Why the heck this man man have so much respect? Why does his word mean so much?

this of course would mean the car occupants were still tryng to run over the police while they cops reloaded thier guns on the way to 50 shots.

 

thank you, 50 rounds is a an extreme amount. that's like the shoot scene in "Heat".

 

Basketball?

 

The scene in Heat has hundreds of rounds being fired, maybe into 4 digits. Any one of the robbers in the movie fires more than 50 rounds in that scene.

 

The same reason some televangelists can, too: because their constituent groups are socially and culturally isolated, paranoid and less than well informed.

 

Basically thats why black people continue to support him. We all know that Al Sharpton is an idiot, however, whatever his motives, he will get you heard. Al Sharpton offers a voice which happens to be the one thing that always seem to get taken from people of color. So it's much better to have Al Sharpton, and just wonder why sometimes, than to have no voice at all.

You mean just like every other strip club in the country?

Exactly, but when will that ever happen?

Are you serious? The entire history of this country invovles white people, mostly, doing something wrong to black people or other people of color. Al Sharpton just happens to give black people a voice and while it may be a flawed voice, it's understandable that white people don't want to hear it. There are a lot of problems in the black community, granted I'm not saying there aren't. However, from my perspective as a black person in America, white people absolutly refuse to believe that 1. they've ever done anything wrong to people of color 2. racism still exists and 3. black people are still viewed as unequal, and less than people.

While most crimes against black people do come from other black people have you ever thought about the demographics of the neighborhood where the crime was commited? Crimes are mostly crimes of oppurtunity and they are usually commited in the persons neighborhood, therefore it makes sense that most crimes against blacks are commited by other blacks, while most crimes against white people are also perputrated by other whites. Given the voluntary segregation of our neighborhoods its not really all to shocking that crimes are usually commited against a person of the same race as the perpetrator.

You mean the same criminal justice system that countinues to discriminate against black men? Yeah, no I'd have much better chances of surviving a game of Russian Roulette, than getting a fair trial.

 

O.J. Simpson??

I'm not saying that your three points are wrong...I believe all of them, and I'm white. Though personally, I've never discriminated against anyone based on race or ethnicity.

But, if anything, the criminal justice system is about money and power, not race or ethnicity.

 

I'd consider O.J. a fluke. The criminal justice system is about money and power but when you're black and you have niether you're a lot more likely to get screwed than your white counterpart.

 

Sharpton may be an opportunist, but he's definitely not an idiot. He understands something that other black activists seem oblivious too: the only way to make politicians do what you want is to play their game, no matter how low it gets. You can hold seminars and talk all you want, at best it gets you a nice photo op with a congressman, handshakes and no results. Its no accident that Sharpton manages to have more influence than several other smarter, more principled activists put together.

 

The police report explicitly states that at least one officer reloaded and kept firing.

 

There were two black Coaches in the Superbowl
It would have never happened if the NFL didn't FORCE owners to at least INTERVIEW Black candidates.

From experience. . i know, stories that are true. . that are recanted
Pressure bursts a pipe.

So do you beleive that black people perpatrate 65% of the crime?

the kid was wrong
the sentence is severe
but
the kid was wrong

So basically . .. we need to get white folx approval of our black leaders before they will listen to them

Rocket River

 

Yep, Tony Dungy would never have gotten a job before that stupid interview a black person even if you already know who you want to hire rule was put in place. Nevermind the fact that he had a head coaching job with a very successful team before that ever happened. Your thesis is that no black coacch could have followed that same path that Dungy did to face him in the Super Bowl. I think that is rediculous. The Rooney Rule is stupid, which was illustrated by the one time a team was fined because of it. The Lions were going to hire Mooch and everyone knew it, which is why the black candidates they tried to interview to comply with the Rooney Rule withdrew from their interviews. If a team is going after a specific coach, it is r****ded to make them interview anyone else, regardless of color.

 

So Lovie Smith didn't benefit from it? He was the bears third choice behind Jeff Tedford and Nick Saban, you know. Boy the Bears really missed the boat on Saban.
.

 

The rule is not about making them hire them
but
to get them use to seeing the faces
use to THINKING about them in that light

Most times. . it is not so much Racist as . .well I just never thought of *that* guy
If you ask why . . .they would never put their finger on it
It is because they just don't have that COACH look or feel
or something . .

For Instance. . .
I beleive Forest Whittaker's chances at an Oscar is much better
mainly because Denzel and Halle's Oscars . . .
[i.e. I think Jamie Fox's Oscar] . . .Would Jamie had won his
if RAY had come out 2 yrs before Denzel and Halle's Oscars?
it is debatable.

Rocket RIver

 

ONE MORE THING
Tony Dungy got a job at debatable the sh*ttiest team in league
He *made* it into *something*

Rocket RIver

 

I also understand he is the LOWEST paid Coach in the League too.
but
That is just a coincidence

Rocket RIver

 

Does the fact that one person benefitted from it make it a good rule? Why stop at requiring the team to interview one black candidate? Are Latinos incapable of coaching football? Asians? Should a team be required to interview a white candidate if they know they are going to hire a black coach? Let the teams hire whoever they damn well please. If they pass over a great coach because he is black, it is going to hurt the team more than the coach, because there are teams that will hire black coaches.

Obviously some teams already thought of black people as potential coaches, namely the Raiders, Vikings, Cardinals, Eagles, Packers, Buccaneers, Colts, Redskins, and Jets (I am not of Marvin Lewis's date of hire in relation to the implementation of the Rooney Rule, so the Bengals may or may not deserve to be added to that list.) Of course, those are only teams that have actually had black head coaches, others may have interviewed black coaches and gone another direction before the Rooney Rule. Doesn't really seem like there was a problem finding teams that would consider hiring a black head coach before they made a rule about it.
Just as there didn't need to be a rule put in place to have one of the oscar nominees be black, I don't think there needs to be a rule that one of your head coaching interviews needs to be black. In sports, the colors that matter most are green and gold, and those things come to the people that put out a winning product, not the people who hire only white coaches.

That is half true. One of the jobs he got pre-Rooney Rule was to coach a woeful Tampa team. The other one was to coach one of the NFL golden boys, Payton Manning and the Colts who had been a powerhouse (albeit coming off a disasterous season leading to Jim Mora's hilarious playoffs tirade).