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Originally posted by RJHindsWell, with so much in common, you two should get married.
Sonhouse keeps being disingenuous and misrepresenting what I write too. 😏
BTW Dutch, you have yet to identify where you live.
If you knew anything about me you would know I am not racist. That is enough for now. You assume a lot.
Originally posted by sonhouseThat would not work because it is obvious she does not care for right-wing white American men. 😏
Well, with so much in common, you two should get married.
BTW Dutch, you have yet to identify where you live.
If you knew anything about me you would know I am not racist. That is enough for now. You assume a lot.
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The post that was quoted here has been removedWell, I may have lived in the middle east as long as you have. I spent almost 5 years in Jerusalem with my family and I saw clearly what the Israeli's were doing to the Palestinians and I had good friends on both sides the tweed. I especially hated the fact the Israeli's gave my Palestinian friends the nastiest water, the dregs that Israel deigned to give to the Palestinians and was heartened when a project started when I was there to pump water from the Red Sea and desalinate it, a 50 million dollar project, done by that hated group, Americans.
I don't know if you knew the Abadyu's, they owned a couple of hotels in Bethlehem but their kids and mine went to the Anglican International school in Jerusalem and we became good friends.
I don't know if you know a guy by the name of Abu Ganon, he is a Palestinian treasure, an Oud player and I went to his house a number of times and he let me play his Oud, an honor not given to many.
I also had dear friends on the Jewish side, because we (my wife and son) are folk musicians and played in a lot of festivals in Israel from the south in Elat to the Kenneret in the north (Jacob's ladder)
I went to another Oud player, Mustafa, in Ramalla, and asked him in all humility if he would give me lessons on the Oud but he gave me such a look of hatred I had to beat a hasty retreat.
I could see where I was not welcome.
Music binds us together but it can tear those binds apart if ideologues get in the way.
I play the devils advocate a lot of times and I was taken by your aggressive behavior and responded in kind.
If you were to come to my home you would be welcomed and we could get into loud discussions over some Palestinian tea. We still have some of the spices we got in Ramalla.
You also called me racist but in fact my family is very international, my wife has Hawaiian children from her first marriage, my daughter married a guy from India, Gandhi Vishvanathan, he has a phd in physics, my daughter, an MA in music and going for her Phd this year,
We adopted two Columbian babies, twins, with problems.
We also adopted a Hawaiian child who now is married and has two kids of his own. His wife was our Au pair when we lived in Jerusalem, she is from Gotenberg Sweden.
One of our sons married a Mayan Indian from Cancun Mexico and they now have 2 kids of their own.
When we have family get togethers, there is Swedish, Tamil, English, Spanish, Hawaiian and Mayan spoken.
It would be hard to be racist in a family like that.
Originally posted by sonhouseNow we know why you are such an angry old man. You could turn that anger to love by accepting Yahshua, Christ Jesus, as your savior.
Well, I may have lived in the middle east as long as you have. I spent almost 5 years in Jerusalem with my family and I saw clearly what the Israeli's were doing to the Palestinians and I had good friends on both sides the tweed. I especially hated the fact the Israeli's gave my Palestinian friends the nastiest water, the dregs that Israel deigned to give t ...[text shortened]... sh, Spanish, Hawaiian and Mayan spoken.
It would be hard to be racist in a family like that.
HalleluYah !!! Praise the LORD! Holy! Holy! Holy!
The post that was quoted here has been removedI would have split up too. I have had to deal with racism in my own family, against my family members. One of my sons, one of the twins, half Columbian and half Puerto rican, was called the N word a lot, which shows how stupid the people in my so-called home town, since his is clearly hispanic.
This family across the street attacked him (long story) and the whole family was beating him up and the mother saying 'what does it feel like to be a nigger, nigger'. I wasn't there or else it would have been a much uglier confrontation. I got there as the police got there and it didn't go well for my son even thought the father deliberately rode him down on his bicycle, he gets community service for a couple of weeks even though the entire family attacked my unarmed son.
It was that family's karma to be involved in some worse things than that and they had to move out of town. They were the worse neighbors I ever had, going back years before that. This whole town is one of the good old boy network and I have been subjected to ridicule because of my Irish background, the town folks here are 'Pennsylvania Dutch' where they say 'I'm Pennsylvania dutch, dumb and proud of it' and mean it.
Celts are not welcome here so you can imagine hispanics moving in.
Not a day goes by I wish we were back in Venice Beach, our own human zoo.
Originally posted by sonhouseMaybe you should move out of the racist area.
I would have split up too. I have had to deal with racism in my own family, against my family members. One of my sons, one of the twins, half Columbian and half Puerto rican, was called the N word a lot, which shows how stupid the people in my so-called home town, since his is clearly hispanic.
This family across the street attacked him (long story) and ...[text shortened]... ispanics moving in.
Not a day goes by I wish we were back in Venice Beach, our own human zoo.