Comments on: Wellness Foundation Has $$$ for Homeboy Industries

By: Gava Joe

Gava Joe — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:25:16 +0000

I wonder if our society wouldn’t find more parity if much like the Israelis have mandatory military service, each person was subject to “racial/gender reassignment at a certain age? How many of you are breathing sighs of relief that it’s only my silly fantasy? Of course that would exclude MJ because he’s dead (and it seemed to be his goal)..There’s no room for happiness in my fantasies.

By: Woody

Woody — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:37:19 +0000

Browne is trying to act white.

By: Nah Really

Nah Really — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:48:02 +0000

I had no doubts Browne was black.

By: Browne

Browne — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:37:27 +0000

People who have issues with “black” sounding names in general have issues with “black” looking people. I have a name that doesn’t exactly peg me as anything specifically. In fact even my gender sometimes is in question if people don’t talk to me on the phone first. I have a voice that doesn’t peg me as anything specifically, but in general I can see that many times people are shocked that I’m black.

Now possibly those people may have never called me in to an interview if my name sounded more “black,” but in general once I come in I have never gotten a call back from people who thought I was white, but saw that in person that I was black, so possibly having a black name will just save you money via travel time so you don’t have to waste your time on someone who has preconcieved notions of what people of certain ethnicities can or can not do.

Browne

By: Mavis Beacon

Mavis Beacon — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:51:05 +0000

Oh Woody, no defense so you play offense. I obviously can not independently verify the US Government figures. You can accept them or not. I can, however, independently verify that the link you posted was utter bullshit. The blogger you cited misread the article he linked to. You willingly believed that the millions were spent only 50 jobs and when I call you out on being 100% factually wrong, you don’t defend it or admit error. Not very personally responsible of you.

By: Gava Joe

Gava Joe — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:12:36 +0000

For smartypants Woody’s info my screen name is an anachronism (sp?) for “gavacho” the slang Spanish term for a white boy… I’m proud of my handle and remember clearly the very bottle of Samuel Adams that helped to create it.

By: Celeste Fremon

Celeste Fremon — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:51:52 +0000

Dearest Mr. Doodle, call me crazy, but somehow I don’t think your comment is improving the level of the discourse.

(double sigh.)

By: Doodle Dangle Wang

Doodle Dangle Wang — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:47:18 +0000

Rob Thomas: Long on dry wall, short on studs.

By: Woody

Woody — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:06:01 +0000

Mavis, you accept phony figures. Do you have any idea how made up and contrived the employment figures from Obama are? I've seen how they sample companys. It's a big joke. If there were 16,000 jobs created in New Hampshire, perhaps you can tell us where they are. NH jobless rate rises: Highest since 1993

From May 2009 to June 2009, the total labor force dropped by 3,850, to 738,110. The number of unemployed residents increased by 1,630 over the month to 50,090 -- 22,610 more unemployed than in June 2008.

It seems that it's you who believes what you want.

By: Celeste Fremon

Celeste Fremon — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:54:18 +0000

Rob, some reasonable points. (Although the silly most interesting man in the world thing struck me as funny on a very hot Friday afternoon after my spider wars. But maybe that was because I was the object of it. Hard to say.)