1506: Whites With Wine

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1. 

   JohnBabyJohn

   08/19/2017 at 11:10 AM

   Have to say as a former student and current employee of Texas A&M, I also felt F’d with by the story of the white nationalist rally “scheduled” at A&M. The way the headline was written made it sound like the university scheduled the rally which – as you pointed out – was misleading. Thank you!

   You correctly noted that A&M is a public university and can’t bar anyone from scheduling or announcing the intent to rally at one of the “free-speech zones” on campus. However, the university can cancel events for compelling reasons including concerns about the safety of students, faculty, staff and the public, and that is what happened when it became clear that current and former A&M Aggies were determined to form a human “Maroon Wall,” to keep the rally organizers from even getting on campus. Anyway, now I just wanted to share a couple of other things about A&M with my fellow TBGWT listeners:

   1. Since 1989 (year after I got there) TAMU has hosted the Southwest Black Leadership Conference, a forum for African American students in the southwest to assemble, discuss, and plan action to address problems and concerns that affecting the Black community. Each January thousands of students, their advisors, nationally renowned speakers, and corporate sponsors from across the country participate.
   2. The student chapter of the NAACP here host an annual Excellence Awards event. I know how ya’ll like Black excellence and there is plenty of it at this event.
   3. In 1993, a group of students and staff members here launched Aggie ALLIES to support the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in our university community. I am a cisgender African-American male member of the group.
   4. Texas A&M is the official archive of Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate by A&M and credits A&M with having influenced his early career. (See http://today.tamu.edu/2017/07/14/game-of-thrones-and-texas-am-5-things-you-need-to-know/)

   Roland Martin is an Aggie, the Bennet brothers (NFL) are Aggies and like Biggie, I am “Black and Aggie as ever, however…I stay Gucci down to the socks!”

   Unfortunately my rings and watch are not filled with rocks because my wife is not Boo-Boo the fool. And why women always trying to make brothers have good credit?

   I digress…

   There is other stuff I could add (mostly good and some bad to be honest) but I’m stopping now to go spend time with my daughters on a Saturday. To sum up, A&M had 10,000 students graduate this past May and we are expecting 11,000 incoming freshman. Chances are some of them will be racist and some will be airdropping penis pics on the campus shuttle too. Times have changed…

   Shout out to Bomani Jones!

   We are both from Texas, had parents who worked at Prairie View, have degrees in economics and wound up in NC for a minute (I got my PhD at UNC-Chapel Hill). He is a Longhorn fan though and I can’t support that.

   Ain’t no party like an introvert party cause an introvert party don’t start!

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   alldayeveryday

   08/17/2017 at 7:46 PM

   When I saw in the show note “MC Lyte weds”, I was like to WHO??? All that to say, I too thought she was family. Probably because of the rumors we grew up with saying Will and Jada were swingers: Jada with Mc Lyte and Will with Duane Martin. Or was I the only one who heard those (fake) rumors?

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3. 

   D Ramsey PhDone

   08/17/2017 at 5:23 PM

   Auntie Kay singing “Another Job Bites the Dust” and “Another gets a Pink Slip” had me hollerin at my desk!
   #SangBaby

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4. 

   fyahworks

   08/17/2017 at 9:33 AM

   Brother Rod, let’s not let Charlotteville, kkk, neo-nazis, alt rights etc distract us from sister karen becoming one of our greatest freestylers of this generation!! #anotherpinkslip great show as always

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