Why is it ok now for African American people to call white people cracker all the time? I want to know why this is accepted! That is not a compliment. They are calling white people cracker just like white people called them another word that begins with a N.
I've never called a "black" person a name in my entire life. Nor have I ever called a Mexican person or a Jewish person or a Indian (not native American but they count too) or an Irish person any race a derogatory name. In my ENTIRE life.
The reason I'm blogging on this subject is because I went to the grocery store this evening to buy some dinner. I was standing at the express lane check stand and these 2 women got in line behind me. One mentioned that she forgot the cracka's and the other said oh I hate cracka's. They said the word cracka (not cracker) about 15 or 20 times and they didn't just say the word cracker, they said the word cracka with attitude, they accentuated the word as if they weren't really talking about food. It just sounded very racial to me.
I'm not a paranoid person either but it just sounded funny that they said it that many times you know?
I understand that a lot of black people are angry. I get that. I really do understand because what their ancestors went through is enough to make anybody angry but come on, it was hundreds of years ago. Lincoln freed the slaves get over it. Yes black people were treated very poorly even in the 1950's and 60's. They weren't even allowed to marry white people in the 70's and I'm sorry for their loss of freedoms. But what they don't understand is that, I wasn't around during the time of their oppression.
My family wasn't even in this country during slavery times so I have nothing to do with what their ancestors went through. My mothers side was in Ireland and Scotland and my fathers side was in Germany. I have nothing to apologize for because my blood didn't spill their blood. My blood line wasn't racist against them either so back off.
If anything, I'm the one being oppressed now, not just by the African Americans but by all of America especially California because the government in California is telling me that I cannot get married so take that. Black people weren't allowed to marry white people until the 70's well guess what, I can't get married either in 2009.
It's the year 2009, we are halfway to 2010. Don't you think it's time for racism and sexual discrimination to end? How about all discrimination? Hows about we make a deal kay? I won't call you any names (as I haven't my entire life) and you don't call me a cracka anymore kay? Thanks.
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Chia Pet Status
This morning I went to look at the Scooby Doo Chia Pet and noticed that it's still just seeds. My laptop with the time lapse software with my webcam has been taking a picture every minute over the last 24 hours and nothing has happened. The seeds aren't sprouting yet. I figured that if they aren't even going to start sprouting yet then maybe now is a good time to reset everything.
Yesterday I messed up the camera angle and I think I fixed it so it was at the right angle again but I wasn't 100% sure. So turning it off and deleting all the pictures was ok. I turned it back on but instead of 1 picture every minute I figured 1 picture every hour would be fine. Maybe I might change that to every 10 minutes though which means I might have to shut it down and start over again lol. That's ok, it's all still just seeds anyway.
Ok I went and stopped it and changed it to 5 minutes (300 seconds) instead of every 60 minutes. I figured maybe 10 minutes was still too long that 5 minutes would be good because a lot can happen in 10 minutes. I mean as far as movement, the growth might move toward the sun in 10 minutes and it might look funny.
So it's back on starting now lol. The video is going to be too long anyway if it's every minute and I don't want it to be a 20 minute video in time lapse. I did a video of me sleeping with time lapse and it ended up being 17 minutes and that was just from 6 hours of sleep too but then again it was taking a picture every second so there you go. But this video is going to be going on for 1 week. I'm pretty sure every 1 minute is going to make it a very long and boring video.
Well whatever it is I will make it about 5 minutes so it will go really fast lol. I'm going to work on the other video today that I made yesterday while I was spreading the seeds. I will get that on YouTube (and here) A.S.A.P.
So anyway, see you in a week with the progress.
Yesterday I messed up the camera angle and I think I fixed it so it was at the right angle again but I wasn't 100% sure. So turning it off and deleting all the pictures was ok. I turned it back on but instead of 1 picture every minute I figured 1 picture every hour would be fine. Maybe I might change that to every 10 minutes though which means I might have to shut it down and start over again lol. That's ok, it's all still just seeds anyway.
Ok I went and stopped it and changed it to 5 minutes (300 seconds) instead of every 60 minutes. I figured maybe 10 minutes was still too long that 5 minutes would be good because a lot can happen in 10 minutes. I mean as far as movement, the growth might move toward the sun in 10 minutes and it might look funny.
So it's back on starting now lol. The video is going to be too long anyway if it's every minute and I don't want it to be a 20 minute video in time lapse. I did a video of me sleeping with time lapse and it ended up being 17 minutes and that was just from 6 hours of sleep too but then again it was taking a picture every second so there you go. But this video is going to be going on for 1 week. I'm pretty sure every 1 minute is going to make it a very long and boring video.
Well whatever it is I will make it about 5 minutes so it will go really fast lol. I'm going to work on the other video today that I made yesterday while I was spreading the seeds. I will get that on YouTube (and here) A.S.A.P.
So anyway, see you in a week with the progress.
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