I thought this was going to be about Clayton Bigsby.
Posted on 02/22/2007 1:04:36 PM PST by Tirian
Man is he going to be receiving some hate mail.
I read the original column about the thuggery of the All-Star event and thought the same! Maybe, just maybe, the tide is turning. The Jason Whitlocks and Bill Cosbys of the world are taking back their community.....and ours!
Good article.
Once as a lark, there was a KKK rally north of Frederick MD and I went to see what it looked like. There were probably more gawkers like myself than actual Klan members, admittedly, but I didn't feel the slightest bit in danger, even though I'm Catholic and was there with a Latina friend.
On the other hand, for several years (ending in 1998, I believe) my city played host to "Da Greek" which was a gathering of Black Fraternities (read: young black people with nothing to do). THAT was scary! Fighting in the streets, store windows broken, people jumping up and down on cars, shootings, stabbings, public urination.
Long story, but in 97 or 98, I was caught in a car after dark in Center City and after not moving a block in an hour and a half, pulled the car up onto the sidewalk and abandoned it until it could be picked up the next morning.
I can only imagine what Vegas must have been like.
Owl_EagleIf what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
Wow. Great column.
The old joke is "90% of the lawyers are giving the rest a bad name"
This guy is basically saying the same thing about other members of his skin pigmentation group.
I have to say, there are a lot of blacks who are giving the good ones a bad name and it is really too bad.
I thought this was going to be about Clayton Bigsby.
Amen.. Great article..
I wish it would be reprinted in every newspaper in the country..
Owl, I'm another Philly poster (read your bio) and I agree..the "Greek" has been much better since the City finally cracked down on the violent aspects of it. I used to make sure that I was out of town on that weekend. It was the same with the white kids at our impromptu "Mardi Gras" riots that sprung up a few years ago...didn't hear any news about that yesterday.
I work at Phillies games, and we have a group that hangs out in the lot after weekend games, tailgating and the like. One of my black friends, after a few beers, was talking to me and said "You white guys know how to throw a party without guns!"
He doesn't care. I heard Jason Whitlock on the radio this morning and he was like a breath of fresh air. Having the all-star game within driving distance of LA was a bad idea to begin with.
I'm speechless.
The winds of change are blowing. Who knows what it will stir up and where we'll be when it settles. But blowing powerfully, they are.
Bill Cosby 2
Ping. Good column on the Vegas riots after the all-star game. Hope he keeps hammering away as do you.
I used to make sure that I was out of town on that weekend.
Amen to that! Unfortunately, we started doing that after the disastrous one in 98 (I think I've got that time line right?)
It's funny, I was walking to work by 5th and South Tuesday and thinking about that Mardi Gras 4 or 5 years ago, when we had the really warm day and someone ended up ramming his car through a crowd. It seems like the Philly PD is really good at reacting AFTER a disaster, but terrible at being pro-active. I think the Mardi Gras fiasco happened on John Street's watch, but the reacting after seems to be a key strategy in the D playbook. (See Snow Removal, I 78/80/81, Rendell, Ed, 2007)
Freepmail me with your neighborhood if you like. I think there's only a couple of inside the lines of the city FReepers at the moment.
Owl_EagleIf what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
It was excellent too.
Talk about a non event that has become.
Because black opportunists use our white guilt and PC attitudes against us. It's all right there in the article with the one kid crying racism at the drop of a hat. I recently was flipping throught the channels and came across BET's top 25 events that misshaped black America. Some of the things were OUTRAGEOUS like Elvis, the Supreme Court, etc. Number one was slavery. I don't remember owning any slaves, so I'm not apologizing.
This would make a good episode of CSI.
Bravo!
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