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gennie

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have been harmed by thoughtless use of electronics?

This involves a high ranking official in the Naval Academy Alumni Association and a casual conversation with his wife. Every decision he ever made in his career will be examined in view of his obvious long standing racism.
 

What's harming him is is "obvious long standing racism". All electronics did was put his beliefs out to be examined.
 
Well, I know of one co-worker who almost bit the bullet because of an email.

I worked at a large hospital system. Our president's name was a very common one, let's say John Jones. His email address was johnjones@blah blah blah.com.

She had had a hothothot date with someone in another department and emailed him the next day to "prolong" the date by going into great and extremely graphic detail what they had enjoyed the night before and what she planned as activities for their next date. Her date's name was also John Jones but HIS email address was johnQjones@blah blah blah.com.

Yep, you guessed it...….she left the "q" out of the address and the message was winging its way to the president. She comes running to me in great panic. Luckily, I was the executive assistant to one of the vice presidents, so had a back line to the president's assistant, who was able to get the email deleted and emptied from the "trash" before he saw it.

I told her if she pulled that little stunt again, the best I could do for her was to find her a cardboard box to pack her things in.
 
Sorry my original post contained a link that evidently did not get posted. Just Google Naval Academy Alumni Association and Jacksonville FL and the info will come up from several sources.

RadishRose, not necessarily. There is a lot of deep, underlying racism in our society that is hidden in order to advance one's career but this is not about racism. It's about careless use of electronics.
 
I am a member, but not of the mentioned Chapter. I have no knowledge of Scott Bethmann. Who knows what goes on in the minds of others?

Like Forrest Gump said, "Stupid is as stupid does." Or, maybe Ron White's assertion is better. "You can't fix stupid."
 
I have admitted to having racist feelings, so I'm no "goody two shoes" here, Electronics aren't the culprits in this case. Are the Bethmann's sorry for what they said, or that they were caught? Here, a supposedly non racist N.A.A.A. board member let's lose on his, and his wife's true racial feelings. "F***ing N******", sort of sums up their views. I'm not black, so I don't know the level of discrimination they face. everyday,, veiled in a smile. But the hate coming out of those smiling educators' mouth is an indication. Maybe the opression of blacks didn't end 150 years ago with the end of the Civil War? Is there an iron wall of silent seated racism?
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I have admitted to having racist feelings, so I'm no "goody two shoes" here, Electronics aren't the culprits in this case. Are the Bethmann's sorry for what they said, or that they were caught? Here, a supposedly non racist N.A.A.A. board member let's lose on his, and his wife's true racial feelings. "F***ing N******", sort of sums up their views. I'm not black, so I don't know the level of discrimination they face. everyday,, veiled in a smile. But the hate coming out of those smiling educators' mouth is an indication. Maybe the oppression of blacks didn't end 150 years ago with the end of the Civil War? Is there an iron wall of silent seated racism?
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Maybe?
 
I grew up in a low income farming community with my grandma and grandpa. Grandpa died about 2 years after my mom and dad. Living in a lower income farming community, I lived with many blacks and played and worked with them during my growing years. I went to school with them and by spending many years in the Marines and then a government job in the Pentagon, I have been among blacks my entire life.

I can swear before God that because of my entire upbringing and then work experience, I have never separated people into colors. Not many people can say that, but there are more people today the same way. A lot of low income people that are raised in inner cities with black people really don’t see colors of people and this is why I believe that there are more inter-racial marriages. As far as I ever knew, we were all the same. The only difference that I ever noted was cultural. Not everything, but there are cultural differences.

I used to read about the riots like in LA, but I never gave it a lot of thought. Now and then, a black guy and a white guy would get into a fight over poker or shooting craps or whatever, but I never heard them calling each other racial names. Other names? Oh, yeah.
 
I just want to add that I hope I didn’t offend anyone with my previous post. I wasn’t trying to infer that all blacks live in low income areas. After I posted my remarks, I reread it and realized that’s the way some people may interpret it. I grew up in a lower income farming area. Grandma and grandpa only had about 35 acres that they mostly grew corn in the fields and a few animals. We raised a few steers and hogs for butchering to sell the meat as income. After grandpa died, grandma had to get the local butcher to butcher the animals. Grandpa used to do all his own butchering with his friend that would help.

Also, after grandpa died, grandma had to hire another man to help work the farm. I was too little when he died. The first man was white, but he left after the second year. The next man was a really light skinned black man. He was always singing, not loud, but loud enough that I could hear him. One day he was singing a song that I knew I had heard it before. After he had finished, I asked him what was the name of the song. He told me it was “The Old Rugged Cross.” Then I knew where I heard it. They played that song at my parent’s funeral. So, I asked him if he would sing it again and he did and I cried. After he found out why I was crying, he wouldn’t sing it again, unless I asked him. It’s a really beautiful song that grandma said my mom loved and would sing it often as she played the piano.

This is probably all boring to you, but it’s great therapy for me to be able to talk about it, even though you are all strangers. I never lived anywhere long enough to make any really close friends. Never even had a girlfriend. Who would want to be with someone that moves about every 2-3 years? Looking back, I think to myself, “I wonder if I would have been a good husband and father?”
 

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