But I know the naysayers don't believe me so I can't resist showing you the proof:
what i find amazing is the media and their unbalanced coverage of the candidates. this is not the journalism i learned in school. not even close. seems like what i learned is a fairy tale.great post here, cbw!
I've forwarded this to video to a few of my more liberal friends. What I find shocking (and amusing) is their outright anger! I'm just spreading information. I tell them-I'm not the one you should be mad at. I find the closedmindedness of those who pride themselves in being openminded amazing. I don't fire back angry retorts when they forward me anti-McCain articles.
It completely boggles my mind that our people are so resistant to hearing another side. It's so amazing that if information doesn't come in the form of a soundbyte or dumb-azz powerpoint presentation w/o text that we refuse to take it in. What can you do?
I'm not surprised at all about the anger. I remember in 2001 not long after Pres. Bush was elected when I sent an email to many of my Christian friends asking them to pray for the president. This gal I will refer to is one of them that received my email. During two different times in our lives we attended the same church. Sad to say I found out that she was a rabid liberal because of this harmless email asking for prayer. For the record I do not consider liberals in general as rabid. I refer to her as one because she replied all to my email with such vitriol because she said she never saw forwarded emails from people to pray for Pres. Clinton. It was an amazing rant. Her comments were so hurtful that I actually bursted into tears crying at my desk at work. I just could not believe that someone would get mad because someone asked her to pray for the president. That is in the Bible. It was not a personal issue with me. I was absolutely amazed that a Christian would get that upset about someone asking for prayer. I take prayer very seriously. I do not remember if at the time I wondered if she wished Pres. Bush dead. Mind you he had not been elected long enough to really do anything much. In fact he has not been in office two months at the time. The reason I remember this was because both of us were working at a company that would have layoffs the end of February. This was during the time before she lost her job. Pres. Bush's first day in office would have been in January 2001 on inauguration day. To this day I don't send emails to her about anything that mentions the name of Republican politicians. I get them from her almost daily slamming Palin and McCain. I quietly delete them without responding. I gave general responses about the bailout nonsense since both sides at first were against it (however for different reasons as you know). Other than that I have kept quiet. She would be upset if I sent her the link to the Freedom Journal Magazine. She suffers from high blood pressure. I think you can see why. Anger and bitterness is not good for your health. We have had this discussion about anger in another context of course. Pretty much everything bad that happens to her she first believes is because of racism. I have no words to describes how sad I feel for her. She is stuck in her own little perverted little world. I feel really bad for her but who wants to bring this up? I'm not a glutton for punishment. The Lord will have to deal with her. Unless He says I should I will keep quiet. He has ways of making His plan clear. I'm sure He has tried more than once but at this point she has refused to change.There is a lot of anger and bitterness in some blacks, especially with some that are old enough to remember the separate fountains, watching the KKK marching down streets, seeing lynchings, homes burned down or bombed, etc. My friend would have been teeny-bob age when all of that was going on. I was eight years old when Martin Luther King was assassinated. When you are that angry and bitter the truth does not matter. If you think your party is perfect and will take care of your trouble any truth about that perfect party will be dismissed and you will become the enemy.The hurtful thing for me as a Christian is to see blacks still holding on to that bitterness and anger when the Bible plainly says that Christ views them as murderers in their hearts. The Bible also says that they will not be forgiven if they do not forgive their brothers. Too many blame all whites for what some did because they have had their opportunities longer because of racism aka white privilege. Again unforgiveness and bitterness at work. These same angry bitter people vote, campaign and sad to say minister out of that bitter place.
This is an asesome blog. I have been looking for something like this for a long time. As a conservative black woman myself it can get pretty lonely and depressing sometimes. The BC seems to just follow like lemmings and I can't get people to think things through. I loved your explanation of the current economic crisis. I understand things the way you do as I worked in banking for 10 years prior to having my kids and becoming a stay at home mom. As bankers you are accused of everything evil. We are prejudiced just becasue we don't have as many loans on the books for minorities. The facts dont matter. The ONLY reason for the disparity HAS to be discrimination in some people's minds. Well as a former banker I know that I didn't get paid unless I was able to put loans on the books so why do I care what color someone is? If they qualify I will fight tooth and nail to get that loan approved and on the books. But if the government threatens you with preventing growth of the bank or fines you will do as you are told as a banking institution. So you come up with creative ways to lend. These people are not going to get the same type of loans that quality borrowers are going to get. The government can't make a bank do that so you have to mitigate your risk with higher rates and other 'creative' lending practices. You are damned if you do and damned if you don't. I loved banking but hated all the PC crap we had to do to continue in business when you knew there was no money to be made. We weren't a charity. Anyway thanks for the breath of fresh air. Loved it
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what i find amazing is the media and their unbalanced coverage of the candidates. this is not the journalism i learned in school. not even close. seems like what i learned is a fairy tale.
great post here, cbw!
I've forwarded this to video to a few of my more liberal friends. What I find shocking (and amusing) is their outright anger! I'm just spreading information. I tell them-I'm not the one you should be mad at.
I find the closedmindedness of those who pride themselves in being openminded amazing. I don't fire back angry retorts when they forward me anti-McCain articles.
It completely boggles my mind that our people are so resistant to hearing another side. It's so amazing that if information doesn't come in the form of a soundbyte or dumb-azz powerpoint presentation w/o text that we refuse to take it in. What can you do?
I'm not surprised at all about the anger. I remember in 2001 not long after Pres. Bush was elected when I sent an email to many of my Christian friends asking them to pray for the president. This gal I will refer to is one of them that received my email. During two different times in our lives we attended the same church. Sad to say I found out that she was a rabid liberal because of this harmless email asking for prayer. For the record I do not consider liberals in general as rabid. I refer to her as one because she replied all to my email with such vitriol because she said she never saw forwarded emails from people to pray for Pres. Clinton. It was an amazing rant. Her comments were so hurtful that I actually bursted into tears crying at my desk at work. I just could not believe that someone would get mad because someone asked her to pray for the president. That is in the Bible. It was not a personal issue with me. I was absolutely amazed that a Christian would get that upset about someone asking for prayer. I take prayer very seriously. I do not remember if at the time I wondered if she wished Pres. Bush dead. Mind you he had not been elected long enough to really do anything much. In fact he has not been in office two months at the time. The reason I remember this was because both of us were working at a company that would have layoffs the end of February. This was during the time before she lost her job. Pres. Bush's first day in office would have been in January 2001 on inauguration day. To this day I don't send emails to her about anything that mentions the name of Republican politicians. I get them from her almost daily slamming Palin and McCain. I quietly delete them without responding. I gave general responses about the bailout nonsense since both sides at first were against it (however for different reasons as you know). Other than that I have kept quiet. She would be upset if I sent her the link to the Freedom Journal Magazine. She suffers from high blood pressure. I think you can see why. Anger and bitterness is not good for your health. We have had this discussion about anger in another context of course. Pretty much everything bad that happens to her she first believes is because of racism. I have no words to describes how sad I feel for her. She is stuck in her own little perverted little world. I feel really bad for her but who wants to bring this up? I'm not a glutton for punishment. The Lord will have to deal with her. Unless He says I should I will keep quiet. He has ways of making His plan clear. I'm sure He has tried more than once but at this point she has refused to change.
There is a lot of anger and bitterness in some blacks, especially with some that are old enough to remember the separate fountains, watching the KKK marching down streets, seeing lynchings, homes burned down or bombed, etc. My friend would have been teeny-bob age when all of that was going on. I was eight years old when Martin Luther King was assassinated. When you are that angry and bitter the truth does not matter. If you think your party is perfect and will take care of your trouble any truth about that perfect party will be dismissed and you will become the enemy.
The hurtful thing for me as a Christian is to see blacks still holding on to that bitterness and anger when the Bible plainly says that Christ views them as murderers in their hearts. The Bible also says that they will not be forgiven if they do not forgive their brothers. Too many blame all whites for what some did because they have had their opportunities longer because of racism aka white privilege. Again unforgiveness and bitterness at work. These same angry bitter people vote, campaign and sad to say minister out of that bitter place.
This is an asesome blog. I have been looking for something like this for a long time. As a conservative black woman myself it can get pretty lonely and depressing sometimes. The BC seems to just follow like lemmings and I can't get people to think things through. I loved your explanation of the current economic crisis. I understand things the way you do as I worked in banking for 10 years prior to having my kids and becoming a stay at home mom. As bankers you are accused of everything evil. We are prejudiced just becasue we don't have as many loans on the books for minorities. The facts dont matter. The ONLY reason for the disparity HAS to be discrimination in some people's minds. Well as a former banker I know that I didn't get paid unless I was able to put loans on the books so why do I care what color someone is? If they qualify I will fight tooth and nail to get that loan approved and on the books. But if the government threatens you with preventing growth of the bank or fines you will do as you are told as a banking institution. So you come up with creative ways to lend. These people are not going to get the same type of loans that quality borrowers are going to get. The government can't make a bank do that so you have to mitigate your risk with higher rates and other 'creative' lending practices. You are damned if you do and damned if you don't. I loved banking but hated all the PC crap we had to do to continue in business when you knew there was no money to be made. We weren't a charity. Anyway thanks for the breath of fresh air. Loved it
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