Jesse Jackson

[bluedog]

Your logic is illogical.

Hopefully you'll get as illogical as me one day C. O. G.

 

[Kendrick]

This will be my only comment on this whole N-word thing. I feel like the word only has power and meaning if you allow it to have power and meaning.

If you have a college degree, but folks call you stupid all the time that can't honestly hurt you because you know you are an educated person. It is the same with the N-word.

My grandfather grew up in Tennessee in straight redneck country and he would tell me stories about how he would get called the N-word every day, but that it never got to him. He also told me that white folks in his town feared him because he was the only black man they knew who owned a house full of guns. That dude was not scared of the KKK at all or any white man who tried to degrade him he told me. (I don't know if that is true or not, but his brother backed him up on the stories)

When he was still alive he would tell me don't let get upset over what people say to me because I could not control what they say. And if I lost my cool over those statements, it only gave them power over me because they could get to me when they wanted. That is why I am ho hum about the Jesse Jackson commets because I know I'm not a N*****.

That might be the world of choice to describe black people, but I don't get bent out of shape over it because no matter how much I get upset over it, I can likely never change the way they think. We as a race have come way too far to let the N-word or any other word to hurt us. If Jesse wants to use that word, I say let him. He nor that word has power over me.

 

[C.O.G.]

Old General William "Uncle Billy" Tecumseh Sherman, he definitely didn't take any prisoners, Black or White. In my opinion, Colin Powell is a modern day Sherman, both men believed more in being a soldier then a politician. Sherman knew exactly what it took to make them good ole Southern White folks adhere to the rules. He definitely believed in fighting fire with fire. I liked his war tactics and the man cared about his soldiers, along with General Hooker, which the term hooker was derived from, but that's another story. Southern Whites definitely was scared of him. General Sherman was also the first superintendent of LSU at the start of the war, which was in Pineville, LA at the time. As a in your face to Sherman, the Confederate used the two cannons he donated to the school's ROTC as the first shots fired on Fort Sumter, SC. Those two cannons presently are located in front of LSU's Military Science Building today. But old Sherman got the last laugh when he storm through Georgia and the Carolinas. I believe there are some White folks still running from Sherman today:lmao:

He is the originator of 40 acres and a mule. He was about the business of giving just that. The US congress passed law that the blacks had to give the land back. If Sherman had his way things would be a lot different. Possibly no reparations issues.
I still have no association with blacks who sag, or call each other n****r.

 

[JAG89]

He is the originator of 40 acres and a mule. He was about the business of giving just that. The US congress passed law that the blacks had to give the land back. If Sherman had his way things would be a lot different. Possibly no reparations issues.
I still have no association with blacks who sag, or call each other n****r.

Even though the Union burnt LSU in Pineville, LA to the ground, General Sherman should have done it himself. Maybe there would have less crazy out-of-control rednecks in that area, such as Winnfield, Jena, and Grant Parish.