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    Update on the THREE Police Officers Murdered in Birmingham Yesterday

    This is terrible. The people on the street were just sick about it.
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    Notice: Jerry (The Big Dog) Bogle passed away this morning.

    Same here, I remember seeing those guys every Saturday at the games, on my Television. I sure hate to hear that. God Bless him.
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    O.J. Simpson--Kobe Bryant, Michael Jackson, and Scott Peterson are Innocent....

    I agree Orange. I dont think Kobe is guilty. This girl supposedly has some severe mental problems, she is reportedly BiPolar, but that doesnt mean that she couldnt have been raped. But like You outlined very well, this girl is doesnt quite seem to be the victim she made herself out to be...
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    UA apologizes for slavery

    Oh my goodness, A Plato Sighting! Its like seeing a Unicorn...
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    UA apologizes for slavery

    I dont think you are picking on me at all This is a discussion, and I do take yalls points of view and information seriously,and I learn a lot. Then I'll ask, So what do you think explains this phenom? There is a direct link from poverty to fatherlessness...
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    UA apologizes for slavery

    But you say that as if all black women or minorities on welfare have 7 children, although I'm sure you didnt mean it that way...there are more whites on welfare in this country, we just have the image of the welfare queen being black...and all black women do not sit up there having babies to...
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    UA apologizes for slavery

    So you think a black person should change the genetic makeup of their hair to get a job? So how many afro wearing black women/men do you see in corporate america? That is their natural hair state. And chemically straightening their hair is permenant, and only after cutting it all off will it...
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    UA apologizes for slavery

    Whats wrong with white legs? You were born white. Its because everyone wants to live up to this ideal...ie tanning equals, having a lot of time to hang in the sun equals wealthy lifestyle...the wealthy looked tanned, so the regular people want to emulate it...and thats why you disdain your...
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    UA apologizes for slavery

    Its unconscious, people say "oh, I look better etc", why dont they think they look good in their natural white skin? Why do you think people spend all that time in the sun, why do you think tanning is such a big deal? This is why. People do a lot of things for reasons they dont understand...
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    UA apologizes for slavery

    Because for whites in the present, to look tan is to look like a person of leisure or someone who doesnt have to work much and to be is part of the upper class and everyone wants to at least look the part...back in the day, it was to be white as you could because only servants or slaves baked in...
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    UA apologizes for slavery

    I know of many cases where black people have been told to stop the "ethnic" hair styles at the work place...and does nothing for their self esteem of their hair being fine the way it is...How many Black women do you see with hair in Afros or Natural? For the most part, their hair is not...
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    UA apologizes for slavery

    When did they get here then, because there were Africans that travelled with the Spanish when they came to America... [This message has been edited by Bama's Belle (edited 04-23-2004).]
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    UA apologizes for slavery

    Its cool Chucker, you're one of mine too. I get what you are saying but... Actually, thats who my SUPREME Sympathy goes to, especially as I am Part Native American, my grandfather was full blooded. So many wrongs with them happened that its really hard to speak of, especially as I visit the...
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    UA apologizes for slavery

    Thanks aj, I accept. I just think that we still have a ways to go before things are really equal, but I DO think we have come a long way, but we still can go further. I just happen to think that Black people are looking for an acknowledgement of something bad happened, instead of always...
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    UA apologizes for slavery

    NY, Where did they said it was a racist school? People just found out about the Slaves buried back there recently, and the use of the slave labor, and UA decided to apologize for it. The school did have blunders in the past , ala George Wallace, but Maybe despite that the black students grew...
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    Robbins and Marsh to be dropped...

    So are they aiding in the suit or being listed as defendents?
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    UA apologizes for slavery

    Oh Okay. My apologies.
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    UA apologizes for slavery

    I dont belittle your way of thinking, so dont belittle mine... I think it will help in race relations at the University, the black students were very pleased that UA did this. Excuse me for having a thought that you dont agree with. By UA going ahead and doing it without fuss, it also helps...
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