The Archaic guide to rebuilding New Orleans
Guzzo
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When asked by a Former New Orleans school teacher who is in an interracial marriage about what he he can do to help the situation in New Orleans Harvey responded with this:
Quite possibly one of his greatest hits.The easiest answer to your question is for you to lose the sarcastic attitude.From the way you sound, that would be a lifetime worth of action in and of itself. But beyond that, yes, it will take you opening yourself up to ideas that at this point you may typically act automatically defensive towards. It will entail reading books and basically learning more about the history of racism. It will most likely necessitate you engaging in more meaningful conversations with blacks, or for that matter any people of color, than you have in the past or do now. It may mean that when you see other white people engaging in racist behavior, no matter how slight and petty, that you atempt to correct them rather than letting them slide. It may mean being less of a white guy all of the time...specifically being less egotistical, intrusive, insensitive, overly defensive, passive aggressive, etc.
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Is he talking to himself?
Just because someone, especially a white dude, is part of an interracial marriage does not automatically mean that they have corrected all of the racist tendencies that have been hammered into them since birth by American society.
And just because someone visits New Orleans for a mere 2 years, even as a school teacher, doesn't mean that their opinions on New Orleans can't be trumped by people who have grown up there and thus have a much more significant attachment to the city and its culture.
But ultimately you should reason with the idea that all sorts of people from New Orleans besides me are saying the same sort of things as me.
Of course to you, what the people of NOLA are specifically asking for is much less important than what you want to dictate as their actual needs.
and who are these people? Can others see them or can they only be viewed by folks as "real" as you?
I've already answered that with a...yes.
This is not a dick-measuring contest, which it seems might be all some of you are able to relate to.
It's a fairly simple call for change.
And y'all can laugh all you want. It only brightens your true colors even further.
http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/show...true#Post715496
Been tooken there.
Oh. Yeah. I started to make a post in that thread but decided against feeding the monster.
I would never fucking preach whats is "right" or "real" about a situation I have only been told stories of (whether those stories were from the mouths of those affected directly, on the news).
Could give a fuck if someone thinks my or anyones philanthropic efforts are whats "real" or "right"
No one is an authority on this except the folks that lived through it and are living through the aftermath. I could give a shit who you know or who you have talked to.
Do what you think is right. That is all anyone can ask.
actually I've thought about making the trip.
what would we do together? I propose a dance off or a Project Blowed themed game of monopoly
Why do you think that cock animal is funny? and why must you post it in every thread?
DUH!
yes.
And post it in every thread?
Its not so much a stalking thing, its more like you're a case study in a social studies project in abnormal behavior of White men with inferiority complexes.
Truth is, you could have saved yourself a lot of comments from me, and quite possibly by others by simply not striving so hard to prove how "real" you are. You're false insights into the world of music buying and the racial minorities of major cities shows you to be a fool.
The incident I brought up at the top of this thread was a textbook case of you thinking you know better than others, no matter what their situation is. It's as if you are so disconnected from the idea of other people having insight that you need get hyper-outrageous just so we don't dwell on some truth and instead get stuck on your silliness.
The guy said he taught in predominantly black school in New Orleans for 2 years, that hardly makes him a "visiteur". Most visits don't involve working with the youth that closely for that long. His marriage status pretty much deaded your stereotyped idea that all white people, besides you need cultural sensitivity training. I don't know how else to put it other than to say the correct response to Jfree's post may have been an apology for assuming instead of saying that he may very well need to have his eyes opened to really understand "black people" like you do
something tells me you often confuse humility with humiliation
yeah, im sick of it now too.
funny how noone had the same comments about the Alba gifs.
but yeah, point taken.
And for anyone actually trying to figure out this thread...
Maybe there are better answers out there, hopefully so because I have never claimed to be any sort of end-all-be-all on these issues, but I'm not really seeing any humor to what I posted.
does this ass-hurt stem more from the inability to be criticized or or the inability to admit when you may be wrong in your accusations?
me too.
I'd eat a sandwich with Harvey/ Sheid/ Archaic hell I'd probably even enjoy the experience.