Trystwithmyheart  +  97205 Sun, 08 May 05 12:32 AM I could be wrong but after reading the posts specially the one who is so upset. Santa never claimed he wrote this poem. He never said who exactly wrote it,never made any claims about it other than it was a black person who wrote it. I have heard this one before. Not everything has to be racist. Sometimes things are just what they are. I dont see what is racist about this poem unless you consider it is a black person talking about a white person and their differences. It's not racist when a black person talks about himself! It's just tiring when people are always looking for something bad in everything. Life is wonderful if you let it be.Sometimes you have to take a stand, sometimes you have to do the hard thing. But sometimes life is just good. ok I'm rambling and I'm done. Stay Gold Trystwithmyheart Joined on Mon, Apr 11 2005 New Member 32 ~Tryst~

	MrPedantic  +  101302 Thu, 19 May 05 11:53 PM It's very difficult to take this poem as anything other than mildly witty, Big Bamboo. I'm not sure it can bear overmuch interpretation. MrP MrPedantic Joined on Tue, Oct 12 2004 Veteran Member 13,616 ...opella forensis / adducit febris...

	Robyn Terri  +  101326 Fri, 20 May 05 01:09 AM The first time I heard that poem an Indonesian friend read it to me and some other caucasian friends. We had a great laugh at ourselves. If anything it is making fun of 'white' people, but I think is intended as simple fun which does more to weaken racial prejudice than re-enforce it. You are so angry about something that does not exist here, the prejudice is in your own heart. Robyn Terri Joined on Sat, Apr 16 2005 Western Australia Full Member 323 Words don't have meanings, meanings have words.

	MrPedantic  +  101602 Fri, 20 May 05 11:54 PM I don't know why people call themselves 'black' or 'white' anyway. I've never seen a black or a white person. Just shades of pink and brown. But I suppose 'pink' and 'brown' are less attractive to the sloganeers. MrP MrPedantic

	Chaoss  +  115869 Wed, 06 Jul 05 01:48 PM It sounds like Claw Finger`s "***" to me... Very impressive. And I`m white. One should laugh at oneself or else one will be a continuous error. Chaoss Joined on Sat, Dec 25 2004 Ukraine Full Member 141 Life is such a good thing...