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Ferociouskitty
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Posted on Monday, July 20, 2009 - 07:32 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/07/harvard.html
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Posted on Monday, July 20, 2009 - 07:50 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I hate white cops. And always have.
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Posted on Monday, July 20, 2009 - 08:12 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Mr. Gates is a very intelligent man but sometimes the brightest individuals miss the point. One line in that piece caught my eye. Mr. Gates told the officer that he didn't know who he was messing with. I think the officer knew quite well who he was jacking with ...just another ni**a.

The police officer will probably get a raise. At the very least he won't have to pay for his drinks for the rest of his life.

He's a freakin' hero.

If I had a dollar for every time a white police officer rubbed my nut sack I'd be rich. One time it happened to me 4 times in one stop. For real, they said they stopped me because I was seen riding through a bad neighborhood. He order everyone out of the car and searched us as we got out. Then passed us to another officer that told us to get our hands on the car -- searched us again. Then when that officer got done playing ping pong with my johnson the other officer, who was searching the car, asked him if he searched us real good. The pud puller said he may have missed something and we were searched again. After a long series of questions, they searched us one more time. I could have went downtown and complained about the pricks pulling on my prick but that would have been an invitation for future peaker pulls.

Welcome to the neighborhood Mr. Gates.
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Posted on Monday, July 20, 2009 - 08:23 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Hello All,

OK, the question is just hanging out there like a wet sheet and I can't resist: My Ol' Grayhead...what is it about your nutsack that white men find so irresistable? I mean did you overhear any one of them say, "hey, that one right there, his nutsack is the most luxurious thing I have ever felt in my LIFE! Dude, you have got to pull on them and see for yourself!" I don't know Grayhead, if you got it like that, I might have to put you in movies. Naturally, I have to get my 15% of the gross. You know, I'm have to pull a Todd Palin and get paid too.
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Posted on Monday, July 20, 2009 - 09:28 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Well my ol'friend, I wondered about that myself.

I know you are a jack of all trades but I didn't know pimpin' was your game. If anybody is going to make any money off of my inflatable tube it won't be you. And unfortunately my nutsack was the only one they could play with.

See, Todd Palin has that pale face to work with; all I had was those questionable women in my car. I knew I was in trouble when the first police officer said "OH, look who we have here". I was like, who in the hell do we have here. He called her by a name I didn't know. Another one had a federal warrant waiting for her.

I know I know, more questions *smile*. See, I was just being a good guy and was giving them a ride.

The more I think about Thump, a movie deal might not be a bad idea. I'll see if I can get a copy of my police bookings. Yep, I'll try to get one in which they told me to spread my cheeks and cough. What do you think, do you want 15% of that?
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Posted on Monday, July 20, 2009 - 10:26 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Hello All,

Ol' Grayhead: "I know you are a jack of all trades but I didn't know pimpin' was your game."

Shiiiii_, times is hard! 'Desperate times calls for desperate measures', and an Amen to that! *LOL* Man, spread those ol' cheeks and I'll slap an additional $20 for the priviledge. What else can you do? Shooot, Daddy needs some shoes! *LOL*
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Posted on Monday, July 20, 2009 - 10:46 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Thump, you are a mess. I've done my share of bad thangs for money but spreading my cheeks for twenty bucks is not one of them.

But I hear you on the desparate times. Shoooot, with a voice like yours and an old gray wig, I see Medea all over you. I know you have a pistol. I can see the title of your first movie: Thumper does Medea ...ugh, that doesn't sound right *lol*. But I'll defer that decision to you.

I too need a new pair of shoes but I'll keep my eye closed and covered. Not the eye that winks - the eye that stinks. I'll let you be the lead in this movie.
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Posted on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 06:19 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

"OK, the question is just hanging out there like a wet sheet and I can't resist: My Ol' Grayhead...what is it about your nutsack that white men find so irresistable? I mean did you overhear any one of them say, "hey, that one right there, his nutsack is the most luxurious thing I have ever felt in my LIFE! Dude, you have got to pull on them and see for yourself!" I don't know Grayhead, if you got it like that, I might have to put you in movies."

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Posted on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 02:32 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Charges dropped.

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20090720/US.Harvard.Scholar.Disord erly/

"The city of Cambridge issued a statement saying the arrest 'was regrettable and unfortunate' and police and Gates agreed that dropping the charge was a just resolution."
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Posted on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 02:44 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Charges dropped ...who wins and who lost?

Should we have another round table discussion ...UGH!
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Posted on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - 11:09 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

"This is just hilarious. This Negro is the go to guy for the liberal establishment--he is no Cosby, but subtly his attitude and words say, "Black America! Why don't you take a chill pill? See what you could accomplish if you just buckled down and worked and had a bunch of cool white friends like me?"

He just got a little bit of what most Negroes in this country get some time or another and they don't have a high profile and they got to grin and bear it.

I wish the cops had beat the black off him."

I hate white cops. And always have

"Cynique, you continue to amaze me.

Why?

Y'all think alike. You just ain't got no gun, stick or badge.

Let me tell you--pound for pound I'd rather get rousted by the most racist white cop in America than by a Negro cop bending over backwards to show he ain't caving in to the brothers."
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Posted on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - 02:16 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Blah blah blah. You don't amaze me, chrishayden. There is never anything extraordinary about your opinionated comments.

You post an inane little anecdote scorning a pitiful old black woman who you think you're too good to pass the time of day with, and then you castigate other discriminating black people for being hypcrits. You use the most contemptible of terms when you refer to where you live amongst black folks, but anybody else who criticizes this ghetto culture gets a blubbering reproach from you because you consider yourself the great arbitrator of which black people can be attacked and which ones should be defended. And you still harbor a slave mentality when it comes to your disapproval of black folks saying certain things out loud - cuz massa might hear it.

In fact, white people never have a better friend than you when it comes to them being attacked by a righteous black person.

You try to pass yourself off as hardened and detached when you are actually a wuss who becomes petuantly disillusioned when your wide-eyed expectations of the world and the people in it don't measure up.

Your psyche has no fine-tuning knob; with you it's always "either" or "or, and your reactions to controversial subjects are usually over the top.

The best way to sum you up is to call you a babbling tower of babel, speaking in many tongues, each of which contradicts the other.

I have often given you credit for being articulate. But what you articulate just makes it clear as to how irrelevant you are.
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Posted on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - 03:05 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

You post an inane little anecdote scorning a pitiful old black woman who you think you're too good to pass the time of day with, and then you castigate other discriminating black people for being hypcrits. You use the most contemptible of terms when you refer to where you live amongst black folks, but anybody else who criticizes this ghetto culture gets a blubbering reproach from you because you consider yourself the great arbitrator of which black people can be attacked and which ones should be defended.

What she said. The net effect: a big fat ZERO.
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Posted on Thursday, July 23, 2009 - 12:41 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

As POTUS, Obama really needs to stay above the fray on this one. By putting himself in the middle of this controversy, using terms like "stupid" to refer to the police, he alienates a whole segment of the population who society has designated as the good guys: law enforcers. Just another example of his dubious judgment.

"Skip" Gates has obviously found himself a cause, and he's going to milk it for all it's worth, brushing up on his best impression of Rev. Al Sharpton.

In the meantime, skin heads cops - oops, I mean white policemen are making a silent resolve to kick some more black asses. And so it goes.
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Posted on Friday, July 24, 2009 - 11:25 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

"Skip" Gates has obviously found himself a cause, and he's going to milk it for all it's worth, brushing up on his best impression of Rev. Al Sharpton.

"Skip Gates is a wuss. Watch for him to be in a "Can't We All Juss Git Along" moment with the officer in the future"

In the meantime, skin heads cops - oops, I mean white policemen are making a silent resolve to kick some more black asses.

"Number one, that's what they are all hired to do. If they don't do it they get run off the force"

Charges dropped.

"I wonder if Gates will sue--I bet he don't"

You post an inane little anecdote scorning a pitiful old black woman who you think you're too good to pass the time of day with

"I have never seen you show such concern for the male derelicts I talk about, but you are a manhater from way back.

I am the one who lives on her block, not you. You have never seen her.

You do feel some--er--affinity.


Not unexpected from Da Queen of Da Blues. She is a drunk, a burnt out old ho and a crack addict. I feel sorry for her but until she stops screwing up I can't do nothing for her. If you think she is good peoples gimme your address and I'll give her a ticket to your place.

By the way, I just checked out your 45 minute version of "Wang Dang Doodle" and, though I hate your guts, it is DA BOMB!
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Posted on Friday, July 24, 2009 - 11:39 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

You consider the ol lady a hopeless case, just like Bill Cosby has lost faith in the black folks he criticizes. But, of course, having a condescending attitude like this is something you think only chrishayden is allowed to have. You're so full of it you reek!

Hate my guts, huh, crissy? That's cuz you envy me from having the intestinal fortitude which you lack, you jelly-spined flannel mouth!
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Posted on Saturday, July 25, 2009 - 08:48 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

""Skip" Gates has obviously found himself a cause, and he's going to milk it for all it's worth, brushing up on his best impression of Rev. Al Sharpton."

I have to agree. If Skip had just showed ID as requested by the police and left it at that rather than the race grandstanding and ranting, he never would have been arrested. I can understand his indignation, but to accuse the cops of being racist is foul and groundless. End of subject....
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Posted on Sunday, July 26, 2009 - 08:07 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Ghostrider/memorex? "If Skip had just showed ID as requested by the police and left it at that rather than the race grandstanding and ranting, he never would have been arrested. I can understand his indignation, but to accuse the cops of being racist is foul and groundless"

I can't believe I heard the above come from the mouth of a ......


**warning**! I am going to do my best white guy impression. "OMG!!!"

**warning** I am about to do my best gay white guy ...."OMG!"
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Posted on Sunday, July 26, 2009 - 08:19 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Real black men DO NOT say OMG. They say, lawd have mercy or ain't that a .
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Posted on Sunday, July 26, 2009 - 10:13 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

If Skip had just showed ID as requested by the police and left it at that rather than the race grandstanding and ranting, he never would have been arrested.

I do not believe this is necessarily true. I think the very fact of this "uppity" Black man with a Harvard ID may have been enough to cause enough resentment for some police officers to attempt to "put him in his place."

The bottom line for me, though, is that we supposedly do not live in a society where police can wield their power because their feelings/egos get hurt. Those who are willing to excuse the officer's response, or put all or even most of the blame on Prof. Gates for not acting the "right" way...the way a Black man, specifically should...are apparently a lot more tolerant for that kind of society than I am.
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Posted on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 08:54 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

"Real black men DO NOT say OMG. They say, lawd have mercy or ain't that a •••••"

Really? That's what real black men say? Well, if that's true -then how would you possibly know...???? Oh! Someone told you this?
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Posted on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 09:47 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Jeez, you are one witty guy. I think your game is a wee bit weak.
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Posted on Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 04:47 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

"I think your game is a wee bit weak."

Oh really? Hmmmmmm......Well....Coming from you Carey, I kinda consider that a compliment. I must be doing something right. Thanks......

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