Comments on: Terrible Shooting at 14th and Fairmont

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:42:20 +0000

If I ever met someone talking like Neener at a party, I’d probably try to discreetly extract myself from the conversation.

By: neener

neener — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:33:33 +0000

Odentex and Reuben can say what they want, but their comments do not change the truth.

Sorry Odentex if tap dancing kids bother you, take it up with them, not me. In fact I’m willing to bet that your attitude (tap dancing equals something bad) is EXACTLY what’s keeping you down rather than succeeding in life. When I saw them tap dancing I was pretty amazed because the Columbia Heights guys would not, from talking to them, even understand broadway musicals, let alone plan a career around one. The last time I talked to a guy in a crew all he would talk about were people who got shot because of beefs. I told him that the beefs aren’t real, that they’re a fantasy, but of course he felt they were “real” you know and my life isn’t real. Belief in those beefs are the product of a mentally ill mind. They are a psychosis. A psychosis that a psychiatrist can treat.

It’s not race, I’m very clear about that, it’s culture and a bizarre obsession with death that would make a pimply teenage goth say, “lighten up guys.”

So take a look at why some kids working their way to broadway with a tap dancing skill makes you feel bad about yourself. That’s such a bizarre reaction that I think you owe it to yourself to talk to a doctor about it.

By: youdontknowme

youdontknowme — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:37:30 +0000

I’d reference here the Chris Rock routine regarding how he loves his black people but hates his (voice lowered, furtive glance around) ‘n-words’.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:19:36 +0000

Reuben,
In all honesty, can you really say that a well spoken mannerable young black man is what most people encounter in this area? My experience has been that most outside of my small circle are not that mannerable or well spoken.

By: Odentex

Odentex — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:12:02 +0000

Ruben: I think you’re being too harsh on Neener. When he saw those young fellers in Harlem practicing the soft shoe he dropped a dime in the hat and said “you coloreds are so civilized up here, not like those uppity rascals down in DC!”

By: reuben

reuben — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:31:18 +0000

Neener, you sound a little like Joe Biden… You know, the “articulate” line. When someone who happens to be white (I think that is the right phrase for this new, post-racial America I keep hearing so much about) says something like to me, let’s just say I find it condescending. As if there aren’t umpteen black folks who have no problem with subject/verb agreements…

By: GforGood

GforGood — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:36:07 +0000

Faircliff management responds:

http://newcolumbiaheights.blogspot.com/2008/08/faircliff-management-responds.html

By: Boomhauer

Boomhauer — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:29:50 +0000

Meeting is tonight according to the South Columbia Heights Neighborhood Assn.

By: YouKilledKenny

YouKilledKenny — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:15:40 +0000

Did anybody go the meeting last night?

By: Neener

Neener — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:48:44 +0000

ElevenIrving: If this is “survival of the fittest” I’m putting my money on the Section 8ers and not the granite-counter-top coveting class.
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When your ass gets put into the ground at 19 that’s not “survival” or “fittest.”