Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : CNBC -- critique. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim B who wrote (5396)	4/20/2000 12:31:00 AM
From: Gary M. Reed	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 17683

Watching Chris Mathews on CNBC tonight...it is absolutely amazing to me how racists like Jesse Jackson can get airtime and be treated with respect as if they were great Americans. His whole message is ALWAYS "Blacks vs. Whites." Whenever you see someone saying "my race takes precedent over yours," that person is a racist. Jackson's whole premise of boycotting Coke because, in his opinion, blacks should control a majority of KO board seats is not only flawed, it is an incredible case of racism. Let's look at the big picture, Jesse makes his living off of prolonging racist beliefs. If we all woke up tomorrow and there was no racism in the world, Jesse would be making $25k per year preaching. If this guy really wanted to help people in the lower economic classes, he would preach the sermon of "education and hard work will get you anywhere you want to go, regardless of your race, creed or religion." Instead, his message to his followers is "you can't." Is this the American message--"you can't"??? I think not. People need to wake up and see Jesse for what he is: a guy who is desperately trying to revive "Blacks vs. Whites" rhetoric in America so he can continue to live on a king's salary. He may not be "the black David Duke," but he's pretty damned close--he makes a living off of stirring up racial hatred. By the way, I seem to remember him saying that he would NEVER leave southern Illinois until the thug who got suspended from public school for committing an offense that was clearly noted as an expellable offense was pardoned...well, last I heard, the thug is still suspended and Jesse is off galavanting around the U.S. preaching his message of hatred and "Us against Them." What happened Jesse, I thought you were staying in Illinois until the thug got reinstated--your very words!!!...guess you realized the purse strings of fighting a losing battle weren't as attractive as drumming up a new windmill fighting scenario. Cut your losses early and let your gains run, right Jesse? Hell, a philosophy like that makes you a great day-trader...so in the World of the Day Trader, where an Internet connection renders any racist overtones useless, what the hell are you doing spreading your pack of lies? Turn the oppressed into Internet traders, where the server receiving the trade orders has no idea what race the trader is. Nahh, it's much more noble to play the 21st Century version of Don Quixote...keep fighting those windmills and keep getting major fluff money to do it...by the way Jesse, I'm wondering how the American Indian got shafted in your Rainbow Coalition...we need some 'xsplainin' from you on this...many would say there is only one color in your rainbow. I've talked to many American Indians and they all wonder how they got left out of your "Rainbow Coalition." Someone with such a questionable record of racist activity should not get one iota of respect and should DEFINITELY not receive any national airtime to promote his anti-American agenda. "You CAN'T compete, so let me promote set-aside programs and quotas..." That's ONE HELLUVA message coming from someone who claims to be promoting the message of "his people." At one time or another, Italian, Irish, Jewish and other ethnicities faced major obstacles in attaining the American Dream...they responded by working their asses off and proving that they could overcome anything thrown at them. So why is Jesse's message always, "you CAN'T do it, so let us politico bureaucrats provide it for you..." Sick man, sick.

To: Jim B who wrote (5396)	4/25/2000 12:38:00 PM
From: Yogizuna	Respond to of 17683

There are about five companies that I would like to sue right now.....:^( Have you ever tried Ameritrade? I did a "test" of E-Trade, Schwab, and Ameritrade for a few weeks, calling up their customer service numbers, etc, and Schwab was the slowest about answering the phone, followed by E-Trade, but Ameritrade was surprisingly (to me) the fastest of the bunch! This was about three months ago, so things could have changed by now, but Ameritrade has retained a good image in my mind for a possible future account with me. Yogi