John McCain spreading fear about childhood vaccines

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by jsarno

It kind of cracks me up when there are a ton of shades of "white" and a ton of shades of "black"...so someone that is exactly inbetween...how does he or she get catagorized?

To put the question back onto you, how would you categorize the various groups?

[jsarno]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

To put the question back onto you, how would you categorize the various groups?

I know you're not going to believe me, I already got blasted when I didn't realize that Ron Meeks was "black". But I don't see that. Maybe it's the fact that I grew up in such a diverse environment, I don't know. I see Obama for who he is and what he stands for, same with Hilary (even though I think she's a bitch). I don't see color. Fact is, we are all a different shade of color. It's hard to find people that are your EXACT shade. So someone has a skin pigmentation difference...who cares? I care about who the person is.

Same applies for homosexuality. I worked with a guy that was gay, and he felt the need to tell me so (even though everyone knew). I laughed and told him he's just Matt to me. Being homosexual is not who you are, it's what you do. I could care less if you're a homosexual or not, I will look at you as who you are.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

To put the question back onto you, how would you categorize the various groups?

Here's my thing though. Why does "labeling" always have to be considered negative? I mean some people may categorize me as Hispanic (because I'm part Hispanic) and I don't know that means I need to take offense to that. It's who I am, and I'm proud of it.

To a lesser exent look at this site, we can all "label" ourselves Redskins fans. And people who comment about those of us on the board would say "Look at those Redskins fans" instead of referring to us as Matt, Mike, Jason, Ben, etc. And we take pride in being called Redskins fans, don't we (don't answer that )

My color, background, race, etc. don't define who I am but they certainly shape it. I don't think there's any reason to be ashame of that.

(by the way erik2680 must be like "WTF? What does this have to do vaccines for autism?"