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[Task Force]

Hmm... wounder if thats even a real gun... appears to be some kind of AK.

[GoldenRivet]

i had it pegged for an airsoft gun.

one has to wonder how he would go about getting his hands on one of those if it were real

[Factor]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

one has to wonder how he would go about getting his hands on one of those if it were real

The black market? Just kiddin, bad joke.

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by Factor

The black market? Just kiddin, bad joke.

lol nice

[Castout]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

lets just say when you grow up in a school system and attend a high school that is about 52% black, and of those 52%... about 90% of them acted just like that guy in the video... you learn quickly.

honestly, im sad to admit... but there were times in my school age life during which i felt like a camera man for animal planet... not being racist or mean... just being dead serious. it was like Lord of the Flies - these people literally behaved like Animals most of the time

really don't know how else to put it

I can probably recall about a dozen times when students literally ran off campus en masse due to a series of fights which had grown into school wide rioting... it didnt matter who you were, or if you were in a gang or not... if you were in the wrong place at the wrong time it meant your ass.

it was like going to school in a prison, there was this acrid and choking tension everywhere in the air and all you wanted to do was get your ass to the relative safety of your algebra class... and even then there were no guarantees.

That was quite a culture shock for me coming out of a Catholic Middle School (Im Methodist) where the student population was about 85% White, 10% Black and 5% Hispanic... there were never problems of any kind. I can recall maybe one fight between two young men. Everyone more or less got along, everyone more or less had the same values and had a strong drive to succeed and was pretty level headed. I dont attribute the lack of problems to the percentages of races in the school... because it didnt matter if you were black or white or hispanic. Everyone came to school and did their work and spoke fluent non-street english and didnt have some gang agenda to push on everyone. I attribute it solely to the quality of the individuals who made up the student body.

there are winners in life and there are losers and im afraid thats all there is to it. and when someone wears their pants around their thighs and let their underwear hang out and wear gold necklaces larger than a car hub cap... well i think it is obvious what category they fit into.

its a sad reality here in the U.S. for some of those kids like that.

but if they are "street"... and they want to be off the street and drive a Porsche and have a high paying job and get out of the ghetto - they are the only people who can do it... they HAVE to do this themselves, nobody can take them out of that environment and do it for them.

Umm that's some nasty description for a place one called school . But you Sir seems to have gotten out of that kind of education environment as a perfect gentleman.

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

honestly, im sad to admit... but there were times in my school age life during which i felt like a camera man for animal planet... not being racist or mean... just being dead serious. it was like Lord of the Flies - these people literally behaved like Animals most of the time

Animals: Good description. When I moved into this place three years ago I was sandwiched between a couple of lowlifes. Same behavior for the most part, and it's almost sad to see it exhibited by an adult. I tell ya, when I move back to my hometown I'm going on an extended camping trip, and I don't care what time of year it is. Dead of winter or not, I will have my camping trip.

And speaking of recreation, how's that new boat of yours treating you, GoldenRivet?

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

the black man is NOT being held down by some white devil in America.

the black man is being held down by himself.

Chris Rock says it best.


EDIT:
Should probably follow that link up with this:

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by krashkart

And speaking of recreation, how's that new boat of yours treating you, GoldenRivet?

great. I didnt take it out all week long or even this weekend oddly enough because i spent that time nursing a sun burn thanks to that contraption.

But I'll probably take it out one evening this week.

its amazing how many good looking women love being towed on an inner-tube behind a boat.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

one has to wonder how he would go about getting his hands on one of those if it were real

God bless America...