Stormborn posted:ksazma posted:About 15 years ago, a co-worker asked me to write a letter to the president of her HOA because she was being threatened that she did not use the correct shade of paint when she repainted the outside of her house. Although she had even showed them the receipt that she bought the correct paint, they kept insisting that it does not match the previous paint. This was because they were not considering the fade factor of the previous paint. Eventually they summoned her for a meeting with the board as they insisted that they were at an impasse. As everyone began introducing themselves, one man stated that he was the President of the HOA. With surprise in her voice, she asked, "wait, you are the person who has been sending me all these threatening messages? Your yard is one of the worst in this community" Nothing got resolved at that meeting but they never bothered her again about that paint job. There are possibly some like that HOA president around here.
What the hell are you talking about? Common decorum is a character trait not money, elegance or hypocrisy. It is who a person presents themselves to be. This place is a terrible reflection of who we are. It is a den of racists of the kind one see the nation complaining about that showed their faces in Charlottsville.
It is no easy thing for any of half a dozen persons here to lit the phrase "black man can't run a cakeshop" and say it with the earnestness of one reciting a passage from a holy book. That is who they are.
Guyanese people do not want that sin to fall on their heads like rain. I say it is none of the crap you speak above since the poor and the humble do not have to pay for good manners no less than the rich and gentrified. It is who they are. For all intents and purpose this is a raging hate site at times.
With all due respect, what you see on GNI is who we are. We just don't wish our experiences away because it sounds good. This board isn't only now a cesspool. It always was. As I mentioned before, I was here only a very short while when a female poster told be in private message that another female had leaky p ussy. That was some 15 years ago. And I may submit that if I mention that poster's handle without disclosing what she told me, many posters would swear at what an upstanding person she was. I recently told you that there are many kinds of evil in the world and unless we are willing to condemn all, we shouldn't condemn any. No doubt Indians speak poorly of blacks here but blacks are not any less guilty of speaking poorly of Indians. I don't lose sleep of any one of them because they don't have any bearing on how I live my life. Guyana has the reputation it does because of what happens in Guyana through the behavior of its politicians as well as its inhabitants. The Coalition's current behavior is what the world is focused on, not us here.