[mburbank]

Vinth, While your constant Jew baiting is admittedly hysterical and always admirably fresh, the annti arab sentiment you attribute to me is without merit. I think it's common knowledge that A.) I don't hate anyone based on their ethnic background B.) I rarely ever hate at all, and it's always a speciffic person for speciffic reasons,. like, say, you. and C.) Some on my best friends are Arabs.

Wait for it... wait for it... is Vinth going to understand what part of that was ironic?... wait for it.... Does Vinth know that 'ironic' doesn't simply mean 'the opposite of'... wait for it...

James: I find your annecdotal experience of race relations reveals more about you than it does any sort of wider cultural characteristics.

"Unfortunately, the rest of the world never sees it like that. A white man's not allowed to hate anyone not-white, lest they forever be known as being a racist. "

By the rest of the world, what do you mean? People you've met? Your Town? The U.S.of A. ? Is it so terribly hard to be a White Man? 'Cause it hasn't been that awful for me. And the fact that sometimes negative feelings are attributed to you based on your whiteness seems like chump change compared to just about every other form of institutionalized racism. Can't you even enjoy being born onto the top of the heap? Lighten up.

This sentence

"I find that the majority of people I find annoying are all black people, and share the same qualities."

and this sentence

"It's not that I hate them for being black, but I hate them for doing things to piss me off. "

Show a real confusion of thought. You are all ready codifying the 'people who annoy you' (oh sin amongst sins) by color. You are ascribing behavioral 'qualities' to their Blackness. I find you annoying right now, and I can think of lots of folks you share charcateristics with, but this is the internet, so I can't say it's BECAUSE you're a white middle class punk who doesn't understand the privilidges they've been borne into and becuase of his whiteness and middleclassness has a need to resent others for every pettty inconvenience he imagines. Even though you share that quality with a whole lot of a totally statistically insignificant chunk of the white middle class punks I've met. I promise thought, that should I come to hate you, it will be totally becuase of who you are as an individual.

"Dall yo got dem tinda gayz?"

Vinth is frequently that hard to understand, and he's not black at all. He's a white middle class punk who doesn't understand the privilidges they've been borne into and becuase of his whiteness and middleclassness has a need to resent others for every pettty inconvenience he imagines. If you visit Catholci Samurai, you'll find it' message board populated by equally difficult to understand folks, and I'd wager most of them are white middle class punks who don't understand the privilidges they've been borne into and becuase of their whiteness and middleclassness have a need to resent others for every pettty inconvenience they imagine.

"Whenever I go to the movies, and find myself being pissed off by someone, it's a black person."

Really? what, do you bring flashlight and creep around checking them out? Or do you go to one of those crappy movie theaters that leaves the lights on during the film. Do you carry a l'il blues clues notebook so you can make mathemiatical racial comparisson about who annoyed you when you get home? Me? I think it's your choice of movies. I guess your dads characteristically Black behavior doesn't piss you off or inform your thinking very much.

"But the majority of my feeling annoyed comes from things that many black people seem to have in common. "

But how do you feel about their large genetalia and ability to dance? See, I think you need to appreciatte the qualities Blacks DO bring to the table. I mean, be fair. I'm really, really sorry that folks 'get in your face' and think you're a racist, though. I can't for the life of me imagine how anyone might get that idea about a nice guy like you.

Vinth, back to you. Your religous scholarship has all the quality, logic, merit and deep spiritual searching of an Eric Von Daynaken Book. You would need to be smarter to even realize how stupid you are.