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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:04 AM
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Freepers on why they think minority kids were thrown out of pool in Pennsylvania
"96% of blacks supported Zero in November. A group of 50 blacks set upon whites for being white in July. Decades of witnessing life. Those are a few reasons it’s back to the '50s for this white devil, 1750s that is. As much as I can legally discriminate I will discriminate. To paraphrase Marty Balin: Everything they say we are, I'll be. Wasn’t always this way. It is now."

"Perhaps if these urban youths were not feral in their behavior, and had some kind of adult supervision, this would not be an issue. Sadly, to be a heathen is the norm in the ghetto. No personal responsibility, no sense of proper behavior, no thought of others: that’s the feral way, and it is near-universal in the ‘hood. It is the norm."

"I DON’T WANT TO BE RACIST. I DON’T WANT TO PREJUDGE BASED ON SKIN COLOR. But they’ve given us no choice."

"I tell you what it is... and stop it right now....just stop it.... I don’t want to be brought down to their level!!! Okay!! So just shut up! These poor back ghetto kids destroyed their own pools so they have no where to go! That is their own fault!"

"we can no longer afford to give people the benefit of the doubt simply because we do not know them personally. Our tolerance in this area has the effect of shredding the fabric of our society. It has nothing to do with being hateful, racist, or biased. It is merely a desire to maintain our society and culture."

And a response to someone who called the Freepers out...

"To wtc911. If you’re a former New York city cop, then you know first hand what kind of behavior ghetto dwellers are capable of. Why make excuses for them?"

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/12/752801/-More-Racism-from-Free-Republic
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mwb970 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:09 AM
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1. Someone tell Shuster. /nt
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:09 AM
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2. "Perhaps if these urban youths were not feral in their behavior"
To even think "feral" would be an applicable word...they are really beyond help.
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Mike Daniels Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:16 AM
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7. The manager/owner already said that the kid's behavior was not a factor
Edited on Mon Jul-13-09 10:16 AM by Mike Daniels
Proving that the freeps don't want to contemplate a reason that may shake up their narrow view of the world.
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:23 AM
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8. That's the one that shocked me too.
You know, I try not to prejudge Freepers by their political and moral leanings, but they make it impossible. :sarcasm:
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Sydnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:43 AM
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15. you know what I thought when I read that statement?
Edited on Mon Jul-13-09 11:51 AM by Sydnie
I thought, they aren't paying attention to popular culture in general. Almost all kids these days immulate that "feral" culture - they dress alike, they act alike, they don't see color, they see pop culture. If this poster dose not see the same behaviors (and often worse) from rural kids, they haven't been out to the country lately. I live in a small rural town and there's very little difference between the two areas, IMHO.


edited to add - thta I disagree with the statement as a whole, just to be clear. Their narrowminded outlook has no place in this modern society and the next generation will do their best to make it a thing of the past.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 01:48 PM
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19. In Australia "feral" means kind of a cross between hippie and environmentalist
I'm quite sure that was what was meant. :sarcasm:
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 03:08 PM
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20. Pretty sure they have never seen the aussie version of the word.
Not exactly a globally minded lot.

Although I have heard that they think Obama is "the laughing stock of the world". They're most likely just repeating what we said about Zippy the Preznit because from what I see...the man really does well internationally.
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Ignis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 08:19 PM
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25. "Sadly, to be a heathen is the norm in the ghetto."
Oh brother. Who uses the word "heathen" in that context this century? :eyes:
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:44 PM
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28. All my best buds are heathens.
You and your crew are some of my fave long distance heathens!
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Ignis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-14-09 01:15 PM
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33. Left Coast Heathens represent!
:headbang:
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Frustratedlady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:11 AM
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3. Slow learners, aren't they? Good grief!
I haven't followed this story too closely, as I've been away, but what little I saw showed the kids very disciplined and excited to be there.

I did see the owner's explanation and his wife's look as he lied.

Sick mess. Were they afraid the black was going to wash off in their lily white pool? My goodness.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:11 AM
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4. I find my eyes bugging out, my jaw dropping open.
I just don't get it.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:12 AM
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5. So cute.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:13 AM
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6. wait ... don't they believe that blacks can't swim?
so, if they admit them to the pool, in that view, they could get rid of two problems at the same time, right?

Let blacks into the pool, and let them drown. Problem solved, in their eyes ...
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bbernardini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:37 AM
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9. Somebody send this to Parry as well.
I would, but it's difficult on my cell.
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:45 AM
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10. Holy crap
Oh yes, it's the "I'm not racist but I'm going to compare kids I don't know to animals based on their skin" argument. :banghead:
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Mrs. Overall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:50 AM
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11. I copied some that are equally as bad if not worse:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2291155/posts


To: Free ThinkerNY
Whites ALWAYS grovel. We have become a pathetic people and it is no wonder we are losing America.
5 posted on Sunday, July 12, 2009 6:15:03 PM by Altura Ct.


To: Free ThinkerNY
“And a bit of related good news on the economic front: The Valley Club is planning to hire fifty part-time security guards for every Monday for the rest of the summer...”
6 posted on Sunday, July 12, 2009 6:17:50 PM by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)


To: Free ThinkerNY
Those kids look like an MTV music video. If I went to that place I’d be out.
7 posted on Sunday, July 12, 2009 6:21:36 PM by exist


To: Free ThinkerNY
LMAO!!!
This swim club (and its neighbborhood) are near where I live and I gurantee you that most of the people in that area - - and certainly at that swim club - - voted for Ubama.
Hey, Valley! Have fun with all your political correctness now, you pack of sick Democrat scumbags.
8 posted on Sunday, July 12, 2009 6:22:12 PM by Lancey Howard


To: Free ThinkerNY
I wasn’t aware black people could swim.
Mexicans, either learn to swim or stay in Mexico.
20 posted on Sunday, July 12, 2009 7:14:20 PM by UCANSEE2


To: Free ThinkerNY
Were the kids causing the people to leave the pool because of ghetto behavior? I don’t like to be around filthy-mouthed rude people either.
24 posted on Sunday, July 12, 2009 8:07:53 PM by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)



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CitizenLeft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 01:09 PM
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18. "I wasn’t aware black people could swim."
Dear God.
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LibertyLover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 03:21 PM
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21. Actually, many young African American children don't know
how to swim and drownings that could have been prevented with a few basic swimming lessons have been the result. One of the young men on the 2008 US Olympic Swim Team, an African American himself, is working on bringing swimming lessons to those children in order to make sure that fewer children drown.
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Mrs. Overall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 06:34 PM
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22. Are you defending the post that says " I wasn’t aware black people could swim" and then goes on
Edited on Mon Jul-13-09 06:35 PM by Mrs. Overall
to state, "Mexicans either learn to swim or stay in Mexico."

Your post seems odd in this context.
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Ignis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 08:24 PM
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26. It was odd in context, but factually true.
My brother-in-law is the head coach of a swim team, and there really are efforts to teach basic water safety/swimming to African-American kids.

So I'll give the poster the benefit of the doubt...unlike the racist Freeper asshole we're quoting.
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LibertyLover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-14-09 08:31 AM
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32. While I am not defending the poster, what he said
in his post, sadly, had some truth in it. According to an April, 2008 survey commissioned by USA Swimming and conducted by the University of Memphis, 6 out of 10 African American children and 56% of Hispanic children cannot swim, putting them at risk for drowning. Cullen Jones, a member of the the US Olympic swim team in Beijing and African American himself, learned to swim after he almost drowned and his mother enrolled him in swim classes. Mr. Jones, along with other members of the Olympic swim team, is working on programs that will bring drown-proofing and swimming lessons to young African Americans and other at-risk children to cut down on the number of deaths attributable to drowning. And if the poster was not aware "black people could swim", he obviously forgot about, or is deliberately forgetting, Cullen Jones' stellar performances at the Olympics.
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lib_wit_it Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:03 AM
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12. Right, because white kids never behave inappropriately. (Says the ex public schoolteacher, dripping
with sarcasm. The words, that is, not me. I wasn't allowed in the sarcasm pool due to my potential my feral behavior!)
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:06 AM
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13. "desire to maintain our society and culture."
That's about it for the Nativists.
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johnaries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:22 AM
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14. They "destroyed their own pools"? When did they have pools?
How could they destroy something that never existed?
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PSzymeczek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 12:48 PM
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16. The kids's local pool closed
due to budget cuts.
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johnaries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 07:38 PM
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24. Oh, thanks. I missed that part of the story. Still, there's a big
difference between "destroying their own pool" and having their pool closed because of budget cuts.

Hey, what a minute, my evil side is starting to come out.....

This could be an effective argument against the whole "welfare" argument. We could frame it as "your taxes help the poor have their own pool, so they don't have to swim in yours....."

Sorry, I've been reading RW spin so long I'm beginning to think of spin of my own. :evilgrin:
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 01:03 PM
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17. Stay classy, Freepers. n/t
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-14-09 01:22 PM
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34. lol n/t
Edited on Tue Jul-14-09 01:23 PM by Iris
:rofl: :rofl:
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Fire1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 06:49 PM
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23. That's about as close to the truth as you're gonna get!
Edited on Mon Jul-13-09 06:51 PM by Fire1
In terms of freeper honesty, that is.
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Vektor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 08:27 PM
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27. First Malia, and now this? They are already in trouble, and under scrutiny on national news...
Edited on Mon Jul-13-09 08:31 PM by Vektor
And they respond by claiming they are "not racist" and that the whole Malia Obama thing was blown out of proportion, then they just continue spewing the same hateful bigotry unchecked, this time against more children?

It's like they can't help themselves. Any opportunity to make a bigoted, ignorant statement, and they'll take it.

My god, what total and utter idiots!

Edit to add - and that first Freeper quoted? The "white devil"?
HOLY CRAP. WHAT A FREAK.
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Lilyeye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-14-09 02:39 AM
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29. So because they're black..let's just ASSume their behavior was bad.
:puke:
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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-14-09 02:50 AM
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30. Someone needs to alert jimbo
Edited on Tue Jul-14-09 02:50 AM by noamnety
and let him know more of those "leftists" are pretending to be freepers and posting a bunch of racist shit on his site again.

;)
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PretzelWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-14-09 02:51 AM
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31. I've heard him called "The One" and "Messiah" but never zero.
funny coming from losers who are probably on food stamps and would benefit from Barack Obama's presidency.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-14-09 01:25 PM
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36. b/c his name begins with an "O"?
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-14-09 01:25 PM
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35. "Wasn’t always this way. It is now." - what does this mean?
Is this poster claiming that he wasn't prejudice before but he is now? If only the little uppity black children would have stayed in their place, he wouldn't have to be "Everything we say they are"????
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Cognitive_Resonance Donating Member (733 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-14-09 01:31 PM
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37. Someone should charge admission to view freaks like these. nt
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