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jorkin @jorkin (67) • China 14 Apr 08

I have never been out before,so I don't know what the foreigner thinks of China.Do you know Dalai Issue?What's your opinion?Please tell me,Thank you.

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Drakhan Your English is very good. I have no trouble understanding you. I'm told that my Cantonese sounds like a lot of mumbling and I do not know Mandarin at all. I think I am able to read about five words. :) It has been a pleasure speaking with you. I think America...

18 Apr 08

jorkin @jorkin (67) • China 14 Apr 08

I have never been out before,so I don't know what the foreigner thinks of China.Do you know Dalai Issue?What's your opinion?Please tell me,Thank you.

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Drakhan Thank you. I'm actually a member of the American media. I'm the managing editor for five newspapers in America and I have issues with the way the television news covers things in this country. The emphasis, even for the daily print newspapers, has moved away...

18 Apr 08

lolalolacherrycola @lolalolacherrycola (899) • United States 20 Feb 08

I hope that I am not out of place here, but, why does everyone refer to Obama as black? I thought his mother was white and his father was black. How does that make him black and not white? He is as much white as he is black....

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Drakhan My girlfriend is half Chinese and Half Puerto Rican. I'm 3/4 white and 1/4 Choctaw Indian. We joke that our kids are going to be so screwed up there isn't even a racial slur for them yet.

22 Feb 08

poppoppop111 @poppoppop111 (5731) • Canada 21 Oct 07

i went to a wedding reception yesterday. the man was 50 and he married a 22 year old. i know age isn't all that but it just seems to me that the 50 year old man should be mature enough to know this isn't right. yes she's an adult...

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Drakhan It's funny you should say that. I'm 43 and my girlfriend is 26. She's got me Watching "I Love New York" and a lot of other stuff that I'd normally have never paid attention to. I actually think that's one of the perks of dating younger women. They pull me into...

22 Oct 07

smacksman @smacksman (6053) 28 Feb 07

I heard on the radio this morning a joking comment by an English/Pakistani Muslim celebrity that he couldn't get a job acting as James Bond 007 because it would involve kissing girls on the lips on the film set which was against...

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Drakhan I apologize. I didn't mean to represent Islam ... or Christianity ... at all. I'm know the Muslim faith does prohibit kissing in public just as the Christian faith prohibits many things. I was trying to say I suspect there are many people in the world who say...

25 Sep 07

ronreyes @ronreyes (4724) • Philippines 14 Sep 07

It's a bit strange don't you think? Those people who don't believe or against Jesus Christ, is actually celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ! I'm not saying that I hate these "Anti-Christ-People". I still respect them and...

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Drakhan Personally, I've found it's impossible to avoid celebrating Christmas. I try every year and every year, I fail. I don't decorate my house. I don't buy presents. I don't ask for presents. I don't want presents. I tell everyone that I choose not to do the...

17 Sep 07

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Drakhan @Drakhan (240) • United States 19 Apr 07

I want to get this off my chest. Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people at Virginia Tech. It was an evil, violent act and he should be condemned for it. However, I'm a little annoyed at the way people are reacting. Over and over,...

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Drakhan I'm worried that all the analysis I'm seeing so far seems geared toward putting more pressure on the "weird kids" to become more normal. That's seems to me to be exactly what pushes them to violence. They say "I have a problem." The standard response is "You...

20 Apr 07

Drakhan @Drakhan (240) • United States 19 Apr 07

I want to get this off my chest. Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people at Virginia Tech. It was an evil, violent act and he should be condemned for it. However, I'm a little annoyed at the way people are reacting. Over and over,...

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Drakhan I really think that's what disturbs me most about this. Nobody wants to admit maybe the kid's pain was legitimate. And I think that is because if we admit that he wasn't just a psycho, then it means there's something wrong with our culture and maybe with us as...

20 Apr 07

Drakhan @Drakhan (240) • United States 19 Apr 07

I want to get this off my chest. Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people at Virginia Tech. It was an evil, violent act and he should be condemned for it. However, I'm a little annoyed at the way people are reacting. Over and over,...

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Drakhan I agree there are multiple causes. It bothers me that most people seem to be discounting the reasons the killer himself gave in favor of theories that make them feel better and safer. It's more comfortable but I don't think it solves the problem.

20 Apr 07

Drakhan @Drakhan (240) • United States 19 Apr 07

I want to get this off my chest. Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people at Virginia Tech. It was an evil, violent act and he should be condemned for it. However, I'm a little annoyed at the way people are reacting. Over and over,...

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Drakhan Exactly. I'm not trying to excuse the shooting. But I've seen the way authority figures "reach out" to kids they think are weird. And I think it just hastens the snapping point. Like the teacher who made him read out loud when he didn't want to. That story...

20 Apr 07

Drakhan @Drakhan (240) • United States 19 Apr 07

I want to get this off my chest. Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people at Virginia Tech. It was an evil, violent act and he should be condemned for it. However, I'm a little annoyed at the way people are reacting. Over and over,...

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Drakhan I'm not really looking for a scapegoat or trying to place blame. I'm just honestly curious here. Why is it that when people start analyzing why kids snap and do the school shooting thing, they come up with every reason on earth -except- the reason the shooters...

20 Apr 07

Drakhan @Drakhan (240) • United States 19 Apr 07

I want to get this off my chest. Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people at Virginia Tech. It was an evil, violent act and he should be condemned for it. However, I'm a little annoyed at the way people are reacting. Over and over,...

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Drakhan That's my thinking here. By putting all the blame on him and saying he was just a weird kid, then blaming the police for not smacking down the weird kid, and the counselors for not tagging him as a weird kid with some kind of psychic magic marker, and then...

20 Apr 07

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