Posted on 12/10/2009 1:48:41 PM PST by earlJam
Personalized license plate owner: It's an ode to Harleys, not racism
By Chad D. Lerch | Muskegon Chronicle
December 10, 2009, 3:11PM
MUSKEGON COUNTY -- Richard Macaulay is a Harley-Davidson lover through and through.
The Muskegon man said he takes pride in his Harley-Davidson Dyna Wide Glide motorcycle, which he keeps in immaculate condition.
Macaulay said he was shocked to receive a letter from the Michigan Secretary of State's office recently stating that his personalized license plate of seven years had been revoked.
The Secretary of State's office informed the retired factory worker that a complaint from a Muskegon Heights woman had surfaced, claiming the personalized tag was racially insensitive.
The plate reads: DYNGR.
Tiffany Gilmore filed the complaint last month. Gilmore, who is black, believed the plate encouraged racism toward blacks.
Macaulay says the plate, which was renewed every year without objection is an ode to his love of the Harley Davidson brand of motorcycles.
He says it's an abbreviation that blends his two favorite Harleys: The Dyna Wide Glide and the Soft Tail Springer. Over the seven years he had the plate, Macaulay said he never received objections from anyone.
His brother-in-law thought it was an abbreviation for "danger." But, he said, no one ever thought it was racially motivated.
Until last month.
After he received the complaint letter, Macaulay said it took him several minutes to figure out what the fuss was about.
"I don't think that way," he said. "It took me a while to figure it out."
"This lady assumed immediately that I was a racist skinhead," Macaulay said. "There are so many other things going on, like the war. People have nothing better to do than spend their lives being pissed off."
Macaulay said he has applied for a new personalized license plate similar to the one that has been recalled. But it lacks the letter "N" so nobody gets confused.
"I would like to apologize to this lady for offending her, but that was not my intention," he said. "People who know me know that I'm not a racist. But she didn't really know what the plate meant."
“...’There are so many other things going on, like the war. People have nothing better to do than spend their lives being pissed off.’ “
You said it right there. Just looking to be offended. That Obama. He’s just brought us all closer, hasn’t he?
One day all this PC crap with end. It’ll take a national tragedy and change of life, but it will end.
Bump.
Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
R. J. Wiedemann Lt Col. USMC Ret
My headline would have been : Gubmint niggles biker about vanity plate
I see “dinger” .... maybe the guy’s a baseball fan.
But I'm sure she's a few fries short even when they don't.
LOL!
Stupid black racist idiot.
Or C, G, H, J, K, M, P, S, W, or Z. Various racial and ethnic slurs begin with those letters, too.
You can bet she raised her children to have the same attitude.
Meanwhile there are racist brandings that getting glossed over by the media:
FUBU is a clothing company. It includes casual wear, sports wear, a suit collection, eyewear, belts, and shoes. The name is a backronym for “For Us By Us”,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUBU
Such a niggling thing to get worked up about.
That's how many blacks, particularly in academia, spend their lives.
Doing the opposite might close the longevity gap, just maybe.
Too bad there are more than a thousand people who would want that one...
I have always let the state pick my plate for me instead of paying even more taxes. Some people think that plates are something you go out and buy because it's something they desire.
How niggardly of them! They must all be a bunch of nagger-lovers... (with apologies to South Park)
How many complaints has Tiffany Gilmore lodged against Snoop Dog or Chris Rock or Katt Williams or...?
I used to think the same way, until I rode a buddy's 80 cubic inch Superglide.
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