tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post3763691081966818361..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-56824725660137410642007-11-03T19:14:00.000-05:002007-11-03T19:14:00.000-05:00Oh please don't go there with references to Clarence Thomas. I know you must read SCOTUS opinions like I do, and he's a lightweight in almost every sense of the word.<BR/><BR/>However...<BR/><BR/>On this subject, Bill Crawford has lost it. He needs to grow up and direct his anger elsewhere.<BR/><BR/>Dennis Ryearson's appearance at that press conference was ridiculous and inappropriate. I'm a Gannett stockholder and I am going to fire off a letter to the Chairman about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-40222604696331190872007-11-03T14:04:00.001-05:002007-11-03T14:04:00.001-05:00There is debate over whether a Willie Lynch delivered a speech back in the 1700s which has been attibuted to him. There seems to be no doubt the term "lynching" was derived from a man named "Lynch" who was negatively associated with slavery. There is no mistaking the meaning Aaron Haith ascribed to it when he called Abdul the "grandson of Willie Lynch" regardless of who Willie Lynch actually was. There was similarly never a man called "Zip Coon". It's just a negative caricature of a fictional black man born during the days of slavery in the 1800s.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-79980107236117029462007-11-03T13:48:00.000-05:002007-11-03T13:48:00.000-05:00Did Willie Lynch really exist?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-86269290643147654062007-11-03T10:17:00.000-05:002007-11-03T10:17:00.000-05:00Any discipline or lack thereof in this case was the responsibility of Carl Brizzi, the Republican prosecutor. Your attempts to somehow tie this to the Democrats is sad but amusing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-46707548804664820602007-11-03T09:55:00.000-05:002007-11-03T09:55:00.000-05:00What you say about Aaron Haith and Monroe Gray doesn't surprise me.<BR/><BR/>The two of them will pull the race card and claim discrimination even among his white Democrat friends. They blasted me at a fundraiser for Julia a couple of years ago, only because I was opposing a development by a friend of his. It was ugly and appalling, and I've been shocked at his rise to the head of the Council.<BR/><BR/>He's no good. He's gotta go, even if it means the Democrats lose control of the Council for a couple of years!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-72737540653419124882007-11-03T09:43:00.000-05:002007-11-03T09:43:00.000-05:00All of these recent actions by the administration and council have done nothing but solidify my decision come this Tuesday. I just hope their lemmings see the light before then, but I doubt it. Fear and intimidation is always a good election-time tactic. Just look at Bush this last election.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-58269391479799715372007-11-03T09:26:00.000-05:002007-11-03T09:26:00.000-05:00Well Gary, now you know just how easy it is for black organized crime to operate in this city.<BR/><BR/>Is it any wonder that while every other major city in the United States put the illegal numbers racket out of business that it still operates unimpeded in Indianapolis' black community to the tune of millions of dollars?<BR/>And those millions go to finance narcotics that are ripping the black community apart here.<BR/><BR/>Double standard? Naw, just business as usual.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com