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21 Dec 2012, 9:07 am

Try this one:

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21 Dec 2012, 4:27 pm

the pun.....

NAKnight wrote:
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I'm friends with many Black Guys and I'm white. I don't really account it towards race or anything. We get along well, have a few good laughs at work.
Race isn't about color contrary to popular belief.

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You said "friends with the black race" and thats what sounded weirdly collectivist :o


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21 Dec 2012, 4:38 pm

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the pun.....


Sucks? :chin:


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21 Dec 2012, 11:26 pm

Warsie wrote:
the pun.....

NAKnight wrote:
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I'm friends with many Black Guys and I'm white. I don't really account it towards race or anything. We get along well, have a few good laughs at work.
Race isn't about color contrary to popular belief.

Best Regards,

Jake


You said "friends with the black race" and thats what sounded weirdly collectivist :o


What do you want me to say?



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22 Dec 2012, 5:51 am

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I plan on returning to church, and I am anxious to go back. Although, I am hoping to attend a black church. Even though I'm white, I want to discover the beliefs and practices of the opposite race..


The are NOT the "opposite race" There is only one race for and of us, that is the human race.

ruveyn


According to your logic racism does not exist, as there is only one race according to you.


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22 Dec 2012, 6:05 am

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Before you go, realize that it's going to be a much longer service than you are used to. It also may require some stamina that your usual church doesn't. I'd try something a bit milder first like an AME church. They have the rousing sermon that you may be looking for without the long, long service. It's also got a more definate ending time than some of the others. The more fundamentalist you go, with any church, black or white, the longer the service is going to be.


You haven't been to a long service until you've had an Irish sermon, especially if the priest has had a few, such as at Christmas time.

If guilt is you thing I recommend the the more conservative catholic churches, such as a Christmas eve midnight mass. Tell them you use contraceptives not marries, only go to church on weddings, funerals and Christmas, and not a fan of Easter, especially the whole Lent thing.

Personally I like the church in Blues Brothers with James Emmanuel Brown preaching.

Op you seem to be searching for some kind of aesthetic. I think it could be an experience for you, it may broaden you horizons. I suggest not having any expectations at all. Just go to check to out.

Going to a 'soul' church, such as Baptist is going to be vastly different from goign to an Ethiopian Orthodox church, or a Rastafari Church.



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22 Dec 2012, 6:15 am

TrainofLove wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
hvtitan08 wrote:
I plan on returning to church, and I am anxious to go back. Although, I am hoping to attend a black church. Even though I'm white, I want to discover the beliefs and practices of the opposite race..


The are NOT the "opposite race" There is only one race for and of us, that is the human race.

ruveyn


According to your logic racism does not exist, as there is only one race according to you.

Err that is not what he is saying at all.

Technically he is right, the distinctions aren't significant enough genetically speaking to races, we are all basically mixed race. However that is not to say there is not genetic makeup that can't approximate the idea of race. However genetic idea of race is vastly different from cultural.

For example Arabs are predominately Caucasian, but people don't think of them that way. Even Indians have plenty of Caucasian in them.

Khoishan is probably the most district race, however it origins is obscured by a genetic bottleneck. So we know it is old we jsut just don't know how old. Khoishan=San=Bushmen.



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22 Dec 2012, 9:27 am

TrainofLove wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
hvtitan08 wrote:
I plan on returning to church, and I am anxious to go back. Although, I am hoping to attend a black church. Even though I'm white, I want to discover the beliefs and practices of the opposite race..


The are NOT the "opposite race" There is only one race for and of us, that is the human race.

ruveyn


According to your logic racism does not exist, as there is only one race according to you.


You're reading too much into Ruveyn's post IMO. One race (the human race), says to me that he doesn't agree with racism at all, which acknowledges that racism does indeed exist and is wrong. "They are not the opposite race" says to me that he considers referring to any race as "opposite" is in itself, racist.


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22 Dec 2012, 9:39 am

Lots of White chicks really dig Black men.

If you want a religious Black man, then a Black church would be the place to go to acquire one.



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22 Dec 2012, 1:19 pm

MrXxx wrote:
TrainofLove wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
hvtitan08 wrote:
I plan on returning to church, and I am anxious to go back. Although, I am hoping to attend a black church. Even though I'm white, I want to discover the beliefs and practices of the opposite race..


The are NOT the "opposite race" There is only one race for and of us, that is the human race.

ruveyn


According to your logic racism does not exist, as there is only one race according to you.


You're reading too much into Ruveyn's post IMO. One race (the human race), says to me that he doesn't agree with racism at all, which acknowledges that racism does indeed exist and is wrong. "They are not the opposite race" says to me that he considers referring to any race as "opposite" is in itself, racist.


I took the "opposite race" comment to mean not opposing, but opposite as in the color black is opposite of the color white. Same as people say "opposite sex". In many areas there are only two main races (if you are basing race on color or ethnicity). Where I live is like that. In my town it's mainly white people and black people with a few Mexican families and one Chinese family. I believe I was that the OP was posting from Virginia, and if it's one of the more Southern areas of Virginia, then like here churches are still mainly segregated by choice. Wanting to experience the church service of the other major race in your area isn't uncommon. White people can go to a black church, black people can go to a white church, there is no bigotry or anything, it's just that people don't do that for some reason (except the Catholics because there aren't enough down here to split up like that and plus the Catholic church has liturgy and so it's all the same everywhere)


The OP may very well be thinking of the black churches you see on tv or in movies where the choir backs up the sermon and everybody gets "slain in the spirit" or "catches the Holy Ghost" and gets really into the sermon. In most of the white protestant churches down here, no matter how long the sermon is, the most you are going to get is a few "AMEN!" from the congregation.


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22 Dec 2012, 1:30 pm

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In many areas there are only two main races (if you are basing race on color or ethnicity).


Color and ethnicity is bupkis. The only color that counts is the color of our blood. We all bleed red.

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22 Dec 2012, 1:40 pm

ruveyn wrote:
OliveOilMom wrote:
In many areas there are only two main races (if you are basing race on color or ethnicity).


Color and ethnicity is bupkis. The only color that counts is the color of our blood. We all bleed red.

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No, it's really not. Different races and ethnicities have different cultures many times. Refusing to admit that is turning a blind eye to reality because of political correctness.


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22 Dec 2012, 1:47 pm

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No, it's really not. Different races and ethnicities have different cultures many times. Refusing to admit that is turning a blind eye to reality because of political correctness.


Ah yes. Culture. Which is LEARNED, not genetically inherited.

We are all the outcome of our experience, our history, what we have learned and what we have chosen. These are all individual matters, not a matter of biological inheritance.

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22 Dec 2012, 2:05 pm

ruveyn wrote:
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No, it's really not. Different races and ethnicities have different cultures many times. Refusing to admit that is turning a blind eye to reality because of political correctness.


Ah yes. Culture. Which is LEARNED, not genetically inherited.

We are all the outcome of our experience, our history, what we have learned and what we have chosen. These are all individual matters, not a matter of biological inheritance.

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Nobody said they were a matter of biological inheritance. Just because they are learned doesn't mean that they aren't different and it's not racist nor politically incorrect to notice and acknowledge the differences.


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22 Dec 2012, 2:08 pm

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Nobody said they were a matter of biological inheritance. Just because they are learned doesn't mean that they aren't different and it's not racist nor politically incorrect to notice and acknowledge the differences.


It gets dicey if you think your past or the past of your parents have pre-ordained your future.

Perhaps our ability to change and adapt is somewhat ret*d by our past but it is not determined by our past.

Habits are hard to break.

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Nobody said they were a matter of biological inheritance. Just because they are learned doesn't mean that they aren't different and it's not racist nor politically incorrect to notice and acknowledge the differences.


It gets dicey if you think your past or the past of your parents have pre-ordained your future.

Perhaps our ability to change and adapt is somewhat ret*d by our past but it is not determined by our past.

Habits are hard to break.

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Nobody thinks it preordains their future, I wouldn't think. It's simply a person's culture.

So, is it bad, racist, evil, or what have you, to acknowledge that in many places in the US, there are quite a few differences in black culture and white culture?


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