Posts made by Cirno

@ILuvGrumpyCat said:

non-African-Americans have also stood hand in hand with African-Americans and protested.

So?

As far as I (and other Afro-Americans of my persuasion) are concerned, we do not want them there, nor did we beg them for help.

They are unnecessary and ambiguous.

You leave out the fact that Black on Black crime has been an epidemic going back twenty or more years.

This is a Classic Red Herring trotted out whenever Afro-Americans rebel against their circumstance.

It doesn't matter, and you should not mention it. It is none of your business; in fact, mentioning it makes you seem like a disinterested racist person.

It's a myth - a distraction - a lie.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/15/the-trayvon-martin-killing-and-the-myth-of-black-on-black-crime.html

And, quite frankly, we're sick and tired of having "black-on-black" crime thrown in our faces. Cop slayings and white-on-black homicides are far more injurious.

@spasticgoat

No, please, continue. I liked it when you mentioned an insane black person in the hopes of frightening me.

It's a Thing; whenever an Afro-American mentions a radical figure, the Opposition then mentions some totally insane black person, like, for example, Joseph Kony, or General Butt Naked.

Being a proactive black person does not mean that I want to skin white people alive and eat their infants. You may notice that @HelloRaptor played the "Enemy" gambit first, not I.

@BetterJudgment

It's worth mentioning as well that the shots were fired at me first.

I merely refused to submit to Mighty Whitey, armed though they may be with scarewords and hostility.

@spasticgoat

Dated

The unrest in Baltimore indicates otherwise.

It was relevant then; it remains relevant now. Perhaps you also think the Black Panthers were "dated", but you must admit that if brigades of heavily-armed Afro-American citizens ran overwatch missions on police forces, the monthly death-by-cop rate would halve overnight.

What I'd really like to do is start a program like that; I have my own firearms and ammunition, but nobody in my area is really interested in the drudgery of patrolling the street. It's unfortunate, really; a race of warriors reduced to indolence and passive acceptance of their fate.

@spasticgoat

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Perspectives_1/article_9722.shtml

Actually, Malcolm X died under suspicious circumstances that may or may not include the FBI. It is debated whether or not the NOI was at fault.

The going theory? FBI operatives, cloaking themselves as NOI members, performed a false flag action in the hopes of discrediting the NOI and breaking their influence.

Also, he said a few stupid things, like what you quoted. Doesn't matter. He was as human, and error-prone, as any other person. I'm a fan of the earlier, more confrontational Malcolm. He toned down a lot in his later years, for some reason.

@Cobaltasaurus

Of course we are friends. I look forward to e-hanging out with you as well, and I am convinced your feelings are genuine.

However, I do not hold you to a special obligation to help or care about me.

Fact: I have no white friends in real life. It's true.

I have numerous black friends and that's the extent of my social sphere.

@spasticgoat said:

As you are the emissary of the entire African-American experience, please arrange for peaceful resolutions to all current conflicts. Now that you've been identified and will be working as the spokestroll for the fullness of the cultures represented, we should have this all zipped up by noon tomorrow.

Or you're another person with an opinion who has no more or less authority than the next person with an opinion, and should know that speaking on behalf of an entire spectrum of people on their behalf is what starts problems before it fixes anything.

People help people. People hurt people. People who speak for large groups of people have faulty judgment and terrible logic. I represent my own race and ethnicity and do not focus on it. No choice of mine will change my skin pigment a shade darker or lighter, nor would I want it to. What I do with my voice is up to me. Don't raise it on my behalf again.

I speak for the militant African-Americans; the Malcolm X's , the Huey P. Newtons, and the Stokely Carmichaels. I speak for the Black Panther party, which is now defunct due to the intrigues of the US Government.

I firmly believe that we must free ourselves from the yoke of the Oppressors By Any Means Necessary, and that we can protect and help ourselves, without the help of outside intervention.

@spasticgoat said:

I only care about people of my race.

You should.

I hope none of you thought I was suggesting that we poor, helpless black people need others to care about us. We do not. We neither desire your help or enjoy it.

Your problems mean absolutely nothing to me.

They should not, and I would be a fool to expect them to mean anything to you.

Why would it trouble me if implications existed?

It shouldn't.

@spasticgoat

Is there something wrong with my statement? Are you implying a thing?

@WTFE said:

And @spasticgoat gets it in one. @Cirno making it a "black thing" is being so disingenuous it verges on … wait for it! … black comedy.

Your casually racist attitude endears you to me in ways I can't even begin to properly feel, chum.

@spasticgoat said:

I t sounds like the Chinese government is displaying hostility towards every type of people.

I'm perfectly willing to agree.

They aren't our allies, for certain.

@WTFE said:

(whilst ignoring the thousands and thousands of non-black people executed, including non-blacks from the Philippines, from India, from Nepal, from the various *stan republics surrounding it, from Great Britain, etc.),

I am not a non-black person, sir. You seem to forget; let me reiterate from earlier. I am black. I am discussing circumstances peculiar to my people.

It's not my job to care about non-black people.

Have you considered this rather pertinent detail? I am not even saying "it's racist".

I am saying the Chinese government displayed hostility towards towards my people.

@WTFE said:

@Cirno said:

In general, I disagree with the Chinese method of capital punishment, which is why you'd have to clout me over the head and put me in a sack to get me to cross the Chinese border, and, also, why I disagree vehemently with @WTFE when they say how everything is hunky-dory and lots of fun in the Middle Kingdom.

More trolling, I see. (Hint: I have never said everything is hunky-dory in the Middle Kingdom.)

Stifling me with the troll scareword is disingenuous and juvenile, to boot.

I am glad you admit to saying things are fun in the Peep's Republic, however. You're a cool frood.

@WTFE said:

@Cirno said:

@WTFE

If it's rare for Gwailo Round-eye Foreign-Devils to be executed in the Middle Kingdom, then it ought to be all the more questionable that they brought the full apparatus of capital punishment against that black woman, would it not?

Get yourself a dictionary. Look up the word "rare" and compare it to the word "never". See if you can figure out why I used the word "rare" instead of "never". (Hint: because I meant "rare" and not "never".)

Quibbling over semantics?

And you call me a troll? Fascinating.

@Misadventure

The flood of appeals (and Jacob Zuma's intervention) should have had some effect in that woman's case, actually, not her skin color.

In general, I disagree with the Chinese method of capital punishment, which is why you'd have to clout me over the head and put me in a sack to get me to cross the Chinese border, and, also, why I disagree vehemently with @WTFE when they say how everything is hunky-dory and lots of fun in the Middle Kingdom.

The USA treats its Afro-American citizens with such inhumanity that outsiders actually class our plight as a humanitarian disaster, so don't think I'm insinuating things are peachy for us here, either.

@Misadventure

Have you read the story behind the incident?

There was a pitched battle to prevent her execution, culminating in the head of state of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, personally begging the Chinese government to stay their hand.

The Chinese displayed their immense goodwill towards my people by ignoring the numerous appeals and killing her anyway.

It was hardly as cut-and-dry as HR would have us think. I had been following that unfortunate woman's case since it made headlines.

@WTFE

If it's rare for Gwailo Round-eye Foreign-Devils to be executed in the Middle Kingdom, then it ought to be all the more questionable that they brought the full apparatus of capital punishment against that black woman, would it not?

@HelloRaptor

Marginalizing a black person's opinions as "froth" really makes you seem like a wonderful human being, HR.

You can go two for two and grandstand about how I've failed to make any point whatsoever; typically, you have enveloped yourself so thoroughly in your game of one-upmanship over me that you have failed to consider this:

I have not been engaging in a debate - merely laying bare my own internal feelings about my condition, but, of course, you were too busy going for my throat.

Thanks. I appreciate you and your efforts. You imply there was something at stake here for me; I put it to you that you are wrong.

I would even go as far as to put it to you that I expected indifference and hostility in your response: since when have white people ever affirmed the hardship Afro-Americans and the African Diaspora experience?

Never. I'd be a fool to expect you to act otherwise.

I live for really big scenes exceeding 8 or so people; they are fun and dynamic, and I have never had a problem coordinating people's poses with my own.

Historically speaking, I tended to gravitate towards games with large numbers of players on the grid, specifically to find large-scale scenes.

Large scenes seem to be a thing of the past, personally speaking. The modern MU* player seems to prefer small scenes; this thread appears to corroborate my findings.

It's cute that everyone is pretending hating black people is a disease only found in the USA/countries with large subsets of black citizens, but this is a Lie.

Finland does not have a large population of black people, yet the White Finnish bitterly hate black people.

The Chinese government displayed their fangs by ruthlessly executing a black female.

So how do you guys explain that? Is Finland chock-full of blacks? Is China?

I'm sure a number of convincing arguments will be set forth, all of which will exonerate the aforementioned countries of all ill-will towards my people.

No, actually, the plight of black people is totally different. There is a sign hanging on the door of the rest of the world that isn't Africa, and it says "No Niggers Allowed".

That is why I have no intention of going to Germany or Japan, fond though I might be of their females (and males).

Why should I? So that I can be called a Nigger in German(Die Schwartzen) or in Japanese (Kurombo da!)?

All the world hates and despises black people. While I'm sure other peoples experience racism, it is not to the truly dire extent that black people experience it; or, rather, our situation is rather unique.

Being black means being trapped in the country of your birth.

Being black means not getting a job, a car, a house, or an education, without hideous amounts of difficulty; if you complain about the difficulty, people call you a "lazy nigger with a Gibs Me Dat attitude".

Being black means people hating you irrationally, then lamely making excuses for it ("You just did something wrong!" "I disagree with your opinion, not you!" "I...I don't like your personal life...").

Being black means people laughing and making jokes about racial tragedies that befell your people.

Being black means people bitterly opposing you in nearly all your wishes and decisions.

Being black means being killed in cold blood, at any given time; even now, a protest is under way in Baltimore over this.

Being black means people not letting you in their house.

We now return to your regularly scheduled thread. Thank you for reading this; if you didn't, that's okay too, as many regulars here insist that I'm just a troll, and whatnot.

I've been thinking about making a separate thread for people to share their experiences of racism, as @HelloRaptor mentioned earlier, and, in spite of people's posts (including my own), this is not The Racism Thread.