Black l.u.v. Fest

Of course she has nice legs. My wife is a total hottie. Is she aware of this? I believe she is. Why they feel the need to tell her something she is already quite aware of, I don't know. That's my job, not theirs.

Originally posted by pickup hiccup stickup:

Originally posted by Xavier Bush, Power Forward:
But when they say "nice legs" or something to that effect while asking for the time, that is generally considered hitting on someone, no?

does she actually have nice legs? Because maybe she isn't conscious of her nice legs and they just want to bring them to her attention. [/QB]

Originally posted by Xavier Bush, Power Forward:
My wife is a total hottie.

that's not the word around the campfire.

Well you need to quit building your campfire in Dupont Circle.

Originally posted by pickup hiccup stickup:

Originally posted by Xavier Bush, Power Forward:
My wife is a total hottie.

that's not the word around the campfire.

Dude, racially mixed U street is no different than racially mixed Adams Morgan. People get drunk adn act stupid

as for point 3, what can I sat man? Niggers love to throw trash around. OK?

Now that that's settled… <i>my</i> personal experience offers evidence that alot of crackers, spics, heebs, nips, guinaes, gooks, towelheads and oen or two dasardly niggers, as well as some cops, public office holders, meter maids, waiters, barkeeps and venus fly traps need to improve their behaviour if they wants to be viewed as human beings and beasts. Except for the venus flytraps.

Originally posted by Xavier Bush, Power Forward:
2. Plenty of white guys hit on my wife, but none have done so while I'm walking down the street holding her hand, as several black men have. It's a Black Thang, not a meathead thing. And no, I don't live in Petworth. I'm talking about walking down racially mixed U Street.

3. The garbage throwing I've observed has been by black teens in Adams Morgan and near the Springfield Metro. Always by black kids, not white kids. Both racially mixed areas.

My personal experience offers evidence that some Black men need to improve their behaviour if they wants to be viewed as human beings and beasts.

Originally posted by sacriforce:
OK

1) I've been mugged 4 times in my life. In all cases, they were black men from bad neighborhoods - I know this because I was in theirs - who were probably unemployed. So yeah I'm comfortable in saying that black - or any other - folk who come from bad neighborhoos, don't work and don't own a stain of hope in life are likely to mug us all bc it's institutionalized behavior. They'll do it to each other's moms as easily as they'll do it to you.

2) I've had white dudes try to do as much without saying as much to me, so it's not a Black Thang, it's a meathead thing.

3) I think it's more of a kid thing than a black kid thing. I see it all the time in my parent's neighborhood out in Franconia.

It sounds to me like you live in a neighborhood where you are or at least feel you're being marginalized by your neighbors for being the white guy. I have a handful of friends in petworth and other places who feel the same. But you're personal experience doesn't change the fact that racism is institutionalized in this country.

i see white folks throw their cigarette butts out the window all the time in the fairly white places of pittsburgh, pa and reston, va. clearly white people need to improve their behaviour if they wants to be viewed as human beings and beasts

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:

Originally posted by Xavier Bush, Power Forward:
I was…kicked in the head…

This explains a lot.

At least once a day I can count on a laugh out loud moment from this board. This was today's.

I have known a few rednecky-type whites who were indeed prejudiced. But fortunately their numbers & these attitudes seem to have diminished over the passage of decades.

I have also encountered a bit of black racism directed my way. Nothing as overt as violence…but real nonetheless. And my personal experience is that this is a growing phenomenon, rather than a diminishing one.

BTW, I currently work for a black owned business. And I have walked alone in black Baltimore without problems…though I've a touch of paranoia at being the token white at those times. Maybe that's how blacks can feel in largely white America..?

I do know how it feels to be a persecuted foreigner, because that has happened to me.

seriously though I wonder if Xavier would have thought to call attention to a gay pride march or one of the Diwali parties that'll be happenning iin the area soon in the same way he joked about the Black Luv thing. That's sort of fucked up.

Originally posted by sacriforce:
Now that that's settled… &lt;i&gt;my&lt;/i&gt; personal experience offers evidence that alot of crackers, spics, heebs, nips, guinaes, gooks, towelheads and oen or two dasardly niggers, as well as some cops, public office holders, meter maids, waiters, barkeeps and venus fly traps need to improve their behaviour if they wants to be viewed as human beings and beasts. Except for the venus flytraps.

thank you.

isn't this obvious that behavior is a class issue and not a race issue?

rhett, don't you go to nascar races and see this first-hand?

i used to live in the heart of el salvador country in adams morgan and my female friends/roomate would be harrassed all the time, but i bet if they were walking around an upper class neighborhood in san salvador they wouldn't have the same problems

Originally posted by clouds R²:
I have known a few rednecky-type whites who were indeed prejudiced. But fortunately their numbers &amp; these attitudes seem to have diminished over the passage of decades.

[steps up upon soapbox]

regarding bigotry in general (not just race-related):

i like to think that we're the first generation in the history of mankind to grow up under the social assumption that bigotry is just morally wrong … i mean, sure, there are still plenty of flat-out bigots, but they know that society as a whole doesn't accept their views as "correct" … ours is the first generation in the entire history of mankind to have that "enlightened" base of social mores

that said, i would venture to say that the vast majority of people still view those "different" from them (whether it be sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, whatever) with subconcious or (less often now) blatant prejudice

so while i walk around with that first thought all the time, i'm constantly reminded that even though it isn't "socially acceptable" to be a bigot, we still a long way to go

[alights from soapbox]

I saw the posters for luvfest up on the Mall during my lunchtime run. I was not aware of any of the other events you mention. It's sort of fucked up that you would read any more into it than that and make that comment, rather than actually asking me.

Originally posted by sacriforce:
seriously though I wonder if Xavier would have thought to call attention to a gay pride march or one of the Diwali parties that'll be happenning iin the area soon in the same way he joked about the Black Luv thing. That's sort of fucked up.

Originally posted by clouds R²:
I do know how it feels to be a persecuted foreigner, because that has happened to me.

Joey, have you ever been in a turkish prison?

As my wife says, "Isn't it just the politically correct thing to do now to blame poor behaviour on class rather than race?"

But seriously…I go to a NASCAR race once a year, so I don't really have that much contact with the white working class folks, unlike where I grew up. So I'm not in contact with the white working class as much as others…

But my point was that you can't prove a theorem using your own isolated examples. I can't prove that Black people are more poorly behaved than other races just based on my own personal experiences. Nor can I PROVE it's a class thing. Nor can Sacriforce use his personal examples to PROVE some kind of systemic institutional practice of racism.

Blah blah blah. This subject is boring

Maybe if I go to blackluv fest, I can catch a glimpe of this guy playing his trombone


http://www.blackluvfest.info/images/photos/picture3a.jpg

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Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:

Originally posted by sacriforce:
Now that that's settled… &lt;i&gt;my&lt;/i&gt; personal experience offers evidence that alot of crackers, spics, heebs, nips, guinaes, gooks, towelheads and oen or two dasardly niggers, as well as some cops, public office holders, meter maids, waiters, barkeeps and venus fly traps need to improve their behaviour if they wants to be viewed as human beings and beasts. Except for the venus flytraps.

thank you.

isn't this obvious that behavior is a class issue and not a race issue?

rhett, don't you go to nascar races and see this first-hand?

i used to live in the heart of el salvador country in adams morgan and my female friends/roomate would be harrassed all the time, but i bet if they were walking around an upper class neighborhood in san salvador they wouldn't have the same problems

Originally posted by econo:

Originally posted by clouds R²:
I do know how it feels to be a persecuted foreigner, because that has happened to me.

Joey, have you ever been in a turkish prison?

Econo, do you know this film?
<img src="http://www.ibiblio.org/samneill/pictures/dish/dish-bts7-st.jpg" alt=" - " />

Originally posted by clouds R²:
Econo, do you know this film?

Yeh, same guy that did The Castle. Not as funny though.

Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
Here y' are.

That was a very informative webpage, MTB. It's easy to see how one could be tempted to take their shit seriously to heart…if they hadn't so aggregiously distorted history to fit their facist philosophy.

Yes indeedy, general Sobieski did save Vienna from the Turk. If he was really such a bigass hero to those neo-nazis, then why did the Krauts leave Poland is such a sorry state? As I recall, the Nazis regarded the Slavs as subhuman "untermenschen" and quite literally trashed Poland, leaving only rubble.

…They conveniently omit this detail on that 'vanguard' site.