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shakaz0117
Comment: Okay DMX...soon your 15 minutes will be up. Get it together.
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xavixavi
Comment: Okay shakaz0117, you just took the words right outta my keyboard:)
I was about to write. Earl aren't you on your 16th minute yet?
Then I click on post comments and see yours. Hilarious. I agreeeee Totaleeee
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Thunny
Comment: Just because DMX is a has-been is still no justification to keep arresting these Black men, only to release them with a "caution". Let's be honest - these white flight attendants and other airline employees are threatened by a wealthy Black man, and the second they feel disrespected they claim they are in fear. I'm tired of it. X could have handled it differently but having him arrested? There have got to be more constructive solutions to dealing with Black men than simply arresting them.
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Honey2
Comment: Ok, Thunny you come up with one!!
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neworleansfinest
Comment: LOL no need to say anythang
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Thunny
Comment: I wish it were that easy and I wish it were up to me but it's not. But I do know that arresting and incarcerating should not be applied to every situation that concerns a Black man. I'm just saying that if what he did was so terrible he should have been charged instead of "cautioned".
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Priceless
Comment: *sigh* I just wish he would focus on his music and stop actin the fool
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lovinlife
Comment: Thunny, I understand your frustration but the problem is these wealthy black men keep giving the "man" the opportunity to get them. If Earl had buckled up his seatbelt like everybody else, would he have been arrested? I'm not saying that Black men aren't unfairly targeted but dayum can we stop giving them something to work with?!
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B00TANEB00TUS
Comment: WTF is this?...Izzit the "now" thing with rap cats? Only this time ya act an azz in airports...C'mon Bootane, let's see if we can coin a term for this...Air %*$ault?....Air Raiding?...Crash landing?....Flight Fight?.... AIR IT OUT? "Yo, me an the crew had to pull a "flight fight" on them mutha&%#$...Yo, how they gon tell me to fasten my fuccing seat belt....Fucc that sh1t...I need room to move up in heah... We had to "air it out" up in heah"...numean?
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Closet_Nerd_Girl
Comment: >lovinlife- EXACTLY!!!! If he had simply followed the rules there would not have been an issue. He's lucky he was released with only a caution after being arrested. In this post-911 world you cannot, I repeat- CANNOT cause any static on airplanes or in airports. Common sense people!
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McNasty
Comment: So . . . what? these rappers trying to get street cred in the airport now?
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Thunny
Comment: Here's a scenario for you all, please give me feedback as this actually happened to me:
My friends and I were flying from NYC to Amsterdam to bring in the new year the right way. As soon as the plane ascends, I instantly recline my chair, since that's when you're allowed to recline - any time after takeoff. So time passes and the flight attendants are wheeling the dinner carts down the ailes. We get our food and start to eat when the white lady behind me and my black friends (she's sitting directly behind me) asks me to pull my seat-back up so that she can eat her food. I told her no, reasoning that the person in front of me was also reclining, and I had no interest in asking that person to un-recline. So then the white woman passenger behind me goes and gets the flight attendant, who is also a white woman, and she tells me I should un-recline my seat. I told her I paid handsomely for the ticket and it was my right to recline or unrecline and that no one else had any say in it. Next thing you know this flight attendant goes to the cabin and talks to God knows who, most likely in an attempt to get someone else to force me to un-recline. Only I guess they found out I was within my rights to recline until we touched down. But the flight attendant ignored me for the rest of the flight and the woman behind me kept kicking and pushing the seat to no end. All because I wanted to recline. Someone please tell me who is in the right and who is in the wrong.
I know this isn't like DMX's situation but I wrote this to illustrate how threatened white people are by Blacks and how they overreact to the stupidest, most minute things.
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Priceless
Comment: Thunny, by reason everyone has the right to travel in comfort but someone comfort can cause someones discomfort .... your situation doesn't sound like pankie being threatened by a black man per se cuz if that had been the case they would have been trying to either put you off the plane at a pit stop or have you detained when they landed ... the crew frequently over react to situations ... I have had difficulties with that my dayum self
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JamerDelta
Comment: Thunny, sorry, but that doesn't seem like a racist situation. Also, its not always about being right. You may have the RIGHT to recline your seat, but if you are in a position to help someone out in a tight space such as an airplane cabin, it would have been maybe the polite or 'well-brought up' thing to do while you were both eating and then recline afterwards. Unfortunately a lot of times we fight so hard to be right, its at the expense of common courtesy.
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Thunny
Comment: LOL - everybody tells me I should have moved my seat to the "upright position" but I was like F that I paid a grip for my ticket and my Spidey senses told me that had the shoe been on the other foot and I demanded the person in front of me stop reclining I bet I would have been greeted with the same attitude I displayed. Oh well, it's an interesting stotry and I like to get feedback on it. For the record on the way back my boy smuggled an ounce of haze from Amsterdam without being caught! We had no idea he did it until we were in the cab riding back to Manhattan and he pulled it right out of his shirt!
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MsFresno
Comment: I never understood seat belts on an airplane anyway. I mean what kind of safety does that seatbelt provide? If we crash is it going to save our life? I dont get it.
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ss69054
Comment: Please don't use the race card unless it is so necessary. If this fool was on Martin Luther King Blvd (every hood has it) he still would be acting a damn fool and you all know it. There are alot of black men who travel but they know how to act and behave on the plane. I'm not saying they are not targets but you can't continue to use the race card everytime when something happens. Everytime I turn on the tv or radio, this fool is up to something. He needs to seek some professional help and grow up. Some of these rappers are worst than a kid on ritlin. Can't behave like a grown mature man. Now that is what is shameful!!!!
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Gurlfrand
Comment: yawnning........for all these excuses for the misfit rappers.....
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212121
Comment: Thunny - You don't cut up on a Airplane or in a Airport post 9/11.
Unless you want to be arrested.
You should have moved you seat up until the woman behind you finished eating. It is called common courtesy.
Why give white folks an opportunity to harrass and arrest you.
In addtion DMX stays in trouble so don't be so quick to defend him.
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Thunny
Comment: 212121, dare I suggest that it would have been equally courteous of that white woman to understand that the seats recline for a reason? ON a 9 hour flight you want to be as comfortable as possible. Wouldn't it be courteous of this woman to know that and not bother someone else just because she herself is bothered? Sorry, but if someonme ever asks me to do that again the answer will remain no. I have a funny feeling has the roles been reversed she would have told me no too. White people have that white privilege which they feel entitles them to everything, and I for one will not willingly let any white person try to use that privilege against me.
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Closet_Nerd_Girl
Comment: >Thunny, just curious, but had the person behind you been black and asked you to move your seat up so they could eat, would you still have said no?
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McNasty
Comment: MsFresno - no - it just takes longer to get it off so that your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device.LOL
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Thunny
Comment: Closet Nerd -- If a Black woman asked me to do that I would have done it. Especially an older Black woman. Call me paranoid but I just don't trust white women! I know the history of relations between Black men and white women and I pretty much most of the time refuse to show them an inkling of respect.
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Closet_Nerd_Girl
Comment: >Thunny, thanks for your honesty. Though I agree with the other posters that it would not have hurt you to accomodate her for 20 minutes while she ate (and I am assuming that she asked you politely- if she "demanded" that you do it, then all bets are off...) and then reclined your seat again. However I am glad to know that if my grandmother made that request of you, you would have honored it. I feel you on the history of relations between black men and white women, however, it is not always about race. Extending a common courtesy from one human being to another is a good thing and not a sign of weakness. If the situation had been reversed, there's no guarantee that she would have moved her seat up for you, but you would have wanted her to.
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TMan
Comment: Damn! LOL! What I say in the Oprah Post?! What I say?!?! LOL! Shiiiiiii...! Dayum! Too much.
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Angel
Comment: Thunny - I can totally understand your feelings, but I don't think this was racial. I'm assuming the flight attendant was hoping you would accommodate the woman if she asked you, but when you said HELL NAW to her too, she went to discuss the matter with others in order to make the right call (or possibly see if she could move the woman to another seat). Someone probably told her that although you were being an azzhole, it was too dayum bad for the person sitting behind you. LOL I witnessed something similar on a plane. A woman was sitting next to a VERY large man. She lowered the armrest between and he lifted back up. When she asked him to lower it, he refused to lower the armrest between them for obvious reasons, so his fat was all up in her personal space (they were both white BTW). She went and talked to the flight attendant. The flight attendant came and asked the guy to lower the armrest. He said he wouldn't because it was painful. The flight attendant went to the front and when she came back, she told the woman if she would like to move, there was another seat available, so the woman moved. Everybody gave the fat guy a dirty look. LOL
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MorrisOKelly
Comment: Thunny...you trippin'. How dare you try to 'rationalize' DMX's behavior. The problem is very clear and it's nothing to do with racism. Inappropriate or illegal behavior is dealt with accordingly. Now, whether you think that Black folk have a smaller margin for error I will not debate you on. We would be in agreement. But like so many people have stated and intimated...why give folks a reason to arrest you.
There's no excuse or explanation for acting up on a flight or in an airport post 9/11. You are going to jail, period.
Common sense I guess ain't that common after all.
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Beezyuu
Comment: Only BET would do a reality show on someone like DMX. BET is and always will be the tackiest show on television.
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