A police captain in Murfreesboro, TN was suspended for 10 days for calling someone a n**g*r!

[rudder]

Will racism ever stop in this day and age? This guy is a senior police officer and should know better. To top it off this is his second suspension for using racial slurs.

From the tennessean.com

There has to be more to the story. I think he was shaking down some people and they were recording him for evidence. Otherwise why would you tape a police officer just shooting the shit in a barber shop. The officer states he was role-playing... but how much role playing can you do as a homie when you are in a police uniform. And since he was in uniform... he got the suspension.

Glad to see at least all people are being held to the same standard.

 

[Moonbeam]

I hope he was suspended by his thumbs.

 

[OCGuy]

Equal application of the rules is always a good thing. :thumbsup:

 

[theflyingpig]

Racism will continue as long as people take offense to the "N" word. Fools are giving simple words power over them. How pathetic. Everyone knows this.

 

[Moonbeam]

Originally posted by: OCguy
Equal application of the rules is always a good thing. :thumbsup:

No it isn't. A robot could do that. What about the prodigal son?

 

[xj0hnx]

Originally posted by: rudder
Will racism ever stop in this day and age?

He's black.

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: xj0hnx

Originally posted by: rudder
Will racism ever stop in this day and age?

He's black.

Are you saying there should be seperate standards of conduct based on the race of the offender?



Seems like the Northeast is on the same page:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=6840537

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: OCguy

Originally posted by: xj0hnx

Originally posted by: rudder
Will racism ever stop in this day and age?

He's black.

Are you saying there should be seperate standards of conduct based on the race of the offender?



Seems like the Northeast is on the same page:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=6840537

I think he's saying, not that there SHOULD BE, but that there ARE de facto seperate standards of conduct based on the race of the offender.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: OCguy
Equal application of the rules is always a good thing. :thumbsup:

Agreed, but a Caucasian would have probably received worse punishment than a ten day suspension.



I am curious as to whatever happened to the black guy who burned a cross at a civil rights memorial in Mississippi and tried to slip away unseen (and thus avoid revealing the perpetrator was non-Caucasian). Had a thread about that a few years ago here, too bad the archive is broken.

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
Racism will continue as long as people take offense to the "N" word. Fools are giving simple words power over them. How pathetic. Everyone knows this.

This.

I drop the F-Bomb all over the place. At work, at home, with friends, with strangers. I get complaints from lots of people about how often and liberally I use it. I normally use it in everyday conversation ("I lost $25000 in the market today, God Fucking Damn it." ). I very rarely use it in a direct offensive way ("Go Fuck Yourself, Asshole.").

Each and every time I hear a complaint / can tell someone took offense, I think to myself: "Wow, they are a sad, small-minded person. They just let four letters strung together, used in a non-confrontational, not-intentionally-offensive way, offend them." To sum these people up using theflyingpig's word: Pathetic.

 

[xj0hnx]

Originally posted by: ebaycj

Originally posted by: OCguy

Originally posted by: xj0hnx

Originally posted by: rudder
Will racism ever stop in this day and age?

He's black.

Are you saying there should be seperate standards of conduct based on the race of the offender?



Seems like the Northeast is on the same page:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=6840537

I think he's saying, not that there SHOULD BE, but that there ARE de facto seperate standards of conduct based on the race of the offender.

This.

Every other word on most any rap album is the N word. I've heard black people claim it's "thier" word, and they can have for all I care, but this just seems ridiculous that someone recorded a cop, off duty in a barber shop, talking to black people, and somehow the dude is "racist"?

 

[WHAMPOM]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam

Originally posted by: OCguy
Equal application of the rules is always a good thing. :thumbsup:

No it isn't. A robot could do that. What about the prodigal son?

Bathe him, clothe him, feast him until he passes out and then strip him naked and put him up for sale at the slave market. A good beating by his brothers would be deserved too.

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: xj0hnx

Every other word on most any rap album is the N word. I've heard black people claim it's "thier" word, and they can have for all I care, but this just seems ridiculous that someone recorded a cop, off duty in a barber shop, talking to black people, and somehow the dude is "racist"?

What if it was a white cop in the same situation?

If you have different criteria that is based soley off of skin color, that is discrimination.

 

[xj0hnx]

Originally posted by: OCguy

Originally posted by: xj0hnx

Every other word on most any rap album is the N word. I've heard black people claim it's "thier" word, and they can have for all I care, but this just seems ridiculous that someone recorded a cop, off duty in a barber shop, talking to black people, and somehow the dude is "racist"?

What if it was a white cop in the same situation?

If you have different criteria that is based soley off of skin color, that is discrimination.

A white cop probably wouldn't have been casually hanging out in a barber shop chatting up the locals and using the N word. I, and I don't think anyone else here has heard the audio, but I am doubting it is any different than any conversation that goes on in a ghetto barber shop in regards to colorful metaphors.

 

[dammitgibs]

Trying to find the Family Guy clip with Peter as Huck Finn on the raft with great person Jim

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
Racism will continue as long as people take offense to the "N" word. Fools are giving simple words power over them. How pathetic. Everyone knows this.

Blaming racial slurs on the the people being slurred. I think you have just won the internet.

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: xj0hnx

Originally posted by: OCguy

Originally posted by: xj0hnx

Every other word on most any rap album is the N word. I've heard black people claim it's "thier" word, and they can have for all I care, but this just seems ridiculous that someone recorded a cop, off duty in a barber shop, talking to black people, and somehow the dude is "racist"?

What if it was a white cop in the same situation?

If you have different criteria that is based soley off of skin color, that is discrimination.

A white cop probably wouldn't have been casually hanging out in a barber shop chatting up the locals and using the N word. I, and I don't think anyone else here has heard the audio, but I am doubting it is any different than any conversation that goes on in a ghetto barber shop in regards to colorful metaphors.

WKRN.com, there is a video link where you can hear the audio.

And yes he does jsut sound like he is chatting up the locals. But he was suspended for "using a racial slur." I apologize as it is hard to convey a fecitious tone when typing a commentary. I just find it interesting that a black police officer was suspended for racism for using a term commonly used in the black community. Had a white officer been in that barbershop doing the same thing... he would probably be looking for another job.

I do think there is more to the story though... as in the police want to fire him but can't. The question still lingers as to why he was being recorded.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: ebaycj

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
Racism will continue as long as people take offense to the "N" word. Fools are giving simple words power over them. How pathetic. Everyone knows this.

This.

I drop the F-Bomb all over the place. At work, at home, with friends, with strangers. I get complaints from lots of people about how often and liberally I use it. I normally use it in everyday conversation ("I lost $25000 in the market today, God Fucking Damn it." ). I very rarely use it in a direct offensive way ("Go Fuck Yourself, Asshole.").

Each and every time I hear a complaint / can tell someone took offense, I think to myself: "Wow, they are a sad, small-minded person. They just let four letters strung together, used in a non-confrontational, not-intentionally-offensive way, offend them." To sum these people up using theflyingpig's word: Pathetic.

theflyingpig is wrong. It is amazing that you are so pathetic to honestly believe that it is the people who are offended that are pathetic!!

 

[Atreus21]

Originally posted by: ebaycj

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
Racism will continue as long as people take offense to the "N" word. Fools are giving simple words power over them. How pathetic. Everyone knows this.

This.

I drop the F-Bomb all over the place. At work, at home, with friends, with strangers. I get complaints from lots of people about how often and liberally I use it. I normally use it in everyday conversation ("I lost $25000 in the market today, God Fucking Damn it." ). I very rarely use it in a direct offensive way ("Go Fuck Yourself, Asshole.").

Each and every time I hear a complaint / can tell someone took offense, I think to myself: "Wow, they are a sad, small-minded person. They just let four letters strung together, used in a non-confrontational, not-intentionally-offensive way, offend them." To sum these people up using theflyingpig's word: Pathetic.

To some extent I agree.

I've often thought a large part, but not all of, being offended lies in being sensitive to the offense in the first place.

I dunno. That's a tough one to make an all-encompassing statement about.

 

[Atreus21]

Originally posted by: OCguy

Originally posted by: xj0hnx

Originally posted by: rudder
Will racism ever stop in this day and age?

He's black.

Are you saying there should be seperate standards of conduct based on the race of the offender?



Seems like the Northeast is on the same page:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=6840537

Well, another way to look at it is that black people have unofficial license to use the term when speaking to each other. Like in rap and stuff.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: Atreus21

Originally posted by: OCguy

Originally posted by: xj0hnx

Originally posted by: rudder
Will racism ever stop in this day and age?

He's black.

Are you saying there should be seperate standards of conduct based on the race of the offender?


Seems like the Northeast is on the same page:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=6840537

Well, another way to look at it is that black people have unofficial license to use the term when speaking to each other. Like in rap and stuff.

Is this any different than any other group? People of the same religion, race, nationality, etc all commonly use terms to one another that are unacceptable by an outsider.

 

[actuarial]

Originally posted by: JEDIYoda

Originally posted by: ebaycj

Originally posted by: theflyingpig
Racism will continue as long as people take offense to the "N" word. Fools are giving simple words power over them. How pathetic. Everyone knows this.

This.

I drop the F-Bomb all over the place. At work, at home, with friends, with strangers. I get complaints from lots of people about how often and liberally I use it. I normally use it in everyday conversation ("I lost $25000 in the market today, God Fucking Damn it." ). I very rarely use it in a direct offensive way ("Go Fuck Yourself, Asshole.").

Each and every time I hear a complaint / can tell someone took offense, I think to myself: "Wow, they are a sad, small-minded person. They just let four letters strung together, used in a non-confrontational, not-intentionally-offensive way, offend them." To sum these people up using theflyingpig's word: Pathetic.

theflyingpig is wrong. It is amazing that you are so pathetic to honestly believe that it is the people who are offended that are pathetic!!

theflyingpig is wrong, but ebaycj is right too. What ebaycj missed is that in his situations you are not talking offensively to someone, which is when you SHOULDN'T be offended by words.

What theflyingpig, and ebaycj missed, is that even if people AREN'T affected by the word racism won't go away, people will just find something else to say. If I told every black guy "you're worseless and your race is the scum of the earth" I'm pretty sure I'm racist even though I didn't call him a *****, or use any offensive language. Now if I choose to use a word over and over, and many people do, to convey that message, then of course people are going to be affected by it. Not being affected by it will not stop me from hating you.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: OCguy
Equal application of the rules is always a good thing. :thumbsup:

Agreed, but a Caucasian would have probably received worse punishment than a ten day suspension.



I am curious as to whatever happened to the black guy who burned a cross at a civil rights memorial in Mississippi and tried to slip away unseen (and thus avoid revealing the perpetrator was non-Caucasian). Had a thread about that a few years ago here, too bad the archive is broken.

Had a white officer said it We'd be hearing about it on the national news. Obama would take a break from his vacation to say the officer acted stupidly and like a Typlical White Person.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Jeffrey's Lobotomy
Had a white officer said it We'd be hearing about it on the national news. Obama would take a break from his vacation to say the officer acted stupidly and like a Typlical White Person.

Yeah probably not but nice try.

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Jeffrey's Lobotomy
Had a white officer said it We'd be hearing about it on the national news. Obama would take a break from his vacation to say the officer acted stupidly and like a Typlical White Person.

Yeah probably not but nice try.

The Office of the Official Teleprompter of the President of the United States has probably updated it's response matrix in it's teleprompters and will learn from it's mistakes.