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Is Carmelo A "Thug"?


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Is Carmelo A "Thug"?
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TheloniusMonk
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3/6/2011  3:44 PM
There are so many ignorant and uneducated definitions and understandings in this thread until it is amazing. Not everyone, a select few. Ignorance comes in all races, countries, classes etc. The ignorant person is usually the last to recognize it in themselves.
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3/6/2011  4:10 PM
martin wrote:
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MooK wrote:This thread is sure to get someone banned...and no, Carmelo is not a thug. He's hood, but he's not a thug. There is a difference...

I'm not the first by any means to use the term "thug" on this forum. I just created a new thread to increase a discussion that had occurred in another thread about the character of a player who we've committed max dollars to for four years.

I donno bonn, without some setup and context and forethought, this is about the most useless way to start discussion.

Useless based on what criteria? Obviously not based on the amount of discussion it generated!

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3/6/2011  4:11 PM
misterearl wrote:Mo' money, mo' resentment?

bonn1997 - Why are the max dollars connected to any perceived issues of character?


They are connected to the importance of his character for obvious reasons.
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3/6/2011  4:23 PM
Solace wrote:Why would you make a thread like this? Are you implying the term thug is purely a racist term? Just would like to understand what the motivation was, because I'm not sure I get it.

It was an interesting discussion that started in the middle of another thread and I wanted to see what the actual thoughts of the forum were.

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3/6/2011  4:33 PM
It is better to say Melo have tiger blood and is going to slay anyone who defends him on the basketball court. It is the winning way.
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3/6/2011  5:41 PM
The top 3 definitions of "thug" from the Urban Dictionary

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=thug

1) As Tupac defined it, a thug is someone who is going through struggles, has gone through struggles, and continues to live day by day with nothing for them. That person is a thug. and the life they are living is the thug life. A thug is NOT a gangster. Look up gangster and gangsta. Not even CLOSE, my friend. "That boy ain't a gangsta, fo'sho'. Look at how he walks, he's a thug. life. That's the saddest face I've seen in all my life as a teen."
by thyung 2959 up, 836 down

2) To be a true thug doesnt mean wearing "bling", listening to rap and talking "black". Being a gangsta isn't superficial.. To be a true thug means you haven't had it good your whole life, and you intend to change that, and get out of the ghetto if thats where you are, you do whats right, you dont take ****e from anyone, and stand up for your friends and dont let them take **** from anyone! You dont have to be a stereotypical "gangsta" to be a thug, a skater can be a thug, a nerd can be a thug, a hick can be a thug, a prep can be a thug, and old ass man can be a thug! So forget your stupid f--king stereotypes and thinking that everybody has to fit into one group, and be labeled. And i'll tell you what... Damn it feels good to be a gangster!
Tupac Shakur and Earl Simmons are true thugs.
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3) Someone who had nothing, and was nothing, and became something.
You can all call me a thug, but thats cause i was in the gutter, and im still here. - Tupac Shakur
by Eric Doll 1230 up, 719 down


Using # 1, he wouldn't be a thug...

Using # 2 & 3 he just might be one.

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3/7/2011  8:01 AM
Melo is not even close to a thug.
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3/7/2011  9:09 AM
so is this old guy a thug or a gangsta or gangster?????? i'm sooo confused

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3/7/2011  9:28 AM
More like out of his mind.
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3/7/2011  11:57 AM
jimimou wrote:so is this old guy a thug or a gangsta or gangster?????? i'm sooo confused

he's a tough old guy.

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3/7/2011  11:58 AM
Allanfan20 wrote:More like out of his mind.

why out of mind? because he defend himself?

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3/7/2011  12:35 PM
jimimou wrote:so is this old guy a thug or a gangsta or gangster?????? i'm sooo confused

that camera guy should have a job at CNN covering the Middle East/North Africa revolts... that's crazy!

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3/7/2011  4:32 PM
jimimou wrote:so is this old guy a thug or a gangsta or gangster?????? i'm sooo confused

as george carlin would say.. he's an old ****.

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3/7/2011  4:47 PM
Ok so...."tough" for a white guy, "thug" or "hood" for a black guy. Got it.
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3/7/2011  5:44 PM
TheloniusMonk wrote:Ok so...."tough" for a white guy, "thug" or "hood" for a black guy. Got it.

in the case of this video, ABSOLUTELY.

it's pretty hood to attack an old man. it's pretty tough for this old man to fight off a hood attacking him.

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3/8/2011  2:30 PM
Hood or a thug?
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3/9/2011  7:34 AM    LAST EDITED: 3/9/2011  7:40 AM
neither. a usually placid, low iq tv zombie.

not a threat to the general public. that's the difference.

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3/9/2011  12:29 PM
Interesting. So Carmelo Anthony is a threat to the general public?
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3/9/2011  4:58 PM
it's plausible. plaxico comes to mind. i don't know how many gats melo be totin'.
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