Thought-Provoking or Racist?

[Hobbes]

Yeah, the suburbs suck ass. But, com'on Speer, even you can make the logical assumtion that many people do growup like that. The reason they used such a 'rich suburban' response, was to highlight the contrast between them and their 'black friends'.

[RGBVideo]

I love it when Johnny & Sally ask me to sing at parties. All of us can sing, you know.

[Imran Siddiqui]

That's normal?

Of course! Even around Philly... let's go through, shall we?

swimming

Are you saying you've never seen a pool?

golf, horseback riding

Both are only a few miles outside Philly.

arts and crafts, gardening, building treehouses, mowing the lawn, selling lemonade, etc.

All outdoor suburban activities (well except arts and crafts).

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
chegitz:

is philly really that bad? despite teen pregnancies and drugs and ****, is it really that bad? if i visited the suburbs would i become even more fanatical?


thanks

I have been through Gary, Indiana and Detroit, Michigan. I have seen the South and West sides of Chicago. I have been all over the US pretty much. I have never been someplace so utterly devestated as Philidelphia. I have seen stuff in Philly that I didn't believe could be found in America.

Philly sucks. The Philly suburbs (at least on the New Jersey side of the river-the PA side ones seemed nice) are hideous. The only things positive I can say about Philly is that they have great steak andwiches, that they aren't as bad as Camden and they have a great hip-hop scene. And this was during the heart of the tech boom, when all of America was prospering (except Philly aparently).

BTW, teen pregnancies are actually worse in the suburbs, but because of their spread out nature and the willingness of suburban kids to get abortions, the impact isn't anywhere near as great as in the inner cities. The drug problem is similar, with very high usage rates in the suburbs. As bad as city life can be, cities are the repositories of culture and have many more things to do than the suburbs. Suburbs are cultural waste-lands for the most part. Check your library for the book, Teenage Wasteland, which is about New Jersey suburban life.

[Al B. Sure!]

i just cant imagine a little kid selling lemonade on the corner...

Hobbes:

The reason they used such a 'rich suburban' response, was to highlight the contrast between them and their 'black friends'.

or the stereotype... like the black guy on the site who works in business and the white boy comes up to him giving him a pound and being like whazzzup?!

I was bothered by this site when i first saw it but it really does say something... there's a lot of these rich cracker liberals who be all like I love my African brothers, etc. and are really only racists... ahem... more registered democrats should be taking a look at this.


thanks

[chequita guevara]

I find it ironic you're such a screaming right-winger yet you use left-wing Black revolutionaries as your avatars. IIRC, that's Hewy Newton.

[Imran Siddiqui]

He's confused.

[Carver]

A lot of suburbanites and foreigners (thank you NYPD Blue rebroadcasts) think American cities are far worse than they are; like you'll be shot just walking down the street or if your car is worth more than $8000 you'll be killed and your car stolen. I've never been to Philly, but I've spent a ton of time in inner-city Hartford, North ("bad") Tampa, and North ("bad") St. Louis. By and large, no one will bother you unless you instigate something. I love the cities, they have a great feel to them.

As for the website under consideration, it's cool.

[Datajack Franit]

I find it very funny and don't understand why everything making fun in a satyrical way of ethnic diversity is racism

[Hobbes]

or the stereotype... like the black guy on the site who works in business and the white boy comes up to him giving him a pound and being like whazzzup?!

Jeeezus, that's what I said in my first post! The stereotype! You don't need to tell me what I already know.

I was bothered by this site when i first saw it but it really does say something... there's a lot of these rich cracker liberals who be all like I love my African brothers, etc. and are really only racists... ahem... more registered democrats should be taking a look at this.

Huh? How is this a liberal problem? Would it be better if they were right-wingers who admitted to disliking african-americans? And 'Cracker'?! Isn't that the white equivilent of n****r? I think you have the theme of the site mixed up.

[Shi Huangdi]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
He's confused.

Give an understatement of the year award to this man.

[Al B. Sure!]

Chegitz:

I really wanted Eldridge Cleaver as he was more inline with my beliefs and he realized that black nationalism was a socially conservative movement (being led by a Southern Baptist minister in King and religious leaders in Muhammed and Shabazz) and that the true enemy of blacks was the inherently racist liberal left.

Had Huey Newton (my props to you for recognizing him by the way) lived today, it is concievable he would've followed the same path his fellow Panther Cleaver did and become a militant conservative... Farakhan and the NoI is also, similiarly, militant conservatives populists. I think that would describe my political beliefs well.

Imran and Black Dragon:

Confused? Just because I am the only right-winger left on this site does not mean that my beliefs are wrong because yall converted to decadent libertarianism. What beliefs have I posted here that were down-right contradictory?


hobbes:

Would it be better if they were right-wingers who admitted to disliking african-americans?

right-wingers dislike blacks?


thanks

[Hobbes]

right-wingers dislike blacks?

there's a lot of these rich cracker liberals who be all like I love my African brothers, etc. and are really only racists...

and rich white liberals secretly dislike blacks? One goofy generalization deserves another.

[Al B. Sure!]

i could not find a picture of cleaver i meant so i had to settle with Newton

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
Chegitz:

I really wanted Eldridge Cleaver as he was more inline with my beliefs and he realized that black nationalism was a socially conservative movement (being led by a Southern Baptist minister in King and religious leaders in Muhammed and Shabazz) and that the true enemy of blacks was the inherently racist liberal left.

Cleaver didn't make that "realization" until long after he had ceased to be any kind of leader. He threatened to murder Elane Brown, one of the leader's of the L.A. Panthers (and later the head of the Black Panthers nationally while Huey was in exile) while she was touring the Third World with him. Cleaver was a thoroughly misogynist pig, who never apologized for being a serial rapist (though he apologized for raping Black women). Eventually he himself became a conservative religous leader, and today heads his own little evangelist church. Cleaver was a violent, racist, mysogynist thug who only got famous because he managed to hook up with the Panthers on the way up.

Had Huey Newton (my props to you for recognizing him by the way) lived today, it is concievable he would've followed the same path his fellow Panther Cleaver did and become a militant conservative.

Huey was a drug addict for almost twenty years before someone popped a cap in his brain in the late 1980s. It is unlikely he would have been anything other than the drug derilict he was. (fun fact: chegitz ended up getting in trouble with his organization for daring to contradict "fearless leader" by pointing out that it was Huey Newton who was killed and not Bobby Seale--who is a community laison for Temple University and sells BBQ sauce)

Farakhan and the NoI is also, similiarly, militant conservatives populists. I think that would describe my political beliefs well.

Yeah, I think that just about describes you. . . . You do know that the NoI hates you too.