Comments on: On Generation One http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/02/22/on-generation-one/ Bursts of Clarity, Illuminated. Thu, 07 May 2009 15:48:24 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: On Laying Our Burdens Down | Oceans of Thought http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/02/22/on-generation-one/comment-page-1/#comment-82 On Laying Our Burdens Down | Oceans of Thought Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:19:34 +0000 http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/02/22/on-generation-one/#comment-82 [...] remorseful or scared. It will have sucked it up and moved on. More importantly, especially for Generation One , the world will no longer be defined by September 11th, 2001, But “Where were you during [...] [...] remorseful or scared. It will have sucked it up and moved on. More importantly, especially for Generation One , the world will no longer be defined by September 11th, 2001, But “Where were you during [...]

]]> By: OceansOfThought http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/02/22/on-generation-one/comment-page-1/#comment-5 OceansOfThought Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:20:03 +0000 http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/02/22/on-generation-one/#comment-5 Just something to add to this. Took a trip to Cleveland Georgia, and met some fine folks, however, one comment made my day (from a baby boomer). "So as a blackman, you gonna vote for Obama?" Seriously? Do I have to? What does being a blackman have to do with it? For the record, i'm not telling anyone who i'm voting for. My business. Anyway, I said nothing and made my way past the grocery story selling confederate flags and on my way. Just something to add to this. Took a trip to Cleveland Georgia, and met some fine folks, however, one comment made my day (from a baby boomer). “So as a blackman, you gonna vote for Obama?”

Seriously? Do I have to? What does being a blackman have to do with it? For the record, i’m not telling anyone who i’m voting for. My business.

Anyway, I said nothing and made my way past the grocery story selling confederate flags and on my way.

]]> By: ReverendGodless http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/02/22/on-generation-one/comment-page-1/#comment-4 ReverendGodless Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:34:29 +0000 http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/02/22/on-generation-one/#comment-4 on another note, as I re-read this post through my routines to leave my house to make money, I come to the realization that, no matter the age, no matter the generation, some things will always remain the same. Differences in cultures and differences in the views we take to each culture that we encounter are always going to exist, on a personal level. it is the way of humanity to blindly subjucate the masses into their groups in order to deal with them in our own minds. No one will, as they drive next to my car, stereo blasting, come to think of me as anything more than a 20-30 year old head banging punk. No woman will willingly throw me into the house with their parents, unless it is to upset the parental units with the idea that their daughter is with the underbelly of society. Furthermore, after one group makes it's way throught eh portalsof cultural indifference, the next will emerge kicking and screaming and the past group will join in the shouts of retribution, forgetting the fight they themselves, as a community, just won. Welcome to the world of Humanity, here's a helmet, and a towel. the helmet to protect hte greymatter from the beating on the brick wall you find in front of you, adn the towel to clean off the muck from those that refuse to see the wall in front of them. on another note, as I re-read this post through my routines to leave my house to make money, I come to the realization that, no matter the age, no matter the generation, some things will always remain the same. Differences in cultures and differences in the views we take to each culture that we encounter are always going to exist, on a personal level. it is the way of humanity to blindly subjucate the masses into their groups in order to deal with them in our own minds. No one will, as they drive next to my car, stereo blasting, come to think of me as anything more than a 20-30 year old head banging punk. No woman will willingly throw me into the house with their parents, unless it is to upset the parental units with the idea that their daughter is with the underbelly of society.

Furthermore, after one group makes it’s way throught eh portalsof cultural indifference, the next will emerge kicking and screaming and the past group will join in the shouts of retribution, forgetting the fight they themselves, as a community, just won. Welcome to the world of Humanity, here’s a helmet, and a towel. the helmet to protect hte greymatter from the beating on the brick wall you find in front of you, adn the towel to clean off the muck from those that refuse to see the wall in front of them.

]]> By: ReverendGodless http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/02/22/on-generation-one/comment-page-1/#comment-3 ReverendGodless Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:49:18 +0000 http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/02/22/on-generation-one/#comment-3 I feel that it isn't the islamic community that is facing the difficulties of immigration, as the past groups that have immigrated have. Rather, and I am more than willing to discuss it, I feel that it has been the hispanic community. When the Italians and the Irish came, they faced the troubles that the hispanics of today are facing. in one hundred years, it'll be in the past, but I wish to say one thing about the imigration flood of the hispanics. They are doing an amazing job assimilating their culture into the threads of americana. not only are they, as a community, learning the language of this nation at an astounding rate ( where other immatrant communities have taken a few generations, tehy manage it in one) they have also instilled themselves into our culture. bringing their food and flavour into every community they enter. I think it's fascinating. I feel that it isn’t the islamic community that is facing the difficulties of immigration, as the past groups that have immigrated have. Rather, and I am more than willing to discuss it, I feel that it has been the hispanic community. When the Italians and the Irish came, they faced the troubles that the hispanics of today are facing. in one hundred years, it’ll be in the past, but I wish to say one thing about the imigration flood of the hispanics. They are doing an amazing job assimilating their culture into the threads of americana. not only are they, as a community, learning the language of this nation at an astounding rate ( where other immatrant communities have taken a few generations, tehy manage it in one) they have also instilled themselves into our culture. bringing their food and flavour into every community they enter. I think it’s fascinating.

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