Comments for Elegant Ignance.com

Comment on Do Not Pass Me By: How I learned to love my gay, Christian self. by Skye Blue

Skye Blue — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:57:12 +0000

Loved everything you said, especially the part about people in church who commit other ’sins’ not being subject to anything akin to the intense homophobia gays in the church often experience.

Anyway, beautiful post. Thanks for sharing.

Comment on Where Oscar Grant Meets LeBron James by ryan mega

ryan mega — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:10:34 +0000

I wrote a piece that goes well with this. its a bit more personal but along the same lines.
check it out:
http://ryanmega.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/this-moment-oscar-grant-lebron-james-dan-gilbert-and-me-in-1741-words-via-sexdrugsmoney/

Comment on You're my little secret... by Je'Tara

Je'Tara — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:07:46 +0000

He is gay. She knows but is in denial. SMH she better let him go and move on.

Comment on Where Oscar Grant Meets LeBron James by cms

cms — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:04:35 +0000

If the judge hadn’t put manslaughter on the table (murder was the only choice for a long time), the cop would’ve walked. Was Oscar Grant murdered? Of course. But it’s rare for a cop to be found guilty of anything. The whole thing could’ve been avoided, and not just by the BART cop actually knowing what his taser was — the cop who ordered Oscar Grant to be held in the first place was fired for it, so he shouldn’t have even been on that floor. And there was no reason to tase him (obviously) so he never should’ve “mistaken” his gun for his taser because he didn’t NEED his taser. He was scared, and for no good reason. He was surrounded by fellow BART cops. The man he was arresting was on the ground, no threat. I live in the California Bay Area and so didn’t realize this wasn’t getting national play. That’s inexcusable. The whole thing is. AND–now they’re throwing a party for the cop.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bronstein/detail?entry_id=67876

Comment on Oh no the hell you didn't. by Rishona

Rishona — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:53:04 +0000

Please tell me that this teacher is unemployed now?

Comment on Where Oscar Grant Meets LeBron James by Repost of: Navigating Through this Post Racial Society; via Neo_Prodigy on LJ « The random musings of a 1973 Original

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:18:07 +0000

[...] Where Oscar Grant Meets Lebron James [...]

Comment on Where Oscar Grant Meets LeBron James by Antonio

Antonio — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:32:45 +0000

Troubling. Thank you for writing this piece. Wish you wrote more.

Comment on Where Oscar Grant Meets LeBron James by Marsha Prescod

Marsha Prescod — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:16:13 +0000

THIS…
Is a brilliant analysis.
I’m a black woman living in the UK (London) with a son tall enough to be a basketball player, and old enough to be vulnerable to the sort of thing that happened to Oscar Grant. Over here- as in all western countries that ran the Atlantic slave trade- we have similar problems with police brutality on the black community.
Really, given past cases, its amazing that the jury even convicted the officer.

Thank God most of the police over here are not armed..

(BTW, in case anyone’s wondering, I’m a middle class professional, and none of my family have ever been in trouble with the authorities)

Comment on Do Not Pass Me By: How I learned to love my gay, Christian self. by Mdot

Mdot — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:12:30 +0000

I'm pretty sure I love you lol.. And the fact that you want to read the Bible in the original Hebrew… man, I just wanna kiss you..

Comment on Where Oscar Grant Meets LeBron James by Dave

Dave — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:29:32 +0000

Here via qweerdo.

Great points all around.

I particularly like how people are claiming that it’s not the substance of James’s announcement that they take issue with, but the style. “Gee, I never would have expected after we spent weeks whipping the situation into a media shitstorm that Lebron would make such a big deal out of it.”. Yeah, because the sports media would totally have let him get away with a press release.

Also, Dan apparently sent his incoherent, spoiled screed to the media in Comic Sans. I guess it would have taken too long to cut letters out of a magazine.