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Black Guy’ booth livens up Corvallis Saturday market
Corvallis Gazette-Times ^ | 5-31-08 | KYLE ODEGARD

Posted on 06/02/2008 11:28:43 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB

The booths at the Saturday Corvallis Farmers’ Market have a wild mix of fresh produce, tasty food, plants and flowers.

But this week, a table just outside the bazaar offered something more bizarre — “Meet a Black Guy.”

Those who participated in the free service could chat with 21-year-old Corvallis resident Jeff Oliver, and get pictures taken with him.

(Excerpt) Read more at dhonline.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: black; booth; guy; meet
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hasn't Obama already thought of this?
1 posted on 06/02/2008 11:28:44 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
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To: WOBBLY BOB

This reminds me of a story my late uncle told me back in the mid sixties. He was from Mississippi, but was stationed in Oregon with the Coast Guard, and one day a black guy came in to town. Everybody in town turned out to meet him because most of them had never even seen a black person before......


2 posted on 06/02/2008 11:31:37 AM PDT by Red Badger (NOBODY MOVE!!!!.......I dropped me brain............................)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

I really thought that this had to be satire. Yet it’s apparently a legitimate article from a legitimate newspaper.

Okay, let’s all go to the south side of Chicago, East St. Louis, Illinois, Gary, Indiana, the Anacostia area of Washington DC, etc. and set up a booth to have residents celebrate diversity and meet a white man. Can you imagine the reaction if that happened?


3 posted on 06/02/2008 11:35:30 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Black People Love Us!
http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/


4 posted on 06/02/2008 11:36:11 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (<===Non-bitter, Gun-totin', Typical White American)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
The bazaar offered something more bizarre — “Meet a Black Guy.”

Could be more bizarre, could be Obama's church bazaar having a “Meat The White Man" booth

5 posted on 06/02/2008 11:38:37 AM PDT by tophat9000 (:[....)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Yeesh, some of the interviewees need to lighten up a little. I think it’s kinda funny.


6 posted on 06/02/2008 11:41:19 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Okay, let’s all go to the south side of Chicago, East St. Louis, Illinois, Gary, Indiana, the Anacostia area of Washington DC, etc. and set up a booth to have residents celebrate diversity and meet a white man.

I'd rather not get paid with 'rocks' and 40 ouncers, thanks. :-P

7 posted on 06/02/2008 11:41:34 AM PDT by uglybiker (I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

This guy’s about the same shade as me after the summer. Sheesh.


8 posted on 06/02/2008 11:41:36 AM PDT by stevio (Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
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To: Billthedrill

I thought it funny ,too.

Now watch some group bring an EEOC complaint for not hiring equal numbers of white people.


9 posted on 06/02/2008 11:44:01 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (Conservatives are to McCain what Charlie Brown is to Lucy.)
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To: Red Badger

I grew up in Eugene, Oregon. I did not meet a black person in person until high school, in 1968. There was only one black family in my school district. When I graduated high school in 1972, the number of black families had doubled to two. Cousins of the first black family moved to the district.

I wouldn’t say that Oregon is still lilly white, but......

Corvallis is a stretch, though. College town. Oregon State University.


10 posted on 06/02/2008 11:50:43 AM PDT by jimtorr
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“Hey lookie there, they got one a them black fellers. Ya see em on TV, but ya don’t really think they’re real.”

Really, I spent about 15 years in that area, and there aren’t a lot or black, or hispanics, or anything else. I can only recall knowing one black person, and he was strangely popular, just out of curiosity I presume.


11 posted on 06/02/2008 11:52:10 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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This reminds me of something that happened when I was in a small town. I was the only black guy they have seen in their lives. They were used to seeing black people wearing backwards caps, do rags and being illiterate because that’s what they saw on TV. So when I talked to them and they saw me, they were in complete shock.

Here I was, this (At the time) Gothic clothing and forward baseball cap wearing articulate black guy. You should have seen the looks on their faces, especially after I espoused my political views.


12 posted on 06/02/2008 11:52:29 AM PDT by TypeZoNegative (I'm An American Engaged To Another American, we're not a mixed couple.)
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To: Red Badger
We had a couple African Americans in my Highschool (Willamette HS) in the mid to late 80s. As people, they were pretty cool.. just kids being kids like the rest of us. They did seem a bit like celebrity.
13 posted on 06/02/2008 11:56:32 AM PDT by Dead Dog
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Okay, let’s all go to the south side of Chicago, East St. Louis, Illinois, Gary, Indiana, the Anacostia area of Washington DC, etc. and set up a booth to have residents celebrate diversity and meet a white man. Can you imagine the reaction if that happened?

My thoughts exactly. It's as though a large group of white folks congregating in a city or town is racist in and of itself. As a white man, I'm not ashamed to admit that I never once thought "hey, this town (where I live) needs more black/hispanic people!" Apparently I don't have enough white guilt blood cells coursing through my veins.

14 posted on 06/02/2008 11:58:45 AM PDT by Tarkus2040 ("Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about." --Barry Farber)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

You owe me a keyboard!


15 posted on 06/02/2008 12:01:15 PM PDT by sima_yi (Reporting live from the People's Republic of Boulder)
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To: sima_yi

sorry. still waiting for my “stimulus check”.


16 posted on 06/02/2008 12:10:25 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (Conservatives are to McCain what Charlie Brown is to Lucy.)
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To: FreedomPoster

That’s the funniest site I’ve seen in a while, brilliant. The only un-funny part is the “letters” section where the ignorance of so many people shines through.


17 posted on 06/02/2008 12:11:43 PM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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Lol! Have you read the letters? People don’t know whether to laugh or be angry.


18 posted on 06/02/2008 12:12:18 PM PDT by TightyRighty (I enjoy well-mannered frivolity.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Who, in Americia, has never met a white guy? - come on now....


19 posted on 06/02/2008 12:31:21 PM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: TypeZoNegative

Hey man, how’d you pull off the Gothic style? I was always drawn to it but could never see a black guy pull it off.


20 posted on 06/02/2008 12:32:08 PM PDT by Clock King (Under revision...)
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