To whom it may concern

[THE_BEYONDER]

Dude obviously needed to be gone. Name calling of that nature has no business here or any place else......unless it's directed at Joe Collector.

 

 

[towards2112]

Man do I have the blues..............

Only gone away a month and I've missed all the inflamitory

remarks, the slap downs, and ........where's BUG??

Oh, by the way....

Wife is doing much better, second hospital visit did the trick.

Doing much better,,,,,she's......scanning comic books

for me..........

[supapimp]

glad to here the wife is doing much better

[Illiterati-migration]

So, what the hail happened?? Why do I miss all the good stuff??? I hate you guys.

[DoubleCovaBrotha]

So, what the hail happened?? Why do I miss all the good stuff??? I hate you guys.

 

You are not alone. I go to school to take my exam, come back, and there are a whole bunch of posts deleted. But uh...I don't hate you guys.

[murph0]

Have you ever ran a forum? I doubt it. Ask JC about the costs associated with running a fairly active message board community. Or maybe you can just continue on with your tirade about how you should be able to do whatever you want..just because things don't offend you doesn't mean they don't offend others. After all, the world does NOT revolve around YOU.

 

Brian

[xrcst]

at first thought as a harmless joke but are not.......

 

White Louisiana judge draws fire for Halloween costume of blackface and prison garb

 

DOUG SIMPSON, Associated Press Writer Monday, November 10, 2003

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(11-10) 13:19 PST NEW ORLEANS (AP) --

 

A white judge is under fire for going to a Halloween party costumed in blackface makeup, an afro wig and a prison jumpsuit with shackles around his wrists and ankles.

 

State District Judge Timothy C. Ellender's costume stereotyped blacks as criminals and convicts, said Jerome Boykin, president of the NAACP's branch in southern Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish, where Ellender's court is located.

 

"For a judge to take the time to paint his face black with shoe polish, put on an afro wig, a prison jumpsuit and shackles ... and walk around in public, I feel he ain't fit to be a judge," Boykin said Monday.

 

Ellender acknowledged that he wore the costume but said it was a harmless joke.

 

"It's a tempest in a teapot," he told The Courier of Houma.

 

Ellender did not immediately return a call seeking comment Monday.

 

The judge agreed to meet with black activists, elected officials and clergy this week to discuss the costume, which he wore to a restaurant in Houma, about 60 miles southwest of New Orleans, Boykin said.

 

The black leaders will decide after the meeting whether to file a complaint with Louisiana's Judiciary Commission, which can censure and dismiss judges who violate the state's judicial code of conduct.

 

Ellender has been criticized in the past for keeping a shotgun in his courtroom and giving out unusual sentences.

 

He sentenced a man convicted of accidentally killing his best friend to regularly place flowers at the victim's grave. He sentenced a youngster with chronic speeding violations to clean up trash from a bayou using the judge's boat.

 

 

 

 

 

And...so what?

 

Its holloween, he dressed as a black prison inmate as opposed to a white prison inmate.

 

What if he wanted to go as a 70's style black basketball player? 'Fro, throwback jersey etc. Would it be the same issue?

[supapimp]

[Illiterati-migration]

at first thought as a harmless joke but are not.......

 

White Louisiana judge draws fire for Halloween costume of blackface and prison garb

 

DOUG SIMPSON, Associated Press Writer Monday, November 10, 2003

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(11-10) 13:19 PST NEW ORLEANS (AP) --

 

A white judge is under fire for going to a Halloween party costumed in blackface makeup, an afro wig and a prison jumpsuit with shackles around his wrists and ankles.

 

State District Judge Timothy C. Ellender's costume stereotyped blacks as criminals and convicts, said Jerome Boykin, president of the NAACP's branch in southern Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish, where Ellender's court is located.

 

"For a judge to take the time to paint his face black with shoe polish, put on an afro wig, a prison jumpsuit and shackles ... and walk around in public, I feel he ain't fit to be a judge," Boykin said Monday.

 

Ellender acknowledged that he wore the costume but said it was a harmless joke.

 

"It's a tempest in a teapot," he told The Courier of Houma.

 

Ellender did not immediately return a call seeking comment Monday.

 

The judge agreed to meet with black activists, elected officials and clergy this week to discuss the costume, which he wore to a restaurant in Houma, about 60 miles southwest of New Orleans, Boykin said.

 

The black leaders will decide after the meeting whether to file a complaint with Louisiana's Judiciary Commission, which can censure and dismiss judges who violate the state's judicial code of conduct.

 

Ellender has been criticized in the past for keeping a shotgun in his courtroom and giving out unusual sentences.

 

He sentenced a man convicted of accidentally killing his best friend to regularly place flowers at the victim's grave. He sentenced a youngster with chronic speeding violations to clean up trash from a bayou using the judge's boat.

 

 

 

 

 

And...so what?

 

Its holloween, he dressed as a black prison inmate as opposed to a white prison inmate.

 

What if he wanted to go as a 70's style black basketball player? 'Fro, throwback jersey etc. Would it be the same issue?

 

No.

[xrcst]

Would it be acceptable for him to go as a Black Basketball player?

 

 

If it isnt the same issue why not?

 

 

 

Were there 70's black basketball players? Yes

Are there black prison inmates? yes.

 

Both could be fodder for holloween costumes.

 

 

What if I was Jewish and wanted to dress as a Priest?

 

Or a man dressing as a woman (which happens all the time, holloween or not ;p)

You are merely taking something you aren't and dressing as that.

 

 

 

[Illiterati-migration]

Would it be acceptable for him to go as a Black Basketball player?

 

 

If it isnt the same issue why not?

 

 

 

Were there 70's black basketball players? Yes

Are there black prison inmates? yes.

 

Both could be fodder for holloween costumes.

 

 

What if I was Jewish and wanted to dress as a Priest?

 

Or a man dressing as a woman (which happens all the time, holloween or not ;p)

You are merely taking something you aren't and dressing as that.

 

 

 

There's more history to the "blackface" than the NBA. It's more associated with mockery than it is simply wearing a "period costume" like you're describing.

[Darthdiesel]

You know all this talk and that bad Damon Wayans movie relative to this topic comes to mind?

[JLA_ALL_THE_WAY]

You mean the one with Damon & Lisa Kudrow?

 

Ugh

 

I cringed half the time before walking out.

 

I almost felt sorry for those two...til I realized they must've had insane money thrown at them to make this piece o cra.p

 

Now it's on their resumes for life!!

 

Rick

[towards2112]

at first thought as a harmless joke but are not.......

 

White Louisiana judge draws fire for Halloween costume of blackface and prison garb

 

DOUG SIMPSON, Associated Press Writer Monday, November 10, 2003

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(11-10) 13:19 PST NEW ORLEANS (AP) --

 

A white judge is under fire for going to a Halloween party costumed in blackface makeup, an afro wig and a prison jumpsuit with shackles around his wrists and ankles.

 

State District Judge Timothy C. Ellender's costume stereotyped blacks as criminals and convicts, said Jerome Boykin, president of the NAACP's branch in southern Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish, where Ellender's court is located.

 

"For a judge to take the time to paint his face black with shoe polish, put on an afro wig, a prison jumpsuit and shackles ... and walk around in public, I feel he ain't fit to be a judge," Boykin said Monday.

 

Ellender acknowledged that he wore the costume but said it was a harmless joke.

 

"It's a tempest in a teapot," he told The Courier of Houma.

 

Ellender did not immediately return a call seeking comment Monday.

 

The judge agreed to meet with black activists, elected officials and clergy this week to discuss the costume, which he wore to a restaurant in Houma, about 60 miles southwest of New Orleans, Boykin said.

 

The black leaders will decide after the meeting whether to file a complaint with Louisiana's Judiciary Commission, which can censure and dismiss judges who violate the state's judicial code of conduct.

 

Ellender has been criticized in the past for keeping a shotgun in his courtroom and giving out unusual sentences.

 

He sentenced a man convicted of accidentally killing his best friend to regularly place flowers at the victim's grave. He sentenced a youngster with chronic speeding violations to clean up trash from a bayou using the judge's boat.

 

 

 

 

 

And...so what?

 

Its holloween, he dressed as a black prison inmate as opposed to a white prison inmate.

 

What if he wanted to go as a 70's style black basketball player? 'Fro, throwback jersey etc. Would it be the same issue?

 

No.

 

Pimpdaddy,,,,,

It's Louisiana,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Things that are immoral and illegal in 49 other states

are ohkedokey in............Louisiana.

 

LOUISIANA:[n.] the place where Texas residents with too much

money and free time on their hands go to gamble away their

fortunes and futures.

[OldGuy]

LOUISIANA:[n.] the place where Texas residents with too much

money and free time on their hands go to gamble away their

fortunes and futures.

 

After they turn our ski slopes into drunken brawl.

[Darthdiesel]

was thinking of Bamboozled not Marci X

[JLA_ALL_THE_WAY]

Oh, so Damon made 2 duds, huh?

 

And thanx for reminding me of the title to the other one.

 

*just when I had forgotten it, DD thrusts it back on me......*

 

Rick