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AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
edited May 2009 in A Moving Train
So if white people only want to patronize white owned stores it is racism, but blacks that purchase their supplies at black owned stores is pride. Progress indeed.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519965,00.html
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  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    why do you guys find the most insignificant stories and blow them into a race/political/partisan story?


    so a family in Chicago is loking for a black owned whatever


    big deal.

    its 1 family. its not national news.


    Fox picks it up and now its nationwide pandemic that all you drones need to regurgitate.

    save it.
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,209
    JB811 wrote:
    So if white people only want to patronize white owned stores it is racism, but blacks that purchase their supplies at black owned stores is pride. Progress indeed.


    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519965,00.html

    When this becomes a National trend, please call me. Have you forgotten at one time Blacks weren't allowed to eat food in white owned stores or even drink water to quench a thirst in white owned stores? I'd like to see you handle a few days of living like this.

    So Puhlese give me a fricking break.

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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    A guy on my softball team was a foreman for a construction company in North Carolina. He's black and had to deal with people who refused to talk to him because he is black... but would gladly discuss business with a subordinate of his. The guy is a Gulf War veteran who actually saw combat in Eastern Iraq... remember, the guys that got the ticker tape parade in Washington, D.C. in 1991? He was one of them.
    He understands that racism is alive and well in parts of America and doesn't complain about it.
    ...
    The point? The point being, don't pretend that you understand the black perspective in America... unless you are black and live it.
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  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    Cosmo wrote:
    A guy on my softball team was a foreman for a construction company in North Carolina. He's black and had to deal with people who refused to talk to him because he is black... but would gladly discuss business with a subordinate of his. The guy is a Gulf War veteran who actually saw combat in Eastern Iraq... remember, the guys that got the ticker tape parade in Washington, D.C. in 1991? He was one of them.
    He understands that racism is alive and well in parts of America and doesn't complain about it.
    ...
    The point? The point being, don't pretend that you understand the black perspective in America... unless you are black and live it.

    +1

    Or any other minority group for that matter.
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  • TriumphantAngelTriumphantAngel Posts: 1,760
    South of Seattle wrote:
    Cosmo wrote:
    A guy on my softball team was a foreman for a construction company in North Carolina. He's black and had to deal with people who refused to talk to him because he is black... but would gladly discuss business with a subordinate of his. The guy is a Gulf War veteran who actually saw combat in Eastern Iraq... remember, the guys that got the ticker tape parade in Washington, D.C. in 1991? He was one of them.
    He understands that racism is alive and well in parts of America and doesn't complain about it.
    ...
    The point? The point being, don't pretend that you understand the black perspective in America... unless you are black and live it.

    +1

    Or any other minority group for that matter.

    +2

    Well said Cosmo.
  • Prince Of DorknessPrince Of Dorkness Posts: 3,763
    Yeah, I patronize gay-owned businesses any time I can. Sorry if that offends your sensibilities, but it's the way it goes.

    I'm not refusing business to straight-owned places but I do want to support my own community.
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  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    I always try to buy local. Does that mean I hate Colorado? :roll:
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  • SolarWorldSolarWorld Posts: 1,902
    Fox News? :lol::lol::lol::lol:
  • inmytreeinmytree Posts: 4,741
    JB811 wrote:
    So if white people only want to patronize white owned stores it is racism, but blacks that purchase their supplies at black owned stores is pride. Progress indeed.


    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519965,00.html

    I don't know about buying black...but I've been buying "Cheap", "inexpensive", and "not at all because I don't need it"....
  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    People who are making a big deal about this are really saying a lot about themselves...

    If you want a good laugh, go check out the 20+ page thread about it on the hannity board... And I say good laugh because if you go to that board at all, you have to be in the mindset of not taking ANYTHING serious.
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  • ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,761
    South of Seattle wrote:
    I always try to buy local. Does that mean I hate Colorado? :roll:

    It sure sounds like you hate Illinois. Dick.
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  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    Jasunmark wrote:
    Yeah, I patronize gay-owned businesses any time I can. Sorry if that offends your sensibilities, but it's the way it goes.

    I'm not refusing business to straight-owned places but I do want to support my own community.

    that is so gay :mrgreen::mrgreen:
  • milarsomilarso Posts: 1,280
    I don't care who owns the place.
    Black, white, gay, straight- a long as they sell beer and/or have good drink specials, they are getting my business :lol:
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,209
    blackredyellow wrote:
    People who are making a big deal about this are really saying a lot about themselves...

    If you want a good laugh, go check out the 20+ page thread about it on the hannity board... And I say good laugh because if you go to that board at all, you have to be in the mindset of not taking ANYTHING serious.

    I used to visit that site every now and then just to get a laugh at some of the most redicolus threads they come up with. Now they won't let me post for some reason.

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  • adropintheparkadropinthepark Posts: 475
    milarso wrote:
    I don't care who owns the place.
    Black, white, gay, straight- a long as they sell beer and/or have good drink specials, they are getting my business :lol:


    Holla ;)
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    JB811 wrote:
    So if white people only want to patronize white owned stores it is racism

    Sorry, maybe I wasn't reading carefully enough, but where did it say anything like that in the link you posted?
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