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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents who loved each other and put family first.  No history of divorce, cheating, addiction, abuse, adultery.  Educated and moral parents. Liberal, compassionate, spiritual.[b]  Non-White, Non Christian[/b].  Gave the same amount to everyone and divvied up the property equally. [/quote]
This is such a bizarre response to OP’s question.[/quote]

Not really. Bizarre only to White people. 
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Nope. Just plain bizarre. Brings that poster's intelligence into question, for sure [/quote]

Look at the person who shot all those people in Las Vegas.  His brother is saying that it was a surprise that he turned out to be a criminal.  This kind of disconnect mainly  happens in White families.

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[b]Um what?  I am pretty sure the parents (usually mothers who think their son could never do anything like this...again) of the gang bangers in Chicago feel they are connected to their completely depraved and inhumane children who have shot babies in strollers. Disconnect comes in many forms my friend[/b].

OP, for us it is a shared bond over our lives. One sibling has managed to become an outsider but the rest of us talk constantly. We all were very close growing up and close in age. Our parents were very good about not treating one different than the other. The 4 of us who are in constant contact speak daily either by text or phone. Our vacations are to see each other so our kids can grow up together too. They are my people and I love them! [/quote]

You are literally just as disgusting as the person you think is disgusting. [/quote]

Why is it that if someone points out some positive about being non-white on this board, you white people start going in on black people? The poster said she was a non-White, non-Christian...not that she was black. Most black Americans identify as Christian, so why did you jump to that conclusion? Nobody started talking all crazy about Asians and Eastern Euros...and they have their sets of issues, too. Anyway...

I think race and religion are relevant here in that they perhaps had a closer bond if they grew up in an environment where they were in the minority and really only had each other to buffer that. Also, Latinx families, as an example, also share a common language. Middle Eastern/Muslim families have different traditions and holidays. Black families are historically rooted in family (including extended family) and community for many reasons. We do tend to perceive ourselves as closer-knit within our immediate families.

But to the non-W, non-Xtian poster...while white men almost exclusively commit mass shootings, we should be very careful about making statements about mental health and race based on that fact alone. White men have the resources and autonomy to carry out these types of events - they are not necessarily crazier. The deliberate killing of the babies by gang members as retribution (which is not a common thing or even like an epidemic in the black community btw) - and in fact, the prevalence of cyclical violence across many demographics that have been traumatized for generations - can also be attributed to psychological factors just as much as white men shooting up random groups of strangers. We have to be careful as minorities to stop spreading false information within our communities. Suicide rates among black and latinx men are on the rise, which is just one indicator that no matter how close-knit you are with your families and communities, you can hide a psychological disorder that turns into a full crisis from the people you love the most. I know that we make jokes within our circles about people being "white people crazy" but this is just not the forum for that and had no place in this discussion.

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