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Originally Posted by TheLastBoyScout
I'm not sure what the moral of this story is. Perhaps you are attempting to demonstrate that you have some kind of telepathic gifting that allows you to gleen the secret thoughts and motives of others. It probably would have been easier to actually speak to and ask those "brothers" what their thoughts were instead of projecting your own thoughts on them.
That might explain your claim of the ability to read Michelle Obama's mind.
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The practice of guessing the thoughts of others by placing yourself in their situation is not only common, it is a gift for those who capable of doing so. Call it empathy, if you will.
People do it all the time.
I've never been tortured in a foreign country while a certain leftist segment of the population called me and my kind terrible things and stayed more concerned with getting/staying high and getting laid than anything else. But it is very easy for me to figure out what that person likely feels/thinks simply by imagining myself in their shoes.
Ditto black chick.
I know that if I were an American Indian, I'd not be particularly thrilled about the past, in general, but would, all things considered, count myself (and my people) lucky that this particular nation (and its associated freedom) spawned atop my land. There are so many very real and very tragic alternatives. There are so many worse ways things could have worked out. I'd be sure as shit, though, that the scenario of "my people" gallivanting around on the happy hunting grounds, spear in hand to this very day is pure fantasy. If not the U.S. it would have been somebody/thing else.
And knowing those black individuals of whom I made mention as well as I did, I know for a fact that they were quite disappointed in what they beheld. It is one thing to see Sally "Fatass" Struthers on the late-night tube - quite another to see black skeletal people running around begging for scraps up close and personal. You'd never prod them for an answer to the question, "Hey, bet you're glad your great-granddaddy was brought to the U.S., even if it was as a slave, now...aren't you?" That's off the charts un-P.C. and, well, kinda rude if only because the answer is equally painful and obvious. No need to ask. I know exactly how I'd feel. I have no idea what some members of my ancestry went through to get to this country or what they might have suffered once they got here. I have no idea what prejudices they faced first hand. For me, regardless of how easy or hard it was for them, I am just simply glad that they ended up here - otherwise I might have ended up a garden-variety Euro-weenie living in an inferior country.
Of course, if you are incapable of having a real sense of what other people think and feel, I am sorry. We all have our handicaps, I suppose. Mine is extreme humility.
