• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

Mississippi School Homecoming Celebrations Turn Deadly as 8 People are Killed 20 Injured in Separate Shootings

RDKirk

Alien, Pilgrim, and Sojourner
Site Supporter
Mar 3, 2013
42,536
23,208
US
✟1,773,800.00
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
-

No it is not all they know, it is a life style they want to live. I have absolutely no sympathy for these people.
Maybe it is all they know.

I've met more than one person from the inner city who testified that it was only by chance occurrences that they discovered the lifestyles they saw on television (Family Matters, for instance) were not total fiction like Star Trek. They truly didn't realize it, nor did the people around them, but when they did, they took steps to achieve that lifestyle.
 
Upvote 0

d taylor

Well-Known Member
Oct 16, 2018
14,029
5,949
60
Mississippi
✟330,559.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Protestant
Marital Status
Single
Maybe it is all they know.

I've met more than one person from the inner city who testified that it was only by chance occurrences that they discovered the lifestyles they saw on television (Family Matters, for instance) were not total fiction like Star Trek. They truly didn't realize it, nor did the people around them, but when they did, they took steps to achieve that lifestyle.
-

These shootings happen in small towns. So i would think they are not just confined to a small part of a chaotic environment.

I see these type of life styles as glorified, just like the mob lifestyle
 
Upvote 0

RDKirk

Alien, Pilgrim, and Sojourner
Site Supporter
Mar 3, 2013
42,536
23,208
US
✟1,773,800.00
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
-

These shootings happen in small towns. So i would think they are not just confined to a small part of a chaotic environment.

I see these type of life styles as glorified, just like the mob lifestyle
I don't know what point you're making in response to my post.
 
Upvote 0

d taylor

Well-Known Member
Oct 16, 2018
14,029
5,949
60
Mississippi
✟330,559.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Protestant
Marital Status
Single
I don't know what point you're making in response to my post.
-
That you were comparing inter city life with small town life. Which i do not believe they are comparable
 
Upvote 0

RDKirk

Alien, Pilgrim, and Sojourner
Site Supporter
Mar 3, 2013
42,536
23,208
US
✟1,773,800.00
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
-
That you were comparing inter city life with small town life. Which i do not believe they are comparable
Those people in small towns also don't believe any black people actually live like the Winslows or the Huxtables. Essentially, they don't believe life could be any different for them than it is where they are.

If they really believed it could be...they would leave. Those who do believe it can be...do leave.
 
Upvote 0

d taylor

Well-Known Member
Oct 16, 2018
14,029
5,949
60
Mississippi
✟330,559.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Protestant
Marital Status
Single
Those people in small towns also don't believe any black people actually live like the Winslows or the Huxtables. Essentially, they don't believe life could be any different for them than it is where they are.

If they really believed it could be...they would leave. Those who do believe it can be...do leave.
-
They see it, why would they not believe it. Like i said in a small town, people are not as isolated from black working law abiding people. as they can be in a large city
 
Upvote 0

RDKirk

Alien, Pilgrim, and Sojourner
Site Supporter
Mar 3, 2013
42,536
23,208
US
✟1,773,800.00
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
-
They see it, why would they not believe it. Like i said in a small town, people are not as isolated from black working law abiding people. as they can be in a large city

Black people are not all the same culture. As we say, "Skinfolk are not kinfolk." Just because there are black working law abiding people in that small town doesn't mean they visit each other's homes.
 
Upvote 0

d taylor

Well-Known Member
Oct 16, 2018
14,029
5,949
60
Mississippi
✟330,559.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Protestant
Marital Status
Single
Black people are not all the same culture. As we say, "Skinfolk are not kinfolk." Just because there are black working law abiding people in that small town doesn't mean they visit each other's homes.
-
Yes, but a Mississippi Delta Black is all together different than any black group of people in the world.
 
Upvote 0

RDKirk

Alien, Pilgrim, and Sojourner
Site Supporter
Mar 3, 2013
42,536
23,208
US
✟1,773,800.00
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
-
Yes, but a Mississippi Delta Black is all together different than any black group of people in the world.
You'll have to understand that a black person does not take seriously a white person making a statement like that, particularly when my lineage stems from Mississippi.
 
Upvote 0

d taylor

Well-Known Member
Oct 16, 2018
14,029
5,949
60
Mississippi
✟330,559.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Protestant
Marital Status
Single
You'll have to understand that a black person does not take seriously a white person making a statement like that, particularly when my lineage stems from Mississippi.
-

Well like they say. You ain't from The Mississippi Delta, unless you are from The Mississippi Delta.
 
Upvote 0