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I was born and raised in south-central TEXAS, but now live in north-east TEXAS in a town called Greenville.

This sign hung across the main street as you entered the downtown area.
It hung there until the 60's.


What would be your reaction if you drove into a town and saw this sign?
 

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I was born and raised in south-central TEXAS, but now live in north-east TEXAS in a town called Greenville.

This sign hung across the main street as you entered the downtown area.
It hung there until the 60's.


What would be your reaction if you drove into a town and saw this sign?

Mixed ... because I don't know the history of the sign or the town, only that the sign seems to brag about having *the whitest people*.
 

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I was born and raised in south-central TEXAS, but now live in north-east TEXAS in a town called Greenville.

This sign hung across the main street as you entered the downtown area.
It hung there until the 60's.


What would be your reaction if you drove into a town and saw this sign?

I would have wondered what I was doing in Texas driving at the age of eight into a town I did not know existed.

I would not have paid much attention to the sign

If I had I would wonder what it meant.

Or I would have wondered why being white in southern Texas was so good when Coppertone suntan lotion was being advertised as a way to darken your skin to a wonderful copper tone.

Evidently being black is good. Black land is supposed to be good right?
 

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"the whitest people" eh? :think:


i'd suspect that I had entered that part of texas where the sun don't shine :chuckle:


you know, the part that barbie pulls his "arguments" out of :)
 

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Mixed ... because I don't know the history of the sign or the town, only that the sign seems to brag about having *the whitest people*.
Sooooooo ......
you see nothing offensive, and no reason that the sign should be taken down?
 

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Sooooooo ......
you see nothing offensive, and no reason that the sign should be taken down?

I see a sign that I would question, but I would not assume. The explanation of the sign would determine my opinion/response. Regardless, I would not demand or support taking the sign down.
 

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I was born and raised in south-central TEXAS, but now live in north-east TEXAS in a town called Greenville.

This sign hung across the main street as you entered the downtown area.
It hung there until the 60's.

What would be your reaction if you drove into a town and saw this sign?

Where I grew up it was a predominantly white area and indeed a predominantly white country.

But successive governments have felt so guilty about just being white that they have encouraged a great deal of immigration. Under the guise of multi-culturalism, what they have done is to introduce multi-ethnicity, which is not the same thing.

The result is that the country has undergone a loss of identity. This works if everyone else thinks the same way. The problem is that generally people do not think the same way. And that is why this attitude is naive. Emancipating black people for example is fine so long as black people themselves don't self-identify as primarily black because when they do so, what you are doing by encouraging them is giving them black power, not black equality. And there are many black people who want to take advantage of this. The same went for women. While most women are happy with equality, there are a large minority who also want female domination. Homoesexuals clearly are not content in being recognised as such but want to go further by rubbing their opponents noses in the dirt. And whilst it is great to have religious freedom, Muslims don't see it that way and most of them want to take over your country and install Sharia. In our county they have taken over school governing boards and run schools that are quite contary to the ethos of our country. Well, that has been stopped now but it took place because people were naive. It should never have been allowed to happen.

If we decide to emancipate minorities it should be made abundantly clear to them what the limits of emancipation are. But people are too scared to say that because they get accused of racism or bigotry. I don't know how many times I have been called a bigot because I happen to think homosexuality is unnatural and wrong. And I am sure I will get called a lot of things because I believe Islam is evil.

Of course a town that glories in it being white and not black is also genuine bigotry and racism but in my experience, the emancipation of minorities has given rise to a lot of problems that in most cases surface far too late to do anything about them. Take France for example. Jews are leaving the country in their droves because they did not tackle anti-semitism because they were afraid of the Muslims and now they are getting a country that is close on overrun completely and going rapidly downhill to oblivion. People need to wake up and be more realistic instead of idealistic. The only idealism that matters is what happens in reality.
 
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"the whitest people" eh? :think:


i'd suspect that I had entered that part of texas where the sun don't shine :chuckle:
Even seen the movie, Powder?

Remember the scene where the sheriff showed up while the rednecks were beating the albino kid and said, "I didn't think a person could be TOO white for you guys."
 

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I would not have paid much attention to the sign

If I had I would wonder what it meant.
It was a sign that hung over main streets for years and years.
(Orignially was a large canvas sign. After many years of weathering, it was replaced by the metal sign in the pic.)
It stayed hanging there until the civil rights commotion in the mid 60's, when it was taken down.
 

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Where I grew up it was a predominantly white area and indeed a predominantly white country.

But successive governments have felt so guilty about just being white that they have encouraged a great deal of immigration. Under the guise of multi-culturalism, what they have done is to introduce multi-ethnicity, which is not the same thing.

The result is that the country has undergone a loss of identity. This works if everyone else thinks the same way. The problem is that generally people do not think the same way. And that is why this attitude is naive. Emancipating black people for example is fine so long as black people themselves don't self-identify as primarily black because when they do so, what you are doing by encouraging them is giving them black power, not black quality. And there are many black people who want to take advantage of this. The same went for women. While most women are happy with equality, there are a large minority who also want female domination. Homoesexuals clearly are not content in being recognised as such but want to go further by rubbing their opponents noses in the dirt. And whilst it is great to have religious freedom, Muslims don't see it that way and most of them want to take over your country and install Sharia. In our county they have taken over school governing boards and run schools that are quite contary to the ethos of our country. Well, that has been stopped now but it took place because people were naive. It should never have been allowed to happen.

If we decide to emancipate minorities it should be made abundantly clear to them what the limits of emancipation are. But people are too scared to say that because they get accused of racism or bigotry. I don't know how many times I have been called a bigot because I happen to think homosexuality is unnatural and wrong. And I am sure I will get called a lot of things because I believe Islam is evil.

Of course a town that glories in it being white and not black is also genuine bigotry and racism but in my experience, the emancipation of minorities has given rise to a lot of problems that in most cases surface far too late to do anything about them. Take France for example. Jews are leaving the country in their droves because they did not tackle anti-semitism because they were afraid of the Muslims and now they are getting a country that is close on overrun completely and going rapidly downhill to oblivion. People need to wake up and be more realistic instead of idealistic. The only idealism that matters is what happens in reality.
Well, OK. But if your town had a sign like this hanging over the main street, would there be any need at all to take it down?
 

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Greenville is located in what is know as the Blackland Delta. An area of TEXAS known for it's rich dark soil that was ideal for cotton growing.

that makes sense - we have mucklands like that where they grow onion and cabbage


what did "the whitest people" refer to?

honesty?
integrity?
straight-shooting?
 

TracerBullet

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Where I grew up it was a predominantly white area and indeed a predominantly white country.

But successive governments have felt so guilty about just being white that they have encouraged a great deal of immigration. Under the guise of multi-culturalism, what they have done is to introduce multi-ethnicity, which is not the same thing.

The result is that the country has undergone a loss of identity. This works if everyone else thinks the same way. The problem is that generally people do not think the same way. And that is why this attitude is naive. Emancipating black people for example is fine so long as black people themselves don't self-identify as primarily black because when they do so, what you are doing by encouraging them is giving them black power, not black quality. And there are many black people who want to take advantage of this.



Yeah it's pretty obvious that you grew up in a predominately (i'd have to saw almost exclusively) white area because you really have no clue at all about what means to be non-white in America.


The same went for women. While most women are happy with equality, there a large minority who also want female domination. Homoesxuals clearly are not content in being recognised as such but want to go further by rubbing their opponents noses in the dirt. And whilst it is great to have religious freedom, Muslims don't see it that way and most of them want to take over your country and install Sharia.
And it is sadly no surprise that you have issues with most every minority




If we decide to emancipate minorities it should be made abundantly clear to them what the limits of emancipation are. But people are too scared to say that because they get accused of racism or bigotry. I don't know how many times I have been called a bigot because I happen to think homosexuality is unnatural and wrong. And I am sure I will get called a lot of things because I believe Islam is evil.
It sounds like you you want minorities to be "good little minorities" Minorities whose members know their place both socially -always deferring to the wonderful white man- and physically - the ghettos or just anywhere so long as it isn't in YOUR neighborhood. You seem to want minorities that accept that things equality exists only on paper and that they should be happy being second class citizens (If we decide to emancipate minorities it should be made abundantly clear to them what the limits of emancipation are).

So you are upset that you get the label 'bigot' applied to you here.

Well the label fits.

If you don't like it maybe you need to look at the sort of sewage you are posting here and addressing your own personal issues in this area.
 

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Yeah it's pretty obvious that you grew up in a predominately (i'd have to saw almost exclusively) white area because you really have no clue at all about what means to be non-white in America.

what makes you think DR's experience had anything to do with america?

reading what he said, i'm thinking canada

you seem to be wanting people to take offense...Why?

people took offense and caused the sign to be taken down :duh:
 

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I would have wondered what I was doing in Texas driving at the age of eight into a town I did not know existed.

I would not have paid much attention to the sign

If I had I would wonder what it meant.

Or I would have wondered why being white in southern Texas was so good when Coppertone suntan lotion was being advertised as a way to darken your skin to a wonderful copper tone.

Evidently being black is good. Black land is supposed to be good right?

When I was about 7 or 8 I called a friend a neighbor a black kid a n_____

My parents reproved me, but I endeavored to justify myself by saying that everyone else calls him a n_____.

My parents that does not make it right, and that I should not say that again.

Does racism exist? Of course it does and it will continue to do so in both, no, every direction until the prince of peace cleans house.
 
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