Posted on 04/05/2012 7:26:31 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
The absurdity of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton is that they want to make a movement out of an anomaly. Black teenagers today are afraid of other black teenagers, not whites.
...The civil rights community and the liberal media live by the poetic truth that America is still a reflexively racist society, and that this remains the great barrier to black equality. But this "truth" has a lot of lie in it. America has greatly evolved since the 1960s. There are no longer any respectable advocates of racial segregation. And blacks today are nine times more likely to be killed by other blacks than by whites.
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In spite of the outcome it seems obvious, given what we know, that Martin was not out looking for trouble.
Nah, I was just thinking that the Polo logo is a polo player; the alligator is Lacoste.
“Polo shirt” is a style: knit, 3-button tab, small collar. They can be in Polo brand, Izod brand, Walmart brand ...
Ah, gotcha.
“Hipsters” do not wear them, even if their mom is having a cow over the awful things they’re trying to wear to church!
Around here, we call them wiggers.
I think that’s different. There is a very precise entomology of stylistic subgroups among young men.
When ever I go into my classifying young people, per dress, ie hipsters, etc, my daughter tells me the equivalent.
I think “hipsters” are something to do with “alternative” rock, whatever that is. Bands that are so creative that they have only four listeners, maybe.
My oldest boy (18 tomorrow) is so fashion-forward that I don’t know what he is. The second (15) is “gamer-geek,” which even I recognize.
As you say, there are many subgroups. My daughter tried to explain to me the difference between a New York Hipster, West Coast hipster and retro-hipster (there may have been some others).
Fortunately, she thinks they’re all poseurs. Of course she gets mad if I try to classify her style.
It’s all the same to me.
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