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You haven't been here very long then, have you......s0ldier93 said:Never thought I'd see a conversation go in this direction here.
A twin-engine Beech Baron 55
(not the one that crashed)
Mr. Cole said:ATL,
I have agreed with a lot of what you've posted on this board, even when it appeared that there were only a few of us who did. But I have to say that I'm disappointed in your characterization of the people in that area as "poor, down-trodden, welfare-mooching, uneducated, civicly-disinterested black population that not only makes up the majority of the City's citizenry, but also controls the corrupt government, major local broadcast networks and a plethora of small businesses."
If I had grown up in Atlanta it's possible that I too would have lived in those same communities. Hell, as an African American I know plenty of people not only from the College Park section of ATL, but similar communities throughout the country. Your assumption that the person Oakum attempted to quote was a welfare moocher, civily disinterested, or whatever other deragatory term you'd like to use is interesting, given your admonishment of Super 80 for the stereotypes he posted against homosexuals. So the government is corrupt, what's your point? I live in NJ and just outside of NYC, there are plenty of corrupts govenments around and they surely aren't run by blacks. And I won't even mention the piss-poor national media that we certainly don't run.
Hey, I can laugh at my own people. I'm not offended when others point out some of the stupid things we do. It's the same way that I can laugh at the ridiculous stuff done by just about any other groups. But I'm also capable of filtering out the truth. Perhaps as someone who comes from a group that has been unfairly labeled and stereotyped on many occasions I'm a little more careful not to do it to others. I'm just as quick to defend Southerners against some of the stupidity I've heard about them here in the Northeast as I am to defend people of color.
As someone who belongs to one of those groups I expected you to be a little more enlightened.
Dave
I hate to undermine your efforts A-girl, but that's actually a valid statement. Often times after a crash, the media or websites like this one will provide a picture or link to a picture of the actual aircraft before the crash. In this case, they just slapped up the first Baron they could find and wanted us to know it wasn't actually the one involved in the crash.Ailerongirl said:Did you guys catch this?? This is the quote, copied and pasted, from under a photo of a Baron on the News 11 webpage....
Ahhhh....I didn't realise that. I guess I see their point now, I've just not ever seen paratheses used under a picture before and thought it was funny.FL000 said:I hate to undermine your efforts A-girl, but that's actually a valid statement. Often times after a crash, the media or websites like this one will provide a picture or link to a picture of the actual aircraft before the crash. In this case, they just slapped up the first Baron they could find and wanted us to know it wasn't actually the one involved in the crash.
T-Gates said:You haven't been here very long then, have you......