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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (708662)	4/11/2013 7:40:56 PM
From: SilentZ	1 Recommendation Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 1571040

>Many of my Asian friends speak English with an accent. You don't think they get funny looks and jokes because of that? Or if you do, you think only white people make those funny looks and jokes? You realize that this has nothing to do with looks and jokes, right? Do you really have no understanding, at all, of this country's both past and present with race? -Z

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (708662)	4/11/2013 8:52:03 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (8) \| Respond to of 1571040

And no, I couldn't ask in the way that I just worded it in this post. This is all because of people like you who made the very act of asking for documentation supposedly "racist." Yes, because the asking of documentation was used to discriminate. Its how the Germans found out who were Jews when they didn't 'look' Jewish. Its how employers found out if the perspective employee was from the 'right' familes/origin. Apparently, as an immigrant, you don't really understand the history of this country and as an engineering major, you never took a pych course so you don't know all the ways humans discriminate. For an example, let's take you: Asian......ding. Yeah, don't believe all the shit about how Asians assimilate faster than other ethnic groups. Whites.....down deep......don't like Asians. I'll spare you all the slurs. Of course you're a man so you get points. Are you tall? If so, you get points. If not, a ding. Are you attractive? If so, you get points. If not, a ding. Do you have blue eyes? Ding. Do you have blond hair? Ding. Did you play sports? Ding. Are you athletic? Ding. Were you in a frat? Points if you were...........more points if they were one of the big four mostly white, mostly Christian frats. If you were a nerd, a ding. Dress? Dress like a nerd. A big ding. Dress cool.......points. Are you married? Points. Single.....ding. Do you speak with a lisp? Ding. Are your teeth straight? Points. And I don't care what Asians thinks about whites, blacks about whites etc. The only thing that matters is what whites think.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (708662)	4/12/2013 12:05:42 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571040

Matthew Warren Bought Unregistered Gun Online To Use In Suicide, Rick Warren Says Posted: 04/11/2013 5:53 pm EDT \| Updated: 04/11/2013 9:38 pm EDT Matthew Warren, the son of evangelical megachurch pastor Rick Warren who committed suicide last week, killed himself with an unregistered gun he had bought online, the pastor said on Thursday. "Someone on the Internet sold Matthew an unregistered gun. I pray he seeks God's forgiveness. I forgive him. #MATTHEW 6:15," the pastor tweeted, referencing a Biblical passage about the forgiveness of sins. "If you forgive men when they sin against you, your Heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you don't...," Warren then tweeted, quoting the verse. Since Matthew Warren, 27, died in his Mission Viejo, Calif., home on Friday, Rick Warren has taken to Twitter and Facebook to publicly grieve his son's death and spread awareness about mental illness. In an emotional letter he wrote to his Lake Forest, Calif.-based Saddleback Church community last week, Warren revealed that Matthew had been through years of "mental illness resulting in deep depression and suicidal thoughts." It remained unclear how Matthew Warren had obtained a firearm. Gun registration documents are private in California, but permits to carry a concealed weapon are public records. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department told HuffPost reporter Anna Almendrala on Wednesday that Matthew Warren had never applied for a concealed weapon license. Rick Warren's claim of the weapon's origin comes as Congress debates controversial gun-control legislation, including expanded background checks on gun sales. Warren did not reply to an email seeking comment on Thursday, but he has spoken previously about gun control and gun violence. In a Fox News appearance after the Newtown, Conn., shooting in December, the pastor shared his views on what he called America's "culture of violence." "There's a mental health angle that you have to deal with; I don't think we're taking care of those struggling with mental illness like we need to in America," he said. "There is the civil safety issue, which is gun control and these assault weapons -- they don't call them 'assault weapons' for nothing. There is the social issue ... students, by the time they're 18, they've maybe killed 10,000, 20,000 people on video games without any remorse for it." UPDATE: 9:20 p.m. -- The Associated Press reports that the Orange County Sheriff's Department is trying to find the gun seller, but it won't be easy. The gun's serial number was scratched off, making it impossible to trace, spokesman Jim Amormino said. "We can't tell if it's registered or not because the serial number is scratched off," Amormino said. "At one point in time, it may have been, but it's going to be impossible to find out." It's illegal in California to buy a gun without a background check and purchasers are supposed to register their firearms. Defacing a gun's serial number is a federal offense. huffingtonpost.com