i don't care if you're black, white, purple

i don't care if you're a gay, black, paintballer, pizza is delicious

I don't care if you're black, white, purple. There, I said it.

There are two faults with this argument. First of all, when it came to musicians, Motown had no racial or gender bias. They were all faceless cogs to them. Regardless of whether they were black, white, female, male, or Martian, they weren't going to get any recognition-period! It was a star driven phenomena and the company never gave the slightest thought to publicizing background figures. In addition, the Motown studio band (which was called the Funk Brothers) was not exclusively black. Guitarists Joe Messina and Dennis Coffey, percussionist Jack Brokensha, arranger Dave Van dePitte, and bassist Bob Babbit, who also played quite a few important Motown dates, were all white.

Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell says a drowning man doesn't care what color the person is who throws him a life preserver.

"This election is going to be decided when a husband and wife sit at a kitchen table, or a single parent sits at the kitchen table, looks at their bills and figures out who is most likely to help them with their financial condition," Rendell said. "If the answer's Barack Obama, nobody's going to care whether he's black, green, orange, purple, fuchsia or whatever."

fuchsia or whatever
fuchsia or whatever
fuchsia or whatever
fuchsia or whatever
fuchsia or whatever
fuchsia or whatever
fuchsia or whatever
fuchsia or whatever
fuchsia or whatever
fuchsia or whatever
fuchsia or whatever
fuchsia or whatever
fuchsia or whatever
fuchsia or whatever
fuchsia or whatever
fuchsia or whatever

haha

Yeah I saw that quote, too, PP. I think it's hilarious the way this election is about to be decided by racist, uneducated, homophobic, pro-life, pro-gun nitwits who suddenly and miraculously decide that when their own WALLETS are at stake, a black Democrat for president starts seeming like the best choice.

Much like the hardline economist neo-cons who have insisted at every turn that in order for the economy (and everything else) to function well, government has to stay out of things and who are now (surprise!) turning to the government to bail out a problem created by the unbridled free-market capitalism they praise so highly and so often. I've got half a mind to look up my Republifascist economics professor from the early 00's and ask him how he feels about government intervention NOW. Then kick him to the curb.

that's an awful reason to date someone, you cruel heartbreaker

Now, as to Tommy Dell'ar, if he'd of been white, purple, green, chartreuse, he would have been a knothead.

JP: Dizzee Rascal, Mr Rascal, do you feel yourself to be British?

DR: Of course I'm British, man! You know me! ... what's good. I think it don't matter what colour you are, it matters what colour your heart is and your intentions. I think a black man, purple man, Martian man can run the country ... as long as he does right by the people.

This is one of my favorite threads.

This is v v true a brilliant thread yes.

Spitzer’s Father Denies Bias Against Employees

“I did not see a white doorman or a black doorman,” Mr. Spitzer said.

Mr. Ofodile immediately challenged that assertion, and Mr. Spitzer quickly elaborated.

“I don’t see the blackness or whiteness or pinkness or yellowness of a doorman,” he said. “I have a mind that focuses on the fact that he is a doorman and functions as a doorman.”

i don't really worry about what race this already clearly beneath me person is, i mean what a waste of time that'd be.

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

That is some hard-earned truth right there!

“I don’t see the blackness or whiteness or pinkness or yellowness of Seinfeld,” he said. “I have a mind that focuses on the fact that he is jewish.”

who decided that "doorman" equaled "beneath" Spitzer?

you're a fucking idiot

i'm sorry, rich white guy, for implying that a rich white landlord who is currently accused of being abusive/discriminatory towards his employees, might find his employees beneath him.

like seriously go fuck yourself dude

seriously go fuck myself?

she is yeah serious

from the bottom of my heart go do it for serious

are you white ally? have you suffered discrimination based upon your skin color?

she is latina, bro

meth vs. schef

beep beep

beep boodle-dee boop

she is latina, bro

thanx for the heads=up

fyi hoos is mexican

I'm white btw

"fakin' the funk feat. hoos the exotic"

I'm amphibian

has that rich white dude gone to go fuck himself yet or did i miss it?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/nyregion/25bernard.html?ref=nyregion

In the sharpest exchange during Mr. Spitzer’s hour on the stand, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Anthony C. Ofodile, pushed to get him to admit that he was conscious of the race of the building’s doormen and porters.

“I did not see a white doorman or a black doorman,” Mr. Spitzer said.

Mr. Ofodile immediately challenged that assertion, and Mr. Spitzer quickly elaborated.

“I don’t see the blackness or whiteness or pinkness or yellowness of a doorman,” he said. “I have a mind that focuses on the fact that he is a doorman and functions as a doorman.”

Mr. Spitzer testified without any hint of anger and was unruffled during cross-examination. He wore a charcoal gray suit and light blue tie.

When not testifying, Mr. Spitzer kept his right hand on his metal cane and occasionally fiddled with the hearing aid in his left ear. At times, he seemed to nod off, his chin tucked into his chest. Mr. Spitzer was hospitalized for Parkinson’s disease after his son resigned in March, but he has made public appearances since then in much improved condition.

...

In his opening statement, Mr. Ofodile repeatedly insisted that Mr. Spitzer knew these men and was personally involved in running the 34-story, 145-apartment building on 57th Street.

In the lawsuit, Mr. Haydenn asserted that Mr. Spitzer had told the building’s supervisor that he did not want black or darker-skinned Hispanics working at the building.

Mr. Haydenn said that the reason his supervisor gave for his dismissal was that there were urine stains found on one of the toilets he had cleaned.

“In this case, the plaintiffs were fired by the defendant based on their race,” Mr. Ofodile said. Their dismissals caused some of his clients marital problems, hypertension and emotional distress, the lawyer said.

In her opening statement, Jennifer Rubin, the lead lawyer for Mr. Spitzer, said, “Mr. Spitzer did not know the plaintiffs, did not know the color of their skin, and if he did not know the color of their skin he could not discriminate against them on that basis.”

You sound like you're clutching a wad of singles here, Ally

that's pretty racist, bro

gabbneb, wtf part of "why would he treat them poorly because of their race when he was treating them poorly because they were already beneath him, classwise, are you not getting"

lol o right nm

schef, pls cite me some allegations that he treated them poorly. all i see are allegations that he told someone else to fire dark-skinned doormen, and that the plaintiffs are doormen who were fired.

lol o right nm

thanx for the heads=up

or heads down in the case of doormen

dude, gabbneb, I see the logical/rhetorical distinction you are making here, but I'm not sure this one is a cause that's really worth fighting for

it's morelike a legal distinction

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/42/Shrug.jpg/250px-Shrug.jpg

i don't care if you're logical, rhetorical, legal

sorry, "your"

yeah, dude, it's always a little cheap to gag on testimony like this, and yes, his answer is clearly trying to see "I simply view this person as an employee with a specific function," and yes, the joke makes a slight assumption that he didn't treat his employees with much respect regardless of race, BUT BUT the original gag is actually kinda supported by his wording and not THAT cheap:

I have a mind that focuses on the fact that he is a doorman and functions as a doorman.

... because "is a doorman and functions as a doorman" is somewhat rhetorically distinct from "is a person who happens to be employed as a doorman"

http://www.57thstreet4.com/

in any case I don't think anyone needs to fuck themselves and/or really bother going into this

also to be honest I don't think it's some obscene violation of sense to look at the reporting on this and conclude that dude was not exactly the sort of boss the janitors were inviting to their kids' birthday parties or anything