Ja Morant on video flashing another gun

[QUOTE=Kblaze8855;14777832]They’d be called rednecks. That’s what such people are called. No need to search for a word that nobody uses anymore and almost nobody ever did. [B]Deep South, gun toting, white boys listening to Deep South gun toting white guy music and cutting up are called rednecks. [/B]Just the world we have.[/QUOTE]

First of all rednecks might pose for pictures with shotguns on a hunting trip, but posing with pistols to project a gang affiliated image is not a redneck thing. Theres also no redneck music that really centers on guns. If a white guy posted the kind of pic Ja did, he would absolutely get called a wannabe thug. Nobody would think redneck, thats a completely unrelated image.

Rednecks grow up with guns like they grow up with hammers and tire-irons and screwdrivers. It’s not something that represents toughness. Theyre tools, not fashion accessories. Rednecks dont think it’s some big deal to have a gun. If they share a pic of one it’s likely because they got an interesting new model or whatever.

It’s really not in that culture to use handguns for try-harding.

white kid would be called a school shooter... neither one is flattering

[QUOTE=coin24;14777846]Dumb people go straight to the race card, what a surprise..

Ja is a moron. If your employer suspends you for something and you go do it again you deserve to be sacked. Has nothing to do with his race.
I don’t get his obsession and begging for attention on social media? Guys a multi millionaire famous athlete!

Maybe he should go back to rehab:lol he relapsed in his addictions of being a dumb tryhard cu*nt[/QUOTE]

It's crazy that there could be a rehab for being a psychopath. Not alcohol or drugs... just... for being crazy and dumb. I guess it's all one in the same. The lo0ney bin.

[QUOTE=tpols;14777782]I guess it matters where you're from. In the northeast it's like...a hard-core felony to be going around flashing guns like that. But then in the south its totally legal. For a lot of people up north nobody has guns but the criminals.[/QUOTE]

Yeah... I was thinking something like this. Strict gun laws in California helped me to draw that association.

[QUOTE=tpols;14777855]It's crazy that there could be a rehab for being a psychopath. Not alcohol or drugs... [B]just... for being crazy and dumb. I guess it's all one in the same. The lo0ney bin.[/B][/QUOTE]


The Loney Bin :yaohappy:

[QUOTE=tpols;14777855]It's crazy that there could be a rehab for being a psychopath. Not alcohol or drugs... just... for being crazy and dumb. I guess it's all one in the same. The lo0ney bin.[/QUOTE]

well rehab is just counseling from a mental health professional. anyone with a mental defect can benefit from a mental health professional. when i went to rehab for alcohol, some of our group therapy classes were a mix of addicts and mental health patients. the treatment center treated addicts and 'mental health patients'. i met schizophrenics, people who weren't all there...people who tried to commit suicide from depression, chicks with self-body image issues...shit, there was a guy there for overdosing on marijuana...i didn't think that was possible but i guess he went into pyschosis from doing too much weed or dabs. there was a sex addict there too. some of the conditions have cross over.

[QUOTE=FultzNationRISE;14777852]First of all rednecks might pose for pictures with shotguns on a hunting trip, but posing with pistols to project a gang affiliated image is not a redneck thing. Theres also no redneck music that really centers on guns. If a white guy posted the kind of pic Ja did, he would absolutely get called a wannabe thug. Nobody would think redneck, thats a completely unrelated image.

Rednecks grow up with guns like they grow up with hammers and tire-irons and screwdrivers. It’s not something that represents toughness. Theyre tools, not fashion accessories. Rednecks dont think it’s some big deal to have a gun. If they share a pic of one it’s likely because they got an interesting new model or whatever.

It’s really not in that culture to use handguns for try-harding.[/QUOTE]

I guess 'thug' and 'gang-affiliated' are now racist terms even though they are words blacks have promoted for years thru rap music. And the fashions, behaviors, and overall culture that is promoted thru said music is also somehow racist if we associate it with black people, even though that is what they have associated themselves with.

Weird times.

[QUOTE=AlternativeAcc.;14777834]If Austin Reaves was shirtless in a vehicle with a million dollar chain on his neck, blasting rap music, and toting a pistol by his head with a grill in his mouth he would not be called a redneck. He would quite literally be called a fake thug just like Ja and it would resurrect the word 'w1gger' into the vernacular. Those words went away because white people wearing baggy clothes and acting like that went away.

It has nothing to do with the color of Ja's skin. How do you not understand this :roll:[/QUOTE]

You cannot convince these people otherwise. As I stated earlier, they are addicted to racial biases. A thug is a thug and a wannabe thug is a wannabe thug no matter what their color is. This notion that now the word "thug" is used by others to describe Blacks and only Blacks is silly. But I know why they do it. I know why they are saying that word is somehow racial in tone. Because they know thug imagery is associated with their culture, and they are most likely embarrassed by it, so rather than disassociate themselves from that imagery and culture and not be called a "sellout" by their own people, they decided that if someone from a different race pointed out the obvious by calling them thugs, that it would somehow be some underlying racist remark. You can't make this shit up.

[QUOTE=highwhey;14777862]well rehab is just counseling from a mental health professional. anyone with a mental defect can benefit from a mental health professional. when i went to rehab for alcohol, some of our group therapy classes were a mix of addicts and mental health patients. the treatment center treated addicts and 'mental health patients'. i met schizophrenics, people who weren't all there...people who tried to commit suicide from depression, chicks with self-body image issues...shit, there was a guy there for overdosing on marijuana...i didn't think that was possible but i guess he went into pyschosis from doing too much weed or dabs. there was a sex addict there too. some of the conditions have cross over.[/QUOTE]

I been there by AC man. I know. Seen all types of characters. Hope you doing better.

[QUOTE=Patrick Chewing;14777503]It's cause he looks like a thug and is acting like a thug. [B]Get that through that refried head of yours.[/B][/QUOTE]


:roll:

To be honest he’s lucky he’s getting some sort of heat for this

If he wasn’t and kept it up he would eventually wind up with his brain blown out the back of his skull

[QUOTE=AlternativeAcc.;14777851]I mean if he acted the exact same way in the exact same context as Ja he would be labeled as the exact same thing. That's what I'm saying... I know he wouldn't be called a redneck.


You can't just pretend that black rappers have been promoting that image for decades and claim racism when people associate it with thug behavior. That is literally what it is and what they have been promoting in the most impactful ways possible for young people (rap music) they are associated with black culture because that is what famous blacks have promoted for decades.


Again, If Reaves was throwing up gang signs, beating up minors, and posing with guns you think he'd be labeled as a .... redneck? And he wouldn't get the same flak?

:roll:[/QUOTE]

America was literally built on racism, the way Americans indentify who they are and the group they belong to is based on skin color and physical features. Everything we do in this society has a racial context which is embedded in every aspect of our society We can pretend we can objectively view an incident without injecting our own racial bias but it's done out of ignorance or intelectual dishonesty.
The word THUG origins are from India and it refered to a thief and con-man. Do you think this term describes the people we call settlers and pilgrims, the people who stole and killed the indengious peoples so they could claim the land as their own? Were they Thugs and gangsters or people ordained by God to civilize the savages?
With that said, what Ja did brandishing a gun was stupid and dangerous but it is interesting how we hold a 23 year NBA player to a higher standard than some of the people we elect to public office and leadership positions.

[QUOTE=insight;14777932]America was literally built on racism, the way Americans indentify who they are and the group they belong to is based on skin color and physical features. Everything we do in this society has a racial context which is embedded in every aspect of our society We can pretend we can objectively view an incident without injecting our own racial bias but it's done out of ignorance or intelectual dishonesty.
The word THUG origins are from India and it refered to a thief and con-man. Do you think this term describes the people we call settlers and pilgrims, the people who stole and killed the indengious peoples so they could claim the land as their own? Were they Thugs and gangsters or people ordained by God to civilize the savages?
With that said, what Ja did brandishing a gun was stupid and dangerous but it is interesting how we hold a 23 year NBA player to a higher standard than some of the people we elect to public office and leadership positions.[/QUOTE]

People who colonized this land weren't breaking any laws at the time. The natives didn't have them and were technologically behind the Europeans. Sucks for them but that's what it boils down to. Comparing colonization to modern society is a desperate reach.

Black people call themselves thugs and gangsters and promote that culture blatantly. 'Young Thug' has been around over a decade. He literally calls himself young thug.

Anyways you should read this thread and let this black man educate you: [url]https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1653902580689391622?t=VF7dlqAokN8RQu-8drhzxA&s=19[/url]

[QUOTE=insight;14777932]America was literally built on racism, the way Americans indentify who they are and the group they belong to is based on skin color and physical features. [/QUOTE]

The whole world was built on tribalism and exploiting others if they had the means at the time. Most racist regions on Earth are the Middle East & India followed by East Asia. Then North Africa, Europe, Latin America and finally North America and Australia being the least racist.

[QUOTE=AlternativeAcc.;14777972]People who colonized this land weren't breaking any laws at the time. The natives didn't have them and were technologically behind the Europeans. Sucks for them but that's what it boils down to. Comparing colonization to modern society is a desperate reach.

Black people call themselves thugs and gangsters and promote that culture blatantly. 'Young Thug' has been around over a decade. He literally calls himself young thug.

Anyways you should read this thread and let this black man educate you: [url]https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1653902580689391622?t=VF7dlqAokN8RQu-8drhzxA&s=19[/url][/QUOTE]

[B]People who colonized this land weren't breaking any laws at the time[/B] It's easy to distort what happened historically to rationalize ones own thuggery. Do you really want me to believe a deed or formal declaration would have changed the agenda of manifest destiny?

Every racial group has young ignorant people doing and saying dumb things. Skin heads were pervassive in white cutlure for decades and they embraced Neo Nazi beliefs I don't see people making claims that all white people embrace their lifestyle because some Skin Heads made records and music videos.