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| Posted By: none Posted On: Oct 16, 2008 Views: 310 | racism or a Spangles! |
| Posted By: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Posted On: Oct 16, 2008 Views: 314 | this poll Time to change the poll question....zzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
| Posted By: Peter Scott Posted On: Oct 15, 2008 Views: 413 | Racism Me and my Klan buddies think that there is very little racism here in Ark City. Our main problem is that we don't have a Burger King. |
| Posted By: Oliver L. Brown Posted On: Oct 9, 2008 Views: 552 | Race relations Like it or not, this thread is about race relations. That is why the discussion is not about insurance companies. |
| Posted By: an american taxpayer Posted On: Oct 7, 2008 Views: 761 | new subject please I think instead of worrying about racism in a town of around 15,000. There should be more concern about the mispent money of AIG...in other words the big executive party that was funded by you the taxpayer. |
| Posted By: Oliver L. Brown Posted On: Oct 6, 2008 Views: 794 | behind doors You are right. Me too. I don't make racist remarks. But just about everyone I know, with very few exceptions, does make racial comments when they aren't in public. In traveling around, it seems that everyone in the 4 corners area is named Begay. The ones I used to know in Ark City were pretty neat people. I have mixed emotions about the closing of Chilocco. Not real good for the Indians, but it sure brought a lot of diverse and interesting people to town. |
| Posted By: Concerned II Posted On: Oct 6, 2008 Views: 525 | To Concerned Thanks! your heartfelt comments are appreciated. |
| Posted By: cracker Posted On: Oct 6, 2008 Views: 389 | racism its only racist if a white guy says it , i bet every black person in Ark City said something racist this weekend , so what everyone is entitled to there own opinion , you dont have to like everyone , just be civil in public , behind closed doors who cares |
| Posted By: Concerned Posted On: Oct 6, 2008 Views: 312 | Racism I disagree with Oliver. I'm white. I haven't made any racist comments. I grew up in Ark City at a time when racial tensions included violence and in spite of the multi-racial demographics and the certainty that there was racial discrimination at some levels, when I started school in 1947, our schools were integrated. In fact there was probably as much discrimination based on social status as on race. I'm white but growing up through Ark City schools my friends included Browns (black), Hollises, Ramirezes, Begays, Hathcoats, Tolberts, and many others who were not "whites." My parents taught me that because they grew up the same way and accepted people for who they were and what they did, not what color their skin was. But I had other friends whose parents encouraged them to have racist attitudes and who fought to keep the pool at Carver Park and separate churches, etc. I'm sorry that racism does exist. I'm sorry that people still feel that way. But I also pray that Martin Luther King, Jr's words will one day be universal in the attitudes of children of every race and creed, so that we will share equally in the bounty God has provided for all his children. And I hope that racism in Ark City is not nearly as bad as Oliver appears to feel it is. |
| Posted By: Oliver L. Brown Posted On: Oct 5, 2008 Views: 372 | Race relations There are two aspects of this. The way people act in public and the way they act while having a beer in their back yard with their buddies. Racism is universal in Ark City and probably always will be. I believe each and every white male has made a racist comment this week to someone. It may have had some justification to it, like about immigration or reverse discrimination or such or about the uppity NAACP, but racism is alive and very well in Ark City. None of it is in public though. We don't need sensitivity training. Everybody already knows what is right and wrong. We just don't do it or care that we should. |