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cowboy67 (profile) wrote,
on 10-18-2004 at 3:30pm
Subject: yours, mine, and ours
i do not understand this phrase: "my people." it is used commonly by folks in saying, "the many hardships my people had to go through," or "my people do not get along with _____ [insert name of another "people"], and they never will."

"my people."

huh? you own human beings? they're yours? how is this? you come from the same gene pool, geographic location, or ideology, and therefore, you share something? you're a "people"? a group? isn't there a bigger picture here?

if i say, "my people," it will mean all of humanity.
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moana

10-18-04 3:44pm

aw. well you'll always be my people.

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moana

Re:, 10-19-04 2:59am

i just realized what i said. what i meant to say was, i'm proud to be your people.

see? faygo isn't always so fabulous.

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cowboy67

Re: Re:, 10-19-04 3:02am

lol that's hilarious.

you're still fabulous in my book, though.

oh, and by the way, i stole alyssa for the day ;-)

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Anonymous

ac butting in., 10-19-04 8:25am

hah! Fever my ass. Knew there was something fishy going on there.

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guajiragoddess

10-20-04 12:45am

this relates to the international politcal theorist john rawls that i am reading about.

i'm sure you would (if you were reading what i was reading) associate yourself with the distributive folks instead of the procedural ones.

(pardon, studying for a jmas exam)

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