It's crazy what's going on in the U.K. now. I'm glad none of that hit Scotland when we were there. We had a great time visiting one of the beautiful places on earth.
The reason why I know that is a statue of Mel Gibson playing William Wallace is because Scots didn't wear kilts at that time in history. Kilts didn't come about until the late 1500's. Wallace lived in the late 1200's and early 1300's. That Wallace statue has him wearing a kilt.
Yes it is. It's erasing a culture that once honored those men.
The worst thing is they are being taken down by morons who know nothing of our history.
Did you know that Robert E. Lee opposed slavery? And, yes, I know he owned slaves. Sometimes you actually have to participate in something to fully understand just how wrong it is. Also Virginia had long before passed a law that made it illegal to free your slaves. If Virginia had never made that law, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Robert E Lee would have freed their slaves at the moment they all realized just how wrong it was. Jefferson tried several times, when he was a state legislator in Virginia to introduce legislation to allow slave owners to free their slaves but he kept getting struck down by the majority of legislators who still supported that law.
George Washington knew of the but before he died he knew of a loophole that the state legislature closed after Washington took advantage of that loophole. The loophole was that you could free your slaves when you died. Washington did just that.
But the programmed morons on the left just acted like idiots when they tore statues to these great men down.
Just out of curiosity, when did they put the glass cage around the William Wallace statue in Scotland. I was in Scotland a years and a half ago and I saw that statue (or at least on very much like it) and it didn't have anything around it. It's not a very old statue. It is actually supposed to be Mel Gibson portraying William Wallace in the movie Braveheart.
I was telling Modda that for a job interview he should dress nice. I wasn't talking about him changing his entire wardrobe. That would be ridiculous.
Mamdani has told us that he is a Democratic Socialist and a Muslim. While not all Muslims are bad people, Democratic Socialists are the last people you want in a government position. They have a very long history of destroying economies and caused widespread misery. People are already leaving NYC. It's just going to get worse.
People have always thought I look younger than I am. Even today people think I look younger than 67. I'm guess they're probably thinking that I don't look a day over 66 because every time I look in the mirror I see some old guy looking back at me. But I used to get that all the time, more so when I was in my 20's and 30's. I showed some friends a picture of me when I was 33 and they asked if this is when I was in high school.
Yes, I would imagine going door to door looking for a job might not be as effective today because business require a lot more information from you than they did in my dad's day. But the point I was trying to make is his persistence in overwhelming adversity.
Why do people think you look like you want to kill them? Is it how you dress? You can change your clothes. If you don't have much money you can go to a thrift store and by a dress shirt and dress pants for job interviews, maybe even a suit and tie.
If it is because you're Puerto Rican don't think that white people think that about you. Give us a little slack. Not all of us think like that, in fact the majority of us don't think that way. I grew up around Mexicans. I had a lot of Mexican friends, I sometimes dated Mexican girls when I was single. I worked along side illegal immigrants who were from Mexico when I worked with my father doing construction. Mexicans work harder than me. As a programmer I had a Mexican boss and he was a much better programmer than me. My wife is half Mexican. I have absolutely no problem with Hispanics.
However, I have had Hispanics who have had problems with me because I'm white. My wife had problems in Jr High School with the Mexicans because she wasn't Mexican enough. But even though that happened I knew it was just some people and not all people who don't like me because of the color of my skin.
And as you very well know, I am very conservative AND I was born in the South. And you've held that against me many times.
So do not think for a minute that all white people are going to look at you negatively because you're Hispanic.
If people have told you crap like "You're smart for a Puerto Rican" then tell them that they don't know very many Puerto Ricans.
But if you are facing having to swallow your pride vs becoming homeless, then swallow your pride. When you get on your feet again then you can leave that job and go somewhere where they give you your proper respect.
