OMG: 1000 posts here I come...

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

Its a glimpse however brief.

No, sir. I was a little loud mouthed in my previous post but I disagree vehemently. You CHOOSE to put yourself in that situation every week. ICH chooses to walk into that convenience store, or that barber shop. Black folk don't have a choice.

I've been obese since I was born. I never knew any better, and no one taught me any better. You don't think fat people are put down and made to feel lesser to the extent that they feel worthless? You think those feelings of worthlessness can't lead to one being unable to overcome their own circumstances? That's exactly what racism does to black people.

You won't hear me say that I have some level of understanding. I don't. My obesity is still a choice.

[Katipan]

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

No, sir. I was a little loud mouthed in my previous post but I disagree vehemently. You CHOOSE to put yourself in that situation every week. ICH chooses to walk into that convenience store, or that barber shop. Black folk don't have a choice.

I've been obese since I was born. I never knew any better, and no one taught me any better. You don't think fat people are put down and made to feel lesser to the extent that they feel worthless? You think those feelings of worthlessness can't lead to one being unable to overcome their own circumstances? That's exactly what racism does to black people.

You won't hear me say that I have some level of understanding. I don't. My obesity is still a choice.

I'm going to go hug the first fat black guy I see.

[RJ]

Originally Posted by Katipan

I'm going to go hug the first fat black guy I see.

Won't he be surprised!

[blaise]

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

No, sir. I was a little loud mouthed in my previous post but I disagree vehemently. You CHOOSE to put yourself in that situation every week. ICH chooses to walk into that convenience store, or that barber shop. Black folk don't have a choice.

I've been obese since I was born. I never knew any better, and no one taught me any better. You don't think fat people are put down and made to feel lesser to the extent that they feel worthless? You think those feelings of worthlessness can't lead to one being unable to overcome their own circumstances? That's exactly what racism does to black people.

You won't hear me say that I have some level of understanding. I don't. My obesity is still a choice.

I didn't take the post about the barbershop as an attempt to equate the struggles. I just read it as him saying it allowed him a small glimpse of what day to day life is for some black people. The goal of the thread and video seems to be to get white people to better understand what it's like to be a black person in America. If someone posts something that tries to relate to that experience on some level, I don't see how it demeans the struggle of black people, especially if it's done in the right way.
Just because you can never fully understand what it's like it doesn't mean you can't try and relate on some level.

[Dave Lane]

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

No, sir. I was a little loud mouthed in my previous post but I disagree vehemently. You CHOOSE to put yourself in that situation every week. ICH chooses to walk into that convenience store, or that barber shop. Black folk don't have a choice.

I've been obese since I was born. I never knew any better, and no one taught me any better. You don't think fat people are put down and made to feel lesser to the extent that they feel worthless? You think those feelings of worthlessness can't lead to one being unable to overcome their own circumstances? That's exactly what racism does to black people.

You won't hear me say that I have some level of understanding. I don't. My obesity is still a choice.

Are you being intentionally obtuse? I never said its the "black experience" or anything else. Its like licking an onion is to eating Vichysoisse. Never said otherwise.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by Dave Lane

Are you being intentionally obtuse? I never said its the "black experience" or anything else. Its like licking an onion is to eating Vichysoisse. Never said otherwise.

No. I was just being irrational this morning. This is a hot button issue for me. As someone who has been victimized for things I never understood, I flip out over it. That's my bad.

I'm glad that you, and ICH, and anyone else is trying to walk in someone else's shoes. That's all I've ever really wanted people to do. Sorry for the sandy vag this morning.

[wutamess]

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

No. I was just being irrational this morning. This is a hot button issue for me. As someone who has been victimized for things I never understood, I flip out over it. That's my bad.

I'm glad that you, and ICH, and anyone else is trying to walk in someone else's shoes. That's all I've ever really wanted people to do. Sorry for the sandy vag this morning.

hmmm... how have you been victimized?
Not marginalizing... just nosey.