OT - A rose by any other name...

(deactivated member)
on 11/3/09 8:14 am
               @ But when it boils down to it I am human..So lets me check off that little other box and write human right in there :-)               


                                               It's like you were reading my mind. 


Check this out...

A while back I had the pleasure of working with a guy who was very fair-skinned but did not show any other "signs" of being what I would have considered at that point in time "a light skinned black or African-American."  One day I finally asked him, out of curiousity more than anything, about his background.  He said, "Well...  My mother is both Lithuanian and German and Scottish-Irish and my father is Nigerian and Italian but both of them were born here in the United States.  I stood and listened to that short laundry list of various nationalities trying to do the math in my head and must've appeared stunned for a second.  So in my feeble attempt to try and make sense of what I had just heard I asked him, "So what does that make you?"

Without skipping a beat he replied, "Human.  What else?"

I had never felt so stupid in all of my life.      

Vida_Cambio
on 11/3/09 9:08 am



                               Vida Cambio
                                        (Weight loss in progress)

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                     I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.   
  Highest Weight: 302  Started Researching WLS Weight : 275     Surgery Weight : 240 
                                          Current Weight : 175
                 GW : 164  Long term GW : 140

free2beme37
on 11/3/09 12:53 pm
In the words of "MC Gusto"


I'm black y'all, and I'm black y'all, and I'm blacker than black, and I'm black y'all. I'm blickedy black blacker than black, black I'm blacker than black, yo! Because I'm black and I'm BACK!

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