04-15-2009, 02:59 PM
<!--quoteo(post=30501:date=Apr 15 2009, 01:52 PM:name=ruby23)-->QUOTE (ruby23 @ Apr 15 2009, 01:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=30499:date=Apr 15 2009, 01:44 PM:name=Butcher)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Butcher @ Apr 15 2009, 01:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=30477:date=Apr 15 2009, 01:25 PM:name=ruby23)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ruby23 @ Apr 15 2009, 01:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=30464:date=Apr 15 2009, 12:40 PM:name=Butcher)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Butcher @ Apr 15 2009, 12:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=30457:date=Apr 15 2009, 12:24 PM:name=ruby23)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ruby23 @ Apr 15 2009, 12:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I'm just gonna throw this out there . . . since meeting my wife 7 years ago and spending alot more time in the Chicago area, I've heard some of the most ridiculously insensitive things I can imagine come from people mouths. I've heard things said by complete strangers, in public situations, that I couldn't fathom anyone saying. I may be from podunk, backwards, hillbilly Iowa, but I've never heard anything here like what I've heard in some of my trips to Chicago.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'm not really sure what this is supposed to mean.
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It means that I've heard more racist comments there than I ever could have imagined. It means that I've heard the N word and other derrogatory terms used in passing, like it's common place, far too often. It means that I think there may be some truth to what the article is saying.
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I've lived my entire life in Chicago, and that hasn't been my experience at all. You've gotta stop hanging out at the Chicago Klavern when you visit...
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So, I'm making shit up?
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I don't know if you are or not -- that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that you're just painting with too wide of a brush. I'm not sure where you are when you're witnessing this type of behavior, but to say that there's "something to this article" because you've hear racist comments when you visit Chicago is kind of a stretch.
It's similar to me saying that there are more criminals in Iowa than the rest of the country because of the two Iowans I've met, half of them are vandals.
I'm not really sure what this is supposed to mean.
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It means that I've heard more racist comments there than I ever could have imagined. It means that I've heard the N word and other derrogatory terms used in passing, like it's common place, far too often. It means that I think there may be some truth to what the article is saying.
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I've lived my entire life in Chicago, and that hasn't been my experience at all. You've gotta stop hanging out at the Chicago Klavern when you visit...
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So, I'm making shit up?
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I don't know if you are or not -- that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that you're just painting with too wide of a brush. I'm not sure where you are when you're witnessing this type of behavior, but to say that there's "something to this article" because you've hear racist comments when you visit Chicago is kind of a stretch.
It's similar to me saying that there are more criminals in Iowa than the rest of the country because of the two Iowans I've met, half of them are vandals.