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« Reply #15 on: March 04, 2006, 11:43:59 AM »
Can we say 'white trash' in here?

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« Reply #16 on: March 04, 2006, 12:00:32 PM »
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can we say spade in here?

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Shovel:



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« Reply #17 on: March 04, 2006, 12:13:17 PM »
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Originally posted by midnight Target
I wonder if Raider knows why his post is racist while Hangtime's is not?


So you agree that Hangtime if only being factual when he says that black gangbangers who were flooded out of NO are now causing crime in other cities?

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« Reply #18 on: March 04, 2006, 12:59:50 PM »
I didn't say that. I just re-phrased a PC posts with language a PC dissenter could wrap his brain around. "refugee" (in quotes) with the accompanying phrseology implied in my mind 'black gang banger'. Then I commented that it's no big surprise.

Just callin a spade a spade.

Does that make it 'racist'?

frankly, my dear; I just don't give a damn.

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« Reply #19 on: March 04, 2006, 01:27:19 PM »
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Originally posted by midnight Target
I wonder if Raider knows why his post is racist while Hangtime's is not?


Good call :)

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« Reply #20 on: March 04, 2006, 01:28:46 PM »
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it doesn't seem racist to me drive through south dallas or oakcliff thats where they hang out:rolleyes:


Who's they?
I used to work in S. Dallas and have never had one problem with "them" people.
The racist over tones in some of these post is disturbing at best and just plain ignorant at its worst.

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« Reply #21 on: March 04, 2006, 01:37:18 PM »
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I was 6 when Betsy hit New Orleans in 1965. I grew up in that reconstruction and it shaped my life. That reconstruction was a vibrant  and productive era in New Orleans. The reconstruction from Katrina will be that and more.


Word.

We lived in New Orleans from 1964 to 1967 then moved back to Texas, out by where I-10 crosses Veterans (they were just building I-10 then). I was 12 in 65, and we rode the storm out. The period of calm as the eye passed over was amazing :)

I've never doubted that the city will survive.

BTW what are you doing this coming Friday afternoon? We're driving through OTW to Florida (vacation trip) and are gonna stop down in the Carrolton/Claiborne area of town for a meal with a friend, wanna get in on that?

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« Reply #22 on: March 04, 2006, 01:48:30 PM »
so black folk like chicken...whats racist about that?  white folk eat the bird too ya know.
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« Reply #23 on: March 04, 2006, 02:11:41 PM »
ya but who eats iguanas?

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« Reply #24 on: March 04, 2006, 02:30:38 PM »
its been a couple of months since the mayor said they were gonna start reconstruction so where are the bulldozers,cranes,etc.

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« Reply #25 on: March 04, 2006, 02:32:37 PM »
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its been a couple of months since the mayor said they were gonna start reconstruction so where are the bulldozers,cranes,etc.
in the KFC parking lot waiting for lunch

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« Reply #26 on: March 04, 2006, 03:19:03 PM »
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So you agree that Hangtime if only being factual when he says that black gangbangers who were flooded out of NO are now causing crime in other cities?


Nice try at rephrasing the point, but not at all.

Hangtime specified a behavior (gangbanging) that happened to be based within a particular group (blacks).

Raider only mentioned fried chicken as a slap against ALL black people regardless of their activities.

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« Reply #27 on: March 04, 2006, 03:53:12 PM »
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Originally posted by midnight Target
I wonder if Raider knows why his post is racist while Hangtime's is not?


Oh, is raider guilty of racism, or is he just guilty of stereotyping?

Or, is he just indifferant to those who would rather obscure the reality than be an honest person?

It would take greater minds many years to understand the failings of all people that have lead to the large percentage of African Americans who choose welfare over work,  prefer government handouts over self-suffieciency, would shoot you just as soon as look at you, and commit crime as if it was a fun hobby.

I know, as I am sure all of us do that not all African Americans dont fit that description, that many come from honest hard working families who raise their children to study, work and be good people.  But, I believe today that statistics tell us that the majority of black children are borne to single mothers, and the predominantly black schools are dangerous places where learning and preparing for the future isnt a priority.

Sadly, back where I grew up, the state is busing inner city black kids now into the better "white" high schools, and as a result crime, drugs and lower average grades is the result.  Gangs now exist and violence is on the upsurge.  I am sorry, but you cant blame that on "whitey".

I am sure crime is rising where the NO refugees have gone, and I would be willing to wager the large majority of hotel squatting refugees never looked for work and tried to get out on their own.

Reality is ugly sometimes, but it is what it is.

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« Reply #28 on: March 04, 2006, 04:13:43 PM »
^^

To the point.

And no PC BS attached.

Ain't THAT refreshing!
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« Reply #29 on: March 04, 2006, 04:24:59 PM »


Runs away to find a safe thread about religion or abortion.......:noid