Stoneman
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10/22/2016 1:29:17 PM
I remember when there were signs on the bathrooms and water faucets that designated who could use them according to their race.
I remember being spit on and called a baby killer by peaceniks when I came home from Vietnam
I remember when my wife and I had to petition the court to get married just because she is Filipino and I am Black.
I remember being followed by the police to my new home just because they didn't think that people who look like me could afford my neighborhood.
Well, I guess the good old days that you all remember were not that great for people like me. But I remember those days just as vividly as you do. Actually, for people like me, not much has really changed. Fuck the good old days. They weren't shit! Neither are these days. Hatred and discrimination is still alive and well. My faith in the ability of people to change for the better continues to be eroded by the daily headlines. What a sad state of bulshit this world is in.
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Bryon Tosoff
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10/22/2016 2:10:56 PM
Well Stoneman, you said it, lived through all that abuse, and there have been tough times you endured. but still really you provide some wonderful insight and principles here that you have lived by, I know it is discouraging seeing the world and the political situation so messed up, but in spite of all that, we manage. no matter the challenges
carry on your good works
bryon
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Two Silo Complex
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10/22/2016 4:32:39 PM
I remember when there were signs on the bathrooms and water faucets that designated who could use them according to their GENDER.
Sorry folks boys are boys and girls are girls just check the hardware its not that tough to figure out.
No I know some people have real issues for those that do gender neutral bathrooms are an option.
Stoneman,
Yes the world is still full of hatred and bigots and all sorts of nastiness you are one who chooses to stand in the face of that and are a beacon of light. Through all your struggles and pain you choose a positive message for that and many other reasons you are not simply a good man but a great man.
Much respect.
Two Silo Complex,
Ken
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10/22/2016 5:27:07 PM
Well, I agree with Stoneman, that the segregationists were scumbags,
and still are, what's left of them... (and some probably would try to do it all over again if they could get away with it. we simply must not let them do it again.)
and actually, I kind of agree with Ken too, about going into the bathroom
that your apparent gender fits with...
I go to the men's room, not the women's.
What I can do in a studio, all the superheroine sing like a girl when I wanna stuff,
is completely aside from that. I'm still a guy, and while I'll defend the gender challenged till the day I die, being arguably that myself, I think some of their complaints are overboard... and probably anti-productive to the cause...
If I was a dad, and my daughter was in a ladies' room,
and I saw a guy dressed like a woman walk in, I'd go through the roof,
to say the least.
I was shocked, when I learned that in good ol' 1964,
the year The Beatles came to America,
there were still states in the US where African Americans couldn't vote.
We've come a long way, but we got a long long way to go.
Probably should have done this particular post through the ALJ account,
but it's me, and you know me whatever superhero costume I'm wearing.
Yeah. We got a ways to go, People. I think so. Came a long way. Not there yet.
Of course, when Old Man Warner was young, catch a cab meant flag down a stagecoach, is my guess.
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