What's wrong with referring to someone as a thug if they look like a thug. No matter the color of their skin.
How about Ruffian?
All of it, you are either talking about yourself or you have walked around questioning people.
It's funny he said "white Americans" when we all know it's older black Americans that know best that a hooded young one is usually a thug.
Right. A hooded black American is usually a thug.
I can always rely on you to eliminate all doubt.
Or I've lived in this country for 50+ years and talked to actual people?
I get it though. Generlizations are only acceptable when you like what they are saying.
Calling Burfict a thug seems reasonable. Calling ISIS thugs is reasonable. OTOH, calling Richard Sherman a thug is NOT reasonable. Beillein calling his players thugs is NOT reasonable. That's the problem.
The word thug became a euphemism for criminal. Accusing someone of being a criminal who has done nothing criminal is a bad look.
Actually it's derived from a Hindi word meaning 'swindler or deceiver'It’s a phrase coined by black people themselves. Can’t blame white people for that. They wanna call themselves thugs, fine. But don’t go handing out the racist card every time a white person uses it.
Even David Duke?Anyone that says "white Americans" has one intention by using that phrase - undermining them.
Actually it's derived from a Hindi word meaning 'swindler or deceiver'
It then evolved to refer to gangs of criminals in British ruled India
Actually it's derived from a Hindi word meaning 'swindler or deceiver'
It then evolved to refer to gangs of criminals in British ruled India
I meant the phrase Thug Life
It's funny when progressives are so afraid to interact with older black males and learn from their experiences, that they don't understand anything they've been saying about the hood for the last quarter century.Right. A hooded black American is usually a thug.
I can always rely on you to eliminate all doubt.
First thing that comes to mind is Tupac Shakur.
It's funny when progressives are so afraid to interact with older black males and learn from their experiences, that they don't understand anything they've been saying about the hood for the last quarter century.
Probably why Democrat run cities have no success in fixing the problems in those places.
Meanwhile Republicans come from the suburbs to house, feed, cloth and find jobs for the same people the Democrats are happy to squandor and ignore.