"The reason it bothers me is because it seems like it's an accepted way of calling somebody the N-word now," he said. "It's like everybody else said the N-word and then they say 'thug' and that's fine. It kind of takes me aback and it's kind of disappointing because they know.
"What's the definition of a thug? Really? Can a guy on a football field just talking to people [be a thug?] ... There was a hockey game where they didn't even play hockey! (Laughter from the media) They just threw the puck aside and started fighting. I saw that and said, 'Ah, man, I'm the thug? What's going on here?'" (More laughter from the media). So I'm really disappointed in being called a thug," he said.
Later, Sherman explained that the term was especially troubling given that it's something he's endured his whole life.
"I know some 'thugs,' and they know I'm the furthest thing from a thug," Sherman said. "I've fought that my whole life, just coming from where I'm coming from. Just because you hear Compton (Calif.), you hear Watts, you hear cities like that, you just think 'thug, he's a gangster, he's this, that, and the other,' and then you hear Stanford, and they're like, 'oh man, that doesn't even make sense, that's an oxymoron.'
"You fight it for so long, and to have it come back up and people start to use it again, it's frustrating."
Eaglehawk wrote:Hitler Youth
Gestapo
Mousilni
Idi Amin(oops he's black)
Modern day thugs?
I don't know any.
Maybe Vanilla Ice?
RiverDog wrote:Eaglehawk wrote:Hitler Youth
Gestapo
Mousilni
Idi Amin(oops he's black)
Modern day thugs?
I don't know any.
Maybe Vanilla Ice?
I would not put Hitler Youth in the 'thug' category. I once worked with a lady that was a member of the Hitler Youth Corps. She was 9 years old when she joined. They did not have a choice and were forced to join, unless they wanted to be whipped.
Joseph Stalin was responsible for more executions than Hitler.
Eaglehawk wrote:RiverDog wrote:Eaglehawk wrote:Hitler Youth
Gestapo
Mousilni
Idi Amin(oops he's black)
Modern day thugs?
I don't know any.
Maybe Vanilla Ice?
I would not put Hitler Youth in the 'thug' category. I once worked with a lady that was a member of the Hitler Youth Corps. She was 9 years old when she joined. They did not have a choice and were forced to join, unless they wanted to be whipped.
Joseph Stalin was responsible for more executions than Hitler.
I'd leave them in that category because the HY was divided into boys and girls, your friend was in the girl section which just did spying and pointing out of where religious activities were being held, etc.
The boys however grew to be 25,000 strong, and towards the end of the war actually substituted for some of the soldiers in Hitlers army. The HJ regiment were ferocious fighters, and these kids were not persecuted after the war cause they were kids that were brainwashed.
But thugs as a group they were.
They were as much thugs as the guys you see beating up people on the street playing the "knockout" game.
yoder wrote:Moved this to the O.T. forum. I know it doesn't get as much views, but we gotta start somewhere!
rottweiler wrote: yoder wrote:Moved this to the O.T. forum. I know it doesn't get as much views, but we gotta start somewhere!
Thanks.
My bad, bro.
yoder wrote:rottweiler wrote: yoder wrote:Moved this to the O.T. forum. I know it doesn't get as much views, but we gotta start somewhere!
Thanks.
My bad, bro.
No worries!
As far a thugs, here's a good starting point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bilderberg_participants
RiverDog wrote:I would not put Hitler Youth in the 'thug' category. I once worked with a lady that was a member of the Hitler Youth Corps. She was 9 years old when she joined. They did not have a choice and were forced to join, unless they wanted to be whipped.
Joseph Stalin was responsible for more executions than Hitler.
Eaglehawk wrote:I forgot.
INCOGNITO
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