Posted by nubeing on February 20, 2008
This cartoon ran in the Monday, February 18, 2008 edition of the Globe and Mail. This is their opinion of Afrocentric Algebra. And this is why we need our African-Centered Schools. Because if anybody knew REAL history, they would know Africans were the ones who created and taught Math to the world.
I have to site some serious references and we have to write some serious letters to these people. Don’t turn your backs! If you want to post your comments here, click the link about. I will make sure that they get to the right people. I don’t know who drew this cartoon. If it was an African, that makes it sadder than ever. But more importantly, we have to make sure our children know their history and know that we have a lot more going for us than ‘Sup Dog. Ridiculous! And don’t talk to me about having a sense of humour. When it comes to putting Black people down and trying to make us look stupid, the history is just too fresh. My generation was still being put back a grade on arrival to Canada as a matter of routine! This is no laughing matter.
Our dedicated sister Yolisa sent these comments:
I am responding to the offensive racist cartoon in your paper on Monday Feb. 18th, the first family Day holiday, no less.
This cartoon caricature exposes a deeply racist Euro-Canadian mindset that shamelessly promotes these stereotypes of Afrikan/Blak people, much less a teacher. This type of racism is fueling the hysteria toward Africentric schools, a desperately needed option for learners and their families who confront racism everyday at school.
This cartoon is exactly why we need Africentric schools where learners are ’safe’ from such blatant racist behaviour from educators and administrators. In a mainstream school this probably wouldn’t even be talked about but could be the basis of an entire unit on Race & Racism in Canada in an Africentric school.
Not only does this betray ignorance & hate, it also exposes fear that Africentric schools will actually make a difference that threatens the status quo.
For a national paper, you should be ashamed and owe the collective Afrikan/Blak community an apology. Furthermore, the person who created this cartoon should be fired and made to undergo anti-racism training as well as community service in the Afrikan/Blak community!
All Canadians should be outraged by this not just those who are for Africentric schools. Everyone who is committed to anti-racism should hold this paper accountable!
All Canadians should be outraged by this not just those who are for Africentric schools. Everyone who is committed to anti-racism should hold this paper accountable!”
So let’s follow our sister’s advice and hold this paper accountable. You can leave comments directly for the Globe and Mail at
www.theglobeandmail.com/feedback. You can also email
letters@globeandmail.com or fax to 416.585.5085. I wish we could totally bombard these people. But every one letter makes a difference. No matter how short or long, say SOMETHING! Click on the heading to leave your comments.
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February 20, 2008 at 9:17 pm
I am appalled at the RACIST CARTOON your paper ran on Monday Feb 18th 2008. On family day as well. The caricature depicted a black teacher with the words”sup dog” in a bubble. There needs to be a full out apology to the black community in your paper and in various media immediately. The creator of this distasteful Cartoon should be fired and the editor of your paper should be fired and/or reprimanded. These images as well as insttitutional racism continue the trend to discredit Black people and other minorities in this society. Why would you print this? Do you want to be like those European papers who print racist caricatures about Muslims etc.?
I am deeply saddened as a Black man in my thirties who was born and raised in Canada! I though this country was “different” than America and all the other countries but “the Great White North’s” true colors have come out!
Wow. Sad day for me when I got this email!
February 21, 2008 at 3:07 am
Hi Nicole
just to let you know, people around the world are deeply offended, stunned, by this cartoon. I wrote in to the editor; thank you for making it convenient to do so.
best,
Ming Chien
February 21, 2008 at 3:21 am
The unfortunateness of this cartoon just continues to expose the deep rooted hatred and lack of understanding that seems to be growing around Afrocentric schools. As a qualified Early Childhood Educator I am not only outraged but saddend, we are encouraged to teach diversity and promote the acceptance of others which doesn’t seem to extend to the African community. Our rich heritage and continuous contribution to the society we live in needs to be recognized and accepted. This unforgiveable sign of intolerance is not only unacceptable it must be stopped. When we allow these blatant acts of racism to go unpunished we forgo all that our ancestors and parents fought for when they chose a better life and opportunity for their children.
Can you really be proud to stand behind this cartoon and say I am proud of what I did, and can the editor truly say that they felt this was something acceptable to publish, as a paper you have lost mine and many other subscriptions.
February 21, 2008 at 4:27 am
What the f*ck is this, sorry for my language but I don’t like this sh*t they be doing against African Canadian/American/Africans. Keep supporting anti racism.
Peace.
February 21, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Wow! I don’t know which is more offensive, the cartoon or the response from the paper.
I am an African residing in Bermuda. I have been somewhat aware of the controversy surrounding the opening of an African-centered public school in Canada. Seeing that cartoon and reading the paper’s response to its criticism helps me understand what African-Canadians are up against. Clearly there is total ignorance on the part of non-Blacks on the value and importance of educating our children in an environment that helps them fulfill their highest potential. Yes, maths is the same in any ethnicity, but the approach to understanding maths varies based on the manner in which we learn. Research shows that African people learn and express what they have learned differently to Europeans. I would urge everyone to read the book “Not out of Greece” by Ra Un Nefer Amen. The author not only exposes the origins of math and science as African, but goes on to document the difference in Ancient Africans’ approach to formulating mathematical theorems and deducing scientific facts to that of the ancient Greeks and Europeans (who failed in their attempt to learn maths and science using the methods of Africans). Consequently, as a people we have inherited a very different approach to learning maths and science than that inherited by Europeans. Interestingly enough, some European institutions such as Montessori and a program developed by the Institute for Advancement of Human Potential (www.iahp.org) have developed a methodology to maths that is more closely aligned to how our ancestors learned maths and deduced mathematical theorems and formulas.
Hence, if the premise of that cartoon was indeed to make the point that maths is the same in any ethnicity, then clearly the editor of the paper does not fully understand the extent of the difference in how Africans and Europeans learn maths, neither does he/she understand or is willing to accept that there is more to “Afrocentric Maths” than the teaching of mathematical operations and formulae. Children are empowered when they are able to identify with greatness. If you teach an African child about the discoveries and achievements of Imhotep he or she is likely to aspire to comparable great heights, more so than if they were taught about the achievements of Isaac Newton. However, I am certain that this is an argument that has been raised sufficiently in the debate for an African-centered public school.
When it is all said and done, African-Canadians should realise that only they can be the drivers of their destiny. As the old African saying goes “until the lion learns to write, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter”. This cartoon is just another example of the hunter glorifying himself. Let’s get busy people and write our own stories.
Don’t give up the fight.
Peace and Blessings,
Ngadi.
February 21, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Here’s my response.
http://bp2.blogger.com/_uPqJHxMXANM/R72lXVn67DI/AAAAAAAAAMU/8vk-JwVorPw/s1600-h/supdog-response.jpg
February 21, 2008 at 5:56 pm
I fail to see the humour in this!
February 21, 2008 at 6:23 pm
A protest in front of the Globe and Mail offices will be the next step. Especially if they don’t come out and formally apologize! I will personally organize this. We will make a time and a place for the protest and we will print a copy of the “cartoon” and blow it up and put on picket like signs. We will block the parking lot so their employers cannot get in to work as well!
February 21, 2008 at 8:04 pm
I am also outraged by this cartoon depiction.
The fact that the Globe printed this shows their lack of awareness of the struggle of the “black man” in our society.
Canada is supposed to be the mosaic of North America. Will we very truly believe this as a nation?
I feel disheartened where we are headed as a nation. Hope is failing!!!
February 22, 2008 at 1:56 am
I wanted to suggest a great educational website that is both informative and fun for all. The site features two African-American characters, “Mop Top” and “Lollipop.” These characters introduce us all to African-Americans who have made extraordinary contributions in math, science, and technology and they are proof that African-Americans are awesome. The people profiled on the site made extraordinary to people all over the world. Each month the site will profile/feature new scientists, mathematicians, and technology. More scientists will be added as students, parents, teachers, churches, organizations and others apprise the Mop Top Shop of additional scientists, inventors, and technologists they would like to see featured on the site.There will be more games and adventures added as the site grows. Take a few moments to peruse the site and if you have enjoyed its contents, please make others aware of its existence. The site can be found at:
http://www.moptopshop.com
I know you will enjoy it!
February 22, 2008 at 8:30 pm
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February 24, 2008 at 6:33 am
It’s ENOUGH! I am tired of it. People of color are fed up. You would think that the editor would have just a bit more respect… It just goes to show you that even during the shortest month of the year, Black History month to boot and this is the garbage that THE GLOBE AND MAIL in going to print. Just so you know…WE ARE NOT LAUGHING. Your cartoon was and is not funny. This is not about black people being sensitive, it’s about the Globe and Mail being offensive. This is just Damn UGLY!
February 25, 2008 at 9:54 pm
It is awfully sad that for some people the only source of pride is through degrading and trashing other people! Why can’t we love our cultures and our heritages without degrading others?! This for sure is not a source of pride to me and instead is a source of disgrace to publish such racist cartoon and degrade another human beings! This is nothing but shameful! Instead of trashing other cultures show what you have got except this sh*t!
February 26, 2008 at 12:40 am
White people strike again. When will all the racists DIE OFF already? When will the decendants of the earth’s longest career slave-drivers, genocists, cultural infiltrators and liars realise that they will never win a battle for the right to be inconsequentially racist. It’s never going to happen, whites, so give it up, drop the superiority act and be human like the rest of us.
February 26, 2008 at 4:24 pm
I am 24 years old and as a person who has fought so hard in the Black Community to promote unity and to cultivate a sense of pride in people younger than me and even my peers, I am most annoyed. I am the first President of the Black Student Association at my school , a motivational speaker and a spoken word artist. Following the cartoon, I wrote a piece, titled:”They do still Exist” — inspired from a film that my friend Kym Dominique Ferguson wrote and I would like to share it.
I wish this word was to about the existence
Of marchons and supernatural beings
Of fairy tales and love evergreen
Instead of these Jim Crow themes
and K K K marshals that still exist…
YES you Mister Editor in Chief of the Globe and Mail
This poem is entitled to you and your kind
To whom do you think that you addressing on a daily basis
Illiterate Black Folks that don’t get the message that you send us
When you write that we speak like
“wat’s up dog” when we teaching our children
It goes go right to the fact that you lack understanding of our purpose
When we teaching them that
there is some one out there that love them
Which We
have unfortunately
entrusted in You and Your kind for years to do
Reading about books of Elizabeth the Queen,
Huckleberry and Yankee Doodle Doo
Instead of Ethiopian Queens, Anasi and Afro Caribbean Foods
Yes this poem is entitled to you and your Kind, Mister Editor in Chief
No longer in our eyes as a respected person
For you have now become an official Chief of racial lines
Crossing over forest and valleys of comical satire
Like your ancestors once did
Oh yes our African cries
This time not making fun of our bodies
But to make fun of minds
what you so call Afrocentric Algebra Times
Yes this poem is entitled to you and your Kind, Chief of racial lines
February 26, 2008 at 5:52 pm
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February 27, 2008 at 3:05 am
Wow! The publication of this, what I would have to call obscenity, is absolutely outrageous. I am disgusted! Not only does it perpetuate the stereotypes and images that other sources of media have continuously displayed of black people, but it is an unfortunate reminder of the racism that is still openly present within our society, especially within those individuals such as yourselves, who have the ability to make a positive and significant change in these views, but refuse to do so, and choose to do the opposite. Can you honestly say to yourselves that you got a ‘kick’ out of this cartoon? It is quite hard to imagine that the time has come where cartoons and comics within a newspapers, particularly the Globe and Mail, which I used to consider a paper of quality and class, are no longer there as a source of entertainment, but rather to offend and continue to directly oppress a group of people. Please tell me how black youth are to rise and have a place in society when people like yourselves are continuously keeping them down? Do you think that such displays of racism go undetected and are swept under the rug? Need not I mention in detail, the ignorance of the individual who has created this cartoon, rather, I place the blame on the stakeholders—the editors who allow such rubbish to be exposed. How dare you have the nerve to consider yourselves anything more than bigots. You should feel ashamed, although I am certain that people of such low character are unable to even recognize when they have done wrong, and have the decency to correct it. I speak for myself and the remainder of the black community when I say that I expect nothing less that a public apology in the Globe and Mail.
“Still I rise”
Member of the black community
February 28, 2008 at 12:35 am
I cannot believe that images such as this can in fact be released into the press. It is absolutely absurd that an individual with authority to write for; what I thought was a prestigious newspaper, would subject themselves to a level that displays such insulting, bluntly racist, and juvenile images. Do they not know that stereotypes are where prejudice and racism begin? This cartoon not only, completely shatters the confidence one may have had in reading this particular newspaper for their daily news intake; but shatters the confidence of those that are looking forward to the opening of the Afro-centric school system. It is as if, the newspaper (not the individual responsible for the cartoon) is attempting to stifle this pilot project (?) before it has a chance to succeed. When we of the black community fought so hard to reach a level that is equivalent to our majority (white) neighbours or friends; i.e., having the option of sending our children to a culture-based school (e.g. Russian, Chinese, Jewish, etc.), why pose a limit to that opportunity?. There is absolutely nothing wrong with these existing schools: parents can choose how and where they want their child to be educated, so why does it seem to be such a problem when people from the black community would like that choice as well? With individuals out in the world that can (without any remorse), add to and perpetuate racism in Toronto, it gives us more of a reason to want to indulge in this up-coming Afro-centric school system. This is why I would like to send my future children to these schools; I do not want their minds poisoned by individuals or sources of media that claim to be experts.
Anticipating change
February 28, 2008 at 3:21 am
I think all Canadian should be outraged because there is even a notion of an Afrocentric school. We keep on forgetting we’re part of the same society. We have African Studies in Post Secondary for a reason. a Math and phyics and chemistry class doesn’t change when a black person teaches and nothing other than a sheltered outlook on the whole of society will come out of school. Graduates who are kings and queens of stereotype….It’s truly said that a multicultural society like ours could even suggest it. a 40% drop out is a failture in teaching, not a failure of the school system. The Canadian Education system has evolved so much over the last Century and adding an Afrocentric program would enhance it a whole lot but having an Afrocentric School kills the multicultural society and creates pockets of societies.
February 28, 2008 at 3:58 am
[You can visit the cartoonist] Jenkins’ website at http://www.jenkinsdraws.com/
I think everyone should call or email and let him know how they feel.
February 28, 2008 at 3:37 pm
I’m sure you have already received a ton of e-mails regarding the poor judgement you showed in publishing that cartoon, but I do feel that I should comment as well. I am a black male of immediate Caribbean decent who is completely against the idea of these segregated schools. I have never thought they we’re a good idea and will continue to think that.
That cartoon however was not just a commentary on the situation, but a view on our culture. To seriously consider that our educators speak using slang and street lingo is not only insulting, but completely irresponsible thinking. It’s very degrading to me as a University graduate to know this is how we are viewed. I read your response to some of the e-mails that were previously spent, and I sincerely believe that you completely missed the point of why we are upset. Yes, mathematics is universal. No matter what city, country, or continent you are in the fundamentals and basics hold true. The language with which it is taught does make a difference. But to assume that teachers would be speaking as if they were video jockeys is one of the most disgusting things I have ever heard.
I have a brother who is a teacher. He’s one of the most articulate people I’ve ever known. I’ve also had black teachers who not only despised slang, but reprimanded those who used it around them. For these reasons alone I am extremely angry at that insensitive cartoon, and find it very unfair that a whole culture is based on one generation. As an editor you showed horrible judgement in allowing that cartoon to be printed. The amount of respect I had for the Globe and Mail as a publication has diminished dramatically. I hope you will show a little more tact in the future when commenting on a situation as sensitive as this one.
The funny thing about all this however, is that I’m still against the idea of the schools despite that travesty of a cartoon.
Joel Oliver
Outraged
…they go on to respond
Dear Mr. Oliver
We have read and considered the many complaints we have received about the editorial cartoon of Feb. 18, which referred to the debate about a proposed black-focused, or Afrocentric, school in Toronto.
While the intent of the cartoon was not racist, we acknowledge that the presentation of the idea in it may well have been insensitive and that it certainly gave offence to many readers. The cartoonist’s intention was simply to comment in the way editorial cartoonists do on the concept of Afrocentric schools. Intention is by no means everything; the effect is vitally important, too. It is particularly striking that we have received complaints from people on both sides of the black-focused school question.
We have great respect for the African-Canadian community. Specifically, we take very seriously the problems that the school proposal is designed to alleviate or to remedy.
We hope you will view this cartoon in the broader context of our reporting and opinion writing. We believe that our reporting on the black-focused schools debate has been a model of fairness, in news stories by Carolyn Abraham, Caroline Alphonso, James Bradshaw, Karen Howlett and Jill Mahoney. Of our columnists, Margaret Wente (twice) and John Barber have supported the proposal, while an editorial by the editorial board and columns by Jeffrey Simpson and Rick Salutin have opposed it. The Toronto editor, Gregory Boyd Bell, has led a Web discussion of the topic. Two relevant feature articles are one by Patrick White in the Life section, on the proposal, and one by James Bradshaw on David Watkins and his black history course at Weston Collegiate Institute.
Beyond this particular debate, our reporter Joe Friesen spent four months of 2006 in the Jane-Finch area of Toronto, and wrote a extensive series of stories titled The Neighbourhood, which presented its positive aspects, so often neglected in the media.
Anthony Reinhart has written several stories about the black community of Toronto and the racism it suffers from. As Mr. Reinhart is one of the best writers for the Globe’s Toronto pages, his assignments are regarded as high-priority stories. We have also written several features on the Pathways program and its successes in encouraging children to stay in school.
Editorial cartoons are meant to stir debate, and contribute to it. The visual style is one of exaggeration of features, which can be problematic, but is not intrinsically derogatory, and is routinely applied to establishment figures. The idea in this particular cartoon is that mathematics is universal, not variable with ethnicity or race, though language may so vary.
We also recognize that a phrase associated with a judge of the television show American Idol is not one that a black teacher would ever use to address a Canadian class.
Moreover, through a mistake in transcription, the equations on the blackboard were not quite correct. This was our mistake, and there was no intention to suggest that the imaginary teacher in the cartoon was not competent.
This debate will continue, and The Globe and Mail will continue, with renewed energy and greater insight to endeavour that our presentation of it, and of related issues that concern the African-Canadian community, will be fair, balanced, thorough and respectful.
Yours truly,
Sylvia Stead
Deputy editor
Feels as if the whole thing is copied and pasted from one complainee to another. The problem continues
February 28, 2008 at 4:07 pm
My comment to the editor:
Dear Editor,
We, your readers and citizens of this country are requesting a formal apology for the printing of the cartoon ‘Afrocentric Algebra’. I’m unsure whether it was meant to be sarcastic or sattirical, but it certainly left a lot of people deeply offended. I understand that much is left to interpretation but given the sensitivity of the issue it was irresponsible for this to have been published.
While I will not make assumptions about the intent of the artist, I believe it might be of great benefit to your organization to educate him/her on the definition of the word ‘Afrocentric’, and ‘Urban dialogue’ so that he/she might be able to distinguish the two from one another.
Perhaps this employee should stick to subjects that they are more … familiar and well versed in before making it the focus of their submitted work, and that you will all be much less careless in the future.
Disappointed, but only mildly surprised,
Denise
March 4, 2008 at 6:50 pm
I was a little surprised that a business paper such as yours that has such a WIDE range of readers would publish something tastless and low. Doesn’t someone look at the content before it is printed? In my eyes there is not excuse for print such a clear and cut RACIST cartoon, the person who drew the cartoon should be let go along with the person who allowed this to actually be printed. I know you think most of blacks don’t read and are stupid, but you had to think that one of us would catch this one or maybe you wanted us to catch and your paper just does not care. I personally don’t want an apology for it cause it will happen again and you are not sorry that it happened this time. This is an example of what I call modern day racism. Where garbage like this can be pulblished and you say “Sorry we did not mean to offend anyone” and a few more blah blah blah’s — the damage has already been done and that is what counts in the persons mind who created this deliberate attack on something that is being done for a positive reason. This is disgusting. My fellow black people please use this as a reminder that racism is not getting any better, it is at a point where people who don’t like us merely just because of our skin color can verbally abuse us, make fun of us, deny us jobs and promotions and all we get is a “Sorry” and the next day it is done again.
Unite my people we must unite, united we stand divided we fall.
Peace
March 4, 2008 at 10:13 pm
I am deeply offended by this cartoon. As , a black women, a parent and a member of the PTA at the school where my son attends, I am outraged. This is offensive and derogatory towards the people of African heritage in Canada. In no way could this cartoon be construed as humorous. It does however depict the racism and bigotry still alive in Canada today. This cartoon offends me on many levels and not only the fact that it was published during Black History Month.
Who would think this is funny? Only a narrow minded person would think a black teacher who cannot talk properly and does not know algebra is funny in relation to segregated schools.
I am also disappointed in the non-apology to Mr. Oliver from Syliva Stead of the Globe & Mail. There is no broader context involved, it is just the publication of the opinion of a bigot and it disappoints me that the Globe & Mail would publish it. This editorial cartoon does not stir debate but spreads racism keeping it alive. The publication of such an offensive cartoon makes me wonder if this is the opinion of the owners and employees of the Globe & Mail. Is this a publication for me to avoid and recommend boycotting due to their lack of sensitivity to the issues that face the black community in Canada?
Truly disappointed,
D. Grey
March 7, 2008 at 1:38 am
I’m black and yet I’m not jumping up and down in apoplectic rage.
Then again, I’m not easily offended.
I won’t say that people shouldn’t feel the way they do about the cartoon (’deeply offended’ seems to be the general sentiment), but I will say that this kind of hysteria is frankly unwarranted.
We get it, racist and ethnic jokes = bad…
Outrage is hardly necessary, however, and only serves to overblow the issue whilst contributing to an underlying tension over political correctness that I find unbearable as it is.
We’re overblowing the problem here — I think that the more seriously people take such things, the more it reflects a (subconscious?) belief that there is an underlying truth to racist stereotypes.
The ‘PC’ movement is misguided in seeking to bury these aforementioned stereotypes as if they were forbidden truths. It does this in an apparent drive to create some sort of utopia where everyone, regardless of differences, falls into the exact same mould. Cultural, historical and geographical qualities and traits are ignored and everyone, coloured in indeterminate shades of beige, holds hands and sings Kumbayah.
Let’s not take things so seriously, please.
March 14, 2008 at 3:03 am
An absolutely despicable display of ignorance and human injustice. On a systemic level, attempts are still made to discredit Black individuals who have been victimized by historical incidents of hated. The Globe and Mail, needs to be held accountable for adopting a point of view which stigmatizes a race by perpetuating images that are clearly negative in nature.
What a shameful depiction. If the Globe and Mail is attempting to represent Black culture, they should first attempt to understand Blacks on a whole. These types of displays only seek to promote stereotyping, and thus add to the difficulties Blacks continue to have to encounter.
Absolutely shameful!!!! I guess next week, the Globe and Mail will be displaying an image of a lynching while White’s yell out ‘Sup Dog!”
Significantly Disgusted,
Samantha
March 17, 2008 at 5:50 am
Did anyone else notice the solution on the blackboard in the comic is atrocious in form and very incorrect?
Any thoughts?
March 24, 2008 at 6:25 pm
This is the text that I sent to the editor of the newspaper.
“I am a person with black skin and also a reader of your newspaper. I would like to join others who have voiced their disgust in saying that your newspaper has shown a total lack of respect to people of color.
Unfortunately, you have decided not to print an apology. I guess you are aware that printing an apology would confirm to your many readers that you have on your staff journalists who are prejudice towards people of color.
Please consider a quote from Theodore Roosevelt who said “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing” Do something, and apologize.”
May 8, 2008 at 3:00 pm
“It is awfully sad that for some people the only source of pride is through degrading and trashing other people! Why can’t we love our cultures and our heritages without degrading others?!”
And it’s awfully sad that for some people, the only source of pride is co-opting the achievements of ancient cultures, attributing them to some fantasy version of ancient Egypt and claiming that fantasy culture “invented math and writing” while simultaneously minimizing the achievements of other cultures.
Now who’s racist?
May 20, 2008 at 5:26 am
The cartoon is exactly the way it is. The double standard is ridiculous. Most black people I know call each other the “N” word and Dawg, all the time, at work, yet if YOU a white person does it you’re a racist. Give me a break. And black people do have big mouths, full lips. Is that racist too, observing a physical feature. This forced ass kissing of a minority is going to backfire. And besides that, as long as someone is smart they can greet people however they want. It doesn’t matter. Blacks are so insanely oversensitive, it’s like the more you try to please these thoroughly IMPOSSIBLE to please people, they more arrogant, whiny and entitled they act, which disproves what they say as the “oppressed” would be ignored. I’m tired of this crap of whites having to “apologize” for things we never ever did. My family came to America in the 20’s and were DIRT POOR, and didn’t ask for, nor get a handout. We owe nobody. It is old.
June 3, 2008 at 11:25 am
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