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This BS all started under 0bama. Pre0bama…racism was just about forgotten. We weren’t prefix-Americans…we were just Americans. 0bama picked the scab and set us back 50 years…he effectively divided Americans by race again. This divide has created a crevasse which will continue to widen until this nonsense stops. As General Flynn says: 0bamaism…the precursor to wokism…division by design. We must put this BS as this woman publishes behind us. Until we do…the crevasse widens. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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He was your Ruler! TWICE!  | |||
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No argument from me on that one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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I wonder what that woman gets paid.  There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. – John Green, author | |||
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 -Every damn thing is your own fault if you are any good. | |||
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Just vote demoncrat and you'll be considered a useless idiot but at least you'll be safe. For awhile. ~Ann   | |||
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You have always been prefix Americans, it’s not a new thing Obama invented. I’ve always been puzzled why you refer to yourselves as Italian American, Irish American, African American, it certainly didn’t start in the last decade or so, it was happening to just the same extent in the early 90’s when I started spending more time in the US having met my wife. And whilst we are at it racism wasn’t invented by Obama either, the times I was there in the 90’s and 00’s it was alive and well. I didn’t go to Texas back then but Florida, NJ, NY Delaware, plenty of racism there. Btw I haven’t read Saeeds link, just in case it puts your comments into a different context, I refuse to give the DM a single penny where I can avoid doing so. | |||
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I am a mutt, never mind the prefixes. I am Swiss/Irish on my mother's side, French (and according to my father's old aunties, American Indian) on my father's side. Who knows what else further back, I only know back to 1600s because someone else looked it up for his own reasons and what he dug up doesn't include any of the side branches. Hyphenating the whole mess would be an pointless waste of time. Mutts are stronger, healthier, and smarter than purebreds. Having said that, there are so few purebreds now that the proposition is impossible to prove or disprove. Whatever. I belong in the world. Finally, after 70-odd years of wondering about it. I take issue with the term cisgender, a prissy and entirely unnecessary piece of verbiage. I was born male and I like it that way. Lets not paint me with some else's hog hair brush. I know a number of black citizens who check eight of her nine boxes, and a couple more boxes that she left out from not knowing. Some of them might not like her characterization. Dr Golden must surely know something about what's earned. MDs aren't given out for participation trophies, and she didn't get where she is, easy. TomP Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right. Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906) | |||
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And pray tell what racism did you observe? | |||
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It is always funny when people from other places know more about the US than lifelong US citizens do. We have not ALWAYS been prefixAmericans. That started in the 60s and was waning in the 90s and early 00s. 0bama resurrected it and made it mainstream again. Divide and conquer was his motto. I have no prefix. I am just an American. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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I'm a Texan, which part of the description includes being an American, only more so opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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Just my observations Lane, every bit as valid as yours. Not claiming to know more about the US at all, just pointing out that some of your comments are inaccurate. | |||
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That is just it Nute, my comments were not inaccurate at all and your observations were not valid. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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The only racism Obama contributed to was butt-hurt Republican racists who didn't like a non-white President. "If you’re innocent why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”- Donald Trump | |||
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A 100% false statement. 0bama set race relations back to 1968 levels. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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Nonsense. What did Obama do to set back race relations? | |||
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I do remember, and was very surprised, that a President would say such a thing. There was a black criminal, and Obama said he felt that his son was being railroaded by the law because he is black! What a bloody IDIOT! Instead of standing on the side of law and order, he took the side of being black, regardless! | |||
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You assert that racism was just about forgotten and no one viewed themselves as anything but just American pre Obama. I met plenty of people who viewed themselves as “prefix “ Americans in the 90’s and 00’s, which suggests my view is perfectly valid. Those of Italian or Irish decent seem particularly vocal about their origins. If you for some reason didn’t that doesn’t prove your view. Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence, you of all people should understand that, but evidently you don’t. | |||
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Well written! . | |||
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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It really appalls me that you can even ask that. See Saeed’s post above? He even remembers…just multiply his memory by about a half a dozen occurrences and actions. It begins with his affiliation with Jeremiah Wright—echoing his racist comments, cranks up with his debacle about Henry Louis Gates, and continues through his statements on Travon Martin and Michael Brown…adding in 2 or 3 other occurrences which I can’t remember right off the top of my head. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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This is what you said, and that’s what I responded to.
You are now moving the goalposts somewhat, you are now saying it was “far from zero”, which is exactly what I said. For the last 30 years, covid excepted, I’m in the US for 2+ months a year and met lots of prefixes and seen lots of racism. Far from zero is bang on the money. Has it got worse recently, yes it has, but that’s not what I was disagreeing with and not what I said. | |||
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I will let you have the last word on the disagreement. My point was that racism was better immediately pre0bama and worse afterwards. Prefix use was less immediately pre0bama and more afterwards. And, I average 24/7/340 in the USA for the last score and for the prior 2 score — 24/7/365.  Even though I go and work on LOTS of European horses…you will never catch me telling me telling Europeans about their culture. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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I don’t need the last word Lane, I’m not 12. I only posted to disagree with the words in your initial post, I don’t come here looking for an argument, I was just pointing out that your comments weren't entirely accurate. Your opinion on what you may have seen whilst over here is just as valid as mine. Just because you don’t live here doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. | |||
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100% correct. And anybody who claims racism was nearly a thing of the past is a bald faced liar, and full well knows it. | |||
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Not. It is a fact. At the turn of the millennium…racism had waned and was on trajectory for extinction…until 0bama resurrected it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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god, we need a war. | |||
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Obo's "go out and punish your enemies" talking to the Latino crowd, was a real kumbia moment. | |||
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I'm privileged. Like Jeffeoso, I'm a Texan! In my experience having hired and worked with all manner of people of virtually every race and ethnicity, the "privileged" ones are the ones who work hard. And those that don't, not so much. | |||
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Isn't that something! The harder I worked the more privileged I got. . | |||
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Of all the stupid things you've ever posted on here, this one takes the cake. Explain to all of us how an old, country-living, upper middle-class white man is qualified to comment on the state of racism in the country? Start by telling us all the instances of racism that you have personally experienced in your lifetime. Clueless.  -Every damn thing is your own fault if you are any good. | |||
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No hatter how we look at it, racism is here to stay. But, the really sad part is blacks are making a meal of it! BLM? Does that mean ONLY BLACK lives matter? What about the rest of the colors?? BLM is the black version of the KKK! My suggestion is get all members of both organizations and put the lot in a stadium and let them dick it out!  | |||
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Clueless? An old saying comes to mind: “buy you books, buy you books, and all you do is chew the cover off.” I have explained…many times…you are too blind (or “clueless”) to see it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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Again: Explain to all of us how an old, country-living, upper middle-class white man is qualified to comment on the state of racism in the country? Start by telling us all the instances of racism that you have personally experienced in your lifetime. -Every damn thing is your own fault if you are any good. | |||
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Again...I have many times. If your biological CPU (brain) is too small, weak, or over capacity to compute or store that data...your bad...not mine. But "clueless" is a good layman's term for your affliction. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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I have seen and benefitted from racism. In 1970 I was hired for a job, in Huntsville, Alabama, largely because the foreman "didn't want another nigger". Kind of a slap in the face, really. I should have been hired because I could do the job better than anyone else (which I could). Injecting race into the mix was an insult to my own integrity and ability. Interestingly, 30 years later, my skin color (along with age and gender) was to become a liability in many segments of the job market. Regards, Bill. | |||
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About that same time, I was working in a red-state West Virginia orchard with busloads of Mexicans. Real buses, not minivans. No hablan ingles. My poor classroom espanol was poquito... TomP Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right. Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906) | |||
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