Shaker, it wasn't obvious that that was directed at the dummy bigsskkyy?

Sheesh. I know you got it right. That's why I didn't target you.

PeauxRouge wrote:It may not be racism, but it is close-minded. To judge someone based on the way they dress or how they talk or their physical attributes after seeing them for what you said was 4 seconds is a bit judgmental. I don't really care that you wound up right. I'm sure you feel self-riteous that you were right. Great. But when you are wrong about someone I hope you are big enough to eat crow. I know I've been wrong about people and that is hard to take but I did.

Great post

SuperHornet wrote:Shaker, it wasn't obvious that that was directed at the dummy bigsskkyy?

Sheesh. I know you got it right. That's why I didn't target you.

I knew you didn't direct it at me... I was trying to rub it in more. A failed attempt I see.

Drew wrote:

Shakermaker wrote:Since this isn't locked yet...

Why would it be? What has been said that is out of line? I see nothing.

That hasn't stopped them in the past. It's not what's said, it's who's saying it.

Contrary to popular belief in this thread I'm not here to lock it, however BigSkkyy and Shaker, please leave the smack to the smack board.

G_Beasly wrote:Contrary to popular belief in this thread I'm not here to lock it, however BigSkkyy and Shaker, please leave the smack to the smack board.

You've got it!

Thanks

G_Beasly wrote:Contrary to popular belief in this thread I'm not here to lock it, however BigSkkyy and Shaker, please leave the smack to the smack board.

Done.

Judging people solely by the way they dress is a truly ignorant thing.

I bet many of you, in your youth, dressed in ways that the adults of the time loathed.

Every decade there is a new trend, and older folks hate it. It's called getting old, keeping the finger off the pulse of the new generations, and basically being stuck in your ways. Marriage adds a lot to these phenom.

CatzWillRise wrote:Judging people solely by the way they dress is a truly ignorant thing.

I bet many of you, in your youth, dressed in ways that the adults of the time loathed.

Every decade there is a new trend, and older folks hate it. It's called getting old, keeping the finger off the pulse of the new generations, and basically being stuck in your ways. Marriage adds a lot to these phenom.

holla.

CatzWillRise wrote:Judging people solely by the way they dress is a truly ignorant thing.

I bet many of you, in your youth, dressed in ways that the adults of the time loathed.

Every decade there is a new trend, and older folks hate it. It's called getting old, keeping the finger off the pulse of the new generations, and basically being stuck in your ways. Marriage adds a lot to these phenom.

There's a difference between trying to fit in and dressing like a criminal. And I'll bet you there's 10x as many people getting arrested who dress like that than there are dressed normal.

WOW!

Assuming most of you DID attend UM, I'm amazed at how UN-PC some of you are.

Wardrobe profiling???

I thought you all had to take "Cultural Tolerance 101" your freshman year...?

Drew wrote:

CatzWillRise wrote:Judging people solely by the way they dress is a truly ignorant thing.

I bet many of you, in your youth, dressed in ways that the adults of the time loathed.

Every decade there is a new trend, and older folks hate it. It's called getting old, keeping the finger off the pulse of the new generations, and basically being stuck in your ways. Marriage adds a lot to these phenom.

There's a difference between trying to fit in and dressing like a criminal. And I'll bet you there's 10x as many people getting arrested who dress like that than there are dressed normal.

GREAT POST DREW!

Dressing the way "urban youth" dress is the first step in getting noticed and "flagged" as a "person of interest". Then the ones that do commit criminal acts are so much easier to find.

Just an observation of mine but the kids I see dressing like the gangsta thugs tend to come from single parent households and I think its a cry for attention they miss getting from the other parent.

There I left my selfwide open for the board sociologist to bash my head in about my hypothesis.

El_Gato wrote:WOW!

Assuming most of you DID attend UM, I'm amazed at how UN-PC some of you are.

Wardrobe profiling???

I thought you all had to take "Cultural Tolerance 101" your freshman year...?

Nah. The only really required class that I remember was "Bobcats Suck 101 -- Introduction to Bobcats Suck. Exploring the fundamental and basic ways that Bobcats suck on myriads of levels. Bobcats Suck 101 is a prerequisites to Bobcats Suck 201 -- Advanced Concepts of Bobcats Suck. Indepth analysis of the many facets of Bobcats Sucking. How much, where, and in which ways, Bobcats have sucked throughout history."

Well played, sir; well played indeed....

I find this whole thread hilarious, coming from the state of Montana.

I wonder how much more of a felon Ted Bundy would have been if he dressed up in the "thug gear" being talked about.

People dress the way they want to dress. Criminals are criminals. Those that abide by the law can be however they want to be.

I need to go now and call one of my friends. He has a couple of friends from his work that are black and from single parent homes. Oh and they wear "thug gear." I don't want to end up in a lineup cause of them.

Then how do you explain the fact that statistics prove that more gangster thugs commit crimes and are arrested every year? I don't see how it's racist or ignorant to side with FACTS. To deny those facts would be ignorance on YOUR part.

it all comes down to 2 types of people

1: People who'd rather let 10 guilty men go free rather than hang one innocent man.

2: People who'd rather hang 1 innocent man then let 10 guilty men go free.


My feeling is making a man sit around 25 years to be killed is as bad dog fighting so either put in an express lane and get it done with or stop killing people.

If it looks like Allen Iverson, and talks like Allen Iverson, then ........

I just wish things were simple again. When football players played football, went to class and avoided the intoxicating aroma of dog fighting, bar fighting, drug running, money laundering.

MrTitleist wrote:If it looks like Allen Iverson, and talks like Allen Iverson, then ........

When was the last time Iverson was arrested?

Its easy for you guys (me too) to sit up here in Montana and criticize folks coming from much tougher situations than us.

Truth is you are afraid of these people. If you saw a group of guys walking down the street sporting "thug" gear, you would cross the street so as not to cross paths.

But here is a good question to you "thug" haters who claim race isn't a point - do you cross the street if the guys are white dressed exactly the same way?

Picture a "thug" in your head... what race is he?

I think you all know the answers, whether you will admit them or not.

Most Montanans are ignorant, but it isn't because they are inherently bad people. Most of us grew up with probably about 90% whites. It is something we (Montanans) can get uncomfortable with because it is simply outside our norms.

Hell, just the other day I had a relative tell me "That's what Kramer gets from recruiting black players from the inner city"... I couldn't believe he said that.