Neighborhood Watch guy chases down a kid, shoots him, charged with 2nd-degree murder

**yourmom_is_hot** · 06-04-2012, 08:27 AM

TRRW just believes what he wants to believe, and anything that runs counter to that is ignorant. He's the ebony to the republican's ivory.

**tommyz** · 06-04-2012, 08:33 AM

Originally Posted by Willie Mays Hayes

You were NOT poor as a kid. You were lower middle class, same as I was. I thought I grew up with very little until I saw actual poverty.

For the record, I'm not defending TRRW calling people bigots. I think the vast majority of this message board is pretty progressive about issues like skin color. I just think most of you are in a nice well insulated cocoon and really have no clue about what life is like only 10 miles away.

Also, TRRW calling someone a bigot doesn't make him a bigot.

Agree 100% with the bolded part..Other than that, staying away from the rest of the subject..

**sseelhoff** · 06-04-2012, 09:06 AM

And now for a musical interlude

**General283** · 06-04-2012, 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by Willie Mays Hayes

You were NOT poor as a kid. You were lower middle class, same as I was. I thought I grew up with very little until I saw actual poverty.

For the record, I'm not defending TRRW calling people bigots. I think the vast majority of this message board is pretty progressive about issues like skin color. I just think most of you are in a nice well insulated cocoon and really have no clue about what life is like only 10 miles away.

Also, TRRW calling someone a bigot doesn't make him a bigot.

It's hard to be a more deplorable person than the guy who says crap like this

**ACfromtheD** · 06-04-2012, 09:43 AM

Birthdays was the worst days now we sip champagne when we thirstay.

**phillyfan** · 06-04-2012, 09:44 AM

Maybe WMH can organize an si poor people meet & greet event. Possibly a happy hour.

**The Great Gazoo** · 06-04-2012, 09:53 AM

Originally Posted by phillyfan

Maybe WMH can organize an si poor people meet & greet event. Possibly a happy hour.

now how are they gonna afford drinks?

**phillyfan** · 06-04-2012, 09:58 AM

Originally Posted by The Great Gazoo

now how are they gonna afford drinks?

Poor people can afford alcohol. I always seeing homeless people drinking liquor.

**motorcityjoe611** · 06-04-2012, 10:00 AM

Originally Posted by Willie Mays Hayes

You were NOT poor as a kid. You were lower middle class, same as I was. I thought I grew up with very little until I saw actual poverty.

For the record, I'm not defending TRRW calling people bigots. I think the vast majority of this message board is pretty progressive about issues like skin color. I just think most of you are in a nice well insulated cocoon and really have no clue about what life is like only 10 miles away.

Also, TRRW calling someone a bigot doesn't make him a bigot.

This thread has revealed so many interesting things. Amazing how trying to have a reasoned discussion devolves into finger-pointing and accusations from both sides as to what they are and are not, what they believe and don't believe while exposing our own foibles and preconceptions. It's taught me that no matter how apparent something seems, I'd be better served subscribing more often to the old Mark Twain adage, "Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

What I've also learned from my kids' generation is that the avoidance of talking about race creates a bigger chasm than I ever imagined. They are able to discuss their differences without being labeled a racist. That's a great world to live in, but I'm not sure many of us, myself included, can "unlearn" the experiences that got us to this point.

I was raised lower middle class. I thought I was rich until I went to high school and met real rich people, then worked in Grosse Pointe and met really rich people. And when I observed poor people while painting houses and cutting grass in parts of downtown Detroit, I thought I was rich again. The word poor gets thrown around as casually as the word great is applied to athletes.

And in regards to the bolded part above, I am well aware of what exists less than 10 miles from me, and as such choose not to put myself in situations that bring me into an environment rife with desperate people. Chance, hard-work, accident of birth, call it what you like, but just because some of us live comfortably and don't venture outside the comfort zones we're living in doesn't mean we are uneducated as to what type of climate lower economic environments can create.

And sure, TRRW can call someone a bigot without himself being a bigot, but it's a little tiresome that anytime someone's take doesn't dovetail with his, the reply is usually a face-melting retort that would make an evangelist envious. I think there's a lot of worthwhile things to be learned on this board, but oftentimes the rhetoric makes my brain throb.