Privilege And Prejudice

“the selfish people like you are the problem you think your entitled to everyone’s money just because your great great great great grand father or mother was a slave and that makes you special or entitled to something your not you and every one in this country has the same possibilities as everyone else how do i now this because i am a high school drop out that has made it in this country despite all of the one sided racist social programs grabbing at my money every day, if your so called “lower class” would put a little effort into getting out of the lower class as i and many other have done in this country they would no longer be lower class and we would not have a need for theses racial social entitlement programs that you speak so highly of WE dont need more people on more progams we need the lower class “entitlement generation to do for them selves and get off their A**es and stop dragging this counrty into the Abyss. . .”  Roger Weaver

First of all we can all agree that this is what happens when people don’t get an education.  Run on sentences, lack of punctuation and abysmal spelling.  But let’s go ahead and answer to this seriously flawed thinking individual.

This comment was taken from my blog post titled “We the sheeple.”  I called him selfish because he doesn’t think that we should even entertain health care for all.  Which is fine, but he has this me and my attitude as well as this fear that blacks are somehow begging for a health care handout.

Now how is saying we need health care for ALL me saying that black people are entitled to everyone’s money?  Or is he under some idiotic thought that ONLY blacks have no health care and that if we move to help everyone blacks will be the only folks who will benefit.

How and where does slavery have to do with health care?  See this is just more racist babble in order to somehow lessen the argument for health care as some sort of ploy by blacks to get more of these fantasy entitlement programs that really don’t and never have existed.

He wants us to believe that everyone has the same chances of success in this country.  But we all know that is the biggest fallacy around today.  This country was built on inequality and still flourishes under inequality.  He will discount the study done by Devah Pager which showed that black men with NO criminal record and a 4 year college degree got far less job offers than white men with a felony record.  But that is equality in the eyes of Roger.  And we wonder why we are still suffering under racism.

And if you read my post I have not spoken highly of any so called racial programs.  This is just more of his racism showing itself to the world.  I guess the racial programs he was speaking of were the fire department, police department and the mail system.  Thos were the only programs I spoke of and I surely didn’t know that only black people had access to those services.

This is just more evidence that even though our education system is lacking, it is even worse when you don’t go at all.  Because I think we all know or should know that the programs that I mentioned are by all measures social programs in which we all pay and we all get to benefit from them.  And how do these systems continue to work without breaking our country but somehow health care just can’t be run if it doesn’t include HMO’s and insurance giants.  Give me a break please!

And then of course this selfish racist wants to equate black with low class, lazy people; because if “we” meaning blacks would just get off our asses and get jobs we won’t have this problem.  Really?  Since the last time I checked there are millions of hard working people of ALL races who have jobs and no health care.  But let Roger tell it and only blacks are begging at the big house like country cousins for health care. This is a prime example of why our society is still in the stone ages when dealing with issues of race, social constructs and equality.

Because people like Roger would rather watch innocent families and hard working Americans die in the streets rather than pool his money with everyone else’s and provide everyone including him and his family with health care. For fear a black person might get a handout or entitlement of some sort.  His total fixation on blacks, handouts and health care leads me to believe that if there were NO blacks in this country, the US would more than likely have universal health care.

Whose Independence Day?

I received a comment from a fellow named Roger who wanted to chastise me on this Independence Day.  I told him that my forefathers weren’t set free on this day.  He then says – my forefathers weren’t set free on this day   black entitlement “exactly my point”.

I just have to ask, were my forefathers set free on the 4^th of July, 1776?  My forefathers are African American and one set are Native American.  I don’t recall as my forefathers one of which sat in slave quarters after being stolen from his homeland and forced to work for free building a nation that decided they needed  freedom but not for the blacks they held captive.

And the other sat on a reservation after being kicked off his god given land.  And the last time I was in history class I didn’t see any Native Americans celebrating Americas freedom from Britain.  In fact I didn’t see any blacks celebrating either.  Not unless you think that serving massa a glass of cold ice tea and picking cotton in the fields for free was a celebration.

This is a prime example of white privilege at it best or worst depending on how you see it.  This Roger feels that just because I am American I have to be in awe of the same holidays as everyone else whether or not it was intended for me or not.  I guess to him I have to celebrate HIS forefathers’ freedom. While he and people like him don’t know the date of and could care less when and if my forefathers’ became free.

He wants to claim that this is somehow black entitlement to say that my forefathers’ were not freed on this day in history.   This statement is extremely idiotic at best.  How is stating a FACT feeling entitled?  Maybe the one who feels entitled is Roger.  Isn’t he feeling entitled to expect that I celebrate a holiday that doesn’t have one iota of anything to do with me or mine?  Isn’t it entitlement that makes him believe that I don’t have any choice BUT to allow him and other white people dictate to me what holiday I will and won’t acknowledge?

No Roger MY forefathers’ Both African American nor the Native American were free to neither life, liberty nor the pursuit of happiness.  But now I am supposed to run around like this holiday was inclusive for ALL Americans.  You can talk of the progress or whatever, that does not negate the fact that this holiday is a commemoration of a day that WHITE people in this country were freed.  Everyone else could only dream.  I guess you can forget that but I can’t; and simply put I WON’T.

Smells Like BS Alright!

You know the one thing I would like to know?  Why in the world does my blog attract so many idiots?  I get some of the stupidest people commenting on this blog that sometimes it occurs to me that the reason racism is so rampant albeit slightly undercover is that so many people are just plain stupid.  That’s right I said it, people are stupid, at least the retarded brained racists I get commenting on here.

I have recently been so tired that I don’t even bother to reply nor post the idiocy.  But this person just really sticks in my craw.  For one this person used the one line that forces me to delete your comment faster than a Republican Senator can engage in some sordid homosexual escapade.  And that happens to be “you won’t post my comments because you are a coward” and “get some balls.”

Has it ever occurred to these people that more than “MEN” have blogs?  Sometimes I feel like saying I would borrow yours, oops I made a funny since they don’t have any either.  Anyhow, this person is commenting on one of my old posts “White Entertainment Channels.”  He starts off by asking that someone get me a pacifier because I am a whiner.  Hey, alls good with that, everyone is entitled to their opinion.

So on we go down the raggedy trail of idiocy.  Next they want to assure me and others that they don’t like to split the races.  But somehow they have no problem spewing a bunch of propagandized garbage right of the bat with “There is a reason prisons are filled with more blacks.”  Really what reason would that be?  Last time I read the DOJ site they talked about the racism which permeates the system and how it was hard if not impossible to ensure fairness.  I guess this person doesn’t read anything beyond racists are us.

But of course it doesn’t stop there it goes on to some really thought provoking statements such as “How many billionaires or millionaires are black compared to white? Think bill gates inherited his stake or worked in a garage? How about Steve Jobs?Frankly, every time I see a black host spilling his pop culture ebonix I change the channel. Jail isn’t cool and neither is slapping a “hoe”. Thank god you don’t have more channels since blacks already ruined radio.”

He wants to talk about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, yet what happened to the Vanderbilt’s, Hiltons and all the other white people who did nothing to get the money they have?  What about the fact that white people in general are collecting on all the unpaid slave labor that helped to build this country into what we have to this day?  I guess that doesn’t count.

He sees all the “Ebonics” (yes this is how it is REALLY spelled) and “slapping a hoe” crap and wants to attribute this to blacks in general as if we are the ones in control of the broadcasting of television and radio.  Has it ever occurred to this nut that you have a bunch of white people who run these institutions

who decide that this is what they want to portray as being “black culture.”   What would be his excuse if black people ran the broadcasting and the only thing of white people that was aired was Fran Dresher and any other white trashy person you can think of?

Would he think that this WAS his culture or would he know and understand that this is just the stereotype that the black CEO’s and people in general want or need to see of white people in order to further their agenda?  I suppose that there are people are stupid enough to think that just because you see or hear a black acting like a jerk on television or radio that this is reality for ALL blacks.  And then run around and justify their ignorance by pointing out the stereotypes and not the plethora of people who are NOT like that.

But I guess we all can see that he IS one of those stupid individuals.  You see I didn’t assume ALL white people were stupid just because this nut is.  Any who here is a bit more of his stupidity at its worst.  “Want a pure black channel with black producers? Go find one. There is a reason it doesn’t succeed. Now go complain more about how your great grandfather was a slave and you feel his lashings.”

For one thing there has NEVER been a black owned, run and operated channel so how can it have not succeeded?  Just plain stupid!  Not to mention this prick would like for black people to have to go out and FIND things that pertain to us.  No we can’t be represented like white people.  Nope we need to go out and find ours, where who cares, as long as we don’t bother good white people like him with our need for equality.

Then of course lets justify our racist statements with my wife, uncle’s first cousin or best friend is a minority so what and how I say it is truly OK.  “For the record my wife is colombian and when we picked out neighborhood her reqs where “no blacks”. Racist? Not if you have facts, figures and statistics to back it up.”  So he has a racist Columbian wife and exactly what does that prove?  Besides the fact that he and his Columbian wife are racists.

And if he wants facts, figures and statistics to back up anything he is saying he will be looking a long, long time.  Since the facts, figures and statistics show that white people commit far more crime than any other race.  But, let him continue to believe that living next to black people will somehow open him and his idiot wife up to crime.  I bet that they have been the victims of crime and the perpetrators were white.  But that has no bearing on his lunacy.

In fact it wouldn’t matter if a white man put a gun to his head right outside his house in his lily white neighborhood, save for his racist Columbian wife, and took all his money.  He would still say he was safer in his white neighborhood.  The only time I have really suffered from crime has been while living in an all white neighborhood in a vast majority white city.

But, he wants me to believe that I am better off with those criminals than I would be with the minority criminals.  I hate to ruin anyone’s day, but criminals are everywhere in every color, race, religion or creed.  And I am sure I can find a ton of people who believe that by just being Columbian makes you a criminal.

Of course he now has a plethora of minority, namely black, friends.  “I have a lot of friends who (since you like segragating) are black. Fine upstanding ones. The ones who are trash are just like anyone else, even white trash. Get some balls and make your

mark in the world.”  And I guess he feels they are special because they are what he refers to as “fine upstanding ones,” as if this is somehow outside of the norm.  You see my friend this is the epitome of racism, stereotypes and bigotry.  And you try and call someone else a racist.  Isn’t that the jackass calling the titmouse stupid?

So you hit us with all of your racism then have the nerve to try and justify it with your racist wife, a bunch of stereotypes that are backed with no facts whatsoever and then have the nerve to throw your obviously stupid black friends in our faces.  Yes they are stupid to befriend a bigot like you.  And hopefully they and others will learn a serious lesson from reading the idiocy that you try and put out here as if you have some awesome insight into the race debate that no one else has ever thought of.

Well let me give you a slap of reality.  You are NOT saying anything new, the things you do say are racist and your bigoted behavior is what is causing the racial strife that we have in this world.  So why don’t you and your racist wife get a clue and stop using those so called black friends, if they exist, as some sort of brownie point in order for you to continue to lambast people with the sickness that is your racism.  One more tip, learn to type, speak and read the English language.  After all it IS the language of YOUR forefathers.

When Is It OK To Call A Person A Racist?

I was listening to NPR the other day and the topic was “when is it OK to call someone a racist.”  The only guests they had on were Rick Moran a right wing blogger and Dawn Turner Trice a columnist from the Chicago Tribune.  Both people being white struck me right off that this was going to be quite one sided, which it was and extremely so.

Right off the guest Rick Moran talked about how he has been called a racist and how terrible it made him feel.  Of course he elaborated that the only reason people are calling others racists is to demean the argument and to basically get an upper hand of some sort in an argument.  Huh?  I thought people call others racist because they say something that is obviously racist.

But on the other hand watching this Sotomayor business play out in the media we see that people are trying to utilize the racist term for their own sordid means.  We know that this woman is far from being racist but hey if it works they will continue this weak pathetic reconfiguration of the term racist.

Then on the show Dawn Turner Trice comes on and explains that we can’t just look at one thing to see that a person is a racist.  Somehow we need to have a laundry list of things that will point to them being a racist.  In fact Dawn and Rick basically were saying that racists were people who consorted with the likes of David Duke and wore white sheets on their days off.

The problem with this is you don’t need to be a KKK or other group member to be a racist.  You don’t have to be white nor do you have to be in a position of power the way they explained it.  Because even the lowest white person on the totem pole can still use racism in a way that gives them the upper hand over blacks.  If you don’t believe it you don’t have to look any further than Susan Smith or the other white women who have pointed the finger at a nondescript black man.  The story usually ends the same.

They asked for people to call in and tell whether they had ever called someone a racist or been called a racist and what it was like.  Well I have had plenty of opportunities to call people a racist and have been called a racist more than once for writing that blacks deserve equality.  And I know that the folks that I have called out for their racism are ones who talk incessantly about black stereotypes, phony statistics, propaganda and other blatantly racist statements.

When calling someone out as a racist you shouldn’t be trying to use it as an argument ploy.  It isn’t about getting some phony upper hand, putting the conversation in your favor or trying to make people feel bad.  I think it is as simple as pointing out the truth.  And if it makes a person feel bad, hey, the truth hurts, right.   If it walks like a racist and talks like a racist then ten times out of ten it IS a racist.  And having a conversation about when should people call a person a racist is idiotic.  You call it when you see it!

No Surprise A White Cop Shoots Black Cop

Scenario we’ve seen over and over again white cop, dead black man.  This scenario only differs because the black man just so happens to be a fellow police officer himself.  And of course now an investigation needs to be done in order to see whether this shooting had to do with race.  Really?  You think that white police officers are out gunning down white people left and right?

We have ALL seen police footage of white men holding guns, threatening people and cops and still NOT be gunned down.  They try and reason with the man, give him every opportunity to be taken down without bloodshed.  But somehow when the person is black not only do they get 50 or so bullets, but they get them without so much as a 5 minute window between being seen and being shot.

Have these city and police officials ever watched the video of the white cop abusing what he thought was just some random black man walking where the white cop felt he shouldn’t be?  And didn’t this random black man turn out to be a cop himself?  Was this race related, what a joke!  If this was a white man chasing a white man, the white cop would have stopped everyone involved and questioned them to no end, getting down to the nitty gritty of the situation.

It wasn’t just a case of cops being overzealous and shooting who they thought was a perpetrator like people are already saying. The black cop named Edwards actually called the crime in to the police before chasing the suspect down the street.  So why didn’t Edwards just unload his gun into this suspect if this is just what cops do?  He did what he was supposed to do; he did what ALL cops should do with ALL people black, white or whatever.  He did his best to protect and serve, not shoot and kill.

We are constantly making excuses, constantly doing investigations and constantly finding these white cops innocent of any and all murder charges after needlessly gunning down some black man in the street.  Whether he is an innocent man on his way home from the grocery store holding a bag of groceries, a man out with friends at a bachelor party, a kid walking down the street holding a candy bar or a black cop trying to subdue a suspect, our black men are walking around with shoot me signs plastered all over them which is synonymous with black skin.

People can talk all day about how mistakes are made.  Why are the cops not making these innocent mistakes with white men and women?  Why are these types of mistakes always directed at the brown and black folks?  And don’t tell me that it is because minorities commit more crimes.  We have seen that this is NOT the case.  The people being shot haven’t even committed a crime let alone fit any stereotype of a person who has.  I guess unless you count being a black or brown minority person.

This has got to stop!  And people wonder why minorities don’t trust the police.  Why should we trust a gang of people who are constantly coming into our neighborhoods under the guise of helpers who then turn around and shoot our innocent neighbors.  And don’t talk about the suspected criminals who are shot.  Because the last time I checked you are innocent UNTIL proven guilty.  So when an unarmed man is gunned down only to be implicated in a crime makes no sense since the cops did NOT know he/she was guilty of anything.  Not to mention don’t we give people a fair trial before we sentence them to death.  Again this has got to stop!

Why Buy Black?

I have been seeing a lot of posts being written about the buy black experiment.  Basically there is a group of blacks who are deciding that they are going to do the majority of their purchases from black people in their black communities.  Now the problem people seem to be having with this is that they feel it is discriminatory.  People feel that by deciding to support blacks in their own communities they are hurting others.

Now the problem I have with these people and their thinking is that no one ever complains about other races of people who do the majority of their shopping in their own community.  Somehow it only becomes problematic when black people decide that they will support people from their own community.  Why is that?  Why is it that black people are always expected to give the majority of their business to white owned or other?

When are these bloggers going to write a post declaring China towns across the nation as a cradle of racism?  Now California is full of Spanish communities where Hispanics shop and buy close to exclusively.  No one feels that this is discriminatory because somehow we all feel that they are a close knit community just like the many Korea towns, Italian areas etc.  No one cares that any of these people by deciding to buy from their own communities are helping to strengthening their communities.

I don’t see very many white people going out of their way to drive their butts into the black community and patronizing the black owned businesses there. But, I suppose they feel it is only reasonable for blacks to leave their neighborhoods in order to make sure they patronize a rainbow coalition of businesses.

Are these white people who are claiming this is racist bringing their children to black owned daycares?  Do the majority of white people call the black run insurance person, car dealer, real estate agent or any other black businesses?  How many of them decide that it is important to them to spend their money with a rainbow coalition of businesses?   And I don’t think that going to the neighborhood Chinese, Japanese or Korean restaurant counts.

We all know that they don’t.  If they did, then black businesses wouldn’t be going under, they would be doing a lot better and there wouldn’t be a need to push this buy black agenda.  It never fails that people will turn this into some sort of finger pointing adventure.  Not even giving one thought to how they themselves contribute to the need for black businesses to be supported by black people.

When we complain that blacks are being passed over for employment within white owned businesses, we hear that blacks should get their own businesses.  As soon as a black person decide OK, they WILL patronize businesses in their own neighborhood all of a sudden they are racist.  Blacks are damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

And I have yet to see ONE white person cross that divide and do their business with the black businesses in the “black area”.   Did they decide they would only buy white?  Or are they doing what white people have done the last decades blacks have been able to own businesses, continue to shop white.

Black businesses are disappearing left and right.  But according to these bloggers that is fine as long as black people don’t decide to make it a priority to buy from those in their neighborhoods.  We can go down the list of communities who patronize those of their neighborhoods.  We are already being chastised for living in black neighborhoods, now we are being chastised for wanting to spend our money in black neighborhoods.

Wanda Sykes Takes Rush To Task

I will admit that I don’t like Wanda Sykes one bit.  But the tongue lashing she’s taking from the right wing after her appearance at the white house correspondents’ dinner is a bit hypocritical.  She criticized Rush Limbaugh which I can’t fault her on.  She said things such as I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker [on 9/11] but he was just so strung out on OxyContin he missed his flight. He needs a good water boarding — that’s what he needs.”  And “he wishes the president would fail well I wish his kidneys would fail.”

Now what I found so funny was that a journalist actually said “Imagine if a comedian “joked” that Obama was a terrorist who was guilty of treason and should be tortured and allowed to die. There would justifiably be an outcry.”  Now I don’t know where the hell this guy was during the elections but these people not only called him a terrorist they said he palled around with them and was an undercover Muslim among other derogatory and untrue statements.

And I didn’t once here the right wing cry about it.  And in fact in some cases the one banging the “he’s a terrorist” drum was the Republican Vice President elect Sarah Palin.  Now as far as I am concerned Rush Limbaugh is a fat sloppy junky who seems to be in control of the Republican Party.  And whether or not Wanda Sykes makes fun of that is neither here nor there for me.  Sure she wished the guys kidneys would fail, but isn’t that freedom of speech just like Rush wishing the president would fail?

What’s the big deal?  She is a comedienne and just like Rush said after he blasted that wished the president would fail all over the air waves, he is just a comedian making jokes.  Can’t the same be said about the ever irritating Wanda Sykes?  Why doesn’t the right wing head its own advice and take a joke for a joke.

So what is the issue?  That Wanda Sykes was well beyond tasteful with her jokes?  Who around here didn’t know that this idiotic lady had no taste?  And who the hell ever cared about someone not having good sense or taste before?  No right winger gave a damn that Rush had and has no taste or good sense.  Hell where was Don Imus’ taste or good sense when he was calling black ladies nappy headed ho’s?

The real problem is the hypocrisy or the right wing that leaks like so much sweat on that fat ass Rush’s forehead.  They will lead the witch hunt yelling about birth certificates, Muslims, friends being terrorists and all that then turn around and act like a stupid joker named Wanda Sykes somehow speaks for the entire Democratic Party.  Oh my god, give me a break, please.  And leading the charge is Michelle Malkin who has said some of the most erroneous things that anyone can say.

This whole situation is a joke!  When are we going to grow up in our taste for news and a government?  We are failing as a people and it has nothing to do with who our president is, what Wanda Sykes says or that Rush Limbaugh wishes we would.  We are failing because instead of seriously looking at working together as a people we continuously separate and point the fingers of incredulity; instead of actually making this a better place for EVERYBODY.  This is just my two cents on this un-news story.

Pork Industry Hogwashing Swine Flu

People are getting sick from what has been termed the swine flu. The WHO (World Health Organization) has come out today and raised the threat level of this to 5; saying that a pandemic is eminent. And all the pork industry can think about is how this is going to hurt pork sales and how to spin this pesky problem away.

It seems that the pork industry and thus their lobbyist are growing angry at this name questioning whether the term “swine flu” is appropriate, given that the new virus has not yet been isolated in samples taken from pigs in Mexico or elsewhere. They are complaining because this flu doesn’t ONLY have swine flu genetic material but avian and human as well. As if what they said makes much of a difference when the WHO has already deemed that it has the majority of its genetic material stems from swine flu.

They already are trying to term this the “Mexican flu” if that isn’t a farce and downright ridiculous. It is almost as ridiculous as Jackass Jones otherwise known as Michelle Malkin saying that the flu is because of Mexicans running across the borders. When we all know that so far the majority of people who have been infected were due to American’s who have just recently come back from Mexico bringing the virus with them.

Yet, isn’t this typical of our so called equality driven society to start trying to blatantly lie, cheat and malign in order to slap the blame on one marginalized group of people. If this flu blew in from Norway I doubt if anyone would be trying to call this the Nordic or Norwegian flu. I mean hell they didn’t call the “BLACK plague” the European flu.

We already know that this did not originate in Mexico as millions of pigs died from the swine flu in China a few years ago. No one is exactly sure how the disease jumped from pigs to humans but since it has shouldn’t we be concentrating on helping people combat this rather than looking for someone to blame? Shouldn’t the pork industry spend its bucket loads of dollars helping to squash this disease rather than on pointing the finger away from themselves?

No matter what happens it always seems to fall back to being socially conscious rather than the selfish self centered greedy pig headed companies that we can’t seem to rid ourselves of. If we all could stop throwing around the term Socialist as if it were somehow associated with the plague or swine flu, maybe we could be a bit more social and help each other. But I am sure we all know that this type of thinking is a bunch of hogwash.

Teaching Sextra Credit Gets Deadly, Again

Yet, again it happens that another white female predator is involved with not one but two of her students. And to top it off one goes into the military, comes home and catches her with another student and stabs him to death. This reads like some sleazy novel yet it is real life.

It seems that this pedophile was accused years earlier of having a relationship with the very student who has now confessed to the killing. She denied it of course like these lying scuzz buckets usually do. So she rapes one student while working at Marcos de Niza High School in Tempe and then the other while working at El Dorado High School in Chandler.

This is becoming more common than white teenagers shooting up schools or malls. Where is the profiling, the news specials or the news coined names such as white female teacher on child crime? And why isn’t the fact that the majority of students who are being targeted by these fiends are minority being explored?

Does anyone think that hundreds of black female teachers raping and exploiting white students wouldn’t be a major story in this country? This disparity is so hypocritical and of course typical of how we deal with race in this country. We talk about how out of control black on black crime is all the while the larger amount of white on white crime goes un-scrutinized.

When are we going to do something about these nasty predator pedophiles passing themselves off as teachers? Just because these are boys, and it seems to be a male fantasy, these kids still need to be protected. It is obvious that they are not able to handle this type of sexual abuse. And as a direct affect of these illicit relationships with their teachers, too many of these boys are going out and killing or doing other crazy things showing their mental instability.

This has obviously gotten out of hand and the sextra credit has to stop. We can no longer look at this as some sort of tabloid oddity. We need to see these women for the depraved hypersexual pedophiles that they are. How can any of us, especially minorities, send our children to school without fear of the teacher? I am now extremely fearful that my son will end up in the classroom of one of these monsters. And trust me the teacher who crosses my child will understand exactly why this was a bad idea.

United’s Not So Friendly Skies

A United Flight Attendant Modeling New Uniform

So now United Airlines wants to charge what they term “obese” passengers with a double fee for flying their so called friendly skies. I guess those skies aren’t so friendly for those who are a bit on the heavy side. I guess I have a few problems with these companies and restaurants etc trying to charge or ban those who are overweight. And it is simply because it is very subjective. Who is going to be in charge of making that decision? Are they going to bust out of the back and embarrass the person in front of everyone and have them step on a scale in order to confirm.

That doesn’t sound friendly at all. Not to mention are they going to also make a stinky person tax. I have actually had to sit next to a guy who was stinky as all get out and that was on United. I guess they only care about their passengers comfort in that they don’t have their space invaded by a fat person. But could care less if other are around you with their crying babies, stinking bodies, loud talking, ugly looking, over perfumed/cologned and otherwise invasive behaviors.

They have never cared for your comfort before and this is no bigger a problem then any of the other things I’ve mentioned. If they REALLY cared for my comfort then they would find a way to allow me to bring my own freaking food and drinks on their lame ass planes. Snatching someone’s sealed Snapple isn’t going to make me any safer, trust me.

I mean being in the medical field I know that there is a LOT of disorders, diseases and medications that have the side affect of weight gain/obesity. And are those people going to be made to pay for something that they have NO control over? And if that is the case are people who are extremely skinny or anorexic going to be able to get their tickets cut in half since they are taking up the space of only half that of a normal weight passenger.

Hell where does it end? What about pregnant women? They can be considered overweight as well. How about body builders they also are considered over weight due to weight/height charts. This is a big can of worms they really shouldn’t want to open. Because to me this is just a small leap from charging Muslims or black extra because they are more likely than others to disrupt the plane in some way. When more than likely it is the little old lady next to you who will complain about any and every thing no matter what or how small.

I guess we can now expect to step on the scale at the airport or be subjected to a game of guess the fat person’s weight by United Airline ticket counter workers. How about we just save a lot of time and trouble and amend the constitution to say that overweight people be banned from airlines altogether? Oh boy we are quickly becoming a nation of people who just has to find someway to subjugate the next guy, no matter how ridiculous the case.