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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (9758)	2/6/2017 8:12:37 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 358074

I spent six years working on the North Slope with Southern pipe liners. I know their culture intimately as I spent 12 hours a day seven days a week eating sleeping and living with them and working with them for six years. I was born and raised in California, and I never saw racism like that racism I saw in the south. The racism in California was that the Blacks were denied jobs, just as they were in the South. But they did not walk around afraid and they did not really get arrested any more than anybody else. They were able to lead a pretty respectable life in the Bay Area in California, with the exception that people wouldn't hire them. So in a very civilized area like the area, I saw the African-Americans abused my entire life. And the number one cause I have fought my entire life for and I am proud of it is against racism and man's inhumanity to man. And in that regard hypebole is impossible. I graduated from Richmond Union high school that had a large black population. And it was a dangerous and tough school, but not one African-American ever started a fight with me because they all knew that I was on their side. That I would stand by them. And more than once they protected me from other gangsters. Our entire city was filled with gangs and fighting and today is one of the 10 most dangerous cities in the United States. But I, a little blond haird German had the African Americans watching over me1 Not only should the South apologize to the African-American for the torture they put them through, they should make reparations, in fact the entire federal government owes the African-American a great deal of reparations. If I was president, I would appropriate huge amounts of money to funnel into the African-American community to help them live better lives and get their kids educated. It is impossible to engage in hyperbole when talking about racism against African-Americans in the United States. And I will always resist any attempts to normalize it. I have always been a friend of the African-American and they know that I was sincere and they confided in me and as I have posted before they have told me that if I was black I couldn't stand it. When I was on the North Slope I was sitting on a bus and there was an African-American guy called Shorty who was a friend of mine. The Southerners on the bus were so insensitive to Shorty that they started making the most ugly crude comments about African-American women that when Shorty got off the bus I told those white crackers they were completely out a line. Right after that, they started harassing me. They would open the door at 3 o'clock in the morning drunk glaring at me trying to intimidate me. To this day I can remember asking myself would Albert Einstein do something like that, true!. At the time I was setting pipe, that weigh 22,000 pounds and one mistake and I am dead. I scrambled up and down the piles of pipe and I would hook them to the Crane and the operator would lift them onto the trucks. One of the southern kids there was operating the crane, started jiggling it to scare me. I walked on off that pile of pipes and I told that kid:" look I know you don't like me, but you cannot kill me." It worked, he never did it again. He was just a kid about 22 years old and we worked 13 hours a day seven days a week, so we were all bushy. But he was a nice kid just simply raised in the deep South and just filled up to the eyeballs with hard-core racism. The racism I saw on the North Slope for, the southern pipe liners was like nothing I ever saw in California. That poor white trash and all their ignorance saw the African-American is animals. So in my opinion it is impossible to engage in hyperbole when talking about the torture too many people in this country have put the African-American through. And I will stand to them back to back until my dying day.