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You already know the words. That's why you don't use 'em. You don't need a new list. Use the same list you've been using.
I had no idea "posse" was Verboten. Knock me over with a feather. I suspect there are others that you would wag a finger at me for that I wouldn't know about. I mean it. Where is the list?
Are you serious?? So you're saying that suggesting the guys he wanted to spend time with were friends and not business partners, is offensive? I would have assumed they were friends no matter who the person was.
You're just looking for reasons to be offended.
Phil Jackson and Pat Riley know exactly who the people with LeBron are because his circle has been exactly the same for 20 years. They know that these aren't just a bunch of hangers-on. LeBron doesn't do flunkies...the whole League knows it.
That "posse" s*** is insulting and meant to demean the people around him. Everyone and their mother involved in sports knows exactly what that word means as it appertains to black athletes. If you don't know, then you simply aren't into the sports scene.
This attitude is a symptom of that generation. The "Hip Hop" culture is what has brought about this constant entitlement, this racist "gimme" sexist, and "OMG WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY!" Attitude where ignorant people who are stupid of history think whatever their dumb adaption of their rap/hip hop culture has is somehow original and pertains only to them.
That is, it leads to idiots going on about how "posse" a word meant to identify a "body of legal authority" as being some racist term meant to attack the extremely stupid who need to pick up a damn book or dictionary instead of educating themselves through their culture.
It is the same problem with idiots like John Wiley Price who complained when someone used "black hole" to explain a budget issue as being racist.
This isn't a color issue, this is a culture one.
a lot of ad hominem in here. I still don't see how you are connecting this to Hiphop though? A basketball player and his business partners were called a posse. They want to be seen as serious business people. As they should. Almost the opposite of hiphop and entitlement. But I can read between the lines.
Now this is way more problematic than anything about some posse...
By all means, be vague, fail to state and stand there smug. You can look cool in the shadows, I am sure everyone is thinking... who is that cool guy over there that really said nothing, but disapproved in a dark and mysterious way!
I called my group of friends my "posse" since I was about 8 years old. It is a southern term for friends, your group, your associates. It was a cowboy term. What is the big deal? You or anyone else don't get to appropriate "posse" to just "black athletes", DD. that is absurd.
I had no idea "posse" was Verboten. Knock me over with a feather. I suspect there are others that you would wag a finger at me for that I wouldn't know about. I mean it. Where is the list?
It's not verboten. It's wrong to use in the context that it was used in. Again, show me where any white business group has ever been tagged as a posse, and you'll have a point.
But you won't find it.
As for the list, you already know the words. Look, I already know that you use them in safe company, but that's your business.
a lot of ad hominem in here. I still don't see how you are connecting this to Hiphop though? A basketball player and his business partners were called a posse. They want to be seen as serious business people. As they should. Almost the opposite of hiphop and entitlement. But I can read between the lines.
They want to be seen as serious business people but they are so uneducated that they have no concept of the meaning of the word "posse"?
Yeah.. real "business like" of them, I mean... I am thinking stand up intelligent folk there, nope... not some chip on the shoulder ignorant people, nope... real business like.
I called my friends my posse since I was about 8 years old. It is a southern term for friends, group, associates. It was a cowboy term. What is the big deal? You don't get to appropriate to "black athletes", DD.
Southern my ass and no you didn't use that word since you were 8 years old.
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I suspect there are others that you would wag a finger at me for that I wouldn't know about. I mean it. Where is the list?
