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It's funny to watch people repeat something that isn't true over and over and over until it seems to stick.

What were you jumping?

Congrats! Do you have any pictures of the jumps?

Wow.

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Interestingly enough, you jump at my "second home" dz.

Did anyone here read the article? The image had absolutely nothing to do with the article's content. Nothing.

The students would have absolutely NOTHING to gain from hanging nooses from a tree. Nothing. Read the story from the beginning, and get an accurate account of what happened before you start theorizing. What happened to the students in the Duke case was horrible and what the woman did was awful. It also isn't the first time a woman, or any race, lied about sexual misconduct for some type of gain. Unfortunately it happens fairly frequently. I cannont recall a time where black people placed a noose in a tree to start trouble... Becasue it hasn't happened. Repeat the following to yourself silently and anyone else who isn't aware should do the same: "Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton speak for and represent themselves and their own agendas. Rarely are their agendas and the agenda of the individual black person the same or closely aligned nor are their methods of achieving said agenda. Just because there's a black person on television, standing behind a microphone, with more black people standing behind him doesn't mean he speaks for all black people or even a large segment. In fact, they rarely do." Say it again. One more time...

Given the history and symbolism of a hanging noose in the US, it's obvious what the message was. As far as your theory about the black students doing it themselves... "Here's what they think about you." The notion is just stupid.

Prior to the nooses being hung and as an addendum to your post... There's a tree that white students apparently hang out under on the school property. A black student asked the principal if it was okay for black students to hang out under the same tree. He was told it was fine. The following day, three nooses in the school colors were hung from the tree. In protest, black students sat silently under the tree after which the district attorney came to the school and said "I can make all your lives disappear with the stroke of a pen" and they should stop making trouble.

And nobody reading what you wrote has to look far to see an uninformed individual.

You don't know a thing about Black people.

I'm not sure why you posed those questions to me but I'll answer. I think cockfighting is just as wrong as dog fighting. I do however think it's not taken as seriously simply because Americans eat chickens all the time and the same can't be said for dogs. I've always thought the "sport" or roping a calf, dragging it around the ring, throwing it down and roping its legs together was extremely cruel as well. As far as comparing it to crimes or actions committed against other humans, I think animals are looked at as defenseless where as humans aren't. A transgression is a transgression but there are different levels and thus different types of consequences.

You make some interesting points but as a black man let me explain to you, and to anyone else who's reading this, something very important... Dog fighting is NOT part of black culture. If you meant by saying "his culture" his immediate surroundings and who and where he grew up, then maybe. But if you were to corral all the people involved with dog fighting together you'd have far more faces that looked like yours than his. There's actually a magazine that comes out quarterly that's all about dogfighting. The same way we have Parachutist, GQ, Maxim, Radio Controlled Car Action, there's a publication that shows people posing with their dogs, and articles about how to make your dog more competitive. I found the notion of it existing hard to believe until this guy I know from Alabama showed it to me. Every face next to a dog in the magazine was a white one. It's just something that's looked past in a lot of places. It's almost a tradition of sorts like making moonshine or a "liquor store" in someone's house that sells alcohol on Sundays.

Per 2., that's Verizon not Verizon Wireless. They're two different companies.

I guess I should just shut up like a good dog now that he's apologized. Apologies are like gifts. You present them to a person, if they don't want it you set it down and leave it there. The team came to a consensus decision to ask for an apology but the individual players have the right to not accept it. That's their choice. But then again, they should just probably just be grateful and shut up. Sharpton speaks for himself. Himself. Say it to yourself one time silently. If I post here and preface what I say with "On behalf of the entire black community..." does that mean I'm their voice? The same holds true for Sharpton. And I never asked Imus to apologize to me. Get a bar.

What I'm saying is simple: Imus' reference to the scene in School Daze shows he's at least aware of what the term means. He's aware that used the way he used it, it's an insult. Out of anyone's mouth.

Your words were directed towards me. I'm not here to defend all black voices but explain how and why I feel the way I do. It may be happening but who's to say the majority of the people are unwilling to accept the apology before it's given? That's a reckless assumption at best.

Nobody knows, but it doesn't change a thing. I certainly have my issues with music.

Show me where I said black people walk up to each other all the time and say "your hair is nappy." "You can claim it all you like, it doesn't make it so..." Touche.

When you hear me say I'm waiting on an apology that I wouldn't accept then you can point your finger at me. What I'm inerested in is dialogue that will lead to understanding a perspective outside "what's the big deal? everyone else says it?" I've never said anything about reserving words for black people only and before you raise your sharpton or jackson flag understand they speak for themselves. I'm intelligent enough to realize a person from a different "community" with a point of view isn't necessarily representative of that entire community. If Imus was "in tune with diverse cultures including hip-hop" as you say, that would have never left his mouth.

Go back and read my posts fromt the beginning.

If that's how you choose to deal with it and you're okay with it, so be it. That doesn't mean everyone else is going to simply put it away and it'll never effect them again.

A little bit of common sense goes a long way. I doubt Imus would have said that to any of the players faces.

If anyone walked up to me and said my hair was nappy, there would be a problem.