Racism

This is why you need to wear aesthetically pleasing glasses. Ever heard of them?

No I've already got my own and I don't need 3D ones because I don't watch 3D movies. Books are better. Books are in colour too and you can have Magic Eye ones.

Children lose those flimsy cardboard 3D glasses, they are a bit useless and without them the pictures look horrible.

There's special books for dyslexic among you - bigger print and non-white pages (often cream pages, and brown or sepia weighted text fonts).
Otherwise people just 'read' comic books. i.e look at the pictures.

While this is true, I have experienced racism at company I used to work for. Racism in most other countries is MUCH worse.

So if I like M&M's and Skittles, but I hate Reese's pieces, and I talk bad about Reese's pieces all the time...

Does that make me a reecist?

Skittles cause cancer according to the State of California, but then what doesn't?

According to the warning labels, every single thing causes cancer in california. I'm definitely staying in tennessee.

Just for the record, I'm against racing in any form... I'm too old to run and there's nobody that I want to catch that badly.

According to the state of California, California can cause cancer.
The way it works is that when you're at the state border and you put your right foot forward at the border line ... you got cancer.
That's how that works.

Politicians.

Should horse racing be considered racist or just human racing?

i grew up in a horse racing town. a friend from the old days tells me they're moving the third leg of the Triple Crown there this coming summer. i rather pity the locals, but expect the fuss and botheration will only last a short time.

what does that mean

there are 3-legged horses?

I have never been to the races. One time was supposed to go, as companies often like to go for their end of year do but I finished before then so never got to go. No skin off my nose though as most people get drunk at those things. The horses are treated terribly apparently if they get injured or not up to par.

Horses are of the past though most boys are into car racing now.

Unless you are extremley wealthy and can afford a stud farm or something. Not that car racing is necessarily cheap but if you crash a car you can always just buy another one and there is pelnty of them around

forgive me, Lanolin, i forget not everyone is familiar with horse racing minutia.

but have you ever heard of the Kentucky Derby? or a horse called Secretariat?

the Triple Crown is so named based on three very specific races. the first is the Kentucky Derby, the second the Preakness, and the third the Belmont. if one horse wins all three in the same year, it wins the Triple Crown. not many have done it, as you may guess.

i haven't heard of thoroughbred horses being mistreated? they're VERY expensive (probably why horse racing is nicknamed the sport of kings). i hope it isn't so!

you might enjoy being in Saratoga in summer, not to attend the races, but you can go to the track for breakfast, if you don't mind getting up early, and watch the horses being exercised. they're really beautiful.

Racism

Acts 17:26-27 KJV
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

[27] That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

Yes, as God’s children we have repented of sin, including racism.

(There go I but for the grace of God. )

But common sense should tell us not to behave like animals.
We are not supposed to be territorial, but much more advanced than animals.

Psalm 115:16 KJV
The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

So let’s …..

Psalm 100:1-3 KJV
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.

[2] Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

[3] Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

I have heard of it but never heard of a horse called secretariat. There is Horse racing in nz, the most famous being Phar Lap but there is some issue over who actually owned that horse...was it australians or nzers.

The racecourses are always empty whenever I go and get used for fleamarket and expos or flower shows. Ive never seen a live horse race.

If horses get injured they no use and owners shoot them rather than look after them as theyd be losing money. Training a thorougbred would be intense though, but like human athletes its probably unforgiving when they dont perform well..especially when theres money riding on them. It would be more psychological cruelty and bullying than overtly physical though.

Have you read Black Beauty? Cars dont have the same personality as horses.

thanks for this

by bounds of habitation, the Bible doesnt mean arbitrary lines on a map does it. I think it means we live on the earth and not under the sea.

When God gave the Israelites that Promised Land, He defined those boundaries as the coast of the mediterraenean and the Jordan River didnt He. He was quite specific about THAT habitation. Everyone else (gentiles) lived outside of that.

Jesus said his disciples could go to the ends of the earth, but I dont think he meant us to fight each other over land or go buy it up or anything.

This thread wasn't as toxic as I expected which is good due to how discussions like this in this forum usually go.

We can fix that...

Been reading The Light we carry by Michelle Obama

She did make references to being a woman of colour or more specifically Black and I just wonder whether those African Americans who migrated up North from South feel out of place or its just specific communities or towns that did not welcome them. Chicago seems like a cosmopolitan city that was tolerant but there's probably places where migrants were not especially welcome or there were no opportunities, or where families felt isolated (there's safety in numbers maybe?) because of the legacy of Birmingham.

Tabloids would say she was angry, though it seems if reading history of what her ancestors endured, she would probably have plenty to be angry about I mean that intergenerational trauma doesn't really go away until its forgiven. Her husband wrote his memoir in which I recall he visited Kenya where half of his family were from.

What can people do anyway, now that migration is a fact of life for so many of us. Our parents may originally be from opposite ends of the earth it's not like any of us can have any say where or when we are born. If we do breed exclusively amongst our own families we eventually end up being inbred and chinless..! I don't think that's healthy...though adjusting to a dominant culture is always hard.

I don't believe what the Brits/English meant was for them to colonise half the world and make everyone their slaves but if they were brought up that way to think everyone else was inferior, backward or stupid, well. I don't know what to say to that. Its probably stems from the mistake Israel made to ask God for a King to rule over them. Before that, everyone did what was right in their own eyes, (this can be both good and bad) and the judges seemed to have a fairer system..even though it was anarchy....if reading the history of the Book of Kings is any guide it was terribly easy for royalty to turn tyrannical, despotic and selfishly hold on to their wealth.

There were very few good Kings. Though I don't know what system is better, republicanism or monarchy. Monarchs can SAY they are appointed by God, but then it turns out heredity and nepotism before they've even proven their leadership skills.

Didn't God especially appoint David (who was NOT related to Saul) and then after him Solomon who did ask for wisdom, but then all the others it seemed just assumed they would be Kings just because they were first in line?!

Popes are elected by cardinal ballot in much the same way presidents and prime ministers are though I've wondered why some get to be leaders and others do not. God seemed to personally select those who young and weakest, humble - Samuel, David, Solomon, Gideon, Moses, Elisha, and even Ruth and Esther to be his prophets, priests and kings...they were never elected by people. God just made it clear that Jesus was his son when he was baptised...I mean everyone heard His voice then.