Hindsite wrote:@ Tainari88
I was born in Ventura, California in 1944 and was raised in Tyler, Texas from the age of three. I did not settle in Augusta, GA until the early 1980's. So I don't know what happened in Augusta in the 1940's and 1950's. So I don't know that Black woman and I think I already told you I don't like Opera singing. It just sounds like a bunch of hollering to me, like calling hogs, but worse, because it makes glass shatter sometimes. I can't take it.
Anyway, I don't think I am anymore racist than a Latino or a Black person. I don't mind being around people with different colored skins and I don't judge people just by the color of their skin. I don't think of myself as a racist, because I don't hate people just because they are a different race than myself.
I don't know what you mean by all the ignorant things I state about race. I thought everything I said was very intelligent and beautiful. I even said I would offer you a cold bottle of Kroger water if you came to visit me and you don't even have to respect me. I am just that good a guy, because I am a Christian.
The only reason I would not want you to come back to the USA is because we already have too many far-left people here screwing things up. If you were to become a conservative, then I would love you to come back and vote Republican. There is a beautiful black woman (Harris Faulkner) on FOX news that has her head on right and if you had her views I would love you to stay here or come back here.
Oh @Hindsite just when I think you can't say something funny...you do. You made me laugh very very hard. To the point that my husband came in and asked, "what happened?". So you hate opera and that is why you did not know Jessye Norman? Not because you were a racist? Lol. Hindsite, I love history a lot. If I lived in Augusta Georgia since the 1980's I would know the history of that city inside and out and everything about it.
You would accept me if I became a conservative? Do you have any idea how many people are not conservative in the USA and don't vote for conservative politics and who don't even vote? Lol. If you got rid of them all? The economy would collapse and the shithole would definitely happen overnight. My group of people? The Latin Americans in the USA? Overwhelmingly don't vote for Republicans. And they are traditional, religious and Christians overwhelmingly so. Why? Because for them the rich white people they mow the lawns for are Republicans...usually and they either can't vote because they are not citizens, or they are new citizens and don't identify with Republican values. I have talked to thousands literally of Latinos in the USA....most of them don't vote Republican because they come from a culture that is very class based. For them? Republican=Rich folk, white folk, racist folk....just gotta say 'no' to that.
In Mexican politics Obrador is a LEFTIST Mexican big time. Why do traditional Mexicans vote so left? They are POOR Hindsite. And poor people don't trust politicians in our nations who come from the wealthy and landed classes....the elite are totally not trusted in Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Panama, etc. If you study the entire history of Latin America the vast majority of the republics of our nations? Are into one vote-one person and if the elections are not rigged or a coup not staged...like in Chile from 1973? You got the vast majority of the poor people in Latin America voting LEFT all the damn time. Why vote RIGHT when the right are like the freaks who refuse to let the DEA in that Report prosecute Big Pharma who buy off the politicians with BIG MONEY. You got lobbyists in DC giving campaign funds to keep legislators from cutting in to their profits. Even if Americans are dying like flies in Ohio? It is corruption and love of money over principle. The RIGHT in Latin America are the SAME. Bought off by big and powerful interests for profit.
The poor in Latin America, unlike the poor in the USA, don't live with any damn illusions of getting out of poverty and magically becoming rich and part of the ruling class. They just go into the voting booth @Hindsite and say, two names....Juan Morales, Right Wing Richie Rich from the Right that doesn't give a damn about my poor peasant ass.....and Raul Santiago, super Lefty is gonna promise me some basics like running water, electricity and an ID card so I can get some free health clinic stuff....and maybe he can force the richie rich Juan Morales to get something for our social and economic bottom of the barrel group something out of these elitist cabrones, that my mother mops floors for.....that is Latin American politics in a nutshell.
They don't identify with rich elitist people and they don't admire millionaires the way they do here in the USA. Where people believe a dumb ass billionaire is going to represent the interests of a janitor. They are not those kind of thinkers in politics. The Latin Americans have had to cope with poverty, dictatorships, corruption, problems and coups, revolutions, wars for internal power and external freaks salivating over taking their resources. The copper in Chile, the Bauxite in the islands, the gold, silver, turquoise and vast petroleum fields of Mexico and of Venezuela, etc. Latin America has a lot of resources.
The bottom line for the Latinos is that a very humble minimum wage worker that
can vote in USA elections very rarely thinks that a Republican talking about Latinos as rapists, murderers and criminals and having people see us as people who have NO CULTURE worthy of respect....calling our nations "shitholes"? They won't get our vote. The only pendejos who are going to go for a con man billionaire who represent the interests of the blue collar and the working class and who will champion the cause of the little guy? And who believe all that BULLSHIT? Are the Trump supporters. I have never met a Mexican who I talked about politics who are poor as dirt doing field work in some blue agave field and making $5 dollars a day in minimum wages who will vote for a billionaire and think the man represents them well in Mexican politics.
They are not that 'naive' or ignorant in politics. Only here do you get that sheer crap thinking. Not in Latin America.