[EternalVigilance]

A thug by any other name is still a thug.

[R0CK3T]

If the shoe fits...

[Uncle Miltie]

Let's play Thug / No Thug!

I'll start.

Thug / No Thug?

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

But here’s the thing: there’s not a black man alive who hasn’t been viewed as a “thug” at some point or another in his life.

I'll be the first to say 'bullshit' on this one. There are plenty of well-bred young and old black men who have NEVER been looked on as a 'thug.'

The liberal left continues to believe that if you dress, look, act and talk like what has commonly become associated with 'thugginess', then people are going to make that association, no matter if you really are or not.

One simply cannot do whatever the hell one wants and not expect there to be consequences.

Oh, wait! This is Obama's America.

Never mind.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

A Thug is as a thug does.

[mc5cents]

A rose is a rose is a rose. Gertrude Stein 1913

A thing is what it is no matter what name we put on it. The first law of identity. Shakespeare put it: "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."