How do you know that this Councilman would not be calling them trash, too? And quite possibly if ol dude had been white the Councilman still would have referred to him as trash. We are talking about one person calling another person trash because of his heinous behavior. Not everything or every utterance is about race.

No need to yell. I have heard all promiscuous women referred as whores by some people.

Which goes to my point. I would rather have a council representative who isn't too dignify or high and mighty to still do the dirty work. But then maybe it is because in certain wards here in the city we tend elect representatives who do just that.

I understand his intent and certainly his frustration, but fully agree with this. It was lowering himself.

ETA: I also kinda don't trust it. NO politicians are spontaneous or off the cuff anymore- they plan each and every statement and move to appeal to the press and their constituency. This comes off as slightly disingenuous, and pandering in an attempt to come off as hard on crime.

Because they didn't get letters sent to them.
Because they weren't told that the best place for them is prison or a funeral home.
Because they are NOT black and poor.
Personally, I think it's because they didn't tell him to kiss thier black azz.

Again, I applaud him for getting drug dealers off the streets.
But if you are going to refer to him as trash,
then you need to see the bigger trash.
Or does he only see the black poor ones?

Poor drug dealers don't pass unfair laws.
Poor drug dealers don't send thousands of people to die.
Poor drug dealers don't make millions of dollars importing drugs
and then point the finger at drug dealers.
Poor drug dealers don't falsely accuse and then imprison blacks.
But why are they the only ones who get to be called "trash"?

The councilmen felt BOLD enough to call him that and sent him a letter, because poor people have few to zero rights in this country.

There is absolutely nothing funny or dignified about that letter.
Still, as someone pointed out earlier, this double standard will never be resolved in GreekChat.com. So on that note...

ok, let's shift the representative parallel a bit.

how many people would be comfortable if the head of their NPHC organization authored a similar letter, under approximate circumstances?

you sensed that possibility too, huh? :cool:

that could be true. however, i personally would never have done that. mainly because no matter how deep in jail this hoodlum is, aaaallll his friends are still out, running the streets. you know how young black men are about "respect". they'd just as soon pop a cap in said politicians azz for disrepecting their boy...

... Not in Cleveland. Now, if you "disrespect" CT4 you may wind up in Lake Erie, but otherwise you should be good.

sorry, not familiar with Cleveland...i live in Richmond, one of THE top cities for crime in the US. they arent too picky here, they'll kill you over anything...hence i have lost 5 friends in the past year and a half :(

What style of poetry would this be guys?

My thoughts are, sometimes a dumba** needs to be called a dumba**, though I don't know that this man should be the one to do it. I agree with whoever posted that his momma should have been saying to him that long ago.

Apples and oranges.

Now you do have a point there.

This is why I can't go into politics. I can just see myself writing something exactly like this. Even though that's somebody's child, this "boy" is now a man.