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So I was just forwarded a racist email

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wetflame

Pizza Dog
People with weirdly good memories or impressive searching skills may already know this, but I get sent a lot of emails that aren't intended for me. My gmail address is just my name, and I guess it's relatively common because I get sent emails by parents about why their kids are getting bad marks in their homework (I'm not a teacher), angrily emails asking why I didn't tell people about my son dying (I don't have kids) and complaining about me dropping in unannounced despite having bad asthma (I don't), I get shouted at for not clipping hedges, and I've been invited to two bachelor parties and a Blazers game by a bunch of Americans who keep confusing me for their friend (seven email chains and counting).

The latest one was a real doozy though. I got forwarded this lovely email (censoring is mine, the original email is definitely not censored). Apologies for length (and content)
FW: OLD BLACK VET SPEAKS OUT, "WAKE UP!"

Cy ******** <********@hotmail.com>
to ********

Why couldnt Obama been this man ?
Cy

The words of a dying man have always captured my attention, and...right or wrong, they are worth reading. I believe what this dying man has to say has a lot of truth.

I wanted to clear up a few black and white questions and answers. The things I state are facts. They are not downloaded from some media website, not propaganda, just observations from a 70 year old black man, born in America .

I was told by my parents (yes, a married man and woman with my last name), that I was n*****. We lived in “ N***** Town ” in a small Texas town, no A/C, grass growing through the floor, no car, no TV. We washed our bodies with lye soap that my mother made, by hand. I thought I was a n*****, until I graduated high school, went to college, did an enlistment in the Army, and got a job. I am now retired, own my own home, have 6 children by ONE WOMAN, and we all have the same last name. I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts, a Master’s Degree in Sociology. My retirement, VA disability from combat in the Korean War (I only have one leg), and part-time pay in a local college, is about $125,000 a year. From dirt poor n*****, to old, black, proud American.

Yes, I am black, and I can say “n*****”, because I understand the true meaning of the word.

Let’s clear up a few things about the Michael Brown incident.

-Fact: It is not called "shoplifting or stealing", it's called "robbery", which is a felony. Brown stole something and assaulted someone, that means ROBBERY. It’s on video, and it’s a fact. Not shoplifting, not theft, not “lifting” a few cigars, but ROBBERY!

-Michael Brown, like Trayvon, was portrayed by the media as a “little black boy”, cute little headphones, and his cap and gown photo, gunned down by a ruthless police assassin, executed by “whitey”. First, I have never seen a cop drag a person into their car’s driver door to arrest them. So, let us be clear, Michael Brown was a n*****; a sorry assed, criminal, hoodlum, n*****. Nobody wants to say that, but I will. He had a criminal record a mile long, was known for numerous assaults, robberies, including the one you saw with your own eyes, and still refuse to call it a robbery. He was, like so many others, living a life that he thought he was “entitled” to, just for being alive. Gangsta rap, weed, drinking, guns, and those stupid-assed low profile rims, makes him some kind of bad-ass n*****.

-I have fought communist Chinese and North Korean soldiers in the 1950’s with more honor than that n*****. Yep, I peeled potatoes and shot communists. That’s the only job a n***** soldier could get.

-Rodney King? Black Riots!

-Trayvon? Black Riots!

-Hurricane Katrina? Black Riots! Stealing TV’s, designer clothes, etc.

-O.J. Simpson kills white man and white woman, found NOT GUILTY? Did white folks riot? Nope!

-In fact, when is the last time white people rioted? Civil War, maybe? That’s because they are, relatively, civilized people, much like many black Americans. Protesting is one thing, hell, I’m all for it. Even if you are an ignorant idiot, you have a right to protest.

-Stop only showing the young black "cap and gown" photos of Michael. Charles Manson may have a few of those laying around, as well. Show the n***** "gangsta" photos of the "poor unarmed teenager" (grown man) pics that have been removed from his Facebook page, holding the loaded pistol, smoking weed, with a mouthful of money.

-Militarization? The stupid-assed media that publicizes this has no idea what “militarization” really is. Cops wear helmets and vests, and drive armored vehicle because unemployed n*****s thrown bricks at them, moron! You put on an "Adam 12" uniform and walk down the streets of Ferguson during the criminal riots. I can guarantee that you'll jump into the first armored "military tank" that you see.

-You only "want the police" when you "need the police", otherwise, you mock and fear what you do not understand about the police. And by the way, the police are trained to take your shit, but I wouldn’t fuck around with those Army National Guard,they aren’t as well disciplined “culturally” to take your shit like police do every day. They will ventilate your black asses with M-16s, with military precision and extreme prejudice.

-And finally, the way we protest and demand justice, is run down the streets breaking shit, looting stores, and acting like a bunch of untrained monkeys? Hell, after Rodney King, criminal n*****s were actually killing people, thinking they were entitled to be worse criminals than they already were. For those black criminals that do that, you are a disgrace to your race, inflamed by idiots like Al Sharpton, instead of listening to logic from proud black Americans, like Bill Cosby, Samuel Jackson, Colin Powell, Allen West, me, etc.

-You blame white people for your ignorance, criminal acts, unemployed laziness, etc.

-You blame white people for 89% of the prisons in America being full of blacks. They did nothing wrong, the racists white cops framed them all, right? No chance at school, no chance for college, military, employment? BULL SHIT!

-More n*****s kill n*****s, than n*****s killing whites, whites killing n*****s, and whites killing whites….COMBINED. I find this astounding.

-It's not white people's faults, the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by a white man years ago. You can go to school, get a job, buy a house, and vote, JUST LIKE WHITE FOLKS!!!! You are not a slave, you are not discriminated against! Slavery is abolished, and nobody alive today, was alive when it was popular. Get over it! You are discriminated against because you are a criminal, sorry-assed n*****! Otherwise, black Americans are treated like everyone else.

-If you choose to create "baby daddy and baby mama", and fake disabilities as an excuse for laziness to draw social security disability…… instead of husband, wife, family, job, mortgage, it's YOUR FAULT, not white folks. And there are a lot of proud black Americans that will tell you the same, as I AM ONE OF THEM!!!

-Remember, the way you act on the camera, is remembered by everyone who sees it. They will never forget it. It shows them how you, as the black race, responds to situation that don’t particularly go the way you think they should. It will become a reference standard, something they expect from you when the next media report doesn’t go your way. Stop being stupid n*****s, and be a proud black American. My parents raised me well, but they were wrong about one thing, I am not a n*****.

I will not be around long. While my mind is still sharp, and my aim is still good, my body is eating away with cancer. It started in the prostate, and is spreading rapidly. After I die, I have asked my children to publish my writings, and include my name. Although I am not expecting any miracles, I can only hope that American will stop blaming color, start blaming criminals, and see people for what they really are. We have too many countries that want us dead. We should not be fighting each other.

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It seems inconceivable that a nation of300 million people cannot replace 545 politicians
who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility.
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Obviously this is utter bullshit. But it's crazy that this sort of stuff gets sent around by people who clearly don't want to accept that there are real race issues out there that need dealing with. I replied back asking why I'd been sent this racist & ignorant email, and the response was:
Hi (wetflame), sorry if this offended you, I didnt feel it was racist or ignorant as it was not spoken out against white people and basically speaks the truth. Years ago a friend worked in the Milton jail, a town devoid of black people yet the jail contained over 75% blacks. Every time I watch or read the news I can usually find some news about a black person committing a felony more so than whites although they do their share but it seems to me the percentage is much higher in favor of the blacks. We have very close friends that are black and they agree with me. I will promise not to forward anything of this nature and again it was not intended to offend you. Again I apologize.

Obviously the issue here was that I thought white people were being spoken out against.

Does anyone know anyone who actually believes all this stuff? It blows my mind that people actually believe this. "Why couldnt Obama been this man ?". I mean, come on.
 

wetflame

Pizza Dog
Swing your mail client's banhammer, OP.
Yeah, this guy's getting blocked. Generally I get amusing emails, but this one's just bizarre. I honestly don't get how someone can read this and think "yep, that all makes sense! He's saying what we're all thinking!".
 
Call me crazy but I would bet that screed was written by a middle aged white woman in the south who "works from the home".
 

Strictly

Member
You simply can't win with people like this. Best thing is just to ignore them and focus your energy on those who are at least willing to listen.
 

Pickman

Member
I work in ambulance billing. You should see some of the crazy shit I get from old people. 11 page rambling notes scrawled in nigh-indecipherable handwriting. 4 page photo copier collages with such great images as Hitler's face on an ape with the word "OBAMA" written in sharpie under it, pictures of gerber babies with swastikas on their foreheads and the words "DOCTORS ARE LIARS" written all around them. And spattered through it all, a tirade about the medical billing industry and how we're nothing but vipers for charging for a service.

Still, my absolute favorite is when a person literally wipes their ass with their bill and then sends it in. That or they piss on it and then let it dry and mail it back. Those are always the winners.

I'd take email over paper any goddamned day.
 

Dram

Member
Why do people like that have the constant need to say they have Black friends who agree with them?
 

foxuzamaki

Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Its like the writer tried to hit all the marks including that "he lost his leg", this really feels like something somebody made up and probably trying to spread on facebook right now
 
I work in ambulance billing. You should see some of the crazy shit I get from old people. 11 page rambling notes scrawled in nigh-indecipherable handwriting. 4 page photo copier collages with such great images as Hitler's face on an ape with the word "OBAMA" written in sharpie under it, pictures of gerber babies with swastikas on their foreheads and the words "DOCTORS ARE LIARS" written all around them. And spattered through it all, a tirade about the medical billing industry and how we're nothing but vipers for charging for a service.

Still, my absolute favorite is when a person literally wipes their ass with their bill and then sends it in. That or they piss on it and then let it dry and mail it back. Those are always the winners.

I'd take email over paper any goddamned day.
Holy shit..
literally.
 
There are plenty of conservative, African-Americans who think this way, so I wouldn't be that surprised if it was true. Idiotic as hell though. Does he realize the Ferguson cop had no knowledge of the robbery before the incident?
 

genjiZERO

Member
There are plenty of conservative, African-Americans who think this way, so I wouldn't be that surprised if it was true. Idiotic as hell though. Does he realize the Ferguson cop had no knowledge of the robbery before the incident?

It's possible, but this is a variation of the "I'm 70 an I'm tired" meme. I'd be surprised if it actually was.
 

stufte

Member
You should email them back and mess with them.

This. Find a similar chain email and change it just slightly to be pro-liberal, but still look like a crazy ranting conservative. They'll forward it on because they probably won't read it carefully enough. It'll circulate and you'll have a good laugh at their expense.
 
Why do people like that have the constant need to say they have Black friends who agree with them?
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Valhelm

contribute something
Was that email meant to be forwarded to Black people or white people?

I'm not sure which is worse.
 
i don't see the harm in banning the sender of that email


wait wtf the email started with:
Why couldnt Obama been this man ?


OMFFG LOL
 
Whoever wrote this couldn't even keep their bullshit backstory straight. If he is a "70 year old black man living in America" then he would have been 6 at the start of the Korean war.
 
OP and a few other Gafers, you will be surprised to know that there are plenty of black Americans who lean, well, they are both conservative and liberal that think like the emailer. I have heard this kind of speech myself on various occasions, and I do have an issue with most from this set who are typically a little older and have lost a bit of their perspective.
 

Aylinato

Member
Whoever wrote this couldn't even keep their bullshit backstory straight. If he is a "70 year old black man living in America" then he would have been 6 at the start of the Korean war.


Yeah it was made by a middle aged white dude who probably guessed an age that he thought would work. Most likely didn't want to use WW2 vets as they wouldn't know how to send an email (meaning less likely to) and that this one has the feels of it being saved as a draft as no one has that much time(I hope) to come up with such racist drivel.

It's also someone who, if he did fight in korea would have probably walked in the civil rights marches and would have understood the damn hard fights they had just to get equal treatment for education(kind of, racists gonna find ways around it obviously).
 
^ Perfection

Whoever wrote this couldn't even keep their bullshit backstory straight. If he is a "70 year old black man living in America" then he would have been 6 at the start of the Korean war.

True, you would think this would have been apart of some point. Still, sit down and have a conversation with an elderly folk and you will hear ramblings similar to these.
 
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