# Racist Coverage of Waco Biker Violence **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 20, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441 "2015-05-20T19:30:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/101 "2015-05-22T02:55:12Z")
> [@andros](#): > > 😕 Of course she does. But does she know about the gerbils? ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/102 "2015-05-22T03:28:18Z")
Oh-_ho_! Clever lad, you caught me out! The gerbils aren’t gay! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/103 "2015-05-22T12:09:31Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > (post shortened) > > (Underline added) > > You must be a Democrat. **The Understander** can chose to identify anyone as a drug dealer if he so choses, but you think someone else must be responsible for his poor decisions. :rolleyes: Don’t forget to give **The Understander** his trophy for participation. > > Name-calling, the last resort of those who can’t think of anything else. This, after you label Occupy “scum”, among other inanities. Is there anything you conservaturds can do that isn’t hypocritical? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/104 "2015-05-22T12:18:26Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > Setting fire to and robbing the stores which are necessary for your community to survive because some shithead robbed a convenience store and then got shot when he tried to rob a cop is throwing a tantrum. > Freddie Gray had been convicted for manufacturing narcotics with the intent to distribute. Tobacco is not a narcotic. Cite for all protestors setting fires, stupid bitch. Eric Garner was strangled to death, essentially, for selling loose cigarettes. Once again you make idiotic assumptions as you people are wont to do. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/105 "2015-05-22T14:40:17Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Yea I apologize for how harsh my post sounded, sorry dasmoocher! > > I overacted because for years after Katrina, especially after hurricane Ike I had to listen to people in Houston compare their responses to losing power for a week and no ATMs or credit card readers and spotty working electrici I am so fucking tired of hearing people bitch about Katrina. Ike and Katrina were roughly comparable in terms of storm power and violence, but if New Orleans and Louisiana in general hadn’t been such a criminally negligent shithole, the people there would have been bitching about the exact same things that they bitched about in Houston and Galveston after Ike. Katrina was a wholly preventable tragedy… preventable by the New Orleans city government and the Louisiana state governments. Had Galveston and Houston been so staggeringly incompetent, we’d have seen something similar there with Ike, but we didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/106 "2015-05-22T15:00:51Z")
> [@The\_Understander](#): > > Eric Garner was strangled to death, essentially, for selling loose cigarettes. No, he died because he, a morbidly obese man in poor health, decided to physically resist the cops rather than cooperate with his arrest. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/107 "2015-05-22T15:08:03Z")
> [@The\_Understander](#): > > Cite for all protestors setting fires, stupid bitch. > > Eric Garner was strangled to death, essentially, for selling loose cigarettes. > > Once again you make idiotic assumptions as you people are wont to do. What a sad, little, unimaginative person you must be. Your lying about something doesn’t make it true. On the bright side, I’m sure there must be some Yahoo webchat that misses your input. Maybe not? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/108 "2015-05-22T15:29:56Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Man, and she still has a restraining order on you? That’s _harsh_. > > Sorry, I guess that makes me lower than **Elucidator**. It’s a fair cop. Well, maybe. I mean, sure, for a moment there, I almost dissolved into a stinky puddle of remorse and self-recrimination for what I’d done to poor, defenseless **doorhinge.** But then I thought “Hey! So far as I know, there is no such thing as a ‘Your dead Mama is so fat…!’ joke, because no one is low and mean enough!”. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/109 "2015-05-22T15:37:33Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > What a sad, little, unimaginative person you must be. Your lying about something doesn’t make it true. On the bright side, I’m sure there must be some Yahoo webchat that misses your input. Maybe not? Name-calling, the last resort of those who can’t think of anything else. I have it on good authority that it makes you look small and petty. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/110 "2015-05-22T16:03:12Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > No, he died because he, a morbidly obese man in poor health, decided to physically resist the cops rather than cooperate with his arrest. Yeah, he basically forced the cops to kill him, innit ? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/111 "2015-05-22T17:48:01Z")
Your dead Mama was so fat, had to use a circus tent for a burial shroud! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/112 "2015-05-22T17:58:37Z")
[This is your brain on Whiteness: The invisible psychology of white American ignorance explained.](http://www.salon.com/2015/05/22/this_is_your_brain_on_whiteness_the_invisible_psychology_of_white_american_ignorance_explained/) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/113 "2015-05-22T18:01:35Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > My Mom passed away several years ago. Rest her soul. ☚ If she raised you as well as bearing you, may she **not** rest in peace. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/114 "2015-05-22T18:10:38Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Most of the clients were lower-class/working-class folk. Some were actual, you know, thugs, young guys who were in and out of jail all the time. Never heard one say “thug.” I’m sorry but you are just 100% wrong on this, the concept of “thug life” has been part of the black community for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/115 "2015-05-22T21:35:48Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > I’m sorry but you are just 100% wrong on this, the concept of “thug life” has been part of the black community for a long time. Rappers and hip-hop fans are not the “black community” any more than country music fans are the “white community”. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/116 "2015-05-22T22:03:24Z")
For historic referrence > [@DigitalC](#): > > I’m sorry but you are just 100% wrong on this, the concept of “thug life” has been **part** of the black community for a long time. > [@AtomicDog](#): > > Rappers and hip-hop fans are not the “black community” any more than country music fans are the “white community”. (Underline and bold added) Ahem, “thug life” has been PART of the black community. Which is true. ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/117 "2015-05-22T23:03:33Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > For historic referrence > > (Underline and bold added) > > Ahem, “thug life” has been PART of the black community. Which is true. So I should take ownership of “thug life” because I am black? Nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/118 "2015-05-22T23:14:12Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > No, he died because he, a morbidly obese man in poor health, decided to physically resist the cops rather than cooperate with his arrest. I didn’t see physical resistance in the video. But then, you’re a well-known bootlicker when it comes to these matters, so I won’t even bother pointing out your myopia. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/119 "2015-05-22T23:18:36Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > What a sad, little, unimaginative person you must be. Your lying about something doesn’t make it true. On the bright side, I’m sure there must be some Yahoo webchat that misses your input. Maybe not? Make you a deal. I’ll go back to Yahoo when you go back to Stormfront, you shit-for-brains protofascist. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2015, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441/120 "2015-05-22T23:22:20Z")
> [@AtomicDog](#): > > So I should take ownership of “thug life” because I am black? > > Nonsense. No. You should learn to read. Reading comprehension should be your next goal. Or not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/racist-coverage-of-waco-biker-violence/720441.md?page=7)