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I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians |
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Posted by B68 slow poke on Wed Sep 5 09:36:07 2012 Aside from my tax lady and one of my best friends. I have no use for west indians and their arrogrant attitude. |
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Posted by mr mabstoa on Wed Sep 5 09:58:57 2012, in response to I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by B68 slow poke on Wed Sep 5 09:36:07 2012. I guess since you have a best friend whose West Indian its OK!Did you let him live in your neighborhood too? |
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Posted by Fred G on Wed Sep 5 10:14:27 2012, in response to I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by B68 slow poke on Wed Sep 5 09:36:07 2012. Yeah why don't they just go back to West India where they all came from!! :)your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Jeff Rosen on Wed Sep 5 10:17:39 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by Fred G on Wed Sep 5 10:14:27 2012. I thought West India is Pakistan. |
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Posted by Fred G on Wed Sep 5 10:19:47 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by Jeff Rosen on Wed Sep 5 10:17:39 2012. Jeff I think it's a suburb :)your pal, Fred |
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Posted by B68 slow poke on Wed Sep 5 10:23:23 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by Fred G on Wed Sep 5 10:14:27 2012. It would be good if they all got on a boat and went back to Trinidad and tobago ! EXCEPT for my tax lady and one of my best friends. |
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Posted by WayneJay on Wed Sep 5 10:44:52 2012, in response to I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by B68 slow poke on Wed Sep 5 09:36:07 2012. I'm not about to sit here a paint the entire group (that already happens far too often here), but I don't like that many have so many negative comments about the US. This of course is while they're here enjoying the benefits of living in the USA.If things are so good back home, then go back home. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Sep 5 10:49:48 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by Fred G on Wed Sep 5 10:14:27 2012. Is it even correct to call this the "West Indian Parade"? |
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Posted by Fred G on Wed Sep 5 14:09:17 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Sep 5 10:49:48 2012. Evidently it is, although West Indians are from the West Indies. Would it make more sense to call them West Indiens? Sounds plausible except Google doesn't show results for that.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by cortelyounext on Wed Sep 5 14:46:18 2012, in response to I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by B68 slow poke on Wed Sep 5 09:36:07 2012. nice photogood shooting |
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Posted by cortelyounext on Wed Sep 5 14:52:41 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by B68 slow poke on Wed Sep 5 10:23:23 2012. I think that dude up in Maine was from Trinidad and Tobago or the Caucasus or someplace like that. LuchAAA called him a Liberal poser for not putting a rain barrel on his so called eco-cabin in the woods. Just unreal. |
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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Wed Sep 5 19:38:48 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Sep 5 10:49:48 2012. Is it even correct to call this the "West Indian Parade"?Some of the older people still use the term West Indian as descriptor, so the name is probably going to stick. Younger folks like myself prefer Caribbean, and the name is applied to some other Caribbean festivals around the world like Toronto's Caribana/Scotiabank Caribbean Carnival Toronto which rivals New York's as the largest in North America. |
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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Wed Sep 5 19:40:17 2012, in response to I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by B68 slow poke on Wed Sep 5 09:36:07 2012. I have no use for west indians and their arrogrant attitude.We're not all arrogant. Some of us are bitter too! :-) |
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Posted by Easy on Wed Sep 5 20:59:33 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Wed Sep 5 19:38:48 2012. Wouldn't Caribbean include parts of Mexico, Central, and South America? I don't normally think of Mexicans as Caribbean, although they may be in that part.Are all of the Caribbean people "West Indian" regardless of race or language? For some reason I usually associate it with English speaking black people from places like Jamaica, Barbados, etc. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Sep 5 23:04:50 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Wed Sep 5 19:38:48 2012. Don't they have a Pirates of the West Indies ride at Disney? :) |
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Posted by Edwards! on Wed Sep 5 23:21:27 2012, in response to I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by B68 slow poke on Wed Sep 5 09:36:07 2012. wow...People from the islands call that "swagger",and it just NOT LIMITED to "West Indians".. NEW YORKER are WELL KNOWN for it..that mean everybody.. So..seeing this IS THE NORM..how can you say that? not to mention its rude..racist..exclusionary..and all around nonsense. |
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Posted by Edwards! on Wed Sep 5 23:22:41 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by B68 slow poke on Wed Sep 5 10:23:23 2012. I've got a question for you..where did your family come from? |
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Posted by Easy on Wed Sep 5 23:27:27 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by Edwards! on Wed Sep 5 23:22:41 2012. Isn't he Russian? |
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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Wed Sep 5 23:29:34 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by Easy on Wed Sep 5 20:59:33 2012. Wouldn't Caribbean include parts of Mexico, Central, and South America?While there are plenty of countries that touch the sea, for all intents and purposes, Caribbean ends up being a proxy for former Dutch, English, and French colonies along with the United States Virgin Islands, while former Spanish possessions are considered Hispanic/Latino. So somewhere like Belize and Guyana are culturally considered Caribbean (and they're both members of CARICOM), but the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico aren't despite being in the heart of the region. As for the term West Indian, it tends to be more of an Anglophone reference, but you'll sometimes see older Haitians like my mother use it in English. It's still used as a descriptor in certain contexts, but it's has been subsumed by the term Caribbean in describing the region, and for some of us who who cringe at the word "African American", an important regional ethnic identifier. |
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Posted by SMAZ on Wed Sep 5 23:31:18 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by Easy on Wed Sep 5 20:59:33 2012. Wouldn't Caribbean include parts of Mexico, Central, and South America?Indeed. I use "Islanders". |
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Posted by Edwards! on Wed Sep 5 23:32:32 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Wed Sep 5 19:40:17 2012. Comments such as his is one of the reason why we have so much division here..he can deal with the Italians with the SAME ATTITUDE..or East Indians..or practically anyone with the SAME character traits..yet he has a PROBLEM with the entire Caribbeans islands filled with mulatto people..EXCEPT ONE..who he befriended.. And one of "them" had the nerve to call ME a "racist"? |
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Posted by Easy on Thu Sep 6 00:10:51 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Wed Sep 5 23:29:34 2012. I never realized that West Indians cringed being considered African American, but I guess that I can see that. I guess that every other race comes here and keeps their ethnic identity to some extent and doesn't get lumped into some catchall. Or is it something else? |
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Posted by Fred G on Thu Sep 6 00:15:39 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by Easy on Thu Sep 6 00:10:51 2012. I see that all over. Brits don't like being called Aussies and vice versa. Germans don't like being called Austrian. Colombians don't like being called Mexican. I guess everybody is just uppity :)your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Easy on Thu Sep 6 00:18:34 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by Fred G on Thu Sep 6 00:15:39 2012. I think that he is an American born to immigrants, so he is African American regardless of where they are from. |
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Posted by Fred G on Thu Sep 6 00:21:39 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by Easy on Thu Sep 6 00:18:34 2012. Everyone wants to be a subset.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Edwards! on Thu Sep 6 01:18:30 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by Easy on Wed Sep 5 23:27:27 2012. i have no idea..even if that IS the case of his origins,WHEREVER he hails from..the fact that HE is here IN AMERICA,the greatest melting pot IN THE ENTIRE WORLD..with rights to say what he said,should give pause to even the most stubborn of those "haters".Resourceful people get things done,not sit on the sidelines crying about "i have no use for x people from x place cause they are arrogant..With ONE EXCEPTION.." LOL! |
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Posted by Edwards! on Thu Sep 6 01:34:37 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by Easy on Thu Sep 6 00:10:51 2012. My people are from Barbados..very prideful of our nationality..but being considered "African American" never struck me as something derogatory because there was nothing wrong with that statement as far as my father was concerned.Africa is the very birthplace..the womb..the ORIGIN of Man..so to me it is what it is..families were taken from there willingly and unwillingly,to places all over the world..especially to the Americas.. Outside of that..INDIVIDUAL and NATIONAL IDENTITY is about pride in ones place of origin and different subsets. The OVERALL sense of it all comes straight to this..being AMERICAN, regardless of your origins, is one of NATIONAL PRIDE..and the subsets come next. |
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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Thu Sep 6 01:38:39 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by Easy on Thu Sep 6 00:10:51 2012. I guess that every other race comes here and keeps their ethnic identity to some extent and doesn't get lumped into some catchall. Or is it something else?It's something that's a bit more common with the the immigrants from the late 1960s to mid-1980s as they tended to view themselves as better than their native born African American counterparts. When you're an immigrants with two jobs working to send money back home to a country that's poor with family members living in shacks, some of the excuses that the native born give for not being able to finish school or find work come across as hollow. |
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Posted by SMAZ on Thu Sep 6 03:14:28 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by Edwards! on Thu Sep 6 01:34:37 2012. We are all from Mother Africa anyway. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Sep 6 03:24:13 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by Easy on Thu Sep 6 00:18:34 2012. African-American is an ethnicity and they are not members of that ethnicity. |
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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Thu Sep 6 08:47:04 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by Easy on Wed Sep 5 20:59:33 2012. Wouldn't Caribbean include parts of Mexico, Central, and South America?"American" would, too. |
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Posted by The Flxible Neofan on Thu Sep 6 09:42:45 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Thu Sep 6 01:38:39 2012. Yes indeed, this is what I've noticed as well. |
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Posted by Edwards! on Thu Sep 6 10:38:47 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Thu Sep 6 01:38:39 2012. HAH!..which come across as being jackassish..to many..even to other fellows. 'B'OI! WHATCHU TAKIN'? ME BOXCHA OFF! |
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Posted by Dan Lawrence on Wed Sep 19 09:57:48 2012, in response to Re: I do not have any use for arrogrant west indians, posted by SMAZ on Thu Sep 6 03:14:28 2012. 33,000 years ago, BTW. |
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