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Topic: My take on the Phil Robertson situation
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Lexxigramer Moderator Posts: 3540 From: The Etheric Realms...Still out looking for Schrodinger's cat...& LEXIGRAMMING.♥.. is my Passion! Registered: Feb 2012
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posted December 25, 2013 05:21 PM
quote: I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person," Robertson told GQ writer Drew Margary. "Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I’m with the blacks, because we’re white trash. We’re going across the field.... They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’—not a word!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues." Phil Robertson
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Lexxigramer Moderator Posts: 3540 From: The Etheric Realms...Still out looking for Schrodinger's cat...& LEXIGRAMMING.♥.. is my Passion! Registered: Feb 2012
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posted December 25, 2013 05:39 PM
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PixieJane Moderator Posts: 3472 From: CA Registered: Oct 2010
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posted December 25, 2013 06:22 PM
quote: Originally posted by Lexxigramer:
I've wanted to do an experiment with my Bible Belt family for awhile now: show up with a black man and a white woman and say I'm in love with both but can't decide who to marry as I'm just curious which they'd find easier to deal with (though I'm fairly certain that the less religious members would be more comfortable if I were with a white woman over a black man). Natch, I'd have the black guy wax on the kids he wants (and who promises will bring them to visit my family often) with names like Tyrone, LaTonya, Shandra, "And at least one boy named Barack." Still, this might be especially cruel as I have a great aunt who suffered a heart attack when Obama won in 2008 with her saying "the blacks are going to kill us all." And frankly speaking I wouldn't be able to guarantee the safety of the two who came with me to perform this prank. IP: Logged |
Lexxigramer Moderator Posts: 3540 From: The Etheric Realms...Still out looking for Schrodinger's cat...& LEXIGRAMMING.♥.. is my Passion! Registered: Feb 2012
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posted December 25, 2013 06:25 PM
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PixieJane Moderator Posts: 3472 From: CA Registered: Oct 2010
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posted December 27, 2013 08:45 PM
I still lean to that this thread belongs on AR instead of DD though I understand why it got here instead. But given that it IS here to stay I thought I'd add what this guy says about the Biblical verse and context (and avoids the controversy itself while disagreeing with PR) I thought it DOES clearly belong in DD: http://youtu.be/4mWYCd0yAtk?t=21s IP: Logged |