12-22-2016, 05:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-22-2016, 05:12 PM by Classic-Xer.)
(12-22-2016, 03:08 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:I appreciate your honesty. We have something in common. We are from the same social side of the track, so to speak. I've had my foot in both both worlds as well. We just made different choices as far as which world we identify as the world we prefer to remain part of, so to speak. You would have been fighting with people older than me for different reasons during a different time in our history. You loathe me because I remind you of a white kid you fought with a decade or so before I became fighting age. But, you're right, I have a similar mentality as those that you fought with then. Did you ever succeed in defeating them?(12-22-2016, 02:47 PM)taramarie Wrote: Omg guys give it a rest. It is Christmas. Can't you be civil for at least a few days?
I have to admit it is tough to leave Classic alone.
Even though he conveys it with a smile, so to speak, his PoV reminds me of some white blue collar people I've encountered in the inner ring suburbs of Detroit, during my travels. I know he lives in the Minneapolis area but he would fit right in within those further eastern communities I've described. I struggle to restrain myself reacting to his world view.
It's especially tough for me because I grew up in a community here in California that was in transition from a "Classic Xer" type of place into one that is now majority college educated with 30+% foreign born professionals. I got into street fights with kids like Classic. I had a foot in both the Classic Xer world and the so called (emerging) Blue Bubble world. I can understand where Classic is coming from but I also loathe where he is coming from.
The black kid who knocked my older brothers tooth out for fun during those years would have eventually had several of his knocked out had I been around during the same time period. I'm not sure what I would have down about the black girls who surrounded and beat up my sister for fun as well. I grew up in a second ring suburb of St Paul that had little to no relationship with the city of St.Paul. The majority were rural transplants and the values taught were working class rural which were the same as working class urban. The blacks and Hispanics and Asians weren't treated as special. They were treated the same as the whites.