ClusterChuck: Fried chicken edition
by David Benzion · 01/09/2008 9:38 amWe thought about writing an update to the UpChuck Rosenthal story this morning… but then we noticed that the good folks over at ProfessorsRSquared already did the job for us.
Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out, Chuck.
When you’ve lost both the public trust and the moral authority to effectively be Harris County’s District Attorney, it’s time to hit the trail, find a really good lawyer, and prepare for both criminal investigations and civil litigation.
And why, pray tell, has he lost the public trust? Hmmm… perhaps it was the hundreds of office e-mail messages containing love notes to a co-worker, racy jokes, misogynistic comments, racial slurs, pornography, and political campaign materials?
Watermelon and KFC jokes from the guy who puts more blacks on Texas’ death row than any other prosecutor in the country…
Jackass.
Heh.
It’s fun to read college professors embracing LST’s traditional standards of “soft-core profanity in the cause of moral outrage”. 
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Chucky landed this spot all by himself. Now the County needs to prosecute. Especially because he used the County computers to invite his staffers to his political picnic.
Where is the outrage of this post from the “you know who” supporters?
I couldn’t help but think of this scene from Kentucky Fried Movie
****** Warning. The “N” Word is used ******
But this guy’s got it coming….. as does Chucky.
I love watermelon and fried chicken and I don’t understand why these two foods cause black people to be the butt of jokes. Am I suppose to think I love these foods only because I am black? I just don’t get it!
At least the Republicans go after their own. That’s more than I can say for the Dimwits. The Dimwits actually embrace such actions if it’s in their own ranks but let a Republican do and see what happens.
So, the prosecutor is an **s h*le, thought that was a prerequisite.
blackgirl,
where the watermelon joke came from, who knows, my family grew them for crop and eat our fair share too, it’s like the rest of the world, somebody sticks a moniker on you it’s hard to shake off, all things considered a watermelon moniker is not all that bad.
I like watermelon and love Fried Chicken too. I’ve never understood this slur. What, only black people like those things? Strange.
Oh, and get lost, Chuck!
# 5 blackgirl
I must be black on the inside because I love fried chicken, watermelon, fried okra, collard greens, corn bread, purple hull peas….;) I bet there’s a lot of folks here who feel the same.
Seriously, I think it’s more a north-south thing than a black-white thing.
I never really understood the “fried chicken, watermelon, black folk” thing…
#5 blackgirl
I was born in the early fifties in Houston and raised in around SE and Central Texas. I never understood the fried chicken and watermelon thing either. Having lived in the NYC area now for 5 years, I have come to realize this is really a Yankee stereotype. Northerners, both white and black, associate those two foods with Southern black people and since it is an extension of NY, so does Hollywood.
Back in the nineties, I read a magazine article by two women from the Deep South who both ended up working for the same publishing company in Manhattan. They told the story of how they became best friends, to the complete bafflement of their New York born and bred co-workers. Both had grown up in rural semi-poverty in the Carolinas, both had read the same Southern authors growing up, each had been the daughter of a sharecropper farmer, etc. Importantly, they loved to cook and share the same country food they had been raised on. They shared a cultural heritage and homesickness their colleagues could not fathom.
Reply to No. 5: Maybe we need to ban those words from the English language because they are derogatory. Look, if we can ban the “Confederate” flag because of its implications, then ban any word that is offensive. Where is the “PC” police when you need them.
#10 clarification
One of the women was white and one was black. I omitted that unintentionally.
Thank you for the responses. I think I understand now.
#9 you make me want to run back to easttexas, just to eat.
#11 You can not wipe out history, the “Confederate Flag” is history. You don’t have to like it but you give respect to the one who do love it and move on.
# 4 faster
That was suicide !
My Mexican in-laws eat watermelon and fried chicken.
They still can’t dance though
15
As was Chucky’s email cache……
Little mike, et al, yup, it’s a Southern thing. Add me to the watermelon and fried chicken eating list. Heck, I even eat chitlins’ and pig’s feet!
Reply to No. 14: Some people have to reread their history books because the “Confederate” flag represented the south during the Civil War which was a war about “states rights” not slavery.
You can say the Civil War was over states’ rights and be correct, but not complete. Anyone who denies slavery was not the key factor in Secession simply doesn’t understand the history.
texpat, would you say slavery was the “key” factor, or simply the final factor that forced the decision?
#19 “Confederate” flag, Civil War, States Rights and Slavery. All history, some good some bad, but in the end it’s all still History. All will never be in agreement, but again I can still respect other peoples feelings without compromising mine.
blackgirl:
“#9 you make me want to run back to easttexas, just to eat.”
Or you could just come to my house on a Sunday afternoon.
LOL!
Back in the 80s there was Constable Rankin. Rankin routinely (and without shame) ORDERED his employees to sell barbeque tickets to raise money for his campaign, with a quota involved. (most just bought them themselves). He also ORDERED his deputies to work the fund raisers free of charge. He was another county official that was b***king his secretary while he was married and there is the offspring to prove it. Now that there is internet and email those that play like this are more likely to get caught.
Is boinking a banned word?
Apparently not.
#18
Probably eat brains n’ eggs when you can get them…
Hammy:
Depends on how it’s used: Chuckie to secretary:
“I love your boinking hair!
You smell so boinking good!”
“I’m going to kiss you behind your ear and we can boink after work”
Banned = Secretary to Chuckie = Chuckie, you’re a *****ing idiot!
NAT
When I was in Boy Scouts when we camped out I did the Breakfast thing. Scrambled and Hash Browns. Hash Browns always had Ketchup in em.
We always convinced the newbies it was brains. Those of us in the know got more hash browns that way.
#27 Nat - I did until about 10 years ago. The “mad cow” thing skeered me away from brains & eggs. Still love me some beef tongue, though!
Yup, those prions are evil dudes.
Beef Tongue?
This should disspell another myth.
#24 dcgirl
For decades, Rankin’s BBQ was the political event of the year for Harris County. I don’t know how thousand upon thousands of people bought tickets, but it was an enormous spectacle.
#21 duhmoose
The Founding Fathers left a time bomb in the Constitution and they knew it. I don’t believe they would have ignored the slavery issue if they had known the eventual result of near destruction of the Union. It wasn’t until the invention of Whitney’s cotton gin, in the late 1790s, that the cotton industry really took off and fostered a boom in the slave trade.
The passionate debate over slavery which raged before the Constitution was written and the hostilities between Southern and Northern states over federal funds, tariffs, trade, taxes and infrastructure had festered for at least 75 years before war broke out. Slavery was the issue of the day and without it, there never would have been a war between the states.
As a proud Southerner I agree with texpat. Look at the Constitution of the CSA:
If the War of Northern Aggression was all about States’ rights why did the CSA constitution prohibit the states from outlawing slavery? That’s not very States rightsish.
Thomas Jefferson was forced to remove the “offending clause” regarding his opposition to slavery from the text of the Declaration of Independence, ensuring the battle to come 80 years later:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=thomas+jefferson%2C+declaration+of+independence%2C+offending+clause%2C+slavery&fr=yfp-t-312&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8
http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/Jefferson/Autobiography.html#declaration
Nobody in this country had the right to hold a human being a slave. It was repugnant to the decency and concept of liberty – I could give a hoot what the “law” allowed. It was okay once to beat your wife and the “law” allowed it.. Any state or group of states that held people as slaves deserved what fell upon their heads, regardless of the genesis of the of the event, or the perceptions as to why the war occurred. God has a way of visiting His wrath upon a people when it suits him. In this case, our entire nation suffered beyond imagination from that war. It sure wasn’t all the South’s suffering. Unfortunately I think we are destined to suffer again before we return to a better sense of what is right and wrong, moral and immoral, verses the liberal’s viewpoint of legal and illegal.
Hamous, I never understood the concept of being proud of your race or where you were born. Being proud of what your ancestors did before you, being proud of what your state or country has accomplished, those concepts I can understand. But just being proud because of your race, or your geographic area…well, that one escapes me. Pride should be in things accomplished, not just mere existence….UNLESS YOU’RE FROM TEXAS….then it’s okay.
#38 - Ya had me going there for a bit… ; - )