I'm not gonna engage you dude. Your opinion is yours but nobody tricked me into being patriotic. I love my country and the NRA had nothing to do with my decision to serve. Also you should do your homework on the history of racism in politics. Lyndon Johnson's exact words" I'll have every nigger voting Democrat in 4 years" . It's a shame everything has to be broken down to race. I served with every color in the box. All Patriots. Some dead now. I didn't look at the guy firing over my shoulder as a color. Just a man as terrified as I was and doing whatever it took to make sure I got out before him and me doing whatever it took to make sure he got out
before me. If everyone would stop the race shit maybe we could focus on other stuff. But we won't. It gets proven everyday. People thrive on it. People thrive on creating issues that aren't real. Once you live through some serious shit and come out the other side wounded but stronger. You only fight the real battles from then on. Not the created ones. God bless man.
Originally Posted by bo1966
You've already engaged with me. There is no turning back. Don't run and whimper out now I can't stand people that do that...you spoke up now be a man about it..ok soldier. You say you love your country and I can respect that and I can see why you would feel that way but what's sad is you don't have the capacity to see why I don't love my country...Sure I live here and I appreciate some things about it but I don't love it and as a black man that is a very valid position if I so choose to feel that way...and before you try to tell me how good it is here...I've lived in several other countries and I'm well aware of those dynamics...fact is I would love no country not even the ones in Africa it's just who I am.
My issue with people like you is for as much as you may think you get it..you really don't. Sure you can go off and die for your country but I think you should you have been given a privledged position in society by virtue of your skin tone. See people like you always want to move past race because you're simply not affected by it. So you have no real true perspective. You mill about your day not even realizing your white privilege. In the context in which you live and exist it's easy peasy to just say: " hey guys let's move on from this race shit." Why? Because you're not affected by it...I personally think it's the cowardly way out...yall never want to address anything yall never want to look at life through the lens of the oppressed... of others. It's all about you and your comfort and privilege.
What makes this somewhat comical is yall are religious believing in Christianity and completely and thoroughly miss the mark of the Gospels. It's appalling and astounding to say the least but one thing it is...is truly comical ;-)