What the hells happening to Charles County?????

[crabcake]

And for god's sake ... turn the damn music down. No one is impressed by your ability to make their windshield vibrate with your bump-da-da-thump music.

 

[Tomahawk202]

Or he could be one of the two kids who carjacked me at gunpoint at 5:30 a.m. when I was on my way to work.

If you don't want to be perceived as a low-life POS (regardless of what ethnicity you happen to be), don't act/talk/dress/bass out like one. Dress like a gangbanger and I'd clutch my purse and pick up my step, too.

It's amazing how I typed all of that, and all you could pick out was a small section, dealing with nothing but PERCEPTION. Here, let me break it down to oh ye of little education...

I laughed out loud, fought in wars, became a cop....all because I couldn't care less about you, or your preception of what I should be. I have done all that so I CAN DRESS, whatever way I want, so I CAN drive down the street and blast my music, and I can DO what I want. ( within the confines of the law of course ) Clutch your purse, keep your stereotypes all you want, but you all look like bigger damn fools in our eyes, then we do in yours. ( or would THAT be a matter of perception? SARCASM..) Oh, Jay-Z has a new CD out, you should check it out. LOL !!!

 

[crabcake]

I laughed out loud, fought in wars, became a cop....all because I couldn't care less about you, or your preception of what I should be. I have done all that so I CAN DRESS, whatever way I want, so I CAN drive down the street and blast my music, and I can DO what I want.

You want a cookie? I was in the military and worked for the government, too. But I don't use it as a crutch for obnoxious behavior. If you don't care about others' perception of your choices in transportation, music and attire, why are you even on here about it?

Probably because you DO care ... or just want to stoke that racism fire just a little bit. What next? You gonna sue IHOP because they didn't seat you before other diners and claim it's because they're racist?

Why can't you just be without being an ass? If you choose to dress and act a certain way, don't get pissy or sue-happy when someone makes the assumption that you are what you're wearing. The same is said for a woman who chooses to wear a low-cut blouse, then biatches about people staring at her teets. :shrug:

 

[willie]

It's amazing how I typed all of that, and all you could pick out was a small section, dealing with nothing but PERCEPTION. Here, let me break it down to oh ye of little education...

I laughed out loud, fought in wars, became a cop....all because I couldn't care less about you, or your preception of what I should be. I have done all that so I CAN DRESS, whatever way I want, so I CAN drive down the street and blast my music, and I can DO what I want. ( within the confines of the law of course ) Clutch your purse, keep your stereotypes all you want, but you all look like bigger damn fools in our eyes, then we do in yours. ( or would THAT be a matter of perception? SARCASM..) Oh, Jay-Z has a new CD out, you should check it out. LOL !!!

So if we don't accept your hip hop culture then we are the racist here?

 

[mainman]

Oh, Jay-Z has a new CD out, you should check it out. LOL !!!

Don't buh-leee da hype... It aint that good....LOL

 

[desertrat]

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I drive a really fast, expensive race car. I have tinted windows and bright shiny rims. It has a stereo that costs more than your monthly mortgage payment. I play my music really, really loud, with lots of bass, and I wear my hat backwards too. I wear baggy jeans, and a big puffy bomber-style jacket, and I am wearing 400 dollar Prada shades.

You make a lot of money for a cop. I call BS.

 

[desertrat]

I drive a really fast, expensive race car. I have tinted windows and bright shiny rims. It has a stereo that costs more than your monthly mortgage payment. I play my music really, really loud, with lots of bass, and I wear my hat backwards too. I wear baggy jeans, and a big puffy bomber-style jacket, and I am wearing 400 dollar Prada shades.
I stop at red lights in Waldorf, and be-bop my way into the parking lot at the mall. And while at the light, I notice that in lanes full of traffic, there is at least a full car length of space to my immediate right and left, as if no one wants to sit next to me at the light. I lean forward and glance around my doorpost, to see who is driving these cars that refuse to sit next to me at the light, and you guessed it, it's little white grandma or some southern maryland soccer mom, looking in the other direction, hoping I'll turn my obnoxious music down.QUOTE]
Playing music too loud is against the law. Is this a case of the police thinking the law doesn't apply to them, they know their buddies wouldn't give them a ticket, you are just a jerk or it's all BS?

 

[donbarzini]

It's amazing how I typed all of that, and all you could pick out was a small section, dealing with nothing but PERCEPTION. Here, let me break it down to oh ye of little education...

I laughed out loud, fought in wars, became a cop....all because I couldn't care less about you, or your preception of what I should be. I have done all that so I CAN DRESS, whatever way I want, so I CAN drive down the street and blast my music, and I can DO what I want. ( within the confines of the law of course ) Clutch your purse, keep your stereotypes all you want, but you all look like bigger damn fools in our eyes, then we do in yours. ( or would THAT be a matter of perception? SARCASM..) Oh, Jay-Z has a new CD out, you should check it out. LOL !!!

You know what? Just because some municipality, state, or the federal government permitted you to carry a badge and gun, doesn't mean you're a cop. You may be a police officer, but you're NOT a Cop. If you PROUDLY dress and behave like a thug, just to garner a visceral reaction that you claim to resent; the old adage comes to mind. You know; the one that says: "If it walks like a duck,...etc"? Well, if you dress like a thug and strut around having to "pull up your pants" and use your size to intimidate John/Jane Q. Public, you're nothing but a bully attempting to redress grievances(real or imagined) in your past. Just like most bullies that become police officers; I would venture to guess that you did it to "get even". Get help!

 

[migtig]

I drive a really fast, expensive race car. I have tinted windows and bright shiny rims. It has a stereo that costs more than your monthly mortgage payment. I play my music really, really loud, with lots of bass, and I wear my hat backwards too. I wear baggy jeans, and a big puffy bomber-style jacket, and I am wearing 400 dollar Prada shades.
I stop at red lights in Waldorf, and be-bop my way into the parking lot at the mall. And while at the light, I notice that in lanes full of traffic, there is at least a full car length of space to my immediate right and left, as if no one wants to sit next to me at the light. I lean forward and glance around my doorpost, to see who is driving these cars that refuse to sit next to me at the light, and you guessed it, it's little white grandma or some southern maryland soccer mom, looking in the other direction, hoping I don't take notice to the insult. Hoping the light turns green, quickly.
At the mall, I get out of my car, and hit the key fob, locking my doors and I pull my pants up and start for the door. I am approaching this white mother and daughter, she looks to be about 45 and in excellent shape. The daughter about 19 and clearly a college co-ed, home visiting the family for the holiday break from school. The daughter looks up and sees me and switches sides with her mother, to aviod my glance and put a little more space between us. The mom switches shoulders with her purse, and tries to covertly clutch it, as if she is holding on for dear life. I am wearing a .45 caliber pistol, tucked neatly in a holster on my left side....but they don't know that. Or do they.....
As we pass, I listen for breathing from either one, and with heads down and an almost panic in their step, they scurry on...hoping, wishing and praying to make it to their car in one peice.......I laugh out loud and continue on my way......
I have been a cop for almost 11 years. I am black and 6 and a half feet tall. I have been shot at and shot people, I have raced the streets in some of the worst cities in America, to save a person's life, whom I don't even know. I have fought wars in Afghanistan, and Iraq, been down to Columbia too. I have looked evil straight in the face, and have never flinched. In the name of the United States, in the name of black people, and for the protection of my family our very way of life, I have done this. More so than you.....
When I killed those two guys as a cop, in a desperate shoot out a few years ago...they were white guys. When I killed and ordered my guys to kill a bunch of people in the wars, they weren't black either. You people should focus on a way of making the streets safer, and not 'placing blame' to make it look like someone else's ( read; Black Peoples ) fault. 63% of the people on welfare, are white. ( Check that stat out....please )
So...when you see some black kid, or some black guy walking along, talking on his cellphone, or carrying his own packages...possibly out doing a little shopping of his own, for his own family, try not to pigeon-hole him as a bad guy. Or someone wanting to rape your little snow white, Miss Amercia daughter. He just might be one of the good guys, who would chase you down and return your wallet, after you dropped it in the store.

I'm short. I think the fact that people may be intimidated by you comes from the fact that you most likely look at them intensely and tower over them in height, not your clothing or whatever. Personally, I'd just kick you in the balls with my two-plus inch heeled foot for invading my personal space, and that has nothing to do with what color you are. Just for the fact that you are an macho manly arsehole and I don't like dicks who TRY to intimidate me. :shrug:

As for your music, will that's just immature. Has it ever occured to you that I have a really good Keyshia Cole song playing and I don't want to hear Jay_Z at that moment in my car or I would be playing that cd?

BTW, there's a lot of combat vets on this board. Don't use that as some excuse for bad behavior.

 

[vraiblonde]

The daughter looks up and sees me and switches sides with her mother, to aviod my glance and put a little more space between us. The mom switches shoulders with her purse, and tries to covertly clutch it, as if she is holding on for dear life.

Maybe they'd have done that no matter what color you are. I know I do. If I'm at the mall or walking down the sidewalk, and some menacing looking guy starts to pass me, I'll grab the straps of my purse and become aware of him.

Has nothing to do with color, has to do with situational awareness, which you as a cop have certainly heard of.

 

[Sharon]

Priceless...

Racist cop bragging about being a member of this forum (after his 1st post last night) on myspace.

 

[Kyle]

If you don't want to get pecked by the buzzards... Don't play dead.

 

[vraiblonde]

I don't really like anecdotal stories that "prove" racism. Like, black people who get offended that they were snubbed by a waitress, but fail to notice that the waitress is snubbing everyone, not just them. Or Tomahawk's story of the women who gave him space at the mall, but if they'd have done that to a white guy, he would never have noticed that.

I've never been a person who notices skin color, and I resent being put in a position to have to start, lest I inadvertently offend some black person with my normal self-protective behavior.

 

[desertrat]

If you don't want to get pecked by the buzzards... Don't play dead.

Corellary: If you want to catch a buzzard....play dead.

 

[Kerad]

More times than not, the those that cry "Racism!" are the biggest racists of all.

 

[Kyle]

Corellary: If you want to catch a buzzard....play dead.

The Govt. frowns on baiting them.

 

[mv_princess]

So I guess I am a racist, because the Guy in the store the other day yelled at me because I was white, and it was my fault he couldn't bring his backpack into the store, then said he was going to kill me. All because I wanted a stupid can of corn.

 

[desertrat]

The Govt. frowns on baiting them.

I know, dammit. My hero...Charles Bronson in Death Wish.

 

[Kerad]

So I guess I am a racist, because the Guy in the store the other day yelled at me because I was white, and it was my fault he couldn't bring his backpack into the store, then said he was going to kill me. All because I wanted a stupid can of corn.

Where was this? He wanted to kill you beacause you wanted to buy corn?

 

[mv_princess]

Where was this? He wanted to kill you beacause you wanted to buy corn?

At McKays. well he wanted to kill me because I was white, and he couldn't bring his backpack in the store, because they were trying to keep down on the stealing.