Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 408648)

Image tarnished. After everyone knows he has a crazy wife who smashes cars with golf clubs and hits him when she's angry, he just another schmoe with a lot of money.

I didn't say he would crash to Earth.

TM

Originally Posted by PresentTense Pirate Penske (Post 408631)

Last one I can think of, off of the top of my head, was the Ivanchuk drug test brouhahaha at Dresden last year, but I am sure that there's something brewing. Those dudes are edgy.

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 408618)

No. Every time I see and hear him talk, I think of Eddie Murphy's impression of a white guy.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 408644)

Partners don't assign work based on whether or not you speak well.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 408644)

Okay. And I understand and appreciate the joke. But people (and I don't mean you particularly, because this applies to everyone, including black people) need to understand that black people are black because of the color of their skin. Because he doesn't speak with what people think of as "black vernacular" is irrelevant. In some cases it may be evidence of someone who is black who doesn't want to identify with other black people and isn't interested in their heritage or history. But the fact that speaking with a voice with less bass or using proper grammar, etc. enables so many to place him in the "not-really-black" category, starts to get offensive.

I hear this shit sometimes. Hell, a certain amount of education at all subjects you to this kind of garbage. "You don't talk black." "Thurgreed isn't really black." Yeah. All good fun until I want to fuck your lilly-white daughter. Then I get black again real quick, don't I? Cabbies don't care about grammar. Cops don't give a shit how you talk if you're in the wrong neighborhood. Partners don't assign work based on whether or not you speak well. And racists sure as hell don't care about any of that (please see treatment of Obama or do a google image search for Michelle Obama).

Anyway, not to get all serious, because I appreciate the joke, like it and sometimes use it myself. Just want to make sure that people don't get too comfortable with it.*

TM

*And this is one of the reasons why I love Chappelle so much. He walked away from $50 million dollars, at least partly, because of this.

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 408663)

Or do all of us sound like that to black people?

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 408651)

Maybe he gets a different but equally good image. Instead of being some golfing stiff with generic plastic fantastic arm candy, suddenly it seems there's a bit of passion in his life.

Tiger has always seemed dull dull dull.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 408646)

Nah. Superman and Batman wear capes. He can recover.

TM

Originally Posted by dtb (Post 408627)

Among my younger boys "wished for" items:

Ninja stuff
Farting Machine
A cape

Originally Posted by Adder (Post 408664)

I think you might want to be careful with the use of "us" on this one.

Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick (Post 408592)

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 408663)

I understand, and I guess my point wasn't that he "sounds white", but more that he sounds like a nerd. Because Murphy's impression is that of a nerdy white guy.

Or do all of us sound like that to black people?

Originally Posted by Fugee (Post 408665)

How does fooling around equal a bit of passion in one's life?

I don't think Tiger is dull. I think he is private and intensely driven and competitive.

Originally Posted by dtb (Post 408662)

Those of you who don't read the food board may have missed the tidbit that the ex-LMA (curse you, e/o for making me type that...) is no longer ex-. The reasons still remain a mystery, as do the whereabouts and emotional state of the Chimney Sweep.

And in MY exciting life, I have become a knitting fiend. Hats, socks, sweaters, scarves, blankets, pants. The fun never ends!


Which of these things should we talk about?