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Baltimore politician tells CNN the word 'thug' is racially charged: 'Just call them n------.'
ny daily news ^ | 4-29-2015 | JASON MOLINET

Posted on 04/29/2015 5:51:37 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

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To: Citizen Zed

Thuggers! Ha!


21 posted on 04/29/2015 6:13:26 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

My daughter went through a TERRIBLE stage when she was 13. She began acting like a bully at school and seemed proud of it. When her own mother (yours truly) told her she was nothing but a bully it pulled her up short and made her cry. Then she quit acting like a bully.

Sometimes the truth hurts, but it is necessary. No one likes bullies or thugs, even other bullies and thugs.


22 posted on 04/29/2015 6:15:19 AM PDT by kevslisababy
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To: Citizen Zed
"These are children who have been set aside, marginalized who have not been engaged by us."

Codewords for "we want more of your money".

23 posted on 04/29/2015 6:31:15 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Hey, hey, GayKKK. Who you gonna lynch today?)
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To: gattaca
Maybe we should call them young folks getting a little too frisky on a field trip.

Gosh, I'm sick of this. People who would burn down a city need to be called by the most demeaning, insulting names imaginable. And I'm really sick of one ethnic group curtailing the freedom of speech we used to have in the US.

FWIW, calling them thugs is an acknowledgement that they don't represent all blacks.

24 posted on 04/29/2015 6:33:17 AM PDT by grania
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To: luvbach1

I always used it to reference union lackies.


25 posted on 04/29/2015 6:33:29 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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That’s what the president called them.


26 posted on 04/29/2015 6:42:49 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: luvbach1
Thug has been aptly applied to blacks so frequently that it’s no wonder it’s become a alternate term for many of them. But of course thuggery is not exclusive to them.

Not only is it not exclusive to them, but it is also not applicable to all blacks -- or even most blacks, I would say -- by any means.

Black thugs are a dangerous and sizeable sub-demographic.

27 posted on 04/29/2015 6:44:57 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: Gamecock

The word thug knows no color. It is based on the character of a man’s heart.
Seems like they would more important things to talk about right now than making up bogeymen. Oh, I’m sorry. Is that rassis? </sarc>


No it’s not raises..... It’s the truth, and that’s what many in power and in the MSM don’t want focus on.


28 posted on 04/29/2015 6:45:33 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: Citizen Zed; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...
Councilman Stokes: when even CNN is disagreeing with you, you know you are far out there.

Maryland "Freak State" DANG!

29 posted on 04/29/2015 6:47:21 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Celebrate Holy Week by flogging a banker. It's what Jesus would have done.)
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To: Gamecock

The word thug descends from Thuggee, a murderous criminal organization and pseudo-religion in India, that was systematically torn apart using more modern criminology.

“Thugs” were indiscriminate murderers and robbers, with a vague association to the goddess of death, Kali, though they had members that were both Hindus and Muslims. They preferred to strangle their victims from behind, often breaking their spine with a knee at the same time.

They would murder anyone: men, women, children, Indians and British. They preferred those who were traveling, at first in small groups, then later ambushing and wiping out entire caravans, butchering them then burying them in shallow graves.

The criminal gangs descended from the Thuggee still exist, but are far less murderous, and are called “Dacoits.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee


30 posted on 04/29/2015 6:53:43 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Citizen Zed
Thug is a "word of color", so defined by those THUGS who self identify through its USAGE. Id veture to say that its USAGE has skyrocketed since it has been adopted by just such "random folks" as Freddie Gray....Michael Brown...Trayvonne Martin and the thousands of other feral neer do wells of color!!

Im certain that The Great Leader PLAYS Thug....in the Mancave at the Whitehouse


31 posted on 04/29/2015 6:54:45 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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"Of course it's not the right word to call our children thugs," Stokes said. "These are children who have been set aside, marginalized who have not been engaged by us."


32 posted on 04/29/2015 7:25:01 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Citizen Zed

See other thread about some fool on CNN getting uppity about a damn word, too.

I am sick of this uproar over a damn WORD.

Sick of these asses and our PC society ruining people over words.

Where is the outrage and automatic condemnation over this spoiled-rotten bratty violent rampages?

Oh no, we cannot call them names, and must be reasonable.

Total absurdistan.


33 posted on 04/29/2015 8:12:25 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Citizen Zed

thug

noun
1. a cruel or vicious ruffian, robber, or murderer.
2. (sometimes initial capital letter) one of a former group of professional robbers and murderers in India who strangled their victims.


34 posted on 04/29/2015 8:26:47 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Thug doesn’t describe the color of their skin, it describes the content of their character.

Anyone, of ANY race can be a thug.


35 posted on 04/29/2015 10:12:57 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: Citizen Zed
"Just call them n-----,"

Ok.

36 posted on 04/29/2015 10:15:30 AM PDT by dfwgator
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I guess “uncivilized savages” or “scum bags” is out, too, according to this race profiteer.

No, when they stop calling themselves n!&&3% & start behaving like decent people towards themselves & others, then will I consider calling them good people.


37 posted on 04/29/2015 11:11:29 AM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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"Sir, he specifically requested two "n-----s". Well, to tell the family secret, my grandmother was Dutch. "

38 posted on 04/29/2015 11:13:16 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Maceman
Not only is it not exclusive to them, but it is also not applicable to all blacks -- or even most blacks, I would say -- by any means.

I agree.

39 posted on 04/29/2015 11:15:41 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: Citizen Zed

I’m concerned that as world leaders laugh themselves into convulsions they might accidentally press the big red WWIII button on their desk.


40 posted on 04/29/2015 11:44:44 AM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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