Mac1958
Diamond Member
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Just a thought to toss out:
I'm Portuguese, Spanish and Austrian. Darker skin, black hair (well, okay, some graying along the edges, shit). I could pass for any number of "Brown" ethnicities. My wife is half Mexican. Father in law is straight from Mexico, lovely man, love him like he's my own. Big extended family. Huge, Mexican-tinged holiday parties, holy crap.
Our two beautiful kids are darker skin, dark hair, and kicking ass. The world is theirs, and they make us more proud with each passing day.
If someone doesn't like me or do business with me, or doesn't like my brothers, or doesn't like my wife or her family or our kids because of the color of our skin and/or hair, they can pretty much just fuck right off. It would be completely out of our thought processes within about two minutes and we will have moved on. Their problem, not ours.
Anyway, here's the actual point: When I see all these celebratory "Browning of America" threads, I don't think about that per se, because I really don't give a crap. What I think about is the anger and hatred and self-loathing in which these people must be stewing. And I think about all the "leaders" who are egging them on for their own self-aggrandizement.
So while I do get a little temporarily annoyed by the latest self-loathing thread, I just remember that the poster is suffering because of their own anger and hatred. They figure if they can spread their own misery around, and poke and those they despise, maybe they'll feel a little better about themselves and their skin color for a while.
Meh. Whatever. Life is short, and I'm just glad me and mine don't think like you. Can't imagine that.
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Just a thought to toss out:
I'm Portuguese, Spanish and Austrian. Darker skin, black hair (well, okay, some graying along the edges, shit). I could pass for any number of "Brown" ethnicities. My wife is half Mexican. Father in law is straight from Mexico, lovely man, love him like he's my own. Big extended family. Huge, Mexican-tinged holiday parties, holy crap.
Our two beautiful kids are darker skin, dark hair, and kicking ass. The world is theirs, and they make us more proud with each passing day.
If someone doesn't like me or do business with me, or doesn't like my brothers, or doesn't like my wife or her family or our kids because of the color of our skin and/or hair, they can pretty much just fuck right off. It would be completely out of our thought processes within about two minutes and we will have moved on. Their problem, not ours.
Anyway, here's the actual point: When I see all these celebratory "Browning of America" threads, I don't think about that per se, because I really don't give a crap. What I think about is the anger and hatred and self-loathing in which these people must be stewing. And I think about all the "leaders" who are egging them on for their own self-aggrandizement.
So while I do get a little temporarily annoyed by the latest self-loathing thread, I just remember that the poster is suffering because of their own anger and hatred. They figure if they can spread their own misery around, and poke and those they despise, maybe they'll feel a little better about themselves and their skin color for a while.
Meh. Whatever. Life is short, and I'm just glad me and mine don't think like you. Can't imagine that.
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