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I never really heard of a good black doctor till now!

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I never really heard of a good black doctor till now!

Instead of good : Highly recommend black doctor till now!

from JoeUser Forums
You are proably thinking I am racial. Well to tell you I proably am to you. I don't believe in same sex marriage, and I don't believe in black and white person marriage. Don't ask why or tell me I shouldn't b.c that I what I believe in and you may feel differently about and you may feel the same about it.
The really reason I am writing this article is, you might have caught in the title, but the man you worked on my dad was black. He was highly recommend to do this surgery, even though I was ifie about it at first, I am glad my mom said okay for him to do it, because my dad came out fine.
I guess I am looking at things differently because I really never thought of a Black person beginning highly recommend to do this short of thing. I guess because maybe I am white that I see things differently. I don't know. But what shocked me the most was that a white doctor wasn't highly recommend just a black.
I don't know if this happened for a reason to make me see this or not. I don't know if this has happened to you or not.
My look on people has changed and the way I see different color people, but my beliefs in not having same sex marriage and a black and white person marrying does not, even an asian marrying a white. I believe that a white should marry a white and a black marrying a black and so on.

Stacey
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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top

For some reason I don't know why but everybody I seemed took my article the wrong way. It might be they way I wrote it and if it was I am sorry.
What I was trying to say was I was happy to have a doctor of a different color that helped my dad in a time of need. And that it made me look at people differently.

The color of the doctor's skin is, to say the least, highly irrelevant. He has worked hard and come to the top of his profession to be known as a "highly regarded doctor", NOT "a highly regarded black doctor". As to the issues of interracial marriage, they were irrelevant to the topic at hand, and the only POSSIBLE outcome they could have had was to incite anger.

Love is love, and knows no color. While I am married to a woman of the same race, it just so happens, that was the woman I was (and am) attracted to; her race was not for a second a factor. If you are only attracted to white men, that's fine, and no, that's not racist. But if you were to find yourself attracted to a man of another race and only decided against marrying him because of his skin color, then, yes, that WOULD be racist. See the difference?

Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top

t's just not healthy to ever say "this is how I was raised". You need to learn for yourself and make up your own views.
Do you feel and believe these things because your parents do?

Stacey, I just think these two statements are the crux of the matter. You seriously need to evaluate "what you were taught and raised on." It is fine if you scrutinize what you are taught and reach the same conclusion of your parents, but at least then the opinion is yours.

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Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top
I was amazed at this when I read it. It made me sad, but I wasn’t surprised. I wasn’t surprised because this is the reason why there is so much mistrust and struggle where race relations are concerned. It's sad that in today's world there are people who think like this.

You state your ignorance. Even if you were raised this way, and this is a cop out too, you have a computer, you go on the internet. You read? You blog! There are other people, other cultures, other worlds out there. Get enlightened!

The school we go to is, almost, totally black. It's not even 1% of our school populus. We have had black families move in and usually the cornfed hicks of our disgusting school literally force them to move.

Can you explain that? It doesn't make much sense at all the way that it is written.


Karmagirl, I think we all are confused at this one!
Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top
Ooops, sorry, I meant it's almost all white. Sorry about that.

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Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top
Stacey: When my children were born we lived in a tiny, all-white (or as close as you can get to it) town. I am so thankful that the Army is so diverse because it has meant that my children have spent time going to school with and living by and playing with children of all sorts of races and cultures. Never, in that tiny Texas town, would my children have been able to play blocks with a Muslim child or work on a science project with mixed race child or run on the playground with a Korean child. They have no reservations about people of other races because of this . . . I wish that I had been so fortunate as a child to have met and played with kids that were not exactly like me.

There's a big world out there, full of all sorts of interesting, talented, beautiful (and mean, ugly, and awful) people, and it would be tragic for you to miss out on the amazing experiences in life because you have closed yourself to people who are different. Now is the time to work on this, sweetie.
Reply #31 from JoeUser Forums Top
One word of advice. If you want to get out alive during your enlightening moments don't go to Cincinatti. You won't like it, I guarantee it.

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Reply #32 from JoeUser Forums Top

Stacey my love.....life is all about learning.  You have to take this learning experience and build upon it.  This has opened the door to learning about a whole different culture than your own...so take it and run with it.


Don't ever take anyone else's word for anything.  Experience it for yourself.  It might be a bit ugly at times, but it's the only way to go.  Looking at it like this might help:  say you and someone else wear the same shoe size.  You try her shoes on, and even though they're the right size, they just don't feel right, they feel like....well, like you're wearing someone elses shoe.  it fits in the size, yes....but it just doesn't feel right.  That's how living your life through someone else's experiences feels.  You can be respectful of your parents beliefs but still find out for yourself...and that's what I'm urging you to do.  Question, question, question everything, and form your own opinion.


You're still young...I find it very disappointing that you're so closed minded at such an early age.  There's still hope for you yet, though...

Reply #33 from JoeUser Forums Top
Aside from the bleeding obvious - don't you watch televsion?!?!

Gideon's crossing? ER? The Simpsons? Scrubs?
Reply #34 from JoeUser Forums Top
I don't think The Simpsons is a great example for this.

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Reply #35 from JoeUser Forums Top

don't think The Simpsons is a great example for this.


ok..(but I disagree)...so how about 'The Cosby Show'?

Reply #36 from JoeUser Forums Top
I was just picking popular television shows with black doctors. Gee I didn't even know this was actually an issue in this day and age.
Reply #37 from JoeUser Forums Top
Just another question -- are black people allowed to be police and lawyers and other professionals

Family Matters (chief of police)
Law & Order (detectives, district attorneys)
CSI (forensic investigators)
Reply #38 from JoeUser Forums Top

If you want to get out alive during your enlightening moments don't go to Cincinatti.

Hehe...I can think of *a lot* worse places than Cincinnati.

I was just picking popular television shows with black doctors.

Bill Cosby played an OB/GYN in the "Cosby Show".  Man, I miss that show....... 

Even if you take out shows that people "play" doctor on, all you have to do is watch some of the shows on the more educational TV stations to see people of all races doing amazing things. 

I think in about 300 years (if we haven't destroyed the Earth by then) there won't be "race".  The races will be so intermixed by then that we will all finally be the "same" race and people can finally quit judging people on the color of their skin.

Reply #39 from JoeUser Forums Top
I think in about 300 years (if we haven't destroyed the Earth by then) there won't be "race". The races will be so intermixed by then that we will all finally be the "same" race and people can finally quit judging people on the color of their skin.


Amen! We can only dream of this. At least the those of us who are color-blind.

Stacey, this experience obviously opened your eyes. As you're being encouraged here, don't let it stop there. I know african americans who are chemists, publishers, librarians, doctors, lawyers - you name it. They're out there. And latin, asians too. all cultures have people who are talented. Go to the biography section of your library.
Reply #40 from JoeUser Forums Top
One thing, that if it doesn't change your interpretation of blacks in our society, should at least change how you think of blacks in a slight way...
Jazz, the greatest music ever. It started so many of our genres today and it is just so sweet. Miles Davis, being one of the greatest Jazz musicians ever is black.

Anyways, no race would be so cool. Then when talking to someone I wouldn't have to feel so weird when I say black because I won't be saying it anymore.

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