Hello

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?

Author Topic: oprah\'s shopping incident...  (Read 1068 times)

Offline clips

  • In ChArGe..Ya DiG?!
  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 7807
  • Karma: +10/-0
  • PSN ID: Blackgas7
oprah\'s shopping incident...
« on: June 28, 2005, 09:18:22 PM »
hmmm..i really don\'t know what to make of this....i mean if the store was closed then it\'s closed...shouldn\'t matter who you are..i don\'t care if you\'re the prez....nobody should get special treatment because of their celeberty status....


http://www.news4jax.com/entertainment/4662899/detail.html




Michael Leake, a black pharmaceutical salesman in Toledo, Ohio, knows this experience all too well. "It happens all the time," he said. "That\'s just life."

Once, at a high-end shopping center in Los Angeles, he said, a sales clerk referred to a white customer as "sir," but turned to Leake and greeted him with, "What\'s up, homes?" He confronted the clerk.

"I was like, \'How\'s he "sir" and I\'m your homey? I\'m interested in why you speak to him in a more respectful way than you speak to me. We\'ve all got money to spend here,"\' Leake said


this has happened to me alot,...but only because at least in my situations the clerk was either black or puerto rican....so for me it wasn\'t a thing of "dissrespect" it was moreso of them relating me to their background or character.....but i didn\'t get the what\'s up homie greeting tho :p...it was more like "what\'s up man" or how you doin\' cuz?...
knowledge, wisdom & understanding..these are the basic fundamentals of life

if you can\'t amaze them with brilliance, baffle them with bullsh*t....

Offline SwifDi
  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 9620
  • Karma: +10/-0
oprah\'s shopping incident...
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2005, 12:48:02 AM »
I\'d rather be greeted with "Whats up, homes?" than "sir"

Offline CHIZZY

  • Icky:1994-2005
  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 5527
  • Karma: +10/-0
  • PSN ID: chizzbot
oprah\'s shopping incident...
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2005, 05:57:18 AM »
\'\'Sup, nukka?" works for me. I use it all day long....

(only after looking over both shoulders...;))
Dinosaurs were killed in the flood. -#RaCeR#
Halle Berry just loves to give me the \"Dutch Oven\". That\'s why I stopped going down on her. It pisses me off so much that I just bang her til she faints. Bitch.-GmanJoe
i just try to make my sefhappy , by beng i company of fri

Offline Joker
  • The Clown Prince Of Crime
  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 3389
  • Karma: +10/-0
oprah\'s shopping incident...
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2005, 06:23:12 AM »
man, oprah is such a douchebag!

stupid bitch.

oh and on the "homes" thing. I\'m white and I only say stuff like that to my black friends, cause we all think it sounds pathetic coming from me :D

However, saying it to a random black guy who I don\'t know...probably wouldn\'t attempt it..
\"do we seriously have to shut down every thread that doesn\'t start out gay? Only threads you guys don\'t fuck up are the ones that start gay anyway.\"Videoholic

Offline Kurt Angle

  • Administrator
  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 7923
  • Karma: +10/-0
  • PSN ID: Supes1975
oprah\'s shopping incident...
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2005, 07:54:42 AM »
He forgot to say "kno wha am sayn" at the end of each sentence.

Offline Eiksirf
  • **E!
  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 4398
  • Karma: +10/-0
oprah\'s shopping incident...
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2005, 02:02:29 PM »
Naw mean?

-Dan
\"What are you supposed to be, a clown or something?\"
\"Sometimes.\"
 
http://videogamer.today.com

Offline Lord Nicon
  • The Member
  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 4205
  • Karma: +10/-0
    • http://
oprah\'s shopping incident...
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2005, 07:38:11 PM »
Oprah can be/is a dumb b*tch. Theres a health club that my dad and i used to go to and we heard that she wanted to rent out a whole area and that none of the employees could look her in the eye. That and something about them not letting her do something and her flipping out.

Shes..... something else.

The whole "whats up homie" issue is far more serious, if that, than Oprah\'s. I know some people are just being silly/friendly but thats almost as stupid as going up to a muslim and saying praise be to allah. You dont do it. I know sometimes its all in fun but eh, whatever.

bah
Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
I don\'t have comprehension issues, you just need to learn how to communicate.
Yessir massir ima f*** you up reeeeal nice and homely like. uh huh, yessum ; ).
Debra Lafave Is My Hero ;) lol

Offline CHIZZY

  • Icky:1994-2005
  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 5527
  • Karma: +10/-0
  • PSN ID: chizzbot
oprah\'s shopping incident...
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2005, 04:01:52 AM »
dit dit dit...
Dinosaurs were killed in the flood. -#RaCeR#
Halle Berry just loves to give me the \"Dutch Oven\". That\'s why I stopped going down on her. It pisses me off so much that I just bang her til she faints. Bitch.-GmanJoe
i just try to make my sefhappy , by beng i company of fri

Offline Halberto
  • \'99, \'03, \'05, \'07
  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 6599
  • Karma: +10/-0
oprah\'s shopping incident...
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2005, 09:50:38 AM »

Offline Paul2

  • Breath of the Earth
  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 5873
  • Karma: +11/-0
  • PSN ID: jokermit
oprah\'s shopping incident...
« Reply #9 on: June 30, 2005, 10:37:16 AM »
^^^

LOL.  That was hilarious.

Offline Living-In-Clip

  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 15131
  • Karma: +10/-0
    • http://
oprah\'s shopping incident...
« Reply #10 on: June 30, 2005, 08:47:58 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by Halberto
Tom Cruise Attacks Oprah


Saw it last year.
Welcome to last year.

Offline cloud345
  • Super Bowl XXXVII
  • Legendary Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 2047
  • Karma: +10/-0
oprah\'s shopping incident...
« Reply #11 on: June 30, 2005, 08:57:21 PM »
Celebs have money. Simple as that.

If I own a store and my usual closing time is 10 and oprah came walking in at 10:30 wanting to spend +1000$ I would happily open my doors. But if a person I never seen before in my life wanted me to I would say no.

As for the other one if the employee was black than I don\'t really see a problem with it, but if he was white its messed up.
1.FF7
  2. Grandia
  3. MGS
Is it me? Or does PSone own all the other systems?

 

SMF spam blocked by CleanTalk