QTOD: Black-owned Businesses and Chicken Thighs
"People aren't going to come to the store just because it's black-owned. They'll come because of the experience, the staff, the selection and quality. Otherwise they'll go to get a tiny yet cheaper selection of least common denominator "bestsellers" when they get their twenty-pack of chicken thighs at Costco."
Christopher Chambers, Author and Professor, Georgetown University,
"The Implications are more frightening than the reprecussions"[Editor's note: He misspelled repercussions, not I.]Labels: media, qotd, racism
No, not fairness. The Law.
Dallas Police Chief
David Kunkle thinks it violates "fundamental fairness if people don't have the opportunity to know what they're being charged with". Really. Those of us who've got a brain think IT VIOLATES THE FUCKING SIXTH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION.
This guy isn't a small town douchebag police chief who doubles as the undertaker. This is a big town douchebag police chief who runs on the of largest metropolitan areas in the United States.
Does anyone feel safe in a city where the police chief doesn't know the amendments to the U.S. Constitution? Or where the media doesn't call out such a fucker?
Labels: constitution, government, law, media, police
Dateline: To Let a Con Artist Go
Dateline ran a piece tonight,
To Catch a Con Man. They didn't catch him, however, they just videotaped the guys, outted themselves and let the guys go. Never got the cops involved. Who needs law enforcement when you can broadcast video and hope the guys stop trying to steal money?
Oh, and Dateline paid these guys small amounts as "incentive" to maintain the scam.
It's exceptional that Dateline has taken up a scam that
started in the early '80s and
hit the internet in 2000. They're picking up the mantle that
geeks have been holding for years--geeks who never needed to pay money to out these thieves.
Dateline isn't journalism. It's reality TV.
Maybe next week they'll discover that criminals are cold-calling senior citizens and obtaining personal information and credit card numbers over the phone.
Labels: 419, dateline, media
