I thought we were past this

POSTED BY: AnthonyT
UPDATED: Friday, October 16, 2009 23:09
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ANTHONYT

Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:41 PM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33332436/ns/us_news-race_and_ethnicity

Hello,

I am dismayed.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

WULFENSTAR

Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:48 PM

Well.... dammit.

I got nothing.

WULFENSTAR

Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:48 PM

Well.... dammit.

I got nothing.

CHRISISALL

Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:55 PM

Does the term "redneck" mean anything to y'all?

The laughing Chrisisall

CHRISISALL

Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:04 PM

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Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.

Well, thanks Keith, for your concern.
Do you marry whites, who have a 50+% divorce rate?
How about hispanices & blacks?
Hispanics & whites?
Would you have married Barak & Michelle, seeing as he's more WHITE than she is?
So, a definite no to Obama's parents then, eh?

This is so all kinds of wrong.

The laughing Chrisisall

SIGNYM

Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:25 PM

Quote:
But Bardwell told the Daily Star of Hammond that he was not a racist.

That's what they all say.

KWICKO

Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:29 PM

And y'all wonder why some of us call it "Lousy-ana"...

STORYMARK

Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:32 PM

I can't wait to share this with a Nola-native friend of mine....

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

KWICKO

Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:34 PM

Well, children of mixed marriages DO have a really rough time of it. Heck, there's a sizable chunk of people who don't believe our President is actually an American because of his mixed racial heritage!

Of course, that child of interracial marriage also happened to be elected President of the United States, so I'm not exactly sure what this hayseed jerkwater civil servant is so concerned about.

Mike

The percentage you're paying is too high-priced
While you're living beyond all your means;
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he's made on your dreams

KWICKO

Thursday, October 15, 2009 11:03 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Well.... dammit.

I got nothing.

Oh, and thank you for that.

Some shit just takes words away, huh?

I give you shit, Wulf, but I *DO* think you're growing.

Mike

The percentage you're paying is too high-priced
While you're living beyond all your means;
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he's made on your dreams

ANTHONYT

Thursday, October 15, 2009 11:37 PM

Hello,

I posted this on the wrong thread.

--Anthony

CHRISISALL

Friday, October 16, 2009 12:10 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Specifically, I'm discussing this in terms of the children in the schools and our expectation that they will be violent.

Okay, I'm officially lost.
Are you saying that HE'S saying that interracial kids of divorced parental units will be bangers?

The laughing Chrisisall

ANTHONYT

Friday, October 16, 2009 12:14 AM

Ha!

Hello,

I am an idiot, Chris.

Carry on.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

CHRISISALL

Friday, October 16, 2009 12:20 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by AnthonyT:

I am an idiot, Chris.

Most atypical, Tony.

The laughing Chrisisall

WULFENSTAR

Friday, October 16, 2009 12:21 AM

Is you is, or is you ain't, my constituency?

Im sure this guy approves.

BYTEMITE

Friday, October 16, 2009 12:52 AM

The worst kind of oppression and discrimination is the kind that pretends to care about the people it oppresses.

I *hope* this guy is just ignorant and just needs to get a clue, but that's probably wishful thinking. It probably is some kind of effort to rally racist members of his local constituency, or a political message.

Government deciding who should and should not marry is absolutely chilling.

KWICKO

Friday, October 16, 2009 1:17 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
The worst kind of oppression and discrimination is the kind that pretends to care about the people it oppresses.

I *hope* this guy is just ignorant and just needs to get a clue, but that's probably wishful thinking. It probably is some kind of effort to rally racist members of his local constituency, or a political message.

Government deciding who should and should not marry is absolutely chilling.

And THANK YOU for bringing it up. I was wondering how long it might take.

So here's my quandary: This JP *says* he's only concerned about the children, and he's worried because he says that mixed-race marriages generally don't work out, and he's worried about that...

So if I were to drop the latest figures on him from Massachusetts, where the overall divorce rate IS DROPPING since they allowed same-sex marriage, would he be convinced that same-sex marriage is GOOD for keeping people together?

Somehow, I think not.

Sure, you can argue apples-to-bears, but if he says he's concerned about marriages working out, there's some pretty solid evidence that he SHOULD at least consider allowing same-sex marriage then. But if he can't even wrap his head around mixed-race marriage (I seriously wonder if the word "Miscegenation" was ever uttered by him. Or if he even knows that word), I'm fair certain same-sex marriages would really bake his noodle.

Mike

The percentage you're paying is too high-priced
While you're living beyond all your means;
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he's made on your dreams

PIZMOBEACH

Friday, October 16, 2009 1:18 AM

Ya'll, Yall, Y'all are kiddin' r'ight? This guy "Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish" may have the best of intentions and just be reacting to his known universe. There may have only been a couple of these kinds of marriages in his parts and their youngins may have had a tough time fitting in. Violence may have been a way for them to react to social stigma and an unaccepting populace.

Keith is of course wrong to get in the way of love, but still, let's not judge him too harshly.

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CHRISISALL

Friday, October 16, 2009 1:30 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:

Keith is of course wrong to get in the way of love, but still, let's not judge him too harshly.

No, let's.

The laughing Chrisisall

FREMDFIRMA

Friday, October 16, 2009 2:24 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
The worst kind of oppression and discrimination is the kind that pretends to care about the people it oppresses.

Yes, and a lot of "civil rights activists" fall to it too, some of em without meaning to.
And trying to call them out on it gets YOU slammed as a racist, often enough, bleh.

Quote:
Government deciding who should and should not marry is absolutely chilling.

I don't think it's not one sliver their business, and be damned if imma beg permission from the Gov to have a relationship - if one isn't mature enough to handle a relationship without uncle sam playin referee, they damn well don't belong in one!

Either they legally accept em ALL, no matter how ridiculous - or they get the hell out of it, period.

-F

PIZMOBEACH

Friday, October 16, 2009 2:43 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:

Keith is of course wrong to get in the way of love, but still, let's not judge him too harshly.

No, let's.

The laughing Chrisisall

What?? How dare you take a total lame, MSNBC no-news-today-story-story seriously! Oh, wait...

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CHRISISALL

Friday, October 16, 2009 2:48 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:

What?? How dare you take a total lame, MSNBC no-news-today-story-story seriously! Oh, wait...

I will beat you like a dog; drop you like a bad habit. I will piz on your beach.

The laughing Chrisisall

KWICKO

Friday, October 16, 2009 2:59 AM

I rarely take anything that comes from Lousy-ana seriously.

AG05

Friday, October 16, 2009 3:14 AM

Quote:
I rarely take anything that comes from Lousy-ana seriously.

Hurricanes notwithstanding.

Mercy is the mark of a great man.
Guess I'm just a good man.
Well, I'm alright.

PIZMOBEACH

Friday, October 16, 2009 3:15 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:

What?? How dare you take a total lame, MSNBC no-news-today-story-story seriously! Oh, wait...
I will beat you like a dog; drop you like a bad habit. I will piz on your beach.

Soooo, you agree.

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KWICKO

Friday, October 16, 2009 3:23 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by AG05:
Quote:
I rarely take anything that comes from Lousy-ana seriously.
Hurricanes notwithstanding.

Mercy is the mark of a great man.
Guess I'm just a good man.
Well, I'm alright.

Was Katrina something that came FROM Lousyana, or something that came TO that state?

CHRISISALL

Friday, October 16, 2009 3:37 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Soooo, you agree.

I agree that you are a backbirth purplebelly. Is that agreeable?

The laughing Chrisisall

CHRISISALL

Friday, October 16, 2009 3:40 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:

Was Katrina something that came FROM Lousyana, or something that came TO that state?

Are you insinuating a satanic causal effect?

The laughing Chrisisall

PIZMOBEACH

Friday, October 16, 2009 3:57 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Soooo, you agree.
I agree that you are a backbirth purplebelly. Is that agreeable?

Oh gawd... you're mom and dad decided to call you "chris" because "douchenozzleisall" was taken... next!

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KWICKO

Friday, October 16, 2009 3:58 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:

Was Katrina something that came FROM Lousyana, or something that came TO that state?
Are you insinuating a satanic causal effect?

The laughing Chrisisall

Ooooh - you mean like, Louisiana is so evil that it somehow managed to summon Katrina from hell to come to Louisiana to bring hell to Earth? That would also explain the damage to Mississippi and Alabama, and more specifically, to Trent Lott's house.

Mike

Let the wild rumpus start!

KWICKO

Friday, October 16, 2009 4:00 AM

Quote:

Oh gawd... you're mom and dad decided to call you "chris" because "douchenozzleisall" was taken... next!

Shit - I was hoping no one had called dibs on that one yet!

OH well, what about Asswipe (It's pronounce Ah-SWEEP-ay)? Can I name my kid Asswipe?

Mike

Let the wild rumpus start!

CHRISISALL

Friday, October 16, 2009 4:13 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Oh gawd... you're mom and dad decided to call you "chris" because "douchenozzleisall" was taken... next!

I am fully trained in unarmed & armed (edgeded weapons) combat. I invite you to open your mouth in mortal combat with me at a place & time of your own choosing. I promise I will humiliate you with little or no bleeding.

The laughing Chrisisall

GEEZER

Friday, October 16, 2009 1:27 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by AnthonyT:
I thought we were past this

Most of us are, and more of us every day. Consider that 50 years ago denying mixed-race marriages was the norm, and not deemed worthy of comment. Back then, a JP who actually did issue a license to a mixed couple would be the one in the news, and in trouble.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

WULFENSTAR

Friday, October 16, 2009 8:02 PM

When even *I* am past this... then we, as a nation are past it.

This guy is a throwback.

He might have a point, about half-breeds having a harder time in life... but he doesn't have the right to deny them the struggle.

Besides...

I don't think these folks have done very bad for themselves.

WULFENSTAR

Friday, October 16, 2009 8:49 PM

Even this guy.

NIKI2

Friday, October 16, 2009 8:54 PM

Quote:
I am dismayed.

I am sickened. And pissed off.

Quote:
children of mixed marriages DO have a really rough time of it.

Not around here, unless maybe in the ghetto (of which I am not familiar). Nobody around here bats an eye.

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WULFENSTAR

Friday, October 16, 2009 9:45 PM

"Not around here, unless maybe in the ghetto (of which I am not familiar). Nobody around here bats an eye."

As well they shouldn't. Its what you do, its who you ARE, that counts.

KWICKO

Friday, October 16, 2009 11:09 PM

Quote:

When even *I* am past this... then we, as a nation are past it.

This guy is a throwback.

Thanks for that, Wulf.