Florida State Seminoles

[10ac]

I hop some crazed vigilante strafes the whole area. Cocksuckers.

how about these guys?

WHITE TEENS KILL BLACK MAN IN MISSISSIPPI + CNN VIDEO

http://bit.ly/qy8gkG

Same for these guys.

My virus stuff won't let me open that page. But I remember that headline from about a year or so ago. Were they white white or Hispanic white?

But that's more of that man bites dog thingie.

[hedge]

You are making me blush.

Damn, I wondered why everything turned to a bluish hue the other day. In order for BRM to blush, his body required every wave of red in the visible spectrum...

[hedge]

just curious

who here would buy in a community where the neighbourhood watch packs heat?

Stu used to buy crack in the hood and then glue himself behind the window and watch thru the shades...

[hedge]

Its only because Martin is a 17 year old youth that people are outraged. If Martin was a 40 year old homeless junkie, none of us would even know about this case.

Nobody cries when Junkie Bill dies...

[eCat]

and while we are in this ugly place regarding race, I'm just going to go ahead and put this out there

Tyler Perry ain't funny


yea..I said it. I've been thinking it for a long time but I didn't want to be the Reginald Denny of this place.

[hedge]

It's expected that a white guy walking through a 'hood is going to get fucked up.

That was certainly Stu's experience...

[hedge]

I want evidence. I'll make my decision about conviction when I see that. The difference between us is I don't accept his statement for self-defense as fact. If he stood over him and blew him away, he'd make the same statement to the police. Therefore, it means nothing to me. I'll wait for the facts.

Reminds me of a speech from "The Man Who Wasn't There"...

"And then it was Riedenschneider's turn. I gotta hand it to him, he tossed a lot of sand in their eyes. He talked about how I'd lost my place in the universe; how I was too ordinary to be the criminal mastermind the D.A. made me out to be; how there was some greater scheme at work that the state had yet to unravel. And he threw in some of the old "truth" stuff he hadn't had a chance to trot out for Doris. He told them to look at me, look at me close. That the closer they looked, the less sense it would all make; that I wasn't the kind of guy to kill a guy; that I was The Barber, for Christsake. I was just like them - an ordinary man. Guilty of living in a world that had no place for me, yeah. Guilty of wanting to be a dry cleaner, sure. But not a murderer. He said I *was* modern man, and if they voted to convict me, well, they'd be practically cinching the noose around their own necks. He told them to look, not at the facts, but at the meaning of the facts. Then he said the facts had no meaning. It was a pretty good speech. It even had me going... "

[hedge]

What I'm saying that overcharging is the norm.

You mean like that warning at the beginning of DVD rentals that you can be fined $100,000 and put in jail for 5 years if you copy it illegally?

[Bklyn]

and while we are in this ugly place regarding race, I'm just going to go ahead and put this out there

Tyler Perry ain't funny

Heh, you don't know many melanin-enfused people, huh? About 50% of Black people (particularly under 50) feel the same way.

[eCat]

yea I know but it made me laugh anyways

[Jungle Rat]

My youngest thinks he's hilarious. She's grabbed all his Medea movies. Of course she's 11.

[T Dot O Dot]

Tyler Perry ain't funny

neither is Kat Williams, I thought I was the only one until I voiced my concerns and found out there were plenty more like me

[Bklyn]

Katt Williams had one good stand up and I was feeling so optimistic for him. Then it tumbled down.

[aTm]

So if nobody thinks Tyler Perry is funny, whis is he on my fucking TV so much?

[Bklyn]

It's not that it's nobody, it's that he doesn't have a lock on the black viewer, in totality. The thing is, he knows his audience and his audience shows up to support him. While the rest of the viewing public gets fragmented watching this movie or that movie, when a Tyler Perry Production comes out, his fans know exactly what they're getting and they support him. It's especially true for older blacks (particularly women) who remember his gospel plays that traveled around on the chitlin circuit back in the 90s - early 2000s. Those people fell in love with Madea there, bought the DVDs after the plays recorded from the stage and watched them religiously at home. His following is strong.

Also, because he has an audience that guarantees $50 - 90M a picture, self-finances his productions and always delivers a professional product, it's a no-brainer for the studios to pick up whatever he's slinging.

Shit, that movie "Think Like A Man" did so well last week that people automatically thought it was a Tyler Perry film (it isn't). They just saw "comedy", "black cast" and "actors I don't recognize" and just attributed it to Perry. That's how strong his brand is. He has white people believing shit is him when it's not...like a chocolate Keysor Sose.

[hedge]

LMAO at the early 2000's chitlin circuit...

[Saint]

I've never watched one of those Tyler Perry movies. they look lame. and yes, Kat Williams sucks. I never really liked Chris Tucker either, for that matter. and Damien Wayans has been terrible since In Living Color

I have a stack of old Richard Pryor albums from the '70s that I bought when I was a kid. We played "Bicentennial Nigger" in the living room on Xmas morning in '76. My mom seemed to have second thoughts about buying her 11-year-old son that for Xmas.

The only other black comedian who made me laugh as hard as RP is Chris Rock. Eddie Murphy was good but Bernie Mac was probably better. Tracy Morgan can be funny as shit but not really in the stand-up genre.

as a kid, I liked Flip Wilson better than Bill Cosby but Redd Foxx (and Hizzy knows what I'm talking about!) beat all them in the '70s ('cept Pryor)

[Bklyn]

Pretty solid analysis...although, it's Damon Wayans. Damien is his son that plays in some sitcom.

[It's me Karen]

I'll add Sinbad to Saint's list.

[Bklyn]

Seemingly good laws, applied imprudently, can be just as bad as the most idiotic and unjust laws...

Frank Rodriguez cannot coach his children's soccer teams. He can't get a job at a major corporation. He can't leave the state without registering with local law enforcement. A married father of four girls, he is a convicted sex offender. Neighbors can find his name and address on a public registry online.

His crime? Sleeping with his high school sweetheart 15 years ago. At the time, Frank was 19 years old, a recent high school graduate in the town of Caldwell, Texas. That's when he first had sex with Nikki Prescott, his future wife.

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