MarkostheGnostic said:

There is only ONE race - Human

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I for one endeavor to exceed the limitations of base humanity with its petty hatreds, greed and war. My personal development is not yet another iteration of the slow-to-grow humanity that we see evidenced by those <100 IQ voters who support that POS puppet POTUS in the White House. No, humans are NOT born racist, they are taught by their morally and intellectually bereft parents. Just so you know, I do not need your respect. In fact, I do I want anything to do with parochial-minded tribal townie types (especially those types with a battle flag of North Virginia hanging in his bedroom or truck). I am a liberal, pacifist, vegetarian, heterosexual, Social Democratic monogamist with a Jewish soul and Christian spirit whose lifestyle has nothing to do with the 2nd Amendment and who sees ammosexuality as a particularly perverse paraphilia. Just FYI. Feel free to put me on your Ignore list.

Consider proof-reading your final draft.


'Nurture,' not nature.

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Citizen X said:

I don’t know if there’s any leftists on this site buddy

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can any leftist answer me that?

no. you won't.

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BassBoom said:

I am mixed raced, My mom is half English half German, my dad is black, I love that i got to grow up around 2 different cultures, i love both sides of my family equally.

Its a shame some people seem to have negative stereotypes towards a single race, Not all black people live in the hood and listen to rap music and not all black people who do live in the hood and do listen to rap music fit your stereotype, There are plenty of good kind hearted black people that do live in the hood, There are plenty of misguided, frustrated hopeless and angry black people too and also white people in the same boat.

These poverty area's tend to instill the same negative angry mentality into the majority of its occupants in a vicious circle, Seeing my older brother in and out of jail and the stress and heartache that put my parents through made me as the youngest brother want a change. I remember a time when i was hopeless in poverty contemplating crime as my only exit plan, in fact when i was younger i did commit some petty crimes to make ends meet, I never had anybody to instill in me the belief that i could become anything i wanted, i was always given the impression becoming something like a doctor is something beyond the realms of possibility, growing up and having a nice house and a nice car was something i never dreamed was possible. When you have no hope and no belief that you can accomplish something it kills your desire and spirit to pursue such a thing We were always taught  that life was hard, there were no opportunities for us and the only role models and opportunities we could see were the drug dealers and criminals, it was the only thing we could look at and think that was something we could practical do without the need of help from anybody else. 

Looking back now at the age of 33, i find it insane that i had this mentality back then, i look back at that young kid like its a totally different person, i wish i could go back and instill the things that i know now, if i could go back to school i would do things totally different i now believe i could have absolutely become a doctor had i put my mind to it. There is a reason there are so many African Nigerian black doctors, they are raised having been instilled with the belief that its not only possible but for many expected, many of these black kids in the "hood" are of the exact same origin yet none of them are becoming doctors, this should tell you its not their skin color holding them back and making them turn to crime its the mentality instilled in them from their environment.

Instead of people avoiding each other, we need more people doing the exact opposite reminding us that we are all the same, i was fortunate enough to have seen two sides of life being mixed race, i saw people doing well and i saw people in the hood, seeing people doing well in my family made me not like growing up in the hood, made me want more from life, made me realize things i thought were not possible for me actually were possible for me. had i not had a positive influence like this i believe i would have 100% have been doomed to the same fate as most of the other people i grew up around, The biggest turning point for me was having a drug induced spiritual awakening, that truly showed me anything was possible and since then my life took a complete 180 for the better.

Its like when you watch these talk shows, women in abusive relationships, let people treat them like crap, have no self love, always attract negative partners, Often people in the audience are looking at them like omg you are beautiful why do you continue to let this person treat you this way, you are worth so much more, you could do so much better, its extremely difficult to instill in such a person their true self worth when they are hopeless and have none. They don't truly believe they can do any better, they don't believe they have any value etc, its exactly the same phenomenon happening in these poverty areas, people have no sense of worth, no love for them self or others, they think the world is against them, this is exactly how i was raised to think. Telling people like this they can do better no matter how obvious it may be to you as an outsider is seemingly impossible for them to see for them selves, and in hindsight as somebody who eventually " saw the light" its crazy looking back at the old me who was stuck in that negative state of mind.

The worst thing somebody could have done was avoid me, brand me a racist, look down on me like i was a piece of crap etc. What i needed was help, positive role models, people to instill belief, love and worthiness even when i couldn't see it my self, And that;'s exactly what i try and do to all the young people i see stuck in the same frame of mind i have been fortunate enough to have overcome.

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the_way said:

proof reading is for editorial bitches if you get it fix it, not that kind of peter parker. those black people at work are stuntn on you, dont shit where you eat. system still racist there's not much to get over. most realizing you come from peasant background too, we as a people of oppression need to find a way to celebrate our archaic revival. get this rena popn


stop clutchn your purse

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Peyote Road said:

MarkostheGnostic said:

There is only ONE race - Human

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Markos, with all due respect I fear you are adding to the confusion with statements like this. It sounds almost as though you are conflating race with species. I am under the impression that the word race is typically used to denote variations and divisions within the human species. If there is only one race, why not simply say species? 

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Buster_Brown said:

Peyote Road said:

MarkostheGnostic said:

There is only ONE race - Human

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Markos, with all due respect I fear you are adding to the confusion with statements like this. It sounds almost as though you are conflating race with species. I am under the impression that the word race is typically used to denote variations and divisions within the human species. If there is only one race, why not simply say species? 

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In Marko's defense I present CHARLES DARWIN, On the Origin of Species link:

"...varieties are species in the process of formation, or are, as I have called them, incipient species."

In context:

"In the first place, varieties, even strongly-marked ones, though having somewhat of the character of species as is shown by the hopeless doubts in many cases how to rank them yet certainly differ from each other far less than do good and distinct species. Nevertheless, according to my view, varieties are species in the process of formation, or are, as I have called them, incipient species. How, then, does the lesser difference between varieties become augmented into the greater difference between species? That this does habitually happen, we must infer from most of the innumerable species throughout nature presenting well-marked differences; whereas varieties, the supposed prototypes and parents of future well-marked species, present slight and ill-defined differences. Mere chance, as we may call it, might cause one variety to differ in some character from its parents, and the offspring of this variety again to differ from its parent in the very same character and in a greater degree; but this alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species and species of the same genus."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we're discussing different species within the genus or race.

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