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Re: Looking for Love
« Reply #25 on: July 26, 2008, 09:12:26 AM »
I thought you might have a secret life as Huggy-Bear.

Just on the third Saturday of every fourth month!  ;)
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Re: Looking for Love
« Reply #26 on: July 26, 2008, 11:22:18 AM »

Being a Black man in a Black man's body has been pretty good to me, Dave! 


Hey soltero,

I am glad to hear it is all working out!  ;D


You'll have to catch me on the corner on a Saturday night after a few bottles of Ripple in my alligator pants, felt purple hat with a feather and those sky high shoes with the goldfish in them if you want to hear me break out into some kind of Gangsta Rap, Jeff!  ;D

 

I found this picture, but now I'm not sure if it is you or Dennis? Oh, that's right...you did say "felt purple hat." ;D

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Re: Looking for Love
« Reply #27 on: July 26, 2008, 11:32:45 AM »
You'll have to catch me on the corner on a Saturday night after a few bottles of Ripple in my alligator pants, felt purple hat with a feather and those sky high shoes with the goldfish in them if you want to hear me break out into some kind of Gangsta Rap, Jeff! 

Please, no, I hate Rap.......but if you could give us a a few steps and a verse or two of 'Saint James Infirmary' it would be much appreciated. Hi-De-Ho.

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Re: Looking for Love
« Reply #28 on: July 26, 2008, 11:41:09 AM »
Please, no, I hate Rap.......but if you could give us a a few steps and a verse or two of 'Saint James Infirmary' it would be much appreciated. Hi-De-Ho.

Hey michael,

Now how can to top Eazy-E? R.I.P. (Rap In Peace) Gangsta Rap the way it was meant to be!

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Re: Looking for Love
« Reply #29 on: July 26, 2008, 12:52:08 PM »
How you guys get the You Tube stuff hooked up? If I knew, I'd give you this one. But since I don't know, I'll try to give the link and see what happens.

How do you top Easy-E? Easy (pardon the pun), just use performers who can really play instruments, really sing and really dance. (Don't miss the part starting at 3:59, and yes, I did watch yours all the way through).

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Re: Looking for Love
« Reply #30 on: July 26, 2008, 01:59:39 PM »
Hey Michael,

Simply Awesome!!! Don't worry, Rap is about the only thing I usually don't listen too. However with two sons (18 & 23) I know who many of the rappers are and hear it sometimes. For the most part my sons are into rock. My younger son is into the Mississippi and Chicago blues,  Robert Johnson, Howlin’ Wolf,etc. He especially likes Hound Dog Taylor, but then again "Everbody loves the Hound Dog."  ;D I am very eclectic when it comes to music! I am mostly into Reggae, Rock, and Chicago Blues, especially the Harp players. I enjoy Ska, Rocksteady, and Reggae. While I love listening to the popular artists like Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Peter Tosh, Black Uhuru, Ziggy Marley, The Skatalites.I listen to a lot of more obscure artists that most Jamaicans probably have never heard of! Many people have heard the songs of the late Tyrone Taylor, but few know who he is.  Dance hall leaves me about as flat as Rap. I make exceptions with great DJ's like King Yellowman. "Zungguzungguguzungguzeng"

Sorry Sean, I am so far off topic "Looking for Love", I am going to make your head explode!  ;D

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Re: Looking for Love
« Reply #31 on: July 26, 2008, 03:20:04 PM »

I found this picture, but now I'm not sure if it is you or Dennis? Oh, that's right...you did say "felt purple hat." ;D

Dave


Well, Dave, That should be pretty easy. As you can see, my pic is prominently displayed in my avatar. With that being the case, perhaps it might be Dennis. He obviously believes he can tell Black guys where to go, so maybe his attempts at playing one in his spare time has convinced him he might be some sort of authority. If that's how he looks when he does it, it's obvious why he might not be getting the best reception which might be clouding his opinion.
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Re: Looking for Love
« Reply #32 on: July 26, 2008, 04:02:54 PM »
Hey soltero,

Yeah...I knew it wasn't you! That guy either had vitiligo or forgot to put the "blackface" makeup into his ears and his lower neck. It was just the purple hat that made me pause and look again. He forgot the ever important  feather!  ;)

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Re: Looking for Love
« Reply #33 on: July 26, 2008, 09:08:28 PM »
Not too shabby a guitar player, Dave. Say, since you mentioned Robert Johnson, you've no doubt heard the legend that he sold his soul to get his music prowess , haven't you? The deal went something like this:
Devil- I'll teach you to play that thing so well that you can get all the women you can f*** and all the whiskey you can drink.
RJ- I don't know about this deal, Debbil. I see plenty women walking 'round, but you sure you got dat much whiskey?

Ironically (or so the legend goes, anyway) Robert Johnson died from drinking poisoned whiskey, given to him by an angry husband whom he had cuckold. Guess what goes around comes around.   

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Re: Looking for Love
« Reply #34 on: July 26, 2008, 10:33:29 PM »
Robert Johnson was first of the great musicians who died at 27 years old!

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Re: Looking for Love
« Reply #35 on: August 06, 2008, 10:12:43 PM »
Soltero:

I didn't read this thread until today, but I did answer you on the other thread.

I didn't tell prettyboy where to go or that some places were better in Colombia then others. Where he wants to go is entirely up to him. 

But racism does exist in Colombia and Brazil and the Caribbean, there is antipathy towards black people in some places, and barrios as well as antipathy towards white skinned people in other places and barrios.

And lets put you in the middle of Bariloche in the Chilean Alps, and lets see how comfortable you feel!  When you've done your homework about Bariloche, let me know.

Racism is an unofrtunately an ill inour gloabla society,  I dont condone it, and just to show you....some of my best friends are......................................................white!!!!

Gotcha!

You drink Ripple?  Man, you're too high toned.  I always liked Colt 45!!!!!!


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And i probably should have written may feel comfortable as opposed to will feel comfortable.   

wher ehe wants to go is entirely up to him.


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Re: Looking for Love
« Reply #36 on: August 07, 2008, 09:28:54 AM »
Soltero:

I didn't read this thread until today, but I did answer you on the other thread.

I didn't tell prettyboy where to go or that some places were better in Colombia then others. Where he wants to go is entirely up to him. 

But racism does exist in Colombia and Brazil and the Caribbean, there is antipathy towards black people in some places, and barrios as well as antipathy towards white skinned people in other places and barrios.

And lets put you in the middle of Bariloche in the Chilean Alps, and lets see how comfortable you feel!  When you've done your homework about Bariloche, let me know.

Racism is an unofrtunately an ill inour gloabla society,  I dont condone it, and just to show you....some of my best friends are......................................................white!!!!

Gotcha!

You drink Ripple?  Man, you're too high toned.  I always liked Colt 45!!!!!!


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And i probably should have written may feel comfortable as opposed to will feel comfortable.   

wher ehe wants to go is entirely up to him.




Dennis,

If where he wants to go is entirely up to him, then why did you feel the need to even bring it up? To me, it seemed to represent either one of wo things, either racism on your part, or some kind of naive desire to help someone in a situation you could not possibly know anything about. Reading about some other guy's experience and having that experience for yourself are two different things. Unless you suddenly wake up darker, the most you can have with the issue is empathy, and that's most decidedly not enough. That is being firmly illustrated by your condescending need to feel that you can in any way explain that racism exists to me. I was born here in Atlanta during the 60s and to this day can not walk the streets here without seeing reminders of the Civil Rights Movement nor it's participants. I have had firsthand experience dealing with racism on many fronts. That being the case, I CAN explain to YOU, that racism's existence does not have to matter to me in the least when I travel or when I am at home, because racism is nothing more than ignorance, and the way to dispel it is to allow people the opportunity to get to know you and see that you are not a walking stereotype. The true proponents of beliefs such as racism put forth those ideas usually for some type of gain and the ignorant unwashed masses usually fall in line with whatever they are told.

Now, as long as no one attempts to lay hands on me, then we don't have a problem. If they do, then the can that will be opened up will be both righteous and unyeilding. Being a former Air Assault soldier, you can drop me in your Chilean Alps and understand that I will feel the same general level of comfort that any well trained soldier would feel among untrained civilians, and as far as any US soldier is concerned, most of the world's militaries are untrained civilians when compared to us. As my life experiences have been different than the next man's, so are the next man's to mine, so I still voice incredulity that you can find yourself so aware of what my experiences have been to even wonder where I might feel comfortable or not! Maybe it's you who may need to do his homework, and get back to me...

This is actually the second time that you have foisted yourself up to tell aman where he may need to go or where he would feel comfortable. It also happens that both of these individuals are Black. In all fairness, I have gone back to view your comments to other posters who either did not announce their racial affiliation, and I didn't see the same comments on your part. I can not nor will not tell you what to post, but I will comment on what I perceive to be a serious knee jerk brain fart when I see one.

If you feel the need to tell White people which barrios to stay out of (which you haven't up to this point), then I might actually lend credence to what you have to say as you might have first hand experience at least from your point of view, but unless the denizens of that barrio led you to believe that all White guys were unwelcome, and not just you, I would still take your recommendation with a grain of salt.

I doubt you still get it, though. What I wrote before was explanatory enough for you to understand without having to write this. Hopefully, the next time a Black guy comes to the forum, you will reflect upon your own boundaries before trying to establish boundaries for him.
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Re: Looking for Love
« Reply #37 on: August 07, 2008, 11:43:17 AM »
Soltero:

The interesting thing about all of this is that prettyboy never responded positively or negatively.

You missed the most obvious reason of all.  In his opening post, he described himself as a 32 year old African American.  He must have had a reason for referring to his race and color. And, since you seem to know so much about how all black people think, why don't you tell me why he did that?

One more time, I didn't tell him where to go, I didn't suggest what kind of women he should pursue.     
He laid out aprt of his idnetity ont he board, got it out in the open and I responded with a comment designed to make him want to do some more digigng and research. 

And if you have a problem with that approach...I'll try to get over it.

Like you, I was born in a big city.  I'm from New York City and in the 1960s I went to a public high school of 6,000 that was integrated, "in name only "  I averaged easily 10 street fights a year defending myself against black kids who tried to hold me up for my lunch money.  Nuff said.  My ancestry is Jewish and we were slaves in the brick pits of the pharohs a long, long long  time before the first ship of African slaves landed in Virigina.

Soltero, two can play the creds game...and thanks for yours.

 But, I think you're looking at this only from your viewpoint of an American black male. Racism in SA is different then in the US and has many more strands of subtlety.  I've read a lot about racism in SA, and if you want some good books to read, I'll be happy to make some recommendations.

"Feeling comfortable" or "not feeling comfortable" because of race and skin color also implies physical safety and security.  I probably would not feel comfortable in parts of Sao Paulo, because they are F%$#^&G dangerous places!  I would not feel comfortable in some barrios in South Bogota because they are F%$^&*dangerous places!
 
Your service as an American soldier is appreciated and you're probably the baddest, meanest....etc. etc.  But if 30 guys in Bariloche or just outside of Florianopolis, Brazil got together and wanted to take you out (and you didn't have arms and ammo), you would be toast.

I'll send you the link by PM.

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« Reply #38 on: August 07, 2008, 01:17:38 PM »
Soltero:

The interesting thing about all of this is that prettyboy never responded positively or negatively.

You missed the most obvious reason of all.  In his opening post, he described himself as a 32 year old African American.  He must have had a reason for referring to his race and color. And, since you seem to know so much about how all black people think, why don't you tell me why he did that?

One more time, I didn't tell him where to go, I didn't suggest what kind of women he should pursue.     
He laid out aprt of his idnetity ont he board, got it out in the open and I responded with a comment designed to make him want to do some more digigng and research. 

And if you have a problem with that approach...I'll try to get over it.

Like you, I was born in a big city.  I'm from New York City and in the 1960s I went to a public high school of 6,000 that was integrated, "in name only "  I averaged easily 10 street fights a year defending myself against black kids who tried to hold me up for my lunch money.  Nuff said.  My ancestry is Jewish and we were slaves in the brick pits of the pharohs a long, long long  time before the first ship of African slaves landed in Virigina.

Soltero, two can play the creds game...and thanks for yours.

 But, I think you're looking at this only from your viewpoint of an American black male. Racism in SA is different then in the US and has many more strands of subtlety.  I've read a lot about racism in SA, and if you want some good books to read, I'll be happy to make some recommendations.

"Feeling comfortable" or "not feeling comfortable" because of race and skin color also implies physical safety and security.  I probably would not feel comfortable in parts of Sao Paulo, because they are F%$#^&G dangerous places!  I would not feel comfortable in some barrios in South Bogota because they are F%$^&*dangerous places!
 
Your service as an American soldier is appreciated and you're probably the baddest, meanest....etc. etc.  But if 30 guys in Bariloche or just outside of Florianopolis, Brazil got together and wanted to take you out (and you didn't have arms and ammo), you would be toast.

I'll send you the link by PM.

Have a good day

Dennis

   
   

Dennis, you still don't get it. As far as him describing himself as an African American, that's his business. I don't think he did so for some non-African American guy to suggest where he may or not feel comfortable. The ridiculousness of that seems to be completely lost on you, and i doubt you will ever get it. My comments were due to the fact that I saw a pattern emerging with you, specifically, and I felt the need to address it and hope that you could provide me with a reason behind your seemingly stout response that you may be aware of where Black men may or may not feel comfortable. You also missed the point about my reference to not caring about Bariloche. If the odds are overwhelming, then coming back is not an available option. At that point, then the only option is to cause as much damage to the enemy as possible before you can no longer cause damage. It has nothing to do with being the baddest or meanest, but more along the lines of being the most determined and resolute. A soldier would understand that.

You may not have told this guy where to go or what women to pursue, but it is clear from your line of questioning, you were leading up to it. You did mention that there were places that he may feel uncomfortable, and that was overstepping any and all assistance as you don't know him from Adam, and you compounded it by suggesting that all Black men are the same in that you did not reference him specifically, but all Black men. Now, I don't have a problem with what fears you may have personally about where you choose to go, as that is your business, but please don't presume that I might be in the same boat as you. Presumption is a form of arrogance, and you seem to have an ample supply of both. You are still ridiculously trying to explain racism to me, in SA no less, when as far as I am concerned, you are still a little wet behind the ears in that regard. You are beginning to remind me of your friend Daytrader in that you are so sure that I need instruction in subjects that I already knew over 6 years before you learned how to properly spell Colombia (Believe me, I remember when you first got here and spelled it Columbia). That is why I doubt seriously that you wil ever get what I am saying here.

By the way, I haven't listed any "creds" here. The list would be a long one, and that's not my style. I only mentioned what I deemed necessary to enlighten you as to the fact that I need neither a lesson in racism, nor do I feel the need to worry about what boogeymen may happen to be walking through MY valley.
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Re: Looking for Love
« Reply #39 on: August 07, 2008, 03:12:27 PM »
Soltero:

And you still don't get it.

This is between me and prettyboy, if he was offended, then he could have posted a response and I would have appropraitely reacted.   He didnt ...and no one appointed you as the spokesman for all black men on this board. 

So you and I are going to disagree. 

Probably neither one of us is going to lose any sleep over it.  .

You've referred to a pattern emerging and that you are aware of one other instance where I presumed to tell a black man....If I did and that man was offended and I need to make it right with him, I'm happy to do it..with him.  Who was it?   

If you think daytrader and I are alike, you need to study up more  on your ofays! That's a joke.   

By the way, I was on this forum several years ago, posting under a different name.       

Now if you want this to turn this into a first class pissing match, lets take it off the forum. 

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« Reply #40 on: August 07, 2008, 04:22:43 PM »
Soltero:

And you still don't get it.

This is between me and prettyboy, if he was offended, then he could have posted a response and I would have appropraitely reacted.   He didnt ...and no one appointed you as the spokesman for all black men on this board. 

So you and I are going to disagree. 

Probably neither one of us is going to lose any sleep over it.  .

You've referred to a pattern emerging and that you are aware of one other instance where I presumed to tell a black man....If I did and that man was offended and I need to make it right with him, I'm happy to do it..with him.  Who was it?   

If you think daytrader and I are alike, you need to study up more  on your ofays! That's a joke.   

By the way, I was on this forum several years ago, posting under a different name.       

Now if you want this to turn this into a first class pissing match, lets take it off the forum. 

Dennis

The whole point of this is that even though no one appointed me the spokesman for all Black men, they surely would appoint ME before they would appoint YOU!!! ;D

How thick do you actually need to be to argue this point!

The other guy was Ramgoat:
Wasn't this thread was about Ramgoat and his questions!

Ramgoat, race is an enormous issue in South America. 

There is a stereotype that Brazil is one happy melting pot, and part of it is true, its a melting pot. But for example, Salvador, a city 3,000,000, (the city closest to West Africa and the most African of large Brazilian cities ) is still governed and dominated by the white minority of 10%.

In a city like Bogota, Colombia, many triguenas (if they date foreign men) prefer to date Caucasians.

If you decide to go to SA, think about choosing a city where you are accepted for who you are. Recently on the Internet, an American black man wrote a fascinating post about his experiences in Baranqulla, Colombia, and got a lot of responses. You may want to correspond or /talk with him.  If you want to send me a private message, I will give you the link.

Have a good day.

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I guess you are still quoting this one Black guy and also assuming that somehow makes you an authority. You say this is between you and prettyboy, but you actually made it between you and me when you decided to include all Black men in your dispensing of infinite wisdom (You and Daytrader are not alike, hmmmm?) If that were the case, you would not be still arguing an exposed position like it still had any merit. You've read one Black guy's story and now feel that gives YOU the right to direct traffic in South America!

I was on the forum several years ago as well, but I haven't switched names. What was yours back then if you don't mind me asking?
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Re: Looking for Love
« Reply #41 on: August 07, 2008, 06:29:40 PM »
Yep, noticed the italics you stuck on my post to ramgoat.

If he thinks I need to make this rihgt with him, he can tell  me.

You were off on just about every infernce you made about me, but I'm not going to change your opinion. 

I did notice that you wrote that you preferred peanut and honey colored women. And why do you prefer them? Soltero, did you make a judgement based on the color of a woman's skin  Why do you prefer peanut and honey colored women to white women????  You don't like white women? Soltero, are you a racist?

You see how fruitless this argument is?

It seems that you have read every post I've written (Don't you have anything better to do?) and considering that you wanted to extend this pissing match when I offered to take it off line, I do mind you asking me for my old poster name. 

But, I'll make it easy for you,. Go back to the summer of 2003 and see if you can spot me,
I'm the avatar in the KKK hood), just another joke...

I am on the forum as a regular poster.
               
You give your opinions to white men all the time on this forum, some of the time I think you're correct and some of the time I think you're full of crap. I haven't called you on anything, I may start.

If you thiink I'm a racist, you're entiled to your opinion, but I think you're wrong.    If I think you're a over compensating macho but deeply insecure yahoo I 'm entitled to my opinion, and I'm sure you think I'm wrong. 

One thing is for sure, we are two stubobrn mules?

Now are we finished?

Dennis

Now,a re we finished or do you need to vent some more?

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« Reply #42 on: August 07, 2008, 08:05:11 PM »
Dennis,

Having a preference doesn't exclude anyone. If your arguments get any weaker, you are going to look like Glass Joe from that old boxing video game from back in the day. For this to be a pissing match, you would have to bring at least SOME of the piss...

Yes, I give my opinion to anyone who sees value in what I have to say. I don't care what color a person is and I don't feel the need personally to make it an issue. When other people ignorantly do, sometimes I feel the need to ask them about it. Usually the most bassackward and completely mule headed of those begin long tirades completely avoiding accepting any responsibility for making themselves look like jackasses. What they never realize is the longer I keep them yacking, the dumber I can make them look. It never fails!

I don't think you are a racist, Dennis. I just can't figure out what unique form of brown nosing makes YOU want to suck up to every Black guy that comes here to prove that you are "down" somehow by having the inside scoop on brotherly travel!

I'm done (until I can "vent" the next time you run off another Black poster and I can point at you and giggle), so you can have the last word until then. The more you post, the sillier you look, but you are boring me now and I believe that someone has to save you from yourself before it can get any worse!  ;D

Take care, and try not to crush the dreams of any ethnic children to make up for any of that lost lunch money between now and your debut as a resident of Bogota!  ;D
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Re: Looking for Love
« Reply #43 on: August 08, 2008, 01:56:01 PM »
Soltero

Long story, made short.

Three black kids, 14, 16 and 16 slapped me around and tried to take my lunch money in March of 1969. I was 5 blocks from my family's apartment, three blocks from the high school, in the neighborhood in which I grew up.   They were bussed into our neighborhood high school  from Harlem. I didn't know the kids from Adam, wouldn't give them anything, and I fought back.   I was in the hospital for 9 weeks--moderate concussion, five broken ribs, broken collarbone, broken arm.

I identified the kids, filed charges, they were arrested, tried in a juvie court. I testified.  They were sentenced to 2 years each in a maximum juvie facility. fter the sentencing hearing, one of the kids' mothers, a "God fearing, going to Sunday meetings woman (her pastor was a character witness) walked up to me, hocked and spat in my face.

The whole process from the beating to the sentencing took almost a year.  When it was over I had just turned 17.

You're the board's expert on black people, you want to tell me why it happened?  You want to tell me what turns three kids into monsters that almost kill another kid that they never saw before?   You want to tell  me why his mom spat in my face? 

All I just wanted to do was pass my Chemistry test that day and get two slices and a Coke for lunch.   

I don't know what happened to the kids--but it took a long, long time for me me to let most of it go, about 30 years. And i trained myself not to use the "n" word, haven't used it in about 15 years. 

As I said, racism cuts a lot of different ways.  I changed my attitudes over the years and I keep trying to change.   And you are the ignotant one if you think that empathy for anyone is ever misguided or wasted. 

I'm not politically correct, and I don't suck up to anybody, white, black or green. But, I loved it when you called me a "non-african american man." I'm white!

You spent  a [snip]load of time labeling  me as a racist, then someone who brown nosed black people and you've been trying to pigeonhole me ever since you starting chasing me on two threads.   I'm a little more complicated then your pigeon holing.  And, if my PC antannae are finely tuned enough for you, too god damned bad.   

Almost every presumption you made about me was wrong and as you said presumption is arrogance....we may be both arrogant men. 

You said you couldn't understand the attitudes of the black man who went to Baranquilla, and that is arrogance.
News flash, homeboy, not all black men think the way you do. 

You asked for me for his post from another forum and I sent it to you and you thanked me by PM.  I offered to give you some titles on racism in South America, then you copped an attitude in public on this board, told me that you didn't need to be instructed by me.  I wasn't trying to instruct you because its a waste of time.  People learn what they want when they want and how they want. 

You assumed that my only experience was the post that the black man wrote and you posted bull[snip].   I've read about racism in SA, I've talked with and had Colombian and Brazilian women as lovers and we talked about racism in SA and their attitudes about black men. 

 There are some small towns in Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Chile where the locals (Germanic ancesty) think that Hitler was the greatest thing since sliced bread.  Knock youself out Soltero, go to one of them, walk down the street and give them your I'm comfortable everywhere attitude" and you will end up face down in a ditch. You may take a few with you, but you will be killed.

One last time, anyone who goes to SA for the first time, should research where they would be most comfortable and safest and have the best chances for finding a good wife (I don't include mongering by any man of any color as an activity that deserves advice or success, but that's just me.) 

I don't direct traffic, I don't keep black men away from Bogota or any of the other bull[snip] you posted for the last two weeks.   

I recall some time ago on this board, you labelled the entire city of Miami, Florida a cesspool.  Go do a TV ad for the Miami-Dade Chamber, they would be just thrilled to have you.
 
Third time, i've tried to disengage.

Anything more, we'll just be grabbing our nuts and going woof...woof.

You want to keep woofin, you'll be alone. 

You don't like my style or attitudes, I don't like your style or attitudes. Hey, its cybersapece, we aren't in the same room.

Now, we be both down with that???????

Dennis

   



     

 
   




             






           

     












You confessed that you didn't understand the black man's viewpoint who had liked Baranquilla. News flash, homeboy, other black men think differently then you.
There are places in SA where a lot of locals think Adolf Hitler was the greatest thing since sliced bread. You're so comfortable being anywhere, why don't you go to those places and tell em "I'm black and I'm proud", go right ahead, knock yourself out.
I never claimed that the post from the man who went to Baranquilla was my sole citation. I've read books and articles about racism in SA, I offered to share then with you, nah, you didn't want to do that.  You've either A) got a serious case of the stupids or B) you've got the intellectual curiosity of a turd. I vote for B.
I've had conversations with Brazilian and Colombian who talked aobut racism and attitudes towards peopel of different shades in their cities
A while back you pissed on the city of Miami inn a post and called it "a cesspool."  You are just a beacon of tolerance, aren't you?  Why don't you volunteer to make a commercial for the Miami Chamber of Commerce, they would just love you.

You did a lot of "shucking and jiving" to make your point. 

I don't assume to know what is in the heads of black men. I think its common sense that all men (white or black) want to go where they have the most chqances of success with women, notice I sad where they think, not where I think.

 

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Re: Looking for Love
« Reply #44 on: August 08, 2008, 06:13:28 PM »
Dennis, all I can say is that much of what I see going on with you has been explained by the incident that occurred in your teens. I can sympathize with that situation and I am sorry you had to go through that. I am glad you followed up on it and made sure they got what was coming to them.

Hopefully, as you are moving to Bogota and will be dating women of color and of a different ethnicity than your own, you may begin to finally completely heal from such a devastating encounter.

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Re: Looking for Love
« Reply #45 on: August 08, 2008, 10:55:51 PM »

Dennis,

That was a very honest post from you about you have gone through in life..

Hate is a terrible emotion to have and it can eat you up..It affects everyone in our journey through life.. I am glad to read you have let it go over the years..

May you find the woman of your dreams who makes you feel like a million dollars and brings you much love and happiness...

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