Chee Wee
Posted on 07/08/2006 5:14:44 AM PDT by Ellesu
Strain says he's just trying to find suspects :
St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain's statements about the suspects in a recent quadruple murder near Slidell amount to racial profiling that broadly paints Hurricane Katrina evacuees from New Orleans as "thugs" and "trash," the American Civil Liberties Union said in an open letter to the sheriff.
Strain countered that the ACLU is distorting his comments, which he said were intended to warn St. Tammany residents about early signs of post-Katrina "spillover crime" from New Orleans.
The dispute centers on a TV interview Strain gave after four people were shot June 27 near Slidell, allegedly in a botched drug deal in which the two suspects were identified as young black men, one with dreadlocks and one with a "chee wee" hairstyle.
In an interview broadcast on WDSU-TV, Strain said, "I don't want to get into calling people names, but if you're going to walk the streets of St. Tammany Parish with dreadlocks and chee wee hairstyles, then you can expect to be getting a visit from a sheriff's deputy."
In a letter dated Wednesday, the Louisiana office of the ACLU called on Strain to retract the statement, saying that targeting people based on hairstyles commonly worn by African-Americans is "overtly racist" and a civil rights violation.
The ACLU said it has received complaints from Nazarene Christians, who "wear dreadlocks as a religious requirement" and are afraid to step outside their St. Tammany homes for fear of being arrested.
In a letter sent Thursday to the ACLU and made public by the sheriff Friday, Strain said it's basic police work to stop and question anyone who matches the description of a murder suspect.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
I'm betting that if the four murder victims had been ACLU lawyers, they would see things differently.
Nor have I! My niece's husband is a Nazarene minister and I'd just bet that both of them would throw a fit if one of their kids showed up with "dreadlocks." And, by the way, I cannot imagine a more unsanitary hairstyle.
That looks like my mop after a kool-aid spill.
Chee Wee
When did "thug" become a racial term?
'Do they ever get washed?'
Nope. Ever work in the medical field where the patient has to disrobe? It wasn't unusual at all to have roaches, lice, and maggots on as well as in patients. I recall a goodie where this guy's feet actually 'grew into' his shoes. And then there was that zuchinni 'placement' in a guy who later died of sepsis after it rotted in his sigmoid. If you would like to know about the declawed gerbils, use your wildest imaginations.
They aren't Christians, really:
http://www.rastaites.com/main/rasponse01.htm
It's a cult.
This is not the same Nazarene church that I grew up knowing. But I guess that anyone can call themselves whatever they want to. Like the idiot Fred Phelps who calls his church Baptist.
Mr. Chee Wee
Four people are shot, and the ACLU is worried about what the sheriff said.
We need an organization that supports the civil liberties of law-abiding people.
It is beyond me why they call these people evacuees.
They refused to evacuate when told to evacuate.
We should have a contest to figure out another more appropriate term.
Perhaps nomadic parasites is more accurate.
Belly laugh here. Thanks.
"Wow, am I out of it. What's a "chee-wee" hairstyle? I bet my kids would know, but they're not around to ask."
Here's the definition that I found it on a Cajun slang site.
chee wee A cheese stick snack similar to but predating cheeto.
Imagine if you will a certain hip hop hairstyle of small twists of chee wee like hair all over the head of a male. I think that is to what Sheriff Strain was referring.
This crap has got to stop! Getting panties in a wad over Biden's dumb comments just perpetuates this!
>>St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain's statements about the suspects in a recent quadruple murder near Slidell amount to racial profiling that broadly paints Hurricane Katrina evacuees from New Orleans as "thugs" and "trash," the American Civil Liberties Union said in an open letter to the sheriff.<<
What's racist is the ACLU assuming that the sherrif meant black people when he said "thugs."
Y'all want Chee Wees? Elmer's got Chee Wees.
http://www.realpages.com/sites/cheewee/page2.html
"Y'all want Chee Wees? Elmer's got Chee Wees."
http://www.realpages.com/sites/cheewee/page2.html
Yaaaaaaay! Good for Elmer's. I didn't realize that these were still being made. For some reason this brings back fond memories of climbing Monkey Hill in Audubon Park. Does anyone remember the Monkey Hill Cafe? Uh oh, I'm getting nostalgic.
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