You don't know me so please don't tell me what I "meant."

You don't know me so please refrain from pronouncements about what I think. Here's what I said:

We are plural (Thin Rich Bitches). And pandering, not poignant, comes to mind. We all know that our country treated African Americans (and other races) very badly in the past. Did anyone really need to see the picture menu of the African American woman and the white woman standing below their respective signs? Really?

I NEVER WROTE the quote you tagged me with. I wrote that "The photo was staged to inflame." You added "white people." I did not write that and I did not mean that.

Good point, TolkienNegro (love the name, BTW). But I must say that the attempts at desegregation via busing in Boston back in the day were a disaster. IMHO, the city should have spent the money on improving the schools in the under-performing (minority) districts instead of shuffling kids around town. Pay teachers…

I am not offended by the image but I maintain that it is pandering. The shot at the museum of the "white" line and the "colored" line would have been more powerful, I think, without the "white" woman and the "colored" woman standing in their respective lines. I hate racism and I hate sexism. I feel that by having a…

I am not offended by the image but I maintain that it is pandering. The shot at the museum of the "white" line and the "colored" line would have been more powerful, I think, without the "white" woman and the "colored" woman standing in their respective lines. I hate racism and I hate sexism. I feel that by having a…

Thank you powugh for not being abusive in your disagreement with me! I am not offended by the image but I maintain that it is pandering. The shot at the museum of the "white" line and the "colored" line would have been more powerful, I think, without the "white" woman and the "colored" woman standing in their…

Ouch. I would never say that to anyone. Let's disagree on an academic level and present an argument without the mud slinging.

Not pissed off about it. OMG - if you only knew.

Okay. I apologize if my remarks offended you.

No. Pandering is the act of expressing one's views in accordance with the likes of a group to which one is attempting to appeal.

Really? Let's just stop drinking the haterade.

Well, that's mean treatment you are delivering to someone you don't know. Why do you perpetuate that?

No. You missed my point ENTIRELY. Racism in this country, the Holocaust, Japanese internment, the genocide of Native Americans . . . . all disgusting. My whole point was that the "picture menu" of the cause was pandering. It was pandering because no one of any color is made to stand in a separate line in this country…

Not trying to score. But what did I get 3 points for? I like to focus on the positive.

no . . . . but there lies the difference between pandering and poignant.

Where does all this hate get anyone?

Holy crap. Good point.

I agree. I just hated the staged photo-op crap.