If you really were trying to have a conversation with an adult, your response would have been tailored to what I said. Instead you told us about having a conversion about the article. FWIW, I seriously would not tell my wife I had been defending a mother who was defending Donham. Especially for the reasons that were laid out. Her first question is going to be if she was in fear of her life why did she lie again in 2004?


I wouldn't have an answer for her.

Well I am glad you know how my wife should feel. A white guy telling a black person how they should feel is unheard of, right? But to the point, I already told you that there could be any number of reasons why (fear for her own kids/grand kids getting blowback from this, being ashamed of herself, etc.) she kept on with the lie until recently. I don't know the woman so I won't crucify her decision making given the time when this all sparked off.


Anything else you wish to tell my wife she should be doing? I hope it involves letting me have Sunday to not have to do some honey-do task.

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Well I am glad you know how my wife should feel. A white guy telling a black person how they should feel is unheard of, right? But to the point, I already told you that there could be any number of reasons why (fear for her own kids/grand kids getting blowback from this, being ashamed of herself, etc.) she kept on with the lie until recently. I don't know the woman so I won't crucify her decision making given the time when this all sparked off.


Anything else you wish to tell my wife she should be doing? I hope it involves letting me have Sunday to not have to do some honey-do task.

I again I was telling what I would do, not you. If you could explain how a person could spark this event then change her story about it on multiple occasions while letting a self-admitted child killer go free and somehow make me not untoward about donham I'd be all about it, but no supposition.

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Well I am glad you know how my wife should feel. A white guy telling a black person how they should feel is unheard of, right? But to the point, I already told you that there could be any number of reasons why (fear for her own kids/grand kids getting blowback from this, being ashamed of herself, etc.) she kept on with the lie until recently. I don't know the woman so I won't crucify her decision making given the time when this all sparked off.


Anything else you wish to tell my wife she should be doing? I hope it involves letting me have Sunday to not have to do some honey-do task.

Also, I'm black so when I use myself as an example I'm black. I guess I'm putting this out here since you seem hell bent on telling me your white.

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I again I was telling what I would do, not you. If you could explain how a person could spark this event then change her story about it on multiple occasions while letting a self-admitted child killer go free and somehow make me not untoward about donham I'd be all about it, but no supposition.

Who said someone can't take issue with the lady? She lied and then for whatever reason, be it fear of her own death or just being an evil lady (I don't know her nor do you), kept a lid on it until now. I have only said that I get why she might stay quiet and that I don't know her motivations. You disagree. That is fine.

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 You disagree. That is fine.

 

Since when?

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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato

Also, I'm black so when I use myself as an example I'm black. I guess I'm putting this out here since you seem hell bent on telling me your white.

I don't recall yelling about it. Solid's comment got in my craw pretty good thus why I even mentioned race at all. Implying that I would sit on my hands or have some religious justification for the mistreatment of people pissed me off. I had already explained that if a cause was good enough then I would put myself behind it.

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Since when?

Haha since when has it been ok to disagree? I guess since the dawning of the inernet that notion disappeared.

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Haha since when has it been ok to disagree? I guess since the dawning of the inernet that notion disappeared.

 

There's about 10,000 years of human history before that where it wasn't really ok either.  :thumbsup:

 

We're just fortunate to have lived in the brief age where we at least gave a token acknowledgment to the concept.

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“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato

Who said someone can't take issue with the lady? She lied and then for whatever reason, be it fear of her own death or just being an evil lady (I don't know her nor do you), kept a lid on it until now. I have only said that I get why she might stay quiet and that I don't know her motivations. You disagree. That is fine.

I'm not necessarily pointing to that as fact but that you came to aid of bchbunny. If my wife read what she wrote, then got "popular attitudes" then saw I stepped in, nah buddy nope. You may still feel we disagree, which is fine.

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I'm not necessarily pointing to that as fact but that you came to aid of bchbunny. If my wife read what she wrote, then got "popular attitudes" then saw I stepped in, nah buddy nope. You may still feel we disagree, which is fine.

To be fair, if someone had taken the same approach with anyone else's post I would have reacted the same. I don't know the end goal. Most people could care less what someone on an online forum thinks of them or what that person's real life friends think of a post they made.

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There's about 10,000 years of human history before that where it wasn't really ok either. :thumbsup:


We're just fortunate to have lived in the brief age where we at least gave a token acknowledgment to the concept.

Genghis Khan should have just taken a screen shot of his foes' YouTube comments.

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Nah you could be black and it be just as bad. The most damning thing is not that you are white, it's you're a mother. The fact that you're a mother who tried to defend her and didn't realize she lied twice. Once while her husband was dead.

You need to learn the difference between understanding WHY someone might have done something, and actually defending what they did.


And as for why she still lied about stuff, from a link within the op article:


"Mr. Acosta said that the case was being reopened because of "renewed interest in the case," including documentary films and other research that indicated that more than two men had been involved in killing Emmett. Mr. Acosta would not be more specific, but said all information would be re-examined."

<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/national/us-to-reopen-investigation-of-emmett-tills-murder-in-1955.html?_r=0'>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/national/us-to-reopen-investigation-of-emmett-tills-murder-in-1955.html?_r=0</a>


More than two men involved...


Think theres a chance that not everyone involved in killing that poor child was dead by then?

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What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is agoin' on here???

You need to learn the difference between understanding WHY someone might have done something, and actually defending what they did.


And as for why she still lied about stuff, from a link within the op article:


"Mr. Acosta said that the case was being reopened because of "renewed interest in the case," including documentary films and other research that indicated that more than two men had been involved in killing Emmett. Mr. Acosta would not be more specific, but said all information would be re-examined."

<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/national/us-to-reopen-investigation-of-emmett-tills-murder-in-1955.html?_r=0'>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/national/us-to-reopen-investigation-of-emmett-tills-murder-in-1955.html?_r=0</a>


More than two men involved...


Think theres a chance that not everyone involved in killing that poor child was dead by then?

Your article so I assume you read the quotes from Till's mother. Donham is a mother, you are a mother. If it was more than the two, even more important to speak up. If they would do that to a child, there's no telling what else they would do. That's not the best time to be silent. You need a reason to forgive her, I don't. Any reason you choose is based on supposition.

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The rap industry?

 

The majority of people who own the record labels and distribution channels are white 

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Whether someone has a liberal, or conservative viewpoint, a authoritative figure should not lock a thread for the sole purpose to get the last word in all the while prohibiting someone else from being able to respond.

Physical and mental cruelty towards your fellow man and woman..


What's yours?

 

You actually described slavery.

 

To answer your question, my definition of oppression is someone or a group of people who controls another group of people through theories and certain beliefs.

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Whether someone has a liberal, or conservative viewpoint, a authoritative figure should not lock a thread for the sole purpose to get the last word in all the while prohibiting someone else from being able to respond.

Just watch your local news from time to time..

 

Blacks are not the only people committing crimes

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Whether someone has a liberal, or conservative viewpoint, a authoritative figure should not lock a thread for the sole purpose to get the last word in all the while prohibiting someone else from being able to respond.

You actually described slavery.


To answer your question, my definition of oppression is someone or a group of people who controls another group of people through theories and certain beliefs.

I think you need to pick up a dictionary once in a while..

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Blacks are not the only people committing crimes

Nobody said that

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What is the biggest plight facing the black population right now?  Failing education?  Number of incarcerations?  Poverty in inner cities?  I can answer those three questions with reasons why, but you and others don't want to hear it or face up to it.

 

In regards to Education is Betsy Devos black? 

 

Name me ONE, just ONE black person or corporation on owns privatized prisons.

 

Poverty...who controls the financial gap between white and black people?

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Whether someone has a liberal, or conservative viewpoint, a authoritative figure should not lock a thread for the sole purpose to get the last word in all the while prohibiting someone else from being able to respond.

I think you need to pick up a dictionary once in a while..

 

You need to as well.

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Whether someone has a liberal, or conservative viewpoint, a authoritative figure should not lock a thread for the sole purpose to get the last word in all the while prohibiting someone else from being able to respond.