E-mail Forward.
I like this kind of forward about as much as I like the ones telling me Jesus loves me.
Here are my thoughts, for what they're worth. Excuse the spelling, if you want to pass it on, please let your spell checker do it's thing. I really don't want to waste the energy doing it myself, that would make it seem that I acutally thought this was important. -Sheri
Andy Rooney ! said on "60 Minutes" a few weeks back:
I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America. The white versions of those things have been around much longer. Yes, I said white versions. Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America; and see what happens...Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door. Why bother? Those do tecnically already exist. Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. How many murders per-capita are there in Detroit? And Toronto? Hmmm, big disparity there. "Gun Violence?" You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game. Yes, but why would you need a gun at a ball game?
I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, that is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE? Who really cares about this? If you have 3 sons in scouts, should your tomboy daughter be excluded?
I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion. But if you try to kill them, or utter death threats against them, you sure are psycho. "Damn, I'd f'ing kill one who touched me." Sound familiar, folks?
I have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others because they are different, weird, or tick me off. That's a great attitude. Why don't other cultures like Americans again?
When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling, it is the Law of Probability. Yeah, and if Marshmallows only had 1 calorie a piece, they'd be diet food. Saying it doesn't make it an actual scenario.
I believe that if you are selling me a milkshake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you should have to speak English! And they say that Americans are rude. I don't know where they'd get ideas like that.
My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you can leave the countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours. Yeah, ain't mutual respect great? I think the police should have every right to shoot your sorry a_ _(bottom) if you threaten them, after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word "freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines. Fine, shoot tourists.
I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other business. Yeah, God knows America has enough of a poverty problem. Over 50% below the poverty line in places around the last hurricane path, I heard on CNN earlier this week.
We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document, and open to their interpretations. Ooh, yeah, the US supreme court is just filled with forigners.
I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor. Yeah, why pity the kid with an empty belly and no shoes on his feet? And good, I agree, you shouldn't hate anyone.
I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television. That doesn't stop you from watching them. And your point is....?
I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made, and continue to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that's better, and put your name on the building. Just don't be stupid and say, "Sorry Bill, can we take a look at that disk later? We're pretty busy," Like those guys from Apple in the 80's.
It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to stand up to the kid; and smack their little behinds when necessary, and say "NO!" Yeah, I love seeing kids with bruises from their loving parents. They always seem surprised when the kids hit them back.
I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don't pretend they are a political statement. And, please, stay home until that new lip ring heals. I don't want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you serve me French fries! Then if thine eye offends thee, pluck it out.
I am sick of "Political Correctness." I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa; so how can they be "African-Americans"? Besides, Africa is a continent. Oooh, big news there. I don't go around saying I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe. I am proud to be from America and nowhere else. Um, congratulations, I guess.
And if you don't like my point of view, tough... Likewise, bucko. These opinions DO make you a minority though... Uh oh!
DON'T PASS IT ON... It says as much about you for sending it as it does about me for answering it.
posted by Sheri @ 4:06 a.m.
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