If barack obama is such a great leader....why are we always moving from one crisis to the next

Just do a search on his posting history. He tells everything about his life.

 

Mooching off others success and acting like you are a success.... Sad.

 

You actually lost by saying you won on an internet message board.

 

some individuals do not only enjoy the economic aspects of their trade but also enjoy the "pride" aspect of their trade/craft/skill.

 

I've got enough time. It was actually hard to stop reading what you would post since you just blurt out everything about yourself and finances.

Btw I'm happy you made money on HIMX. I've done really well in the stock market so I'm happy when someone new doesn't get smashed. That said you don't need to be so insecure and it's strange seeing someone who was normal before turn into a spaz.

 

Hugs! I love you too!

I don't think you are netting 20k/mo either. ATMs just don't have that high of a profit margin. On top of that you are repaying loans. If you were making that much I'm sure you would employ someone to do your simple job. Btw I hope you have long term agreements on those locations. It would be disappointing to lose those locations.

And I was wondering how Dodd Frank and ADA changed the business. Any lawsuits yet or all of your ATMs compliant?

 

I'm aware that the government classifies all people of African descent as "african-american" but I would be somewhat interested if he saw himself as such.

I don't have exact figures on the "music and sports" thing, but I can assure you that there are MANY professional black people in Atlanta who are wealthy. When I say professional, I'm talking about "white collar jobs". The gated neighborhood in which my parents live comfortably ( with a payed off house) is majority black and that is very common in the ATL metro area.

 

First Gulf War......lol I had to google that to find out exactly when that took place. (I was 2 or 3 at the time).

While there is nothing inherently wrong with viewing yourself as a U.S. Citizen, there isn't necessarily anything wrong with not viewing yourself as an American.

To paraphrase El Haji Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X) just because you are sitting at a table, that doesn't make you a dinner guest.

Traveling abroad does offer a unique opportunity to see how others view the U.S. Most often I've been considered an American or "Yankee" as they like to say in Trinidad....but I've also been referred to as an African (again in Trinidad) It really just depends.

 

Actually from the point of linguists ebonics is not slang. That's an incorrect statement. In the media it is often portrayed as slang, but that's not what it is.

In the United States ebonics has it's own linguistic patterns and rules that are consistent. Slang is slang. For instance baby-daddy or whatever word you want to pick would be slang, but it would not be ebonics. But something like "He be crazy" is ebonics and not slang. It doesn't mean he's acting crazy, as much as it means he's always crazy. That's from the roots of the language.

Ebonics comes from the linguistic roots of African languages and dialects mixt with standard English. When the Africans were taken as slaves, they were all separated from anyone who spoke the same dialect. But all of their dialects had the same linguistic roots or rules. They weren't allowed to learn to read or write English or get any kind of education in English. So the enslaved Africans had to communicate. They took the vocabulary of the English they had in common, and mixed it with the rules of their native tongues. Their children and children's children learned this way of speaking. Most of the linguistic patterns are set by the time a child is around 3 or 4 years of age. Anyway, saying 'axed' instead of asked is ebonics because the way of way letters are put together in the root language the enslaved Africans knew of. It actually follows linguistic rules. Slang, however, was and always has been slang.

The idea of ebonics in schools was never to accept it for school work, but rather to understand the learners, and use that knowledge to teach standard English for the times it was appropriate to use it. It was always supposed to be a way to help learners understand the standard English that has been taught for ages.

 

Thank you very much for setting me straight, good person!

Curse that damnable liberal mess of a public education I had forced upon me!
And curse Al Sharpton! Just because!

I hope I didn’t sound as if I was attempting to debunk Ebonics, writ large. The phonetic principles involved are fairly consistent with the way languages are constructed across all cultures, you’re right. And in the historical context of this country from a black person’s perspective, you do the best you can with whatever the master leaves you.

You touched on, and it speaks to in a larger context, the underlying perception of most non-white people that black people are genetically inferior intellectually…in the context of what American society determines to be “smart” or “intelligent”.

It’s been proven that people who speak more than one language have much more active minds…more activity in their frontal lobes in order to maintain the knowledge of constructing different linguistic protocols as needed. These people aren’t necessarily “smarter”…but they have engaged their minds in several levels in order to accommodate several different needs as social interactions dictate.

And the history you cite speaks directly to the overt result of establishing a second-class status to people, and expecting somehow, to not have lingering consequences for it.

The problem with this for most non-white people, I’d imagine, is that at some point the correlation between the actual cessation of this discrimination and the advancement beyond it (meaning, at some point, English is English and it’s always better to speak it as properly as possible in diverse social settings) has to begin. And I’m sure that argument could be applied to a great many things that afflict the black community.

Black people, unfortunately still even until this moment, have to validate their existence in many different ways that are usually at the discretion of the approver…who in turn has the liberty (or temerity) to move the goalpost just before you score, if they don’t like the fact that you’re winning the game.
Slang is slang, you’re right. But for non-white people, Ebonics is slang, even down to the common principles consistent in all forms of language, primarily because (or perhaps, exclusively because) it is used largely by poor black people. And language, again, for me, passes on cultural traits and heritage that runs much deeper than the surface.

Adaptation is another form of intelligence, and given the adversity of the black experience in America up until now, Black people are as smart as anybody.

My mother used to say to me, though, that people tend to care more about what something looks like (or here, sounds like) than what it actually is. Perception oftentimes is reality to some of us. There are enough reasons (and people who are all too ready and willing) to dismiss black people on general principle, anyway.

Just look at how Senator Rand Paul behaved on his “fact-finding, minority outreach” pilgrimage to Howard University a few months back. What level of contempt does it take to go onto a college campus (a historically Black campus, that had to be built because people think Black folk don’t like school and can’t learn anything anyway)…

…and purport to tell those students there what they should and should not know about African-American history? Even going so far as to say “…I don’t know what you know…”?

At the end of the day, the image of black people, en masse, is not particularly flattering among non-white people, whose sample-sizes of social interactions with blacks are largely confined to the negative.

Sometimes, my friend, it’s not about what’s in the package…but how it’s presented.

For all the good that ever did a black man…

 

What a demeaning statement. You seriously are going to come on here and claim that "non-white people" have this underlying perception? That's f'ing insulting to non-white people. What hard evidence do you have to back up this disgusting comment that you just tried to pass off as fact?

 

I'd think you know better than that.

It's probably the same amount of evidence you can find of black kids being dumb as puppies...or of some black people being race-baiters or race-hustlers.

Speaking in generalizations about people hurts, doesn't it?

I have said myself, many times (and to you directly), that our interactions and experiences with each other will always been anecdotal, and a reliance soley on statistics or numbers gives too many people the opportunity to take advantage of biases and grievances.

There are as many "facts" as you want to hear or look up or research and regurgitate on just about anything you'd like in this world we live in nowadays.

The only "facts" I'd present to anybody regarding this are the ones that you yourself may believe.

The facts of life. And living it under certain conditions specifically.
I don't cry about it much, because it is what it is. And the only way to fix any of these things, in my mind is to deal with them at human and personal levels.

And that does mean pointing out the racial aspects, so that they can become "antiquated" more quickly than statisticians would be inclined to chart.

 

Pretty good job summing up the "african-american" experience........missing a few important things, but overall correct. I will add, just for the curious, that there are certain "african-americans" who, because of their unique geographic location had an easier time hanging onto their ancestors traditional dialects and customs (ala africans in S. America and the Caribbean). These people are called the Gullahs or sometimes the Geechee people.

 

Wow. That's wild. Never knew about that. I just looked up a video of someone speaking Gullah. Opened my eyes. I grew up near Acres Home in Houston and recall a time I was standing in grocery line behind two black gentlemen speaking. I thought they were just speaking ebonics, etc, and even though I grew up around a lot of black people I could not make out a damned word of what they were saying. Now that I've seen the video, it sounds a lot like that, and makes sense I didn't understand.

 

You don't deserve to have him!!!



he doesn't get to anything. he just give a speech, and than park on the 3 point line. you should just trade him to LA where he'll be appreciate and use correctly.