Quote From: shawnylou
My two grandson's are both racially mixed.
fathers both black and my daughter Caucasian.
The Blacks I know of prefer not to be called African Americans as they find comfort in Black American.
I know many people from Africa and they find it hard to accept "African Americans" but readily accept the term Black America.
With-in the last two years we have seen an out-burst of "mouth" vocal issues of rude behaviors. ON all behaviors from everyone. Including Al Sharpton to Reverend Jackson.
1. Imus, he decided to make a joke out of the ladies on the basket ball team. He has been off the radio air waves for almost one year. He is now coming back to the air waves in another month to a different station. Supposedly he has learned to be more sensitive.
2. "Kramer.. lol.. he had an outburst at a heckler while performing on stage doing his routine as a comedian less than a year ago and went wild on the guy [ ballistic He is sorry and NO one has heard from him since. In the meanwhile everyone makes fun of Jews on and off the airwaves and Italians and Mexicans and Indians /Muslims and anyone else they can.
3. Jena 6 is the BIGGEST embarrassment in American history this side of the 2000 decade so far. Note: I said SO FAR*
4. A NOOSE? and that town has /had no clue as to what a noose is or what that meant during the slave days and when they went looking for a slave that ran away? THEY HUNG THE SLAVE!
5. What lawyers were given to those kids and what governor runs that town who could not educate that town in the right or wrong in that NOOSE hanging from a frig-gen tree?
6. Does not one person study history anymore?
7. Katrina is highly suspect in the abuse of the poor as well. Did color play a part or simply because people were poor and they did not matter as much as the rich?
Back to Mr. Chapman...he was so honest in a private conversation to his own son who received 15,000.00 to TELL on DADDY. Wrong or right? Too late now and the lips are loose and Mrs.. Chapman is devastated and the Chapman family are sorry and now the repent part is happening and everyone and their brother are here to JUDGE.
8. Cracker,, word for white person, cannot be used and not in a comedy anymore and cheap Jew and any mention about a Jew being tight with money cannot be mentioned in any comments on television anymore.
Jesse Jackson has made many fopahs regarding the Jewish people and so has Sharpton and many regarding the white folk.
9. There are other ways and better ways to handle things than the way those two handle the situations most of the time.And the 3rd associate of their ilk is the most ferocious of them all and the biggest bigot Louis Farrakhan, that is a dangerous man.
10. My grandson was in a fight at school recently regarding his color. He defended himself. he was suspended for fighting. The kid who called him the racial slur is being taken out of the school district . The word "Nig--r " is a hate crime word in our district here in Washington state.
11. what is black? Look in a crayon box and not one color is pure white or black.. find the colors of what your tone is and I bet you, that we are that crayon box and basically this whole sad mess is just that .. A MESS!
12. This takes all of us to look at each other and be neighbors and friends and take good care of our children and not allow this to happen at all.
Should Mr. Chapman have a second chance ?
I believe he really did not know any better was raised that way. I know Denver, it is a place of "hard" and now he is getting the education of his life. Do not use your mouth like that EVER ABOUT ANYONE*
None of us should and he should not have to ask Sharpton or Jackson for forgiveness, but instead the common Black people of America and the woman his son dates for forgiveness.
How do we keep this from happening at all? Start at home and never use that language at home , children really need to play with all sorts of children from all backgrounds and cultures and religions. Balnce is absolutely healthy for kids and parents need to get out and greet people and get out of their rut's too. Volunteer at school and get on school boards and know the people in your community and make sure that the kids get to play with all cultures .
No name calling, no bullying, no comparing of clothes and it would be nice if no one noticed the bald kid too.
Point, you begin at home and take one tongue at a time.
Patience is a good start.
The epidemic of bad language and hate has got to stop! NOW that is BAD FORM*
Saying that "The Dog" didn't know any better than to use the "N" word is the height of ignorance!! Of course he knows better and it is not because he lived in Denver, either! I live near Denver and also lived in Houston, Texas, for a very long time!! Comparatively speaking, Houston is FAR worse in terms of racial "inequality" than Denver is!! Denver is a very cosmopolitan city and much more tolerant of racial differences than Houston or any place in Texas is, and I have lived virtually all over Texas!! What really amazes me is that there is ANY issue at all about skin color!! We are all born a color....but, who is responsible for how and what color he/she is born?!? Making an issue of skin color is not only ignorant but shallow and silly at the same time! Is it possible that the differences people talk about are more CULTURAL than about skin color? As for Mr. Chapman, I am certain that he had NO idea that his son was taping their conversation...what parent suspects a child of taping a private conversation, anyway? The point is that obviously, Tucker has a reason for selling that taped conversation, which brings up a whole set of issues between Tucker and his father. Those problems will have to be settled at some point (or not) but, the point is that A&E had no choice but to pull Chapman's show because of the controversy involved. This supposedly quelled a lot of negative backlash that was sure to happen had they left it on the air. I think A&E intends to let the whole thing die down and hopefully, at a later date, put him back on the air....probably very late at night, as they have done with Victoria Gotti's show, albeit to satisfy contractual obligations as well and to stave off possible legal action by Chapman. He probably will file suit anyway, if for no other reason than to protect his name. The whole situation is sad and pathetic. The ONLY problem I have with Mr. Chapman is that in the last show I watched (which was probably over a year ago), one of his puppies was attacked by two of his other dogs and severely injured. Either he or his wife found the puppy in an outside garden, assumed it was dead, and tossed it over into another part of the garden! The next morning, apparently, they realized the poor puppy was still alive and then, and only then, (I presume because the cameras were rolling), tossed the nearly-dead puppy into the back of his car, supposedly to take it to the vet. Not another word was said about the puppy or whether or not it survived, but I was so incensed by the callousness of the poor puppy's treatment, I have not watched the show since. This, on top of the recent events and remarks involving Tucker's "black" girlfriend, have only solidified my impression that Mr. Chapman has very little compassion for ALL living things except when the cameras are rolling. Personally, I think a nice, long hiatus from Mr. Chapman and his self-aggrandizing behavior would be a very GOOD thing!