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L.T.M.
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L.T.M. asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

How does a community apologize?

Watching the news I heard Miss America say that the gay community had apologized to her. What exactly does that mean? How many communities are there? Do they have kings and queens that lead them?

I'm American Indian, Black Irish, and English. I hunt and fish. Do I have a community I didn't know about? Can I appoint myself King of my own community and issue decrees an behalf of my community? Apologize for people in my community who may or may not even realize that I've appointed myself their king?

Or are we all just Americans and has this 'community' business gotten out of hand?

Btw, my question isn't about Miss America or the story that's been in the news. It's about absurdity. About statements we hear in the news over and over that make no sense in reality.

Update:

I hear ya guys. I miss the time when we were just called Americans. That's good enough for me.

Update 2:

Ok, as king, here's my first official apology on behalf of my 'community'.

I sincerely apologize to 'the earthworm community'. You've suffered much over the years. Herded into containers like cattle and shipped off to sporting goods stores. Oh the humanity lol.

Update 3:

Lakota, Sioux and Ollie - You're alright by me. Thanks!

Update 4:

Hey I gotta go polish my new crown I'll check back with ya later thanks.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I have found you to be most proficient in posting and responding to YA questions and my sense of you is that you are one who has his act together. However, I'm surprised that you apparently are unaware of the American Indian-Black Irish-English community. Only recently this community apologized to the hunting and fishing community for circumventing the earthworm community by using fishing lures made by the fishing lure community. I think what we need is someone from the community organizer community to organize our communities. ...and I'm not talking about Obama who is busy trying to screw the American community out of any community at all.

  • Sasha
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Since she lives in CA. There are so many Gay area's. But since when are they a community? Guess some don't learn good grammar. Not all Gay's have apologized. I was in a Coffee Shop the other day when she had stated they apologized. Many Gay's go to this place. They were calling her all kind of names. I just listened and left. Not all Gay's see her views or other views as just being honest. Is why I hope that the Judge does not over turn Prop 8. If this Judge does over turn what we voted against. We the Citizens will have that Judge placed on Citizens arrest. I know that the Judge knows we can do this. We voted Yes and they better not slap us in the face. We should be American's. But I guess the Gay's have a community. Which is so stupid. Maybe Castro District is a community, but who knows. This is getting very stupid.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yep - I long for the days when I could say "I'm an American," without a prefix.

    It seems like decades - but it was only 6 months ago...

    Oh, I may as well pre-emptively apologize for all Back Irish, German, English, Scottish - Americans right now and get it over with.

    And don't forget the TRANSGENDERED COMMUNITY which apparently is a minority group which gets preferential treatment in Municipal Hiring and then goes out and smashes up two trolleys and a lot of people 'cause he/she was texting while driving. Don't even MENTION the horrible driving record he/she had before he/she was hired! What were they thinking???? Probably that they'd lose all Federal funding if they treated her like any other applicant - an American.

    On my local News tonight - on TWO channels w/in 5 minutes of each other - Parents of a Lesbian woman with her daughter bemoaning the fact that "Olive" the granddaughter has yet to be flower girl at her mother's wedding to HER girlfriend.

    They should be prosecuted for naming the poor kid "Olive."

    I'm in Western New York State - NOT a hotbed of Liberalism. Is there some sort of referendum coming up that I'm not aware of???

  • 1 decade ago

    Hey TomT...I like your way of thinking! Personally, I think the American community needs to apologise to the Native Americans first, before even trying to get started on anything else. Could be because my great-great grandma was of the Blackfoot that makes me say that, but is true any way you look at it. They were pretty much told to get lost when the government sold their land to the settlers and given sub-standard land to "live" on...and a government "bailout"...huh, I guess you could call that the first government bailout, right? One of a long list. At any rate, I don't know if the gay community has one representative, or many. I do know that they're not a poor minority by any stretch of the imagination, with many of them in the white collar sector of workers. All that aside, I'm thrilled that Miss America retained her crown. She didn't deserve to be put down just because of her personal beliefs. If any group wants to be tolerated, then they need to extend the same courtesy to everyone else in order for toleration to be totally accepted. Trying to make a person accept your personal views & lifestyles is just wrong, and makes for very bad blood between neighborhoods & other groups of people. I personally think that if you live an alernative lifestyle, you're entitled to do so, but not entitled to make everyone else accept your choices through the court system. If every group in this country did this, this country would be torn apart from within...and is actually what's happening right now. This very thing is what's torn countries apart in the past. Not many countries still exist with their original constitution as intact as ours is. Given enough time though, this won't be a matter of fact any longer, especially the way things are headed. Sad. <*)))><

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  • 1 decade ago

    Actually I heard Miss California say that Mr. Hilton had not apologized. But I suppose there are self appointed "spokes people" for these various "communities" If we really cared about them I suppose we could find names from different communities and different times. Might even find a few controversies there where two or more people tried to be the spokesman for the same communities. Could even be enough stuff on this for a book....Hmmm...

    SFC

    US Army

    Retired

  • 1 decade ago

    That is one that gets up my nose to say the least about it. Funny thing these days if you are white then be careful what you say as they those minority groups classify whites as racists. Like what is the difference with African American, Hispanic American, Asian American and the list goes on. Shouldn't it be the other way around American first then add the Slope or Ching or Spaniard or Kafka or what ever.

    Then there are those queerer folks to go the boot as well like man on man and girl on girl adding up to hundred of thousand of lollies sprinkles on bread and butter which all looks the same when it is digested and comes out the other end.

    Has anyone seen my boomerang lately I had thrown it at some camel drives who came onto our sacred land and it has disappeared again. Oh no those blasted spirits again. Must stop drinking that atomic water. Hey man when you gonna scalp some of them minority groups as I hear those war drums echoing across the Simpson Desert.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Me betchum that community is very small. Can you have a community

    of one. This prissy little tight lipped ballerina, who shot off his mouth

    to begin with, Was reacting to his own jaded and shaded rules of what

    he condoned or did not. I don't honestly think the entire gay community

    could agree on what color of pastel to dress in, let alone the issue of

    life. It always boils down to special interest groups. I have a special

    interest group. We are called conservative Americans. We are called

    Americans who stand for the Constitution of the United States. We

    are American Indians who stand for the care of Mother earth. We are

    just Americans. No color, No pretense, No grand plan. Life, Liberty,

    and the pursuit of Happiness. Pretty simple huh, Hows that for a

    community. I stand with you my brother Levon. and Ol fool and others

    who just want to be left the hell alone. And who truly walk a path

    without agenda.

    Source(s): Just an old Patriot.
  • ATJ
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    The gay community of each state has so called representatives and in California they seem to have a lg. number who claim to rep. gay people. Miss California means that those that so viciously attacked her on free speech have apologized and believe me they did and publicly on T.V. and radio. These are the same people that do not want anyone to get in their way of their free speech. Yes you can declare yourself leader of anything you want but black Irish that is a term used to define those with dark hair and eyes to those of more nordic decent they do not mean skin color and we don't use the word literally we are all Irish that are born there and those of decent.I am just clarifying the term we do not separate our people in that class I need to clarify that!!!!!!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No matter what the stand you take, you should always be prepared to

    defend it if need be, by yourself if it comes down to that. You don't need

    a community whatever that means to speak for you. If others share your

    journey, you will have a crowded path, If not, be prepared to deal with

    the elements of life that may strike out aganist you. I stand with Levon

    Ol Fool, Hunkpapa, And those of US who walk without agenda, Just

    freedom of expression and the right to continue to do so, Yutta'Hey'O

    Source(s): The Old Patriots brother.
  • 1 decade ago

    I'm waiting for an apology from Obama and the Democrats, Bush and the Republicans for borrowing all that money and THEN asking me to pay it back.

    If a company does that and it's big enough and the government lend them money--It's called a bailout!

    If I did that it would be called fraud.

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