Oprah Winfrey's ancestry traced to Liberia

Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:20 pm

STEVOO wrote:

Sisipan
Instead of looking at the beautiful work that god did on US,we are busy holding each other responsible for what we look like...
We forgotten that GOD said he made man in his own image.....HELLO

We have no idea how GOD took his time to put this planet and MANKIND TOGETHER, we (man), been trying our best to
destroy it from the time man got to know himself as man. LET US STOP AND EXAMIN YOURSELF PLEASE Embarassed

Stevoo,
you hit the nail on the head. None of us can create another human.
Forget about making babies. Infact even without God's blessing
conception cannot take place.
People sit and call others ugly, and all the nasty names under the sun.
What they do not realise is they are challenging God and accusing him
of producing 2nd rate humans.

I weep for humans because the day is coming when we shall individually
explain our actions to God.

Meanwhile as you say, we have ruined the home that was given to us.
The animals are extinct, even the moon has debris on it, Mount Everest
was found to have cans from drink and food left behind by so called
nature loving people.
We cut down trees in the name of producing nonsense newspapers, that
most people won't read.
Does anyone actually stop to think???
Manufacturers have useless pacakaging that cannot even be recycled,
ending up in landfill space.
When we hate on others..it is actually bad for the human mind and heart.
Let that be a lesson learnt Confused

Wars in the name of racial hate and greed cost money yet love is
free, so why are people afraid of loving other people?

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pike2 wrote:

Rina, you do not have to be so hard! I do have the right to complain about things that i do not like, no? I expressed my thoughts, not what the men on this forum are thinking. I cannot probably know what someone else is thinking, no one can. It has nothing to do with being qualified. I don't wnat to be qulified to know what men on this forum are thinking, you see, i have my own things to think about! I noticed you come on a little harsh also, are you bitter too? Why i wonder? You may have lived in Europe and may have experienced racism, that does not mean that, we have the same experience. And people do see things differently and interprate each experience differently. Racism has many faces. We have been divided into various groups for example. You are respected or disrespected according to the kind of black you are. A black american is better than all blacks, a south american or brazilian black is better than an African black etc.. etc. You want to say that i should see and feel all of this and i should not complain? Very hard not to. At least for me. It hurts me to know that, these people are treated with all respect when they go to Africa and when we come here they treat us with the greatest disrespect! One thing is to live the situation on a daily basis and another thing is to observe from a distance. I never said that interracial marriages does not work. I am not so stupid to say that, when i live here and know also that, in some cases it works and in other cases it does not. like other marriages. I was not even marrying anybody off! I was just asking uliya things that's all! She did not say any of these things you are saying, she only said that her city is not i village. Here, i have never said anything about anybody's family, i want this to be made very clear. Okay? I am happy to know that, this is not a "woman going after another woman thing" It would be sad, after so much struggle! Be cool!

Wow............I think you need to take your own advice. Or better yet, go back and read the post again. There was no "hardness" ! Maybe apply some comprehension.

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 1:41 am

Pike it was you who was pointing fingers at Uliya, then at Rina and myself. If you can't remember do go back thru your posts.

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You know it's so ironic. The whole "lizzy" ( and you started it Sisi) thing!

God put man on this earth to rule and have dominion over it. Unless I read a different Bible, there was no mention as to what "color" of man should rule and have dominion!

I don't mind you asking where I'm from if it's just fyi, but when you start using that data to segregate, then we got a problem!

In the US, they say there's no racism, but it's here. On a daily basis you experience it:

1. Getting passed over for a job you qualify for because of the color of your skin.

2. Getting pulled over by the cops because you're black and you live in a "white" neighborhood

3. Getting pulled over by the cop because you're black and you drive a nice (BMW, LEXXUS, MERCEDES, HUMMER) car.

And the list could go on and on; but the decision is yours as to whether you're gonna allow it to make you "bitter" or "better"!

Remember your "attitude affects your altitude". Very Happy

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:19 am

O how about this one
This happened to me 2 days after 9/11

Getting spat on by a child leaning out of the window, mother in the car,
just because 9/11 had taken place and being called a muslim all becos,
my color is just like that of the Iraqi's, Indians and Kosovans.
So I get called refugee go back to India
I get the B word go back to kosovo.

My neighbours had signed a petition to stop an Indian man
who owns a factory on our road from changing it to a block
of flats with underground parking.
This gentleman has had his factory right here for over 25 years.
He actually gave part of his land for free to his white neighbour.
Yet she was the one that set up the petition.
The only person whose door they did not knock on to sign
the petition was mine. Obviously they know I do not support any
form of racism.

They used all the excuses saying o he wants to house refugees in
the flats. I could not believe my ears.
I asked my neighbours how they would feel if they had to flee
England because Kosovans are bombing their homes and people.
Of course no one had an answer for me.

Ever since 9/11 I now walk around with my passport, because
there is random checking. I welcome the day ID cards come into
force. Tho in a way it invades our privacy but at least I won't
have to carry my passport around.

Rina as for the word Dominion check it's original meaning.
Remember we are to have dominion over the earth the sea and
every living creature.
Just do some research, I think you will be surprised.

Average Poster Joined: Jan 05, 2007 Posts: 110

About 9/11 thing...
Are really all muslims terrorist? Why? Just because they have the same religion who did that?
Are really all Indians terrorists? Or another people who look like them? Why? Because of the dark color of the skin?Some people who came from South America have the same color of the skin as arab people. Are we going to screem in their faces - TERRORISTS!!!
I know couple of muslim people! They are not terrorists!

I'm so sick of people who judge like that!

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:48 am

It upsets me this hate for Muslims,
When people start I tell them, some
members of my family and friends
are Muslims. They are good people.
Even so called Xtians and members
of other religions do some terrible
things.
Live and Let Live.

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It is "close-minded" people who "assume" all Indians are terrorists, and so forth.

Unfortunately, we're surrounded by this "limited intelligence". They are ruled by feelings and emotions. Today they are angry at Muslims, tomorrow Indians, the day after, Africans/Foreigners ( because we "steal" all the jobs). It's a never ending cycle.

I just ignore them! It is a total waste of my time to explain how, I as a foreigner, have to work harder for the things that comes to them by virtue of birth!

I mean C'MON! I pay more taxes ( immigration authorization included)! I pay for my tuition. Forget the fact that I'm black for a second, if that blackness comes with an accent......you're DONE.

I know of people with PhDs, that drive a taxi cab; because they won't pay them the same salary with a white person!

Perfect example:
I speak better english than most people I know; I go to enroll in a "community college" and this is with 3 yrs at the UNIVERSITY OF LIBERIA (Biology/Chemistry major), please tell me why they signed me up for "ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE" course? Shocked

I was tooooooo through!!!!!!!!!!!

The instructor was baffled, she didn't know what to do with me.

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:47 am

Rina My Sister

It all boils down to the same thing..keeping us under the thumb.
You know in days gone by we were monkies and had little
brain matter.
Now they are seeing that we are just the same as they are.
I have to go thru some Stevie Wonder songs to find the one
where he lists all the black people who invented things.

They have always known we have the brains, and this is one of
the reasons they took our fore parents / ancestors away.

That statement about being monkies with no brains..in that case
why entrust monkies to plant and harvest their land. Not
forgetting building properties as well.
Why take the time to forbid monkies to learn to read and write?

Girl you got me going now..this is getting deep lol

Average Poster Joined: Jan 05, 2007 Posts: 110

Oh! Rina!
I went through all the same stuff at college! I have a medical degree from my country, but I went throug all the ESL courses too, and people like you with degree were sitting with me.
When I started my regular classes with regular native speakers students . God! I was scared, I thought I 'll be the worth. No way! I finished my classes as the best student between them. They don't know their native language, but they still judge us , foreigners...
By the way, we don't steel their jobs, they just don't want to work....

Average Poster Joined: Jan 05, 2007 Posts: 110

Sisi!
People who do that kind of comments just dummies!
They forget a very simple thing from school...at least I learned it at school...that our differences: color of the skin, shape of the eyes..etc..all depends on the geographical factor of our ansestor's location

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:56 am

Uliya they are lazy and take their welfare system for granted.
Where we come from we ain't too proud to take on any legal
job.

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:02 am

Well Uliya..you have one advantage over these dummies,
you actually learn and understand.
You can tell them but as the saying goes, in one ear and
out the other

Average Poster Joined: Jan 05, 2007 Posts: 110

we have that saying in my country too, so I am actually not going to spend my time explaining them that. They are dummies- their problem
I prefer communication with people who judge the situation with a clear mind , not just because TV or someone said so...

Average Poster Joined: Sep 04, 2006 Posts: 54

You know, i will not go back to what i wrote. I will just quit. This whole thing is becomming a bore. You girls are bent on misunderstanding, i can't explain why?? But it's ok, i'm cool and not smoking up at all!!