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Old 10-02-2007, 07:25 PM
 
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Didn't some church in Cookeville recently have one of their signs stolen because it promoted muslim ?

edit: News Story

also, according to the census.. Putnam County is 95.9% white and 1.9% black.
Did you not read the article you posted? Or not read the thread about it a few days back? The sign was stolen from the courthouse lawn, not from a church. The woman who put the sign there was trying to be antagonistic.

Now, explain how a town that is overwhelmingly white (and remember, many Hispanics refer to themselves as Caucasian) means that it's racist? Are you implying that when a bunch of white people get together, they're automatically going to be racist?
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Old 10-02-2007, 07:28 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Are you implying that when a bunch of white people get together, they're automatically going to be racist?
From my experiences in " small town " Tennessee, yes.

I guess that you'll defend Pulaski next ?

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Old 10-02-2007, 07:31 PM
 
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From my experiences in " small town " Tennessee, yes.

I guess that you'll defend Pulaski next ?

Your experiences are apparently very limited. And claiming that a town that's almost all Caucasian must mean that it's full of racists is in itself racial slander.

Besides, the original post asked about racism in Cookeville, not Pulaski. If you want to complain about racism in Pulaski, start a new thread.

Last edited by JMT; 10-02-2007 at 07:43 PM..
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Old 10-02-2007, 07:46 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Your experiences are apparently very limited. And claiming that a town that's almost all Caucasian must mean that it's full of racists is in itself racial slander.

Besides, the original post asked about racism in Cookeville, not Pulaski. If you want to complain about racism in Pulaski, start a new thread.
Thanks, I didn't expect anything less.
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Old 10-04-2007, 01:33 PM
 
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Cookeville is still overwhelmingly anglophone, but the university does have a rather large ESL program, and the community seems to embrace its many foreign students. I just wish there was a good Indian restaurant in town!
I have Indian roots so maybe I should try and get some tried and tested recipes! I have lived in the UK for over 20 years, and am too anglicized unfortunately. If I ever get tired of my medical profession,I know what to do in Cookeville
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Old 10-04-2007, 01:38 PM
 
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I have Indian roots so maybe I should try and get some tried and tested recipes! I have lived in the UK for over 20 years, and am too anglicized unfortunately. If I ever get tired of my medical profession,I know what to do in Cookeville
DO IT!!!! Here in Knoxville, a metro area with over 700,000 people, we have only two Indian restaurants. I make good use of both of them! I bet an Indian restaurant in Cookeville would be VERY popular. Everyone I know who's tried it just loves it.
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Old 10-04-2007, 01:44 PM
 
Location: Tennessee
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DO IT!!!! Here in Knoxville, a metro area with over 700,000 people, we have only two Indian restaurants. I make good use of both of them! I bet an Indian restaurant in Cookeville would be VERY popular. Everyone I know who's tried it just loves it.
If you get back to Nashville, there's a place over in Hillsboro Village that I liked. Sorry, I can't remember the name of it offhand . . . it's like four or five doors west of Bongo Java's. It's been a year or so since I was there. Of course, with the way restaurants open and close it may not even be there anymore.
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Old 10-04-2007, 02:02 PM
 
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LOL! My curry culinary skills are really apalling.
Time to take up cookery lessons
And find a part time job in a restaurant to get an insiders view of how it all works!
I must stop hijacking threads, this is so off topic-apologies vish69.
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Old 06-10-2008, 06:58 AM
 
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I dont live in Cookeville, but went to TTU and have worked here for a long time. There are many Indian families living here not just students. Unfortunately you will always have the occasional ignorant racist anywhere you go, but Cookeville and even smaller surrounding towns (futuretexan) are very open to all races and cultures. The old sterotype portraying small town southerners as sheet wearing, cross burning hatemongers is not accurate. We are really a friendly bunch.
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Old 06-10-2008, 07:08 AM
 
Location: The Conterminous United States
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Hey yall i am from alabama and i have kin in pulaski and its a great place much like where im from. So take it easy on old pulaski and dont talk about a town that you probably know nothing about. All you know is that the kkk was started there a long long time ago, but the truth is that the klan was much worse in bama and mississippi than it ever was in any part of tennessee including pulaski.
I think, eventually, that the KKK headquarters were in Indiana.
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