent in a number of posts about how African Americans needed to let go of their "infantile" anger, focus on the "progress" (such as a whopping 13 black CEOs at Fortune 500 companies in all of American history and a list of historical milestones that included neither Jim Crow laws nor decades of disenfranchisement), be more entrepreneurial (preferably starting businesses while still in their teens)--all coming, so far as I could tell, from white folks who evidenced little understanding the history of how the U.S, has treated African Americans or the ways in which that history remains embedded in our society to this day (as with, say, de facto residential segregation).

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ORIGINAL: Owner59

So "why don`t you just let it go"......as so many have suggested blacks do?

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Ahh, thank you for setting me straight. I totally misunderstood your comments. My apologies to you. We are in agreement on the sentiment.

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

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Ahh, thank you for setting me straight. I totally misunderstood your comments. My apologies to you. We are in agreement on the sentiment.

No worries! The heat wave here has fried my brain, so I'm not expressing myself as clearly as I'd like these days.