Originally posted by Dowding:
Nice you can wear your prejudice on your sleeve, creamo. Honesty really is a virtue.
would it have been more socially palatable if he had seen an italian gangster?
is it ok to be angry that guys in leisure suits and tacky camaros are in your hood, or maybe dudes with pinstripes and tommy guns or does that just apply to black, misunderstood gangsters?
come ride the bus in my town - you can preach tolerance to the gangsters that are holding you upside down shaking shillings outta you. or perhaps you can avoid them altogether by learning to recognize them?
it shouldn't be a crime to recognize them - if they are wearing a social uniform then why deny them the reconition they seek?
those clothes aren't chosen for no reason, their mom didn't take the to mervyns back to school shopping and say "here tyreese, wear this jersey that says -you my squeak, squeak- it'd look super on you!"
those duds have every bit the validity of a badge or a flag - they mean to tell a story. it is not wrong to listen. if the story is misunderstood then maybe you arent telling it good enough.
slinging your pants around your ankles, limping, scowling and wearing a little do-rag are clear symbols, creamo'd be pretty clueless not to know that. naivity is rewarded in this culture, i swear.
even if the kid isn't a gangster he's trying to say "look at me, i am a hard gangster and believe in that lifestyle watch your step because i'm baaaaad, i'm bad, sha-mon oh!"
my boss is black. he takes no guff from anyone because he created himself. i respect his unwillingness to be what the world expects him to be "either a ghetto ganster or a sell ou uncle tom" he is neither and it shows. i respect him immensely.
he doesnt look like a gangster, he looks like an average joe, not a white wanna be just neutral. no one is going to see him in a neighborhood and recoil in horror because they know better. give people a little credit for having common sense!
good grief, i mean maybe people were that unjust in alabama 1949, but in this modern era and no one is flipping out because they see some harmless black guy... but most people know a ganster/gangster wannabe when they see one.
that tired old after school special is getting old - "oh he looked like a gangster but he was really a future nobel laureate and nobody would give him a chance"....."oh it's ok mrs. dawson, i'll just go work hard at mcdonalds and try not to sling caine...sniiff cry cry"
lol come on, use your head man.it is a new era and those old cop outs are no less valid than the stereotypes they were meant to usurp. the world didnt stop evolving in 1969 it's time to reintroduce common sense.
