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Hi Richard,
Yes, from your posts I’d say you’re definitely a five.
I just printed this out and showed it to my boyfriend.
“Please read this.”
He put down his newspaper, looked it over, handed it back to me with no expression, and resumed reading his paper.
I asked him, “So..what am I, in your opinion?”
“What?”
“What type am I?”
He put down his paper and glanced up. “What type are you…that’s easy. You’re a Type 10.”
I said, “There is no Type 10”.
“Eh?”
“There IS no type 10. There are NINE types. See?”, I said, shoving the list over his newspaper and in his line of vision. “See? Just nine!”
Handing me back the list and training his eye on his article again he said, “I stand corrected.”
SO…what type am I?”
“None of the above”.
“Come ON! Just off the top of your head!” I snatched the paper out of his hands.
“None of the above! You’re a Type 10!”, trying to snatch the paper back but I held it out of reach.
Laughing now, I asked, “And what is a Type !0?”
“You have to ASK? Type 10! Total Pain In The Butt! Now, give me that…” swiping the newspaper out of my hand and settling himself once more.
Me, demurely, “Thank you for your evaluation.”
Him, trying to keep a straight face, “Anytime”.

The above comment got posted on the top of the page but it was meant as a another reply to Mark’s post somewhat below.

Beautifully said! And thank you for attributing this kind of beautiful effort to me. I try. I don’t want to hate. Sometimes it grips me for a while…possesses me, kind of. The anger, the hate…sometimes it takes some time and effort to purge it out and just happy and calm again. Not agreement, mind you. Not necessarily agreement. But understanding is important, essential to me. Once i understand, I don’t have to hate anybody. It just dissolves. That’s why I try hard to understand – so I don’t have to hate. Hard to explain! Anyway, thanks again for saying that beautiful thing. You made my day!

Wow. I’m just getting notification of your posts here, Mark. You’re welcome, and thank YOU for being the caring, candid, perceptive guy you are. We could disagree to kingdom come and it wouldn’t matter because of your ability to look from other viewpoints – a quality I admire A LOT, and try, not always successfully, to emulate. Yes, we can talk honestly with one another, no worries, and as re “cheers, respect and hugs”, right back at you with that :).

Briget, good points, thank you!
My sister and I were the first black kids in a middle school of roughly 600 kids in an all-white neighborhood; we were the first black family
to move there. It was quite an educational and traumatic experience. My 360° threat radar was on at all times…at 12 years old. Anyway, a few years ago, a guy that I went to that school with contacted me and, as part of an AA exercise in addressing past transgressions, wanted me to forgive hjm for calling me a ” nigger “…which I did withoit hesitation, as I was called that name so often that I forgot many of the people who spat the word at me. He also reminded me that he felt particularly bad because, previous to the name-calling incident, I had physically interrupted a person bullying him at school. Mind you, I had forgotten ALL of that…
The reality was like this: Walk down the street: ” Hey, nigger!” Go to the mall: “nigger !” Go to the fair, holding a white girl’s hand(gasp!): ” nigger!nigger lover!” That shit was routine. Normal. Standard.
People think this shit is unusual or rare; it’s not.
In scientology, it was waaay more subtle and on the down-low, but it was there…

Richard,
😂😂😂
Yep, in-fucking-credible!

Yikes – another variation of “poop”.

Conversation (maybe) overheard, “Can the sailor talk around the Minister of Health and act like ladies and gentlemen.”

BTW Mark, I appreciate your intellectual approach. You keep me busy doing word clearing.

Some thousands of crackers have gone through the Wall of Fire and given it some credence so I suppose it’s reasonable to assume many NOI’s will do likewise. Some will bail out just like many crackers did.

Oops. Am I being politically incorrect? I should have said white folks.