FIRED for 'racist' Facebook post

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Jodell88

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The entire neighborhood is black. I was reading accounts that say you hear gunfire every night.She's been reporting for over 10 years and knows that neighborhood. So saying it's a black youth is like calling rice white.

But whatever, if she was any other color than white people would read what she said and agree that things need to change in that neighborhood. Rather than calling her racists.
Actually, no. Talking about crime in the black community is taboo. It doesn't matter what race you are, you'll recieve backlash.
 

Blackjack200

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May 28, 2007
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This is the really racist part to me:



Lots of code words in that.

Later that night, away from the crowded restaurant and my jealous husband, I saw him again. I knew that I shouldn't, that it was wrong, but I just couldn't help myself. I felt my knees weaken as he moved toward me, dish towel casually draped across the drawstring of his apron, like he didn't even care. I imagined his hips pumping and sweat beading on his shoulders as he washed my floor...
 

DrunkenSano

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Later that night, away from the crowded restaurant and my jealous husband, I saw him again. I knew that I shouldn't, that it was wrong, but I just couldn't help myself. I felt my knees weaken as he moved toward me, dish towel casually draped across the drawstring of his apron, like he didn't even care. I imagined his hips pumping and sweat beading on his shoulders as he washed my floor...

That's racist! You assume all white women want's the black D!
 

Carson Dyle

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Later that night, away from the crowded restaurant and my jealous husband, I saw him again. I knew that I shouldn't, that it was wrong, but I just couldn't help myself. I felt my knees weaken as he moved toward me, dish towel casually draped across the drawstring of his apron, like he didn't even care. I imagined his hips pumping and sweat beading on his shoulders as he washed my floor...

He was a handsome buck and I'd always harbored a secret, dark desire for the forbidden flesh of the despised Negro.
 

UglyCasanova

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Mar 25, 2001
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its not technically but it is because everyone knows shes calling out blacks

statistically its pretty even on which race commits crimes, there are a handful of them where 1 specific race dominates but for violent crimes whites commit more of them then any other race
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/u...he-u.s.-2012/tables/43tabledatadecoverviewpdf

The proportions aren't even close given the general population.

Link

White American 223,553,265 72.4 %
Black American 38,929,319 12.6 %


Given that whites constitute 72% of the US population and blacks 12.6%, why are they committing roughly the same number of crimes? It's not even close in terms of frequency.
 

Crono

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Later that night, away from the crowded restaurant and my jealous husband, I saw him again. I knew that I shouldn't, that it was wrong, but I just couldn't help myself. I felt my knees weaken as he moved toward me, dish towel casually draped across the drawstring of his apron, like he didn't even care. I imagined his hips pumping and sweat beading on his shoulders as he washed my floor...

 

thesmokingman

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Later that night, away from the crowded restaurant and my jealous husband, I saw him again. I knew that I shouldn't, that it was wrong, but I just couldn't help myself. I felt my knees weaken as he moved toward me, dish towel casually draped across the drawstring of his apron, like he didn't even care. I imagined his hips pumping and sweat beading on his shoulders as he washed my floor...


Omg, you could ghost write for Penthouse!
 

ctbaars

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Is this thread an April Fools joke? Did Perknose swap the P&N and OT decorum rules somewhere? Was there a brawl across the street in P&N that spilling out (Blazing Saddles style) to here?
 

Ban Bot

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statistically its pretty even on which race commits crimes, there are a handful of them where 1 specific race dominates but for violent crimes whites commit more of them then any other race
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/u...he-u.s.-2012/tables/43tabledatadecoverviewpdf

More "whites" commit crimes because there are more "whites" than other ethnic/racial groups in the US. e.g. Wiki Regarding Black Americans:

About 14.3% of Americans or 45,672,250 people are Black only or Black in combination with another race as of 2014 estimates

With that in mind the number of, say, murders is hugely disproportionate: Of the 8,506 arrests for murder 48.2% were white, 49.4% were black. That is over 3 times higher than it should be if crimes were committed equally among groups. It also isn't very "PC" to identify this or to identify that more violent crimes are committed in inner city communities and more violent crimes are committed by the poorest Americans.
 

UglyCasanova

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Later that night, away from the crowded restaurant and my jealous husband, I saw him again. I knew that I shouldn't, that it was wrong, but I just couldn't help myself. I felt my knees weaken as he moved toward me, dish towel casually draped across the drawstring of his apron, like he didn't even care. I imagined his hips pumping and sweat beading on his shoulders as he washed my floor...

Lol, nothing melts the knees like a bbc. :awe:
 

Red Squirrel

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I think it's ridiculous that you can get fired for something you do or say on your own time. Pure BS really. But these days and hearing all these stories it comes to show you really got to watch what you say on sites like FB and Twitter etc. Those two seem the be the most monitored by governments and employers. But I would not have even thought that what she said would be considered bad, so can't really blame her for that. Was just a comment.
 

Red Squirrel

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Hmmm yeah maybe bad idea to do that especially if people might recognize your name as being a news anchor for said news agency. Not that what she said was bad but people get offended at anything these days, it's best to keep quiet.
 

Imp

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Since the killers haven't been identified, why was it ok to racially profile them as black?

Better yet, why did she bring up black people at all? How does this case involve black people in any way?

Did anyone in this thread, at all, read the original article?

In the Facebook post, she references six people murdered, which probably prompted her to write the post. Specifically, the first sentence of her post states, "...to draw a mental sketch of the killers who broke so many hearts two weeks ago Wednesday." A few sentences later, "Once you kill a neighbor's three children, two nieces and her unborn grandson..."

From the Daily Mail article:

Siblings Jerry Michael Shelton, 35, Brittany Powell, 27, and Chanetta Powell, 25, along with two cousins, Tina Shelton, 37, and Shada Mahone, 26, were killed in the ambush shooting, police said. Chanetta Powell was nearly eight months pregnant.

The article then follows with pictures of the victims:
Chanetta Powell - Female with dark complexion, black hair
Brittany Powell - Female with dark complexion, black hair
Jerry Shelton - Name with dark complexion, black hair
Tina Shelton - Female with dark complexion, black hair
Shana Mahone - Female with dark complexion, black hair
 

sdifox

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The proportions aren't even close given the general population.

Link

White American 223,553,265 72.4 %
Black American 38,929,319 12.6 %


Given that whites constitute 72% of the US population and blacks 12.6%, why are they committing roughly the same number of crimes? It's not even close in terms of frequency.

You should add in the poverty level as well for a more balanced picture.
 

UglyCasanova

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You should add in the poverty level as well for a more balanced picture.


I absolutely agree, but to pretend that the black community doesn't have a crime problem is absurd. She posted it to her employers page which is not a good idea and I have no problem with her being let go for that, but to cry racism for pointing out what she did is just putting ones head in the sand trying to pretend a real problem doesn't exist.
 

-slash-

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I absolutely agree, but to pretend that the black community doesn't have a crime problem is absurd. She posted it to her employers page which is not a good idea and I have no problem with her being let go for that, but to cry racism for pointing out what she did is just putting ones head in the sand trying to pretend a real problem doesn't exist.

Precisely. Pointing out that the poor black community has a crime problem is not racist, it's the truth.
 

sdifox

No Lifer
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Precisely. Pointing out that the poor black community has a crime problem is not racist, it's the truth.

She didnt get fired for what she said. She got fired because she didn't know what cannot be said in a PC world that we live in.
 

Six

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LMFAO at Blackjack200.

Anyhow, she's not a racist. She knew very well what she was doing. Go and read the whole thing to get a feel for the context, not just snippets on ATOT. Notice the perpetrators were refereed to as black, bus boy was African American, and the six victims (who btw were all black) were just people.
 
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