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jagirl32
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Salsassin
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 Posted: Thu 01 Nov 2007 15:48 Post subject: Re: DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER IS A RACIST! |
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You do realize the credibility of the National Inquirer right? I would wait to see if the claim is corroborated by a respectable source. |
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jagirl32
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| Posted: Fri 02 Nov 2007 01:41 Post subject: Re: DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER IS A RACIST! |
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Did you listen to the recording?
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You do realize the credibility of the National Inquirer right? I would wait to see if the claim is corroborated by a respectable source. |
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Salsassin
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| Posted: Fri 02 Nov 2007 02:26 Post subject: Re: DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER IS A RACIST! |
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| jagirl32 wrote: | Did you listen to the recording?
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You do realize the credibility of the National Inquirer right? I would wait to see if the claim is corroborated by a respectable source. |
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Just did. Damn. What an idiot. |
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anonymouse
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| His show got cancelled too. Dummy. |
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DChapman
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| Posted: Fri 02 Nov 2007 13:24 Post subject: |
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| anonymouse wrote: | | His show got cancelled too. Dummy. |
Not yet, production has been suspended:
| Quote: | | The show, in its fifth season and one of A&E's top-rated programs, has not been canceled. |
It was his son who sold the tape.....I used to watch the show. He had one of his sons put in jail. This maybe the son he put in jail, getting his pay back...literally. It is said the Enquirer paid big bucks for this. |
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Melani23
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But really, I do not care.
His son obviously has a beef with his father. Private family drama that is no ones business. Private conversations should not be up for sale and placed in the media w/o BOTH parties agreeing (except for publicly elected officals, public servants, etc).
This also goes for the David Hassellhoff's drunken video. 
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DChapman
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| Posted: Fri 02 Nov 2007 15:25 Post subject: |
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| Melani23 wrote: |
But really, I do not care.
His son obviously has a beef with his father. Private family drama that is no ones business. Private conversations should not be up for sale and placed in the media w/o BOTH parties agreeing (except for publicly elected officals, public servants, etc).
This also goes for the David Hassellhoff's drunken video.
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I agree, a private conversation should not be up for sale. In some states, this would be illegal.
DChapman does not mean I'm the "Dog" Woof! LOL!!!!!
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Salsassin
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| Posted: Fri 02 Nov 2007 15:59 Post subject: |
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| The girlfriend is cute. |
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fwsweet
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Apparently, Dog's diatribe was to express disapproval of his son's choice of girlfriend. As I understand it, the son and the girl fall on opposite sides of the U.S. endogamous color line. People can go completely nuts over this issue and, while I know that it is the norm in the U.S., it continues to mystify me. Even Puerto Rican fathers who think that they (and their children) will be seen as Black by Americans will try to adhere to the U.S. tradition.
In 1957, when I was in high school in PR (long before I met Mary Lee), my girl friend was rather dark. I was attracted to her because she was incredibly graceful, as well as very pretty, having taken dance lessons since early childhood. Our relationship was not all that serious yet, but it could easily have become serious over the years. I liked her parents and, apparently, they approved of me.
Then I became a finalist in the National Merit Scholarship program and was destined to attend a prestigious U.S. university on scholarship. And she won an arts scholarship to a U.S. college as well. On my next visit to her house, her father took me aside and forbade me to see his daughter again. I was stunned. In my eyes, we were both fond of each other, bright, and destined for success. What better "catch" could either of us expect?
Her father explained that if we were to make our life in PR, he would welcome me into his family. But that was no longer in the cards. Once we went to the United States I would discover that I was White and she would discover that she was Black, and our continuing on a path to marriage would be disastrous. Looking back, it makes you wonder about stories of alternate histories, where just one altered decision affects everything else in an avalanche of changed lives.
To this day, I cannot find it in my heart to judge the man. He wanted to protect his daughter. Neither she nor I had any idea what we we would be getting into in the racialist United States. And it was 1957, after all, a half-century ago now that I think of it.
Like I said, people can go completely nuts over this issue. |
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sagascend
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| Posted: Sun 04 Nov 2007 18:29 Post subject: |
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| fwsweet wrote: | Apparently, Dog's diatribe was to express disapproval of his son's choice of girlfriend. As I understand it, the son and the girl fall on opposite sides of the U.S. endogamous color line. People can go completely nuts over this issue and, while I know that it is the norm in the U.S., it continues to mystify me. Even Puerto Rican fathers who think that they (and their children) will be seen as Black by Americans will try to adhere to the U.S. tradition.
In 1957, when I was in high school in PR (long before I met Mary Lee), my girl friend was rather dark. I was attracted to her because she was incredibly graceful, as well as very pretty, having taken dance lessons since early childhood. Our relationship was not all that serious yet, but it could easily have become serious over the years. I liked her parents and, apparently, they approved of me.
Then I became a finalist in the National Merit Scholarship program and was destined to attend a prestigious U.S. university on scholarship. And she won an arts scholarship to a U.S. college as well. On my next visit to her house, her father took me aside and forbade me to see his daughter again. I was stunned. In my eyes, we were both fond of each other, bright, and destined for success. What better "catch" could either of us expect?
Her father explained that if we were to make our life in PR, he would welcome me into his family. But that was no longer in the cards. Once we went to the United States I would discover that I was White and she would discover that she was Black, and our continuing on a path to marriage would be disastrous. Looking back, it makes you wonder about stories of alternate histories, where just one altered decision affects everything else in an avalanche of changed lives.
To this day, I cannot find it in my heart to judge the man. He wanted to protect his daughter. Neither she nor I had any idea what we we would be getting into in the racialist United States. And it was 1957, after all, a half-century ago now that I think of it.
Like I said, people can go completely nuts over this issue. |
Though I am certain that things turned out well for you (and Mary Lee!) in the end, it is still terrible to see how many joyous possibilities were ended with U.S. racialism.
I am always saddened by stories like these because the reasons for relationships falling apart are not through detrimental acts by the individuals (people do plenty to screw up good relationships on their own), but presumptive/preemptive conclusions about the viability of these relationships. Even in 2007 many USAmerican parents will discourage cross-color line relationships on the grounds that their children will face adversity. I suspect that now, more than the threat of physical violence or economic penalties most people seek to avoid feeling "different" or made to feel like a quite natural attraction to their significant other is deviant or problematic.
What I am amazed by are all of the CCL relationships that DID form and even thrive over the centuries. |
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MP mulattoprince
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| I heard the tape. |
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Powell
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| Posted: Thu 08 Nov 2007 23:32 Post subject: James Landrith's comments on this issue |
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James Landrith's comments on this issue in "The Multiracial Activist."
http://www.multiracial.com/site/ |
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Andrew Waters
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Dog? Isn't this the guy with the weird hairdo. Should I care enough about him and the people who look like him to comment on it.
Who runs this outfit; the weekly tabloids that's who. Did the tabloids buy the television stations. Is he friends with Springer?
But I see he does get criminals off the street. Saved by the bell. |
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femmedecouleur
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| fwsweet wrote: | Apparently, Dog's diatribe was to express disapproval of his son's choice of girlfriend. As I understand it, the son and the girl fall on opposite sides of the U.S. endogamous color line. People can go completely nuts over this issue and, while I know that it is the norm in the U.S., it continues to mystify me. Even Puerto Rican fathers who think that they (and their children) will be seen as Black by Americans will try to adhere to the U.S. tradition.
In 1957, when I was in high school in PR (long before I met Mary Lee), my girl friend was rather dark. I was attracted to her because she was incredibly graceful, as well as very pretty, having taken dance lessons since early childhood. Our relationship was not all that serious yet, but it could easily have become serious over the years. I liked her parents and, apparently, they approved of me.
Then I became a finalist in the National Merit Scholarship program and was destined to attend a prestigious U.S. university on scholarship. And she won an arts scholarship to a U.S. college as well. On my next visit to her house, her father took me aside and forbade me to see his daughter again. I was stunned. In my eyes, we were both fond of each other, bright, and destined for success. What better "catch" could either of us expect?
Her father explained that if we were to make our life in PR, he would welcome me into his family. But that was no longer in the cards. Once we went to the United States I would discover that I was White and she would discover that she was Black, and our continuing on a path to marriage would be disastrous. Looking back, it makes you wonder about stories of alternate histories, where just one altered decision affects everything else in an avalanche of changed lives.
To this day, I cannot find it in my heart to judge the man. He wanted to protect his daughter. Neither she nor I had any idea what we we would be getting into in the racialist United States. And it was 1957, after all, a half-century ago now that I think of it.
Like I said, people can go completely nuts over this issue. |
That was very touching, sad and poignant. Thanks for sharing this. |
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punjabtrini
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Dog's rant appears typical (based on the tape) of those who, sadly, many think like that. They want to be able to express those beliefs without fallout but in the public domain they answer to the larger audience, which I think is good sense and decency.
I applaud Dog for his honesty and even though I watched his show infrequently, I no longer will patronize it! |
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