Nothing I have said was meant to be insulting. I apologize if you took it that way.Destee said:Brother Excel10k ... i realize you are talking to Brother Kemetkind below, but i think you have insulted me ...
I have never hid the fact that I am here for a purpose. That purpose is clearly to exchange ideas about my thoughts on how we can break our cycle of self-destruction. I care about the future of the African American People. I am not here selling Avon. I want to say this as diplomaticallly as I know how, but if I cannot fully discuss my thoughts and ideas, which includes periodically inviting people to our site, then I cannot fulfill my purpose here. My becoming or not becoming a premium member has zero to do with money and everything to do with my testing of the waters..Destee said:Who are you to come in here and tell us what this site must be? We are not on your site telling you what it must be. Matter of fact, we are not on your site asking your Members to come to destee.com. You are here asking us to go there. So we must be enough (of something) to have you here promoting your site ... getting all you can for free (never accepting my personal invitation to become a Premium Member or purchasing advertising) ... even going to the point that you must be warned to stop spamming your link ... rule #5 ... yet you want to talk about what we must be? Help me understand this please.
I tell you what...let me know if I can continue about my purpose...If so, I will become a premium member this evening when I return from the MLK events. If not, I will remain an unpaid member until you give me the boot...which would assumably be soon...but if I cannot serve my purpose, my presence is pointless anyway. But as I have said, I have never hid what I am about...I built a career being the odd man out, (As far as I know, I am one of only two black helicopter pilots in the state of Mississippi)....so this is nothing new for me to stand out different from the crowd....and be flat out comfortable doing it.
First of all, I am not the owner of familylobby.com I provided the link that showed who she is. Second, her business does not cater to a race...she is in the business of making GREEN. She has a fair mix of black families and white families distributied throughout the site and in the examples of how to use the site. Why would she go there all the trouble of building a fantastic site that can serve any race of family equally then make it afrocentric rather than simply a site which serves American families....for some rediculas principle that would "Self-limit" her business potential??? This woman quit a high paying job at microsoft to pursue this business....do you think she needs to criple her business by making it a business that appears to cater to 13% of the population as opposed to 100%.Destee said:I went to familylobby.com and i saw pictures of white families. Why do you have white images on a Black owned site?
White businesses do this all the time...that is provide a mixure of black images and white images to appeal to a wider client base. Sure she may turn off the 10% of the 13% of the population who turn their nose up because an African American business does not snub their nose at white clients. She has a successful business that serves American families, and does a fantastic job of it.Destee said:Maybe the white images ?
As far as I know, and I did look for a it, you did not respond to to my request. I understand being busy and all, but it doesn't take very long to type "yes" or even less to type "no" Laugh sister....you know it is funny.Destee said:I vaguely remember you extending me the opportunity to work with / for your endeavor. I thought i had responded, but my answer to unsolicited requests is usually the same, as i receive them often. It is basically that, i don't have time to become ipersonally nvolved in other projects, but the Family may be interested and you're welcome to share it with them (within the confines of our rules).
I am sure my sense of humor may come off as offensive, but it is not meant to be....I am going to have fun and be happy...so If I get kicked off the site, I had a great time doing it.
I am just not that touchy or sensitive....I would simply call it a probationary period...that you would be simply getting to know me and my ideology before committing to work with me or to give me that yes or no....I see nothing wrong with that....I came here, you didn't know me from Adam...that said, it would not be unreasonable to withhold judgement...my statement "see how many people I get angry with me is simply a phrase...I don't mean it litterally like that.Destee said:I find the above sentence most insulting. Had it not been for it alone, i would not have responded at all.
Why would you want to do business or anything, with a person as you've described above? I certainly would not want to do business with such a person. Nor would i want to do business with a person that thought such of me. Nonetheless, i wonder, what evidence do you have that i'd act in that manner? Can you provide even one example of where i ever did such a thing?
Destee