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I would not take it for free. Well maybe free.

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Life is hard for blacks, whites, anyone broke …

Class, not race, is,the issue

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There’s lots more bad details about tommie. But the truth is all nations and human institutions are built on enormous lies.

Not sure how,raising consciousness on past wrongs has any future utility.

The only reasonable goal remaining now I think could be slave reparations. Pretty sure that won’t happen.

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For over substance.

Get that douchebag Jefferson off my nickels!!!

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Some of my kids engineering test questions,seem like they would be difficult to begin to formulate a response.

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[quote=XBoxBoy][quote=FlyerInHi]
A prestigious school of public policy named after an awoved racist is just bad policy and bad reputation.
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An even more egregious example: What should England do about things named for Winston Churchill? Without Churchill, most of England would currently be speaking German. (Ok, you can debate that, but his contribution to keeping morale in England up during WWII is not really debatable)

But Churchill, like many of English politicians of the early years of the 20th century was extraordinarily racist. His attitudes towards the “natives” in India and to Mahatma Gandi are shocking.

And what about Thomas Jefferson who kept slaves? (And fathered children with Sally Hemings) Oh, and let’s not forget George Washington who also owned slaves!

The history of racism and man’s inhumanity to his fellow man is long and extensive. If we rename everything named after anyone who at some time held a view we don’t agree with today, we’re gonna need a lot of names.[/quote]

I was reading about students trying to ditch Jefferson legacy. Apparently scholars agree that even for his time he was a Really hard core douchebag racist type slave owner.

It’s all such a waste of time for actual students.

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https://storify.com/walterolson/getting-started?utm_campaign&utm_source=t.co&utm_content=storify-pingback&utm_medium=sfy.co-twitter&awesm=sfy.co_p1105

Highlights of student demands

Kind of scary.

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https://storify.com/walterolson/getting-started?utm_campaign&utm_source=t.co&utm_content=storify-pingback&utm_medium=sfy.co-twitter&awesm=sfy.co_p1105

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Should we vet all past and present historians, all authors, all poets, for vestiges of racism, and excise them as well?

Is this meaningful or a giant sideshow from what matters.

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1st season of true detective has a seizure fat cop who gets nice comeuppance.

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[quote=FlyerInHi]Honestly, I didn’t know about Woodrow Wilson being a racist. My history professor was a Wilson scholar and we heard about the League of Nations, etc. but nothing about the president’s racism. The students have a point in his case, I believe.[/quote]

What point?

what does it matter now, a name? Should mlk blvds. Be renamed because he was a plagiarism and liked whores.

Supposedly Martin stole church donation to hire and beat hooked at parties. So what? What gain in renaming Wilson st or mlk park?

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[quote=flu]There’s only two things I’m going to buy for myself… Things to make my car go faster or stop faster, and things to make me get fitter.

I was going to buy new pants because my existing ones are about 2 inches to wide now. But now, I’m just wearing all my pants from my freshman year in college. Lol… I went from about 190lbs to right now about 165 lbs, and a 35-36 waist to 32.

I needed new running shoes because my cheap ones wore out pretty quickly. I’ve been running everyday, and I am happy that run 4 miles now, though my pace really stinks, averaging 8 minutes 40 sec/mile/. I gotta work on that, but hey, it’s better than not being able to run 1 mile at all 3 months ago, and that should be good enough for January’s 5K.

I’m also now working on strength and building more muscle… Amazon also had some free weight plates that were on sale, plus free shipping.

Being on this fit kick is additive. I wish I started years ago, and applied the same intensity to being fit as I normally do to the rest of my work. If I miss a day without running or working out, it just feels weird… I think my new company helped out a lot with this. Most of the people in my office are in their late twenties to early 30ies, and so I didn’t want to be the old fart one that couldn’t keep up. I’m working out twice as much as most of the other younger techie guys and girls (I can’t compete against the folks in marketing/sales who spend considerable amount of their time in the gym, lol). And, fortunately, being asian probably knocks an extra 5-6 years off my actual age. heh heh.

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The fitness journey is a most interesting one.

Right now I am on a modified Smolov cycle with the middle kid only for the bench press. He wants a big bench. I have always hated the bench but I’m having a great time doing solo with him

Mix it up!!!

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[quote=paramount]Scaredy: most piggs are leftists, I’m an independent libertarian- but aren’t we all capitalists? Or is Karl wearing off on you? Go out and buy stuff you don’t need this is America. I would if I could, I’m in Chicago and broke from paying tolls.[/quote]

I am earth first.

Bought some fancy cheese, some white peach tea and some Thai food.

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The people are sheep.

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White privilehe, male privilege, seems to me to assume that whites treat each other decently or that men aren’t trying to tear one another down or apart.

Perceiving micro aggression might be a way to avoid the reality that it is everywhere. The world and,people suck ….

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