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[i][b]That picture was my Swahili (Baba and Mama) that I lived with in Tanzania....

I slept in that hut, with 2 goats and a small cow, and they lit smoke to keep the misquitos out which burned my eyes like a motherfucker (you can see the smoke in the background. I also had worms that began to live in between my toes. For what it is worth they called me "Jesus" Go figure --- mostly as a result of my long hair.....[/b][/i]
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[quote name='BlackJesus' date='Jun 28 2005, 03:01 PM'][i][b]That picture was my Swahili (Baba and Mama) that I lived with in Tanzania....

I slept in that hut, with 2 goats and a small cow, and they lit smoke to keep the misquitos out which burned my eyes like a motherfucker (you can see the smoke in the background.  I also had worms that began to live in between my toes.  [color="blue"]For what it is worth they called me "Jesus" [/color]Go figure --- mostly as a result of my long hair.....[/b][/i]
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Now THATS comedy.

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[quote name='Ben' date='Jun 28 2005, 01:53 PM'][img]http://img190.exs.cx/img190/7596/africa0080uc.jpg[/img]
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I'm so confuzzled right now... :wacko:

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[quote]I'm so confuzzled right now...[/quote]


[i][b]BadassBengal we can still be "Brothers" in the fight .....

I'm just white ;) [/b][/i]

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[quote name='BlackJesus' date='Jun 28 2005, 02:26 PM'][i][b]BadassBengal we can still be "Brothers" in the fight .....

I'm just white  ;) [/b][/i]

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[i][b]another issue that gives me a different look at "blacks" I believe .... is that I was also raised in a home of majority Blacks.... My step father is black, I have a half brother who is half black, 2 step brothers and sisters that are black etc. This creates an unusualy dunamic, where you a raised and cultured by a group that others think you are not part of
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[quote name='steggyD' date='Jun 28 2005, 02:35 PM']And let's not forget which party was pro-slavery, if you guys are going to bring up history and slavery so often.
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This is what kind of confuses the shit out of me. You are trying to use an arguement of slavery against the party that freed all the slaves in the United States.
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[u]BERKELEY School to vote on renaming Jefferson Elementary
President's slave holdings perturb families, teachers
Patrick Hoge, Chronicle Staff Writer
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Parents, students and teachers at Berkeley's Thomas Jefferson Elementary School will soon vote on whether to rename their school because the nation's third president was a slave owner.

The question of whether to rename the school has been debated for more than two years -- since several teachers, including an African American mother of three former Jefferson students, said Jefferson's moniker offended them and suggested a name change.

On Monday, Principal Betty Delaney released a list of potential new names -- one nominated by a student, the rest by adults. Parents, students and teachers must first vote on a new name, then take a second vote on whether to replace Jefferson with the new name.

The school board must officially approve any name change.

Contenders for the new name included Ralph Bunche, the African American diplomat at the United Nations who was the first person of color to win the Nobel Peace Prize; farmworker organizer Cesar Chavez; and Florence McDonald, the late Berkeley city councilwoman, leftist political leader and mother of singer Country Joe McDonald.

Other names suggested were Sojourner Truth, a woman who fled slavery in New York in 1828 and became one of the best-known abolitionist orators; Ohlone -- for the indigenous people who lived in Berkeley before European settlers arrived; Peace; Rose; and Sequoia.

Marguerite Talley-Hughes, a kindergarten teacher at Jefferson who is African American, said she thinks it is reasonable to want a name that is not offensive to some in the school community.

"It's very clear that the name is offensive to a significant part of the population,'' said Hughes, who lives in the neighborhood and sent her own three children to Jefferson.

"There's no reason we can't have a name that everyone likes and can feel good about,'' she said.

Some others, however, felt the issue was consuming too much time and energy.

"Relative to other issues that have come before the school community in the last five years since we've had kids there, to me it's taken a disproportionate amount of time versus other issues in terms of relative merit, '' said Richard Gentry, whose wife is a leader in the parent-teachers group.

"I thought it was interesting how much passion the issue evoked on both sides,'' compared with issues like inadequate funding for schools, said Gentry, who has an 11-year-old son in fifth grade, and an 8-year-old daughter in third grade.

Jefferson Elementary School is not the first to go through such a process. In 1999, Columbus Elementary School in West Berkeley was rebuilt after it was found to be seismically unsafe, and it was renamed Rosa Parks Elementary School - but only after intense debate about whether Cesar Chavez was a better alternative.

Also, James Garfield Middle School was renamed after Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and Abraham Lincoln Elementary School was renamed for Malcolm X in the 1970s.
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