Negative rhetoric

[j-kid]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Curmudgeon_Milo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Forget about har J-Kid, she only goes for men over 70. </div></div>

Har man ah 70! Den there is hope, mi may can out-live him, den mi caa sweet-talk har wen him gaan. Where dere is ah will dere is ah way. Whe yuh tink?

[queenb]

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I recognize that Obama is more popular in the rest of the world than here; and I also knew about the GG of Canada, but Elizabeth Regina is the Queen and regent over the Commonwealth. And I know a lot about Canadian history; my grandfather was of Canadian Pioneer stock, and told of being called the &quot;n&quot; word more times than I had hair on my head.

Marriage certificate of Daniel V. Lewis and Charlotte(my great grandparents)

-John Ware and Family in Alberta] Ware had almost given up on finding a wife in Alberta, as there were few black people in the area, and when he heard the <span style="font-weight: bold"> Lewis</span> family had moved in with a daughter of marriageable age he borrowed a wagon to visit the new arrivals. Once there he took the family for a ride in the country, but unfortunately a storm blew up and the team was struck by lightning. No one in the wagon had been injured, but the team of horses were dead. It is reputed that Ware simply shook his head and said, “Now I’m going to have to break in a new team” and proceeded to drag the wagon back to Lewis farm by himself.*

He married the Toronto-born Mildred Lewis March 2, 1892. By 1900 they had five children, two daughters and three sons. In 1902 his first home on the Sheep River near Millarville was destroyed by the spring flood, then rebuilt on higher ground. Soon the arrival of more settlers signaled the end of the open range, and John Ware moved his family and 300-head of cattle 90 miles east of their old home to a location near Brooks. This location was near the banks of the Red Deer River and a stream now known as Ware Creek (located west of Dinosaur Provincial Park where the original Ware cabin has been preserved).

They prospered, their cattle herd growing to 1,000 head, with Mildred doing the bookkeeping for the ranch and teaching her children to read and write. Ware popularized steer wrestling which would later become a highlight of the Calgary stampede.

Mildred died of pneumonia and typhoid in the spring of 1905 and a grieving John sent his children to stay with Mildred's parents in Blairmore. On September 11th, Ware was killed when his horse tripped in a badger hole and fell on him. His funeral held September 14, 1905 at the Calgary Baptist Church was the largest Calgary had ever seen. People from all over Alberta and British nobility came out to bid farewell to Alberta’s legendary black cowboy.

“In an era where roughness, dishonesty, bullying, and lawlessness seemed normal, Mr. Ware showed honesty, skill, hard work, and decency. He was known as, ‘a man of unquestioned honesty and agreeable nature...[who] boasted the rare distinction of never having been thrown from a horse. At rough-riding and roping he was an expert’” (Turner, 1950, pg. 461)*

Ware’s regional folk hero status centres on his remarkable horsemanship, strength, good-natured humour and general kindness, his loyalty to friends and neighbours, and his willingness to take novice cowhands under his guidance. Ware was a man of action and few words: an attribute shared by the heroes of the cowboys of the frontier.

John and Mildred Ware’s children had no descendants. Their last surviving daughter, Nettie, obtained an honourary doctorate from the University of Alberta in 1982 for her work on the pioneer history of the province. Nettie died on her ninety-sixth birthday in March 1989.


Mildred was my grandfather's sister.


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More Canadian history of Black settlers in Canada.

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[tuffstuff]

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BOAL

[Nylah]

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I honestly confused by this thread

Canada is no paradise. We have racists of course. And I live in Alberta and know nuff black Canadians who came here thru the Underground Railroad.....

but the venom about Obama and his colour is more a American issue cause you all scare the crap out of me with it.

Your story about ur grandfather is a good one that should stand alone as it is interesting reading about blacks in Alberta. But I dont see it as part of the point you are making. Or I could be missing your point altogether?

[sistacaf]

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my own countrymen/women scare the crap outta me too nylah.

<span style="font-style: italic">QUEEN BEEEEEEE </span>


i totally agree. we can disagree with POTUS all we want, we can even do so publicly. but the disrespect, and the viciousness &amp; violence, is unacceptable. At the very least, some general level of basic respect must be shown to the Office, if not the man personally. Along the same lines, any criticism should be directed at his works- not insults, threats, etc (or <span style="font-style: italic">bricks</span> figadsakes) thrown against the man personally, nor against any of the other people involved in passing the HC bill (or any other legislation.) i find all of this stuff that's goin on sickening, &amp; deeply disturbing.

i'm not political either, but i do believe in basic common courtesy and human decency. These ignorant hateful STUPID people need to stop it. if they don't agree with what the Pres has done/is doing they are free to share their opinions without violence, rhetoric, racism, and hatemongering. (although i think the bigger problem is that most of these violent extremist types lack even the basic intelligence to do that) and yes, they also have the choice to vote him out next time.

but the gutter-trash level to which these ignorant a-holes are stooping - including that despicable pig with the lipstick - horrifies me. i said somewhere in another thread this week that i'm about to turn in my Murikan card, and i mean it. i'm so scared by where all of this is going, that i want to get to FLA and just keep on going south...