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Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:35 pm
It is ok. I have an equal emotional reaction to black and white young people who walk around with their pants half a foot lower than they should be.
As for planned parenthood, I merely want opponents to it to come up with a more rational argument that is more thoroughly integrated with the broader socio-economic picture in the U.S. The Big TV Evangelists and politicians pandering to them all tend to live in isolated McMansion subdivisions. Prohibition of Alcohol was comparable to today's abortion issue from the mid 1800s through the early 1900s, in terms of the fervor and public attention span it consumed. at Least then both sides tended to live in the same neighborhoods, regardless of class. I am a fair guy.
I don't see the low pants, culture of stupidity and violence, and foul language as a racial thing. I see it as the ultimate result of a crass consumerism that is uniquely American and only temporarily available. And I see it as part of a continuum of business and marketing that has profited the opposite types of people. Think of the stereotypes as tragic fashion victims.
I'd bet everything I own that Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglas, and William Edward Burghardt Du Bois would reserve much more harshness for loud, foulmouthed, droopy drawered guys with kids or criminal records than I have for anyone white or black.
That's the problem with todays moral majority. In the past it wasn't necessary to worry about abortion, because newborns died so frequently. It was also common for parents to accidently roll over and smother their infants(it was common for parents and infants to sleep together). Guys didn't need to get divorced, because they could just leave the county or the state: Most had no social security numbers, no drivers licenses, no checking accounts, no credit cards, no 401(ks),
As for planned parenthood, I merely want opponents to it to come up with a more rational argument that is more thoroughly integrated with the broader socio-economic picture in the U.S. The Big TV Evangelists and politicians pandering to them all tend to live in isolated McMansion subdivisions. Prohibition of Alcohol was comparable to today's abortion issue from the mid 1800s through the early 1900s, in terms of the fervor and public attention span it consumed. at Least then both sides tended to live in the same neighborhoods, regardless of class. I am a fair guy.
I don't see the low pants, culture of stupidity and violence, and foul language as a racial thing. I see it as the ultimate result of a crass consumerism that is uniquely American and only temporarily available. And I see it as part of a continuum of business and marketing that has profited the opposite types of people. Think of the stereotypes as tragic fashion victims.
I'd bet everything I own that Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglas, and William Edward Burghardt Du Bois would reserve much more harshness for loud, foulmouthed, droopy drawered guys with kids or criminal records than I have for anyone white or black.
That's the problem with todays moral majority. In the past it wasn't necessary to worry about abortion, because newborns died so frequently. It was also common for parents to accidently roll over and smother their infants(it was common for parents and infants to sleep together). Guys didn't need to get divorced, because they could just leave the county or the state: Most had no social security numbers, no drivers licenses, no checking accounts, no credit cards, no 401(ks),
