Uh, oh...more fallout from the horror-fest that was NBA All-Star Wknd: Las Vegas 2007
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The stories about the crowds in town for All-Star weekend continue to be draw-dropping. And, locals don't seem ready to move on yet. Let me preface this by saying the resorts take a lot of pride in customer service. Frontline workers on the Strip are not minimum wage workers but highly compensated professionals offering a mix of obsequiousness and hard work that is meant to give every tourist the VIP experience. So, Vegas workers will put up with a lot from tourists without complaining. Casino workers rarely confront troublesome customers rather they try to soothe things over. The sad truth is that the more obnoxious tourists can often bully their way into comps and other treats meant to keep everyone happy.
But the over-the-top "thug" behavior of the All-Star NBA crowd has left in its wake a boiling fury among cocktail waitresses, bartenders, security and other jaded pros of the Strip. Among the nightclubs where incidents seem to have taken place on the Strip are hot spots at Wynn, Mandalay Bay and freestanding Empire Ballroom. Off Strip, the topless bars proved a center for problems, too. The stories range from bottles being thrown at employees to guns being confiscated. An employee at Empire told me about having to hide in the back with other workers when a melee broke out shortly after reports that a gun had found its way into the club. For the entire weekend this person reported that female bartenders and cocktail servers at Empire were routinely addressed by customers with obscenities the nicest of which rhymes with witch. I have heard similar treatment was meted out by customers to servers at Pure. Even the usually mellow Peppermill seems to have been the scene of hassles.
Of course, the incident so far getting press attention is the shooting at the strip club Minxx. That incident combines many of the factors that workers blame for the problems elsewhere: outside promoters, celebrities with large entourages and irresponsible behavior by everyone involved. The Review-Journal reports police have talked to NFL player Adam "Pacman" Jones who may have known the shooter.
In all the uproar over the tourists who came here last weekend, particularly disconcerting to the servers I interviewed was the question if race played a part in their perception of the crowd. All denied it. One worker at Empire told me: "These were thugs. It was mostly black people, yes, but this had nothing to do with race. I also got called 'slut' by a white guy with a grill. It was thug culture."
This is from a vegasblog site. Read the whitey...I mean witty remarks left by this gentleman:
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Of course 'Race' played a part in the bad behavior. When a group acts out as a group the identity of that group is a factor. Black thugs love the NBA becasue NBA basketball is a thug, steroid, HGH, gangsta game. In how many other sports do the players attack the fans? And regularly.
'He told my wife to sit her fat arse down' one black NBA thug said as his excuse for attackng a fan half his size. That the dwarf commissioner, David Stern, makes excuses all day long for his way rich and spoiled subdized league and that ex mob flak Mayor Goodman makes excuses and lies does not alter facts. The real fact is that when you see gansta black folk with bling and gold chains head for he hills cause the monkey's have de dynamite and they is a gonna use it. If you don't know that you are a liberragl about to be mugged a punk like da Mayor or an ultrarich putz like Stern.
Posted by: David Brown | February 23, 2007 at 05:49 AM
I'm seriously considering making the bolded part a sig.
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NYCRebel FML: has daughters who have a mommy, but wish another woman was their mommy, while their daddy tries to make another woman their mommy = we hope daddy stops breathing
thas fukkd up - for the most part vegas customer service is top notch - they are genuinely nice people. but i dont feel sorry for them at all - they make enough money for me not to sympathize - waitresses out there makin 100K
. but i dont feel sorry for them at all - they make enough money for me not to sympathize - waitresses out there makin 100K
What the hell that have to do with ignorant hood muhfukkas messing with you and acting like fools?
Most make that money cuz its busy as hell and they work their asses off. You dont get to stay at a resturaunt or any establishment that knows you make that kind of money without your service being damn near perfect.
My friend works somewhere in AZ and he said its a 5star spot. If someone messes up once, just once, you get the axe, no if ands or buts. Thats alot of pressure, hell of alot less than the president has to worry about
yall are weak minded. if somebody looks down on blacks because a bunch of black people were acting ignorant then fukk them. why should I feel uncomfortable or bad because some dudes who share my skin tone are out of control?
I hate that THEY MAKE US LOOK BAD shyt. white people do devilish shyt all the time. if we shytted on their whole race whenever a few of them acted up we would hate all whites.
and if u wanna be real, these thug problems started because of fukked shyt whites did in the past. so stop crying like b1tches and being so fukking scary all the time and be happy we built this country for free.
poor blacks have to be around these people everyday so why should I give a fukk that some ignorant sheltered fukkers are uncomfortable? I grew up around that shyt everyday, rich white folks have to deal with it for 48 hours and they're crying and overexaggerating.
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Originally Posted by doeboy
Since you idiots like to quote Superhead so much, don't leave out where she said Jay-Z was packing. Maybe Jay satisfied Nas' baby mother in ways Nas never could. How you like that lil boy?
yall are weak minded. if somebody looks down on blacks because a bunch of black people were acting ignorant then fukk them. why should I feel uncomfortable or bad because some dudes who share my skin tone are out of control?
its an exageration, ppl don't look down on all blacks because of this incident, most ppl can see the differences.
I hate that THEY MAKE US LOOK BAD shyt. white people do devilish shyt all the time. if we shytted on their whole race whenever a few of them acted up we would hate all whites.
well, you see thats the thing, thats the whole "whites are the devils" or "crakkas can't do anything right" BS comes from, its a 2 way street and its VERY evident in this very forum you are posting in
and if u wanna be real, these thug problems started because of fukked shyt whites did in the past. so stop crying like b1tches and being so fukking scary all the time and be happy we built this country for free.
NO ONE is making these dudes act like thugs, give me a fukkin break and quit being an apologists for these ignorant fools
poor blacks have to be around these people everyday so why should I give a fukk that some ignorant sheltered fukkers are uncomfortable? I grew up around that shyt everyday, rich white folks have to deal with it for 48 hours and they're crying and overexaggerating.
and why shouldn't they cry? why shouldn't YOU cry aboutit?
why should ANYONE have to tolerate this nonsense. just because you do doens't mean everyone else should . why don't you speak up about it??
try to make a change .
sounds like you do you fair share of "crying and exagerating"
I hate racist people, but what I hate the most is the igonorant black "I'ma gangsta/I'll die for my hood" people. Gives the rest of us a bad name.
they're the reason racism is still alive. At least in a white black sense. Ive met plenty of great black people, but I cant get passed these idiots, thats why i sometimes come across as "racist." Sure, I'll listen to their music and watch them do $hit for entertainment, but they are terrible people
I didn't call whites devils or crackers (i don't call them crackers). I said some whites do devilish things, but that doesn't make good white people say damn he's making us look bad
and if you don't think the shyt whites did to us in the past is the reason for this thug shyt then I don't know what to say to you. I'm gonna just respectfully disagree with you
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Originally Posted by doeboy
Since you idiots like to quote Superhead so much, don't leave out where she said Jay-Z was packing. Maybe Jay satisfied Nas' baby mother in ways Nas never could. How you like that lil boy?
they're the reason racism is still alive. At least in a white black sense. Ive met plenty of great black people, but I cant get passed these idiots, thats why i sometimes come across as "racist." Sure, I'll listen to their music and watch them do $hit for entertainment, but they are terrible people
this is what I'm talking about. you say thugs are the reason racism is still alive. you are the dumbest motherfukker on this board. thugs don't control shyt. you say you've met lots of great blacks and a few terrible ones but you let the bad outweigh the good. you're a coward looking for excuses.
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Originally Posted by doeboy
Since you idiots like to quote Superhead so much, don't leave out where she said Jay-Z was packing. Maybe Jay satisfied Nas' baby mother in ways Nas never could. How you like that lil boy?
they're the reason racism is still alive. At least in a white black sense. Ive met plenty of great black people, but I cant get passed these idiots, thats why i sometimes come across as "racist." Sure, I'll listen to their music and watch them do $hit for entertainment, but they are terrible people
It's the stereotypes that they live out and refuse to change their attitudes about which makes it harder for the black people that don't live like that or condone that sh1t. We get lumped in together with them, cause we look/dress alike even though we have totally different agendas
Fukk the "I'll die for the hood" mentality
I'm happy I'm out the hood.....suburban life is great.
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