African-American culture?
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EXPLICITSOUL5 — 14 years ago(November 19, 2011 09:26 PM)
Dude(and yeah I'm "African-American)how can you judge this woman(let alone a WHOLE group people who happen to be related to YOU)because she doesn't "grieve" to your standards. Have you forgotten she has a CAREER? Singer,spokeswoman,etc. So it would be inappropriate for her to act out in public. If one of your relatives were killed(God forbid!)would you act out at your job? And I am not talking about when you first heard the news. Also how can you say that "black people" have become "desensitized" to violence? How do you "know" these things all the way in Canada? Also again "there is no way and African would behave that way" do you know how EVERY SINGLE AFRICAN would react to any tragedy that may befall them? I don't know if you are truly an African or someone out trolling because you must know that's how you sound. And finally(and my friend this last point is so simple to prove I kinda feel bad doing it to you)"African Americans are the most violent and desensitized people in the world"? Let's see. Let me just throw some names at you. No need for me to elaborate because you already know the deal. From answers.com
Rawanda:
The killing of more than 500,000 ethnic Tutsis by rival Hutu militias in Rwanda in 1994. The conflict between the dominant Tutsis and the majority Hutus had gone on for centuries, but the suddenness and savagery of the massacres caught the United Nations off-guard. U.N. peacekeepers did not enter the country until after much of the damage had been done.
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/rwandan-genocide#ixzz1eDbirPaf
Zimbabwe:
In 2008, parliamentary and presidential elections were held. The Opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by Morgan Tsvangirai, won both the parliamentary election and the first round of the presidential, sparking a run-off in a latter. The three month campaign between the first and second rounds of the presidential election was marred by increasing violence targeted at MDC supporters. The MDC stated that at least 86 of its supporters -including Gibson Nyandoro and Tonderai Ndira- had been murdered, and that 200,000 others had been forced out of their homes by pro-government militia.[15] The election itself was reportedly marked by mass intimidation, with citizens being forced to vote,[15] and required to show their ballot to government party representatives before placing it in the ballo5b4t box.[16]
Torture
Zimbabwe's security forces have a torture camp in the Marange diamond fields;[17] methods include severe beatings, sexual assault and dog mauling.[17
(NO TORTURE CAMPS OVER HERE)
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/human-rights-in-zimbabwe#ixzz1eDdXQBBg
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/human-rights-in-zimbabwe#ixzz1eDdQWZy0
Somalia:
"Up to 300,000 people were killed during the war, while about two million were displaced - some living here in Uganda," Yusuf told a joint news conference with President Yoweri Museveni at the end of a two-day visit to Uganda. "National institutions including the cultural norms of the Somali people were destroyed."
Liberia:
Atrocities
In response to the immediate execution of rebels by government forces, the RUF instead instituted a policy of cutting off the hands of captured soldiers with the intent of sending the message, "You don't hold your weapon against your brother." [20] Brandishing machetes, RUF rebels amputated the hands, arms, and legs of tens of thousands of Sierra Leoneans. [20] [21] The RUF indicated that the reason for these actions was that amputees could no longer mine diamonds, which might be used to support government troops. [22] The election slogan at that time was that the people 'had power in their hands', so the RUF would hack1c84 the hands off to prevent voting.[22] RUF members are also said to have practiced cannibalism. [23] [24] The government set up a refugee camp where they gathered amputees; the camp was situated next to the international hotels. They also helped fund the camps and gave them food and water. [25]
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/revolutionary-united-front#ixzz1eDgEYLOH
Wow,those are some pretty peaceful and "sensitive" AFRICAN nations. I could go on and give you more but I've proved my point. Yeah we have some dumbasses over here that need to get it together. But there is NOTHING that can compare to what goes on in some African countries. I once saw a documentary on Rawanda,there were men who hacked up infants and sometimes cut open pregnant women and cutting their babies out of them. Why? Because they were of a different tribe. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Peace!
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TwinkDream — 14 years ago(December 26, 2011 10:04 PM)
Different people cope in different ways, maybe she wants to keep working to distract herself from that tragedy, and that's how she wants to cope with it, and that's perfectly acceptable.
World's Most Beautiful Woman, Jennifer Lopez, has been named Woman of the Year -
green_apple_seven — 14 years ago(December 28, 2011 09:12 PM)
LOL. You must be trying to start something. Hm, let me dig up something random and, based on that, form a generalization of black Canadians yes, all of you, because you're all the same and see how that makes you feel.
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nikkiten1979 — 14 years ago(December 30, 2011 12:20 PM)
Your post is cruel and insensitive to pigeon-hole the entire African American community in a basket
Why would you say that? How much do you really know about African American culture besides what you hear on the news about gangs and bad neighborhoods? No one knows what Jennifer feels? Yes at first I thought it was crazy she came back on stage so early after close members of her family were so brutally murdered, but she knows her family better than we do and they probably wouldn't have allowed her to stop her career to mourn for years. I know my family wouldn't want that and I wouldn't want my family to give up everything just to mourn my death if I died. It's hard enough to get to where she got in life - being a Black woman, having been fat and now this slim beautiful, successful woman. She's no dissensitized she's just SURVIVING and thriving. I am also part African and I know how TIGHT our families are - but let's not forget all the crazy sh!t our people go through
TALK ABOUT BEING DISSENSITIZED!!! How about the tribal wars? Religious wars? Political wars? Rwanda, Uganda, Zaire, Congo, Angola, Nigera, Liberia, & more etc. How about the BLATANT corruption and murders? Trust me I love African culture, but bad things happen because there some bad people doing bad things and it has nothing to do with culture.
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jac91604 — 14 years ago(January 09, 2012 04:07 PM)
You know what Marie Osmond was also critized by performing in Las Vegars after her son committed suicide, Osmond had a contract and she felt she needed to honor it.
She also said it kept her mind busy.
OP, who are you to tell someone how to grieve? Lots of regular people go back to their jobs after the unexpected death of a family member, it keeps their them from going insane over what 2000happened.
And as another poster said if you think that just because people are smiling in public means everything is fine, you have a lot to learn.
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activista — 11 years ago(June 10, 2014 08:43 PM)
@groomten
I know this post is old, but honestly, you don't know what the hell you're talking about on this subject. Everybody does not have the time to shut their lives down to mourn for their loved onesgoing on with your regular work routine is how some people deal with it. It's not up to you or anybody else to decide how the hell someone is supposed to grieve for their own lossthat's a very personal decision.
Looks like African-Americans are indeed the most violent and desensitized group of people in the world, scary!
Dude, did you really say that stupid racist s***? I find that statement pretty appalling and ignorant as hell coming from another black person. I've seen way too many black people crying on TV on the news when a loved one dies a horrible death, and been to a number of funerals where the families were despondent after having lost that particular loved one. You obviously watch WAY too much American TV shows,and you're obviously never even been to America, so how the hell would you know what black Americans do? And how the hell do you know how an African would behave after such a tragedy? Do you personally know ALL Africans in a whole continent of 57 countries and exactly how they would behave in such a situation? Hell, no, you don't. Maybe that's not how people YOU know would react, but once again, that's just the people YOU know. And the whole world isn't just made up of people YOU know. So get over yourself with your arrogance and stupid assumptionsyou sound like you hate black people anyway.