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wilt the stilt

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12. I live in Atlanta
Sun Sep 7, 2014, 07:45 PM
Sep 2014

and I have been to many a basketball game. I especially went during the Dominique era and I even sold Dominique his registers for his night club. I have been following the NBA for 40 years and I saw Chamberlain and Russell.

That being said the Northern suburbs just doesn't want to go downtown at night. The Braves are moving to Cobb County because of the"downtown". When my son's best friends brother who plays for the raiders and his Dad was a 12 year vet of the falcons transferred from his college to another college you should have seen the comments about him being a "felon" and dumb. he graduated in 3 years from college. All the boys are or will be college graduates.

I used to sell registers in the African American neighborhoods. I never lost a sale guess why i had no competition because I was the only person who went into those neighborhoods.

If you knew Atlanta like I do you would not be saying what you are saying. Buckhead had been a "white" hangout for many years and for a couple of years before the ray lewis fiasco it started to become racially mixed. right after that incident they totally shut the area and now 10 years later it is back to being entirely white.

It is very segregated here. Downtown Atlanta is avoided by white people.

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Stuff white people think but don't say out loud. geek tragedy Sep 2014 #1
so much violence heaven05 Sep 2014 #2
Some Dummy! tooeyeten Sep 2014 #3
^^^^^^^^^^^^^This ProfessorGAC Sep 2014 #20
Check his genome tooeyeten Sep 2014 #22
did he comment on what percentage of the players were black ? JI7 Sep 2014 #4
This email "incident" happened 2 years ago (2012) and it took this long? DJ13 Sep 2014 #5
The Hawks are losing money. Calista241 Sep 2014 #6
"because the Hawks aren't very good" BumRushDaShow Sep 2014 #8
Can't argue with your points. Calista241 Sep 2014 #9
At least the Hawks did better than the '76ers BumRushDaShow Sep 2014 #11
Both the Hawks and the Sixers Calista241 Sep 2014 #14
I agree with what you are saying which is he seem to have some altrier motive davidpdx Sep 2014 #16
Can't have them darkies messin' with my basketball! Enthusiast Sep 2014 #7
Seems he doesn't care what color someone's skin is as long as they spend as much $$ as possible: Lucky Luciano Sep 2014 #10
A quote I saw on Bloomberg from levenson Lucky Luciano Sep 2014 #19
Which is really the same as every other company in the US and around the world.... cbdo2007 Sep 2014 #21
I live in Atlanta wilt the stilt Sep 2014 #12
I have an aunt, a bunch of cousins, and friends there BumRushDaShow Sep 2014 #13
So when does he get his $2,000,000,000 check Iamthetruth Sep 2014 #15
he says that due to his work... Enrique Sep 2014 #17
This message was self-deleted by its author daschess1987 Sep 2014 #18
I am not sure this is racist . . . toopers Sep 2014 #23
Denial is not just a river in Egypt, BumRushDaShow Sep 2014 #24
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