Guests from Hell: The NAACP's Shakedown of the Hospitality Industry

A Different Drummer ^ | January, 2002 | Nicholas Stix

[mrustow]

Twice so far in my life, but I'm from Detroit, so it probably doesn't count!

LOL!

[stboz]

I don't know, but gonzo's got the right tact. Check the Trib's archives.

[mafree]

.I brought it up in #30, in response to #4..

No, I meant in the conversation you were having with the other folks at the restaurant.

[mafree]

You're right- it takes all types.

[carmelanne]

My husband has that look. While I was out shopping, the computer was still logged into FreeRepublic, he decided to try his hand at "cut and paste" posting! Hence the gawd awful caps and font.

The story that he was trying too post involved the Atlanta/Comdex fiasco. The large Comdex computer show was set to open in Atlanta, and like years past it was expected too draw a large foreign and domestic computer type crowd. As many as 100,000 serious nerds became entwined with a couple hundred thousand serious party persons. It was a disaster. Of course the Spring Comdex is now held in Chicago each year.

They were not all college students and the word had spread across the country about the happenin in Atlanta called, Freaknik. Lenox Square Mall in Buckhead was trashed and had become the training grounds for future such Freaknik sport.

[mrustow]

.I brought it up in #30, in response to #4..

No, I meant in the conversation you were having with the other folks at the restaurant.

It didn't come up in the conversation at the restaurant. (I know we talked about academic persecution, and a little about the sexual politics of custody battles, because of the histories of the various folks I was with.) The Prof and I were on the street just after having left the restaurant. Now, don't go and ask me about a conversational context from two-and-a-half years ago (or five minutes ago, for that matter), or where the rest of the party was. Maybe we'd all just split up.

[mafree]

I was referring to the incident you recounted in post #35. I asked because I wanted to know if the conversation may have been triggered by seeing a black person or something like that. Just curious.

[185JHP]

I've seen obnoxious, vile behavior myself - no excuse for it. IMO the best part of your post is your comment about "recycling hatred." If you do something hostile to another person, they may take out their anger about your "offense" (real or imagined), on another person, and the cycle continues. They may pounce on someone more vulnerable than you. Prejudice is poison - it's best to wait til you know - til a hostile act is consummated. Even then, overlooking/forgiving is a good idea - if you can do it.

[mrustow]

Buckhead? Did you say Buckhead?! I'm from New York, but a year or so ago, I read an article in the Urinal Constipation, which "reported" on the claims by black young people (college-age?) that they were sonehow being racially harassed in Buckhead. Were these "harassment" claims a strategy to undermine business owners' efforts to protect their property, and prevent additional rioting?