Congrats on the weight loss!

I was able to lose 30 lbs with intermittent fasting and moderate exercise. I was a 255 lb male and now I weigh 225. I joined my kids’ taekwondo classes and did that for a hour, once or twice a week. That was really my only cardio exercise, but it was pretty intense. I would also do 50 situps and 50 pushups a day. …

I just wanted to take a moment to tell you that you should go eat a bag of dicks, you ignorant fuck. Sassinak may be above getting down in the gutter - I clearly am not.

If you notice, my initial response to you was: lets agree to disagree.. There is no hypocrisy with my statement.

You my friend are dealing in absolutes..

I fear we won’t agree because you are presupposing a mindset on both the author and the readers.. And while I’m sure some of the readers are taking this exactly as you say... I don’t believe the majority are as you describe.

I have noticed that.. I fear some people are so blinded by someone calling out our differences as “Racist” that they fail to see as painful as it may be, there is some truth in what he said.. I don’t condone his actions or even the manner of expression.. but lets not pretend these things don’t occur.

Being that you clearly already have stereotypes and judgements of a specific race in Valdosta, I would call you no different than Bennett. Or wait.. yours are just playful observations while his are ignorant views, right? Please.

I once saw a couple smoking meth in the bed of their pickup while listening to Three 6 Mafia, which had a massive confederate flag. The couple proceeded to say, ‘he drives wunnadem Chargers. Porch monkeys love them Chargers.’ This was next to a Piggly Wiggly on a Thursday evening.

I think we are arguing two different items.. your argument appears to stem from the notion that black people, lack a voice/platform to express our truth (and if that voice expresses “truth” then its belittled as being “racist”). That is a separate but correct arguement.

Then lets agree to disagree.. I would rather reserve the label of “racist” to larger issues (so the impact remains high) as opposed to labeling it on a 2 bit journalist writing for a 1.5 bit rag about his train ride.

I don’t even know how to comment regarding your “Your writing style is very douchey” comment.

If having, sharing, and acting on racist stereotypes isn’t racist, then I don’t know what the fuck would be.

Quite true.. in a balanced and truly objective discussion about race, it should be about all how ALL the races are dealing with it.. (the white flight you described, the getto’ism of Buford Hwy, the redlining, the economic inequality, etc...

I believe what I said was:

I wouldn’t call it racist unless he started with preconceived (negative) expectations. And since we don’t know that.. I am hesitant to call him and the piece racist, simply because he’s drawing attention to the facts of the situation. Everything else is us applying a filter to his actions. (for good or bad).

You know.. he’s not wrong..

Would you rather have one hour of free time now or seven extra hours at the end of your life?

So, if I start running now and never stop... I should live forever.

I’m more of an athletic tape guy myself. Also, when I told my wife that my nipples hurt for a while after my first marathon, she replied, “And I breast fed our two children, so kindly shut the hell up.” I’m generally more of a dumbass than I wish to admit, but in this case, I did indeed shut the hell up.