Tennessee soldier among Fort Hood casualties

MOUNTAIN CITY, Tenn. - Relatives of a Tennessee soldier who was killed in the shooting spree at Fort Hood say he was a loving family member who exemplified the Army's values.

[USAVeteran]

You bitch, Yolanda! This is some mother's son. You are un-American!

[Striker78]

Yolanda, I don't know what your problem is....
Freddie Greene was not a redneck hillbilly and he wasn't a racist. He was a hard working young man, who respected everyone. You must be a racist to think that eveyone from TN is a racist. And no I'm not a racist, hillbilly.

[Yolanda]

Why should we cry/shed tears for a white guy from one of the most racist states who was gearing up to fight an illegal/immoral war?

What about the large numbers of black men who can't find work and who are pushed into a life of drugs and prison? Why not cry and feel sorry for the large numbers of blacks wrongly convicted by a racist and injust criminal justice system?

Why not feel sorry for the scores of poor blacks who were in the wrong place at the wrong time and were caught up and charged for a crime they didn't commit and who were told by the underpaid and overworked court appointed attorneys to plead guilty for a plea deal even though they were innocent!

Why not feel sorry and cry and post the pics of the scores of black men lynched across the south and black women raped; yet now these created "animals" are maligned and thrown in jail/prison where the come out not rehabilitated and even worse than they went in?

Why not feel sorry for people who have tried hard to pull them and their families out of poverty only to be pushed back into poverty when a white person fails to hire them due to racism or bigotry?

Why feel sorry for a "no doubt" racist white southerner who gets killed by an Arab that whites consider to be of a much higher status than blacks and whom the white brass military paid to educate only for him to turn and bite the hand that exalted him; yet how many black men are given all he was given by the military in their quest to throw Arabs up in the mix.

He was Arab and they don't want to fight against their own brethren in the middleeast. Now it's being leaked that he even told top brass this.

As a black person the streets of my neighborhoods across America has made my heart hardened. Oppress me, enslave me, then once educated, refuse to hire me so that the only way I can support myself is off if your paltry welfare- then label me lazy?!

And then expect me to fight your wars and cry for your wounded and dead when you've never cried for mine?!

I don't think so.

When I see the face of that soldier I see the oppressor. Nothing more. Nothing less. I see a man that if not dead would no doubt be writing on these very forums; "the less blacks the better".

I have lived in TN and you won't find a pale face anywhere in the state whose not racist 10 times over.

You won't find a pale face nowhere in TN whose not blaming blacks for everything even though rich greedy members of the paleface race are sending blue collar jobs overseas by the millions and mexicans are being allowed to flood the borders- yet we blacks are villanized constantly by the pale faces.

I can't shed a tear. I've been hardened by such a racist system here in Amerikkka.

And to those of you who will no doubt say "Well, Leave" I say "You lead the way or No way"! You brought my ancestors here ripping them from Africa and now expect me to go someplace I have no current connection to?

I say noway!

I can't cry for a paleface, army oppressor!

[Oh My]

Yolanda from Cordova Tennessee,I think maybe you are the racist hillbilly redneck. Who pissed in your cornflakes? I hope you live to rue the day that you made this statement. Perhaps you escaped from a mental institution or drug rehab,cause you are warped!!!! This was a father, son and of good standing in this community, come visit and we will show you hillbilly redneck!!!!!!! BITCH

[Oh My]

You want some cheese to go with that WHINE? Grow up,quit feeling sorry for youself,how many tears ago was that,and hey you got your facts wrong, most blacks that want to work can and will. By the way I am a paleface and I have friends of color and would defend them the same as I would a paleface,as was Mr.Greene.You need help woman, if everybody brooded over theit past as you are we would all be racist of a sort.Leave us alone in our time of grief. We are sick of this kind of bullshit. The person most admirable is one who can put the pieces together and make it work, you my dear will probably die with your hatred, so be it!

[OH REALLY]

Some of the most racist people are black!!! I'm a minority too...slavery was abolished years ago; get over it and move on. Hey guess what, there are a lot of rich greedy blacks too who treat white people like trash. It's becoming more obvious each day that there is a racist system in America, but against whites.
Just an observation!

[Striker78]

Yolanda, you are so wrong... I guess I am as you so say a pale face but, I served with many black men that I am proud to have and will continue to call my friends. They served because they believe in freedom...

[Cristy Stanton Sampson]

Yolanda wrote:

I bet dude was a typical TN redneck hillbilly racist. I will never feel sorry for hicks being taken down.

Yeah, you would say something stupid like this, because you haven't the slightest clue who Fred was. Let me "clue" you in about him, Fred was an extraordinary person. He was always putting others first in his life. He was caring, loyal, and very respectful to everyone. He had what you might call, a not so easy life, but in all the years I had known him I never heard him complain about ANYTHING. I consider it a wonderful privilege to of had the chance to really know who he was. So you can keep posting all these negative ramblings, but know this, you aren't offending anyone, especially those of us who knew and loved Spc. Frederick Greene.

[Politically Incorrect]

Yolanda wrote:

I bet dude was a typical TN redneck hillbilly racist. I will never feel sorry for hicks being taken down.

Michelle - is that you? I really think you should leave public discourse to Mr. Gibbs.

[Yolanda]

You guys still harping about my post?!

Move on already!!!!!!

[Candi Dish]

Yolanda wrote:

You guys still harping about my post?!
Move on already!!!!!!

You're not even black are you?
No self respecting black person I know(and I know several) would get on here and whine and boohoo and carry on like a baby the way you have.

Apparently "yo momma" never taught you any manners, so this white woman is gonna teach you something..........it is not very nice to speak ill of the dead. They have family and friends who love and miss them, regardless of the type of person they are.

[crusade for christ]

Slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865. It had its origins with the first English colonization of North America in Virginia in 1607, although African slaves were brought to Spanish Florida as early as the 1560s.[1] Most slaves were black and were held by whites, ALTHOUGH some Native Americans and FREE BLACKS also held slaves; there was a number of WHITE SLAVES as well. In addition to African slaves, Europeans, mostly Irish,[12] Scottish,[13] English, and Germans,[14] were brought over in substantial numbers as indentured servants,[15] particularly in the British Thirteen Colonies.[16] Over half of all WHITE immigrants to the English colonies of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries have been indentured servants.[17] In the 18th century numerous Europeans traveled to the colonies as redemptioners.[18] The WHITE citizens of Virginia, who had arrived from Britain, decided to treat the first Africans in Virginia as indentured servants. As with European indentured servants, the Africans were freed after a stated period and GIVEN the use of land and supplies by their former owners. Anthony Johnson, a former indentured servant from Africa, became a landowner on the Eastern Shore and a slave-owner. In 1654, John Casor, a black man, became the first legally recognized slave in the present United States. A court in Northampton County ruled against Casor, declaring him property for life, "owned" by the black colonist Anthony Johnson. The First legally reconized slave in the United States was OWNED by a BLACK MAN named Anthony Johnson. Please study more of your history before you want to continue putting the blame on the white people. Why must racism continue when in truth every race was at one time a slave? It;s time to put this behind us and come together as Americans. God created us all equally in His eyes.

[crusade for christ]

Yolanda wrote:

You guys still harping about my post?!
Move on already!!!!!!

Mat 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment:

Speaking ill of any one, dead or alive usually reflects poorly on the speaker. What are you hopeing to accomplish? You have already reaped condemnation upon yourself and it will come back on YOU 10 times worse...And after reading ALL that you had to say, I couldn't imagine what 10 times of all that would do to you..I will pray that you find some kind of peace in your heart..

[Yolanda]

crusade for christ wrote:

Slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865. It had its origins with the first English colonization of North America in Virginia in 1607, although African slaves were brought to Spanish Florida as early as the 1560s.[1] Most slaves were black and were held by whites, ALTHOUGH some Native Americans and FREE BLACKS also held slaves; there was a number of WHITE SLAVES as well. In addition to African slaves, Europeans, mostly Irish,[12] Scottish,[13] English, and Germans,[14] were brought over in substantial numbers as indentured servants,[15] particularly in the British Thirteen Colonies.[16] Over half of all WHITE immigrants to the English colonies of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries have been indentured servants.[17] In the 18th century numerous Europeans traveled to the colonies as redemptioners.[18] The WHITE citizens of Virginia, who had arrived from Britain, decided to treat the first Africans in Virginia as indentured servants. As with European indentured servants, the Africans were freed after a stated period and GIVEN the use of land and supplies by their former owners. Anthony Johnson, a former indentured servant from Africa, became a landowner on the Eastern Shore and a slave-owner. In 1654, John Casor, a black man, became the first legally recognized slave in the present United States. A court in Northampton County ruled against Casor, declaring him property for life, "owned" by the black colonist Anthony Johnson. The First legally reconized slave in the United States was OWNED by a BLACK MAN named Anthony Johnson. Please study more of your history before you want to continue putting the blame on the white people. Why must racism continue when in truth every race was at one time a slave? It;s time to put this behind us and come together as Americans. God created us all equally in His eyes.

Tell it to someone who wants to hear it. I'm not interested in your revisionist history.

You are simply trying to downplay the significance of 200+ years of brutality suffered by blacks at the hands of whites in this country. The lynchings, rapes, beatings, murders, etc. Suffered by whites here in Amerikkka can never be downplayed.

I didn't study from the white mans history books. I did my own research.

[Yolanda]

Correction:

"suffered by blacks"

[Candi Dish]

crusade for christ wrote:

Slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865. It had its origins with the first English colonization of North America in Virginia in 1607, although African slaves were brought to Spanish Florida as early as the 1560s.[1] Most slaves were black and were held by whites, ALTHOUGH some Native Americans and FREE BLACKS also held slaves; there was a number of WHITE SLAVES as well. In addition to African slaves, Europeans, mostly Irish,[12] Scottish,[13] English, and Germans,[14] were brought over in substantial numbers as indentured servants,[15] particularly in the British Thirteen Colonies.[16] Over half of all WHITE immigrants to the English colonies of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries have been indentured servants.[17] In the 18th century numerous Europeans traveled to the colonies as redemptioners.[18] The WHITE citizens of Virginia, who had arrived from Britain, decided to treat the first Africans in Virginia as indentured servants. As with European indentured servants, the Africans were freed after a stated period and GIVEN the use of land and supplies by their former owners. Anthony Johnson, a former indentured servant from Africa, became a landowner on the Eastern Shore and a slave-owner. In 1654, John Casor, a black man, became the first legally recognized slave in the present United States. A court in Northampton County ruled against Casor, declaring him property for life, "owned" by the black colonist Anthony Johnson. The First legally reconized slave in the United States was OWNED by a BLACK MAN named Anthony Johnson. Please study more of your history before you want to continue putting the blame on the white people. Why must racism continue when in truth every race was at one time a slave? It;s time to put this behind us and come together as Americans. God created us all equally in His eyes.

Well..........you certainly told her.
I loved it!!!!
Made me grin from ear to ear.

[crusade for christ]

Yolanda wrote:

<quoted text>
Tell it to someone who wants to hear it. I'm not interested in your revisionist history.
You are simply trying to downplay the significance of 200+ years of brutality suffered by blacks at the hands of whites in this country. The lynchings, rapes, beatings, murders, etc. Suffered by whites here in Amerikkka can never be downplayed.
I didn't study from the white mans history books. I did my own research.

I told it to someone who NEEDS to hear it.AND WHAT RESEARCH DID YOU STUDY AND HOW DO YOU KNOW IT WASN'T A WHITE MAN'S RESEARCH?.I agree with candidish, You are probably not even a black women...if not...whoever you are, You are a troublemaker and what do you hope to accomplish with all this? Grow up and learn to spell AMERICA..

[crusade for christ]

Yolanda wrote:

Correction:
"suffered by blacks"

I AM NOT TRYING TO DOWNPLAY ANYTHING... I disagree with what you wrote about "the blacks being forced into drug abuse and prisons and being the innocent victims....I use to do drugs and use to hang out in a lot of crack houses with a lot of black people and NEVER have I seen any one of them with their arms being twisted and a crack stem being forced into their lips...I also have been in prison with a LOT of black women and NEVER did I hear any one of them claim they were innocent of their crimes. I use to hang out with them in their ghetto neighborhoods and NEVER did i hear anyone complain about "living the welfare life"...if anything, they tried to think up new schemes to get MORE freebies from the government. I've seen them steal from their own mother's and rob their own neighbors and even kill their own brother's for their next hit, so don't try to throw some sob story my way because I ain't buying it.

[elle1]

crusade for christ wrote:

<quoted text>
I AM NOT TRYING TO DOWNPLAY ANYTHING... I disagree with what you wrote about "the blacks being forced into drug abuse and prisons and being the innocent victims....I use to do drugs and use to hang out in a lot of crack houses with a lot of black people and NEVER have I seen any one of them with their arms being twisted and a crack stem being forced into their lips...I also have been in prison with a LOT of black women and NEVER did I hear any one of them claim they were innocent of their crimes. I use to hang out with them in their ghetto neighborhoods and NEVER did i hear anyone complain about "living the welfare life"...if anything, they tried to think up new schemes to get MORE freebies from the government. I've seen them steal from their own mother's and rob their own neighbors and even kill their own brother's for their next hit, so don't try to throw some sob story my way because I ain't buying it.

I am boggled by Y's statement that blacks were forced into drug abuse... I couldn't believe what I was reading. If you look up Yolanda's Topix I.D., it is not public. That's probably because he is a s.s., one who stirs up stuff. He doesn't want people reading his contradictory ranting.
On the other hand, he had some points. One is that you underplayed the role of the powerful white planter class in the America's, esp. the South of the U.S., who based their entire, mainly agricultural economy upon the institution of slavery. I agree with him on that point. You minimized the role of white owners, traders, and support workers by telling a few stories about a black owner here or there and a white owner who gave slaves their freedom. You minimize the experience of these people as you say this has happened to every race, so let's get along.
I doubt that this Yolanda is African-American at ALL. There has always been a creep on MC Topix who says outrageous things hoping to stir up anti-black feeling and get some back and forth bashing started.

[Oh my]

I sure am glad I'm not Yolanda,we were fortunate to have a maid growing up,we called her Colored Susie because my moms name was Susie also, no one told us to call her that and no one told us not to,we were small and didn't see a problem, nor did she,she was as much apart of the family as anyone and we loved her,she wiped our noses, our tears and our butts and the last time I saw her she was old and I wiped her tears of joy at the reunion. She was a person just like us, as we got older,color did not matter. Yolanda I guess we weren't raised with the hatred,but with compassion. Colored Susie REST IN PEACE,we will love you forever! White trash, black trash,they are all the same and for your comments I certainly consider you the latter. Put that in your pipe and smoke it as Colored Susie would say!