CAL and Citizens
01-06-2007, 10:44 AM
#31
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2006
Position: FO - 757/767
Posts: 1,228
The author of the thread did have an avatar of someone or something depicting a black face. I had never seen it before and it did not appear to be one of the more common stereotypical ones seen in the media. That avatar has since been removed, but I do not know when. A320's post did not make clear that it was the avatar he found offensive. I read his post to indicate he did not like the fact that Papa L is a permanent resident (green card holder). It is obvious I misunderstood you, A320, and for that I apologize. Like fbh, I find stereotypes and caricatures highly offensive, and they have no place in the forums.
01-06-2007, 11:52 AM
#32
Ben Salley
Joined APC: Feb 2006
Position: Left
Posts: 924
wow. you need to take a chill pill my friend. But, I guess you think it's OK to have an avatar of a sitcom that belittled those who lived in the robert taylor homes on chicago's south side. If that isn't the pot cvgb & fbh alling the kettle.....well you know what I mean. Lightnen up. 
Speak not of things you wouldn't have a clue about...John Amos...was my neighbor EWR, 7th ave projects, and a great man. Just got in from EGCC. I've read post from vgb & fbh before and couldn't figure out if I was smoking crack...or what. Yeah, the avatar is missing now and I probably showed too much slip. You didn't see the avatar, so... no harm, no foul. Glad to know it wasn't crack. Not angry at Papa either. Just got a little upset when I had to explain to my son, why the guy had black shoe-polish on his face. Hotmamma... if I seem a little irate, it's because I've spent a lot of the past five years trying to justify the American psyche abroad and it ****ed me off to find my fellow countrymen not as offended by the racial insult, I've posted a few when the guys left controlled flight and attacked you gender instead of your point. It's kinda like listening to someone tell you that you're unpatriotic from a bar-stool, when you just finished 3 / 40hr runs from Iraq in the past month. I enjoy this forum. Keep post-in. No disrespect or ill-will to any of you.
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