(02-16-2023, 08:28 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(02-16-2023, 07:51 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: Maybe the case in your family but not mine. My family is a blended one from the northeast and midwest. It was not an easy situation and we all look back on it now and realize we were all just trying to get through the day. Us kids weren't taught anything other than how to cook meals and do housework and other chores, to respect them and everyone else, what church meant, how to be productive human beings as we grew up, etc. We were not political in any way though my parents did vote. Race, segregation and all that BS was definitely never a topic of conversation in our house. Anything I learned about outside of that as a kid was either at school or in interactions with people.

I literally have no traditions from growing up so my values are from what I believe in from my experiences, not from anything anyone told me. I can't look at any one thing and say that my parents had any influence on me outside of what I listed above. Maybe that's weird, maybe not, but it's all I know. It's also probably why I hate being told what or how to think. 

You act like people with traditional values sit around and talk to their kids about the days of racism and segregation like it's a badge of honor or a rite of passage to pass on to little Susie and little Johnny. There are people like that, yes, but not in the quantity you seem to think by a long shot.

Did you spend your middle school years in Jacksonville? Did you ever go to a school with forced desegregation?

Dude, just don't. I've said what I have to say about it. Just as you tried to tell me (in another thread) with your word salads that I owe reparations to the black community you are once again trying to tell me who I am. You don't know anything and you and I are done with this conversation. 

Shame on me for trying to help you understand something from a different perspective. For as much [BLEEP] as I give you I also try to give you the benefit of the doubt. No more.

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