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Biff, f those ratings. unless Obama is caught with an intern like Bill Bubba Clinton, he’ll always be “the man” in this minority’s eyes. For someone who can make me believe my boy can be whatever he wants to be – that’s priceless, f’ing priceless!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As Brandon Terry said, this was an older Black man in a blue blazer, with all his luggage , and who needs a cane to walk. Yep! My first thought would have been ooooohhh- Burglar. NOT. I can understand someone being nervous and wondering what’s going on but the self made vigilante should also have a big dose of common sense and an awareness who her neighbors are. No pass from me either. Stuff like that happened to me and my husband. Cops stopping us on the street to be sure he wasn’t bothering me. (Yes- because I always walked hand in hand with a strange Black man sown the street), or stopping him in NJ for “driving too slow.”
It happens and no amount of similar examples with white people makes the fact that racism still exists go away. Because you know if the neighbor had seen a white guy doing the same thing she would have gone over herself and asked if the door was jammed. Not called the cops.
The cop? As soon as he knew Gates was the homeowner he should have apologized for the inconvenience and got out. He could have easily ignored Gate’s understandable upset and just walked away. Last I heard it is still a free speech country- we don’t have speech police.
Snappy, I can attest to the yumminess of the Fairway’s brand ravioli and pasta. It is delish.
M4L, email me when you have a chance. I wanted to run something by you. (BKJester3@aol.com)
DH – Consider yourself lucky that you went to the last show for Sir Paul since a co-worker who is obsessed with Beatles and knows everything there is to know about them (even has some underground British stuff that was never released) was at all 3 shows and said that yesterday’s was the best in terms of the crowd. He said he did sing his heart out in all 3 but he enjoyed yesterday’s show the most.
I can’t believe Obama’s approval rating is below 60% now. Although I don’t really read too much into those numbers given the surprising approval ratings of some other presidents at the six month mark.
Biff, f those ratings. unless Obama is caught with an intern like Bill Bubba Clinton, he’ll always be “the man” in this minority’s eyes. For someone who can make me believe my boy can be whatever he wants to be – that’s priceless, f’ing priceless!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As Brandon Terry said, this was an older Black man in a blue blazer, with all his luggage , and who needs a cane to walk. Yep! My first thought would have been ooooohhh- Burglar. NOT. I can understand someone being nervous and wondering what’s going on but the self made vigilante should also have a big dose of common sense and an awareness who her neighbors are. No pass from me either. Stuff like that happened to me and my husband. Cops stopping us on the street to be sure he wasn’t bothering me. (Yes- because I always walked hand in hand with a strange Black man sown the street), or stopping him in NJ for “driving too slow.”
It happens and no amount of similar examples with white people makes the fact that racism still exists go away. Because you know if the neighbor had seen a white guy doing the same thing she would have gone over herself and asked if the door was jammed. Not called the cops.
The cop? As soon as he knew Gates was the homeowner he should have apologized for the inconvenience and got out. He could have easily ignored Gate’s understandable upset and just walked away. Last I heard it is still a free speech country- we don’t have speech police.
“Afternoon burglaries are quite common b/c houses are more likely to be unoccupied.”
According to…..?
Snappy, I can attest to the yumminess of the Fairway’s brand ravioli and pasta. It is delish.
M4L, email me when you have a chance. I wanted to run something by you. (BKJester3@aol.com)
DH – Consider yourself lucky that you went to the last show for Sir Paul since a co-worker who is obsessed with Beatles and knows everything there is to know about them (even has some underground British stuff that was never released) was at all 3 shows and said that yesterday’s was the best in terms of the crowd. He said he did sing his heart out in all 3 but he enjoyed yesterday’s show the most.
I can’t believe Obama’s approval rating is below 60% now. Although I don’t really read too much into those numbers given the surprising approval ratings of some other presidents at the six month mark.
I certainly try (just special for you).
THL, Dr. Gates was arrested for “breaking into” HIS OWN HOME. Not quite the same thing.
THL: can you tie every post, no matter how tenuously, to cats?
LOL, we only had the two at the time!