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Kansas Official Goes Nutjob - Redwingtom - 04-10-2013 02:13 PM
Kansas Official Drops N-Word, Insists He Isn’t Racist
You gotta love 'em
Quote:"I am not a prejudiced person. I have built Habitat homes for colored people."
RE: Kansas Official Goes Nutjob - I'mMoreAwesomeThanYou - 04-10-2013 02:17 PM
Too funny. I've used that same saying lots of times. It's just an old saying, albeit an offensive one. It doesn't make him a racissssss
RE: Kansas Official Goes Nutjob - Paul M - 04-10-2013 02:23 PM
Robert Byrd.
RE: Kansas Official Goes Nutjob - smn1256 - 04-10-2013 02:38 PM
In all honesty, Tom, lots of people grew up using those phrases but back then the world wasn't so PC. We went from Negro, to colored, to Afro-America, to African-American, and so on. I wouldn't automatically assume that someone calling me a honky is a racist.
And remember, we still have the United NEGRO College Fund, the National Association for the Advancement of COLORED people, and Michigan has the Department of AFROAMERICAN and African Studies.
If we used only words to determine if a person is a racist the black community would be full of them.
RE: Kansas Official Goes Nutjob - Redwingtom - 04-10-2013 02:46 PM
Boy...you guys just seem to have this immediate reaction to everything I post don't you?
I'm not saying the guy is racist!
And I'm well aware of the term and I admit I've likely said it in the past myself.
The funny part too me was his thinking that simply building a home for a 'colored' person means you aren't racist. Also that he meant to say 'jury-rigged'. I've never heard that term before I don't believe. We always used 'jerry-rigged' or 'jimmy-rigged'.
RE: Kansas Official Goes Nutjob - smn1256 - 04-10-2013 02:50 PM
(04-10-2013 02:46 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: Boy...you guys just seem to have this immedate reaction to everything I post don't you?
What can I say, you're a popular guy.
RE: Kansas Official Goes Nutjob - Smaug - 04-10-2013 02:59 PM
Dumb ass.
Wait. I meant, Person of less than stellar intellect.
RE: Kansas Official Goes Nutjob - Motown Bronco - 04-10-2013 03:03 PM
Can I assume that everyone reading this thread - conservative, liberal or otherwise - just knew this guy was going to be somewhere above 60 years old?
Quote:Gile, 68, who is serving his first term after taking office in January, used the phrase during a discussion about whether to hire an architect to design repairs to the county's Road and Bridge Department building.
RE: Kansas Official Goes Nutjob - Paul M - 04-10-2013 03:15 PM
(04-10-2013 02:46 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: Boy...you guys just seem to have this immediate reaction to everything I post don't you?
I'm not saying the guy is racist!
And I'm well aware of the term and I admit I've likely said it in the past myself.
The funny part too me was his thinking that simply building a home for a 'colored' person means you aren't racist. Also that he meant to say 'jury-rigged'. I've never heard that term before I don't believe. We always used 'jerry-rigged' or 'jimmy-rigged'.
Jury rigged, originally a nautical term, on sailing ships a jury rig is a replacement mast and yards improvised in case of damage or loss of the original mast is a nautical term.
Quote:During a meeting of the Saline County, Kan. Commission last Tuesday, a discussion over whether to hire an architect to design repairs to local bridges turned heated.
Sailing ships... bridges...
Quote:"I had it (jury-rigged) on my brain and this came out," Gile said,
Explains it.
RE: Kansas Official Goes Nutjob - Lord Stanley - 04-10-2013 03:18 PM
(04-10-2013 02:46 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: Also that he meant to say 'jury-rigged'. I've never heard that term before I don't believe. We always used 'jerry-rigged' or 'jimmy-rigged'.
Funny, I've always said jury-rigged. Must be regional......
RE: Kansas Official Goes Nutjob - Redwingtom - 04-10-2013 03:30 PM
(04-10-2013 03:15 PM)Paul M Wrote:(04-10-2013 02:46 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: Boy...you guys just seem to have this immediate reaction to everything I post don't you?
I'm not saying the guy is racist!
And I'm well aware of the term and I admit I've likely said it in the past myself.
The funny part too me was his thinking that simply building a home for a 'colored' person means you aren't racist. Also that he meant to say 'jury-rigged'. I've never heard that term before I don't believe. We always used 'jerry-rigged' or 'jimmy-rigged'.
Jury rigged, originally a nautical term, on sailing ships a jury rig is a replacement mast and yards improvised in case of damage or loss of the original mast is a nautical term.
Quote:During a meeting of the Saline County, Kan. Commission last Tuesday, a discussion over whether to hire an architect to design repairs to local bridges turned heated.
Sailing ships... bridges...
Quote:"I had it (jury-rigged) on my brain and this came out," Gile said,
Explains it.
Paul FTW!
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RE: Kansas Official Goes Nutjob - Smaug - 04-10-2013 03:35 PM
(04-10-2013 03:03 PM)Motown Bronco Wrote: Can I assume that everyone reading this thread - conservative, liberal or otherwise - just knew this guy was going to be somewhere above 60 years old?
Quote:Gile, 68, who is serving his first term after taking office in January, used the phrase during a discussion about whether to hire an architect to design repairs to the county's Road and Bridge Department building.
Yeah, I assumed he was an oldster.
RE: Kansas Official Goes Nutjob - Hambone10 - 04-10-2013 04:32 PM
(04-10-2013 02:46 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: I'm not saying the guy is racist!
Seriously...
Why do you always get so offended when YOU post something without context and others respond to what you posted? If you understood the original mistake, but laughed at the "cover" instead, why didn't you say so in the first place? Otherwise, the rest of us just have to GUESS at what you things is so damning that requires a response.
Or did you think we just didn't know that there are people in the world who need to go to The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Talk Good and Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too
You titled the thread
Kansas official goes nutjob and titled the link (you had to type this) Kansas Official Drops N-Word, Insists He Isn’t Racist
Exactly what are people supposed to think you meant?
Bottom line... He said something very common amongst people of that generation that meant the same thing as "jury" rigged or whatever anyone else wants to say. That may not have been how it started, but that is what it meant... he then used another word that was (in his day) appropriate. Hell, I'M not sure half the time if it is ok to say Black or do I have to type African-American every time. Is AA offensive? The guy is FAR from smooth.... which is why he is 68 and still a small County Commissioner as opposed to a polished politician.
Whatever
RE: Kansas Official Goes Nutjob - aTxTIGER - 04-10-2013 04:35 PM
"You might be a redneck if you use the term "colored" in a statement apologizing for using the term "******-rigged"-----Jeff Foxworthy, April 2013
RE: Kansas Official Goes Nutjob - Lord Stanley - 04-10-2013 04:55 PM
(04-10-2013 04:32 PM)Hambone10 Wrote: The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Talk Good and Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too
The DZC? The one next store to the Roman Polanski Finishing School for Wayward Runaway Girls?
RE: Kansas Official Goes Nutjob - aTxTIGER - 04-10-2013 05:02 PM
(04-10-2013 04:55 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:(04-10-2013 04:32 PM)Hambone10 Wrote: The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Talk Good and Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too
The DZC? The one next store to the Roman Polanski Finishing School for Wayward Runaway Girls?
Yea I don't remember the Roman Polanski thing in Zoolander. Perhaps Mugatu was funneling his Dereli'ct funds towards its operations.
RE: Kansas Official Goes Nutjob - I45owl - 04-10-2013 05:13 PM
(04-10-2013 04:35 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote: "You might be a redneck if you use the term "colored" in a statement apologizing for using the term "******-rigged"-----Jeff Foxworthy, April 2013
Yeah, he didn't help himself there. I always thought jury-rigged (I thought it may be gerry-rigged, perhaps a war reference) had a different meaning, more like gerrymandered.
RE: Kansas Official Goes Nutjob - WoodlandsOwl - 04-10-2013 07:50 PM
I've heard it referred to as "Afro-American Engineering"
RE: Kansas Official Goes Nutjob - firmbizzle - 04-10-2013 09:37 PM
Republicans=losing.
RE: Kansas Official Goes Nutjob - Fo Shizzle - 04-10-2013 10:06 PM
Ask Chris Rock what that term means. The answer would be damn funny...and not comfortable for some folks.