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• Reader Comments (7)

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  Oh, Gawd, give us a break here ! These youths need to be heard much less, most are deaf by age 30. From way too much noise.

  Posted by blondemike on Feb 28, 2007 at 2:04 PM

  Well written article.

  The old white domination of this country has passed. Now every American is a minority. BM is a perfect example of the old white man who is afraid of his chickens coming home to roost.

  Posted by texasindependent on Mar 1, 2007 at 12:03 AM

  Not my chickens and not my roost since I never advocated the policies which brought us to the current mess. We need to deport the 12 million illegals here as a good first step.

  Posted by blondemike on Mar 1, 2007 at 11:08 AM

  Mikey please. You are the best example of the policies that instituted racism. You have disparaged every single ethnic group at least once. You consider any one who is not white as somehow below you. You are a cracker. Using the example of Chimpsky as you suggest. You are the illegal. You live on stolen land and oppress the rightful owners. You live in a predominately african american neighborhood and castigate your neighbors supposed faults. I am not sure if anyone has ever told you but you seem to be an obnoxious asshole. The endless complaints about your vet, your neighbors, your country, every single ethnic group you have ever encountered, and life in general proves my point. Perhaps this internet persona is somehow more abrasive then the real BM but I seriously doubt it. If the internet BM and the real life BM are the same I doubt anyone actually likes you or enjoys your company. You claim a wife if so she is a saint.

  My question to you would be why? Why are you such a hate filled wretch? What has happened that makes you so unlikeable. Is negative attention all you can get? Why would you post ..,......” These youths need to be heard much less, most are deaf by age 30. From way too much noise.”

  What possible slight could nameless teenagers have commited to warrant your wretched animosity?  Are these nameless kids somehow less important than an old white guy? Do you really believe you can turn back the clock and somehow “colored” people will know their place? Mikey you are disgusting but endlessly fascinating.

  Posted by texasindependent on Mar 2, 2007 at 7:16 PM

  The reason I don’t know the names of these vicious black thugs is because they are criminals, Oakland is overwhelmed with crime and
  most crimes don’t get solved because of lack of police and a minority coddling justice shystem. Are these punks less important than me ?
  Damn right they are ! They aren’t worth jack shit and neither are you.
  As far as the Marxian idea of historical inevitability goes you are wrong, current policies and trends can be reversed & discredited. Reagan tried
  to turn the clock back and in some ways he was right as well as wrong.
  Let’s see, these punks held two guns to each of my wife’s head, yeah, that produces great animosity in me, beaner fuckface. Hope that answers your query.
  As far as disparaging all groups go that proves I’m anti-racist to the core. I’ve attacked the white neocon imbeciles like Scorp, Wolf and WTH
  as much as I have the colored left.
  How would you even begin to be competent to judge the complaints
  about that criminal vet who killed three of my cats ? Or my criminal neighbors since you never experienced what we have ? As far as the
  country goes you confuse the policies of the criminal government and criminal Administration with the country as a whole. Everyone on this board knows you are a piece of shit Alberto Gonzales Latino Fascist
  Wannabe White Boy piece of Evangelical shit. Don’t make the common
  error of thinking most people think like you, they don’t. And since there
  were never more than 7,000 Mexicans living here before California split off how could I be living on stolen land ? They never owned 99.99% of it for others to “steal.”

  Posted by blondemike on Mar 4, 2007 at 1:46 PM

  “As far as disparaging all groups go that proves I’m anti-racist to the core” .............WOW you really believe that statement? You are a David Duke wannabe. You lack the testicular fortitude to actually put on the hood and robe but you have the same philosophy.

  The article is about minority teenagers. You claim they need to be heard less. My question to you that you neatly avoided is do you want to turn back the clock so “colored” people will know their place again?

  California was a Spanish colony and then a Mexican colony. Are you Spanish or Mexican? No. Well genius you are living on stolen land. As Chimpsky would put it you are a imperialistic parasite sucking the life blood of the rightful owners. Viva la Reconquista!

  Posted by texasindependent on Mar 8, 2007 at 11:50 AM

  California was only briefly a Spanish colony and very briefly a Mexican colony, they lost it the same way they got it, they were defeated by stronger foes. The population of both Spanairds and Mexcians was in the very low thousands, it was not possible that they owned all or most or even a very small portion of the land, so I’m not sitting on stolen property. You could make a stronger argument that you in Texas are but even then there was plenty of belligerence on the Mexican side as well as the US side. I never shared the KKK philosophy and even Duke long ago disavowed the KKK. Duke is a racialist because he believes that genes are destiny, I think they are a very definite factor but not the end all and be all that he does so I ultimately disagree. You are a virulent racist as your racial generalizations about Arabs proved, the difference between Duke and you is that HE is highly intelligent and articulate while you are not. The type of people whose main linguistic contribution is “Mother Fucker” do not need to be heard at all. Not just less, not at all. And they will be put in their place as they are inferior, whether black, brown or white. Chomsky’s a friend but a socialist and we disagree to the core on that. Compared to you and David Horowitz, Noam is Einstein. But I’m much smarter than him though not in linguistics.
  Ok, glad to straighten out your illegal ass. Be sure to renew your green card.

  Posted by blondemike on Mar 8, 2007 at 3:20 PM

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