Serena Williams crip-walks after winning Olympic gold. Crass or class?

by Heisenberg Posted 2012/08/05 17:54:09

Related Topics: Olympics, Sports, Gold, Serena Williams, Dance, Tennis, Crip Walk, Walking

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	Crass	104 votes	60%
	Class	69 votes	40%

The Crip Walk, also known as the C-Walk, is a dance move that originated in the early 1970s by Crip gang members from the Compton suburb of Los Angeles, California.

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Serena blows her golden moment by Crip-Walking in front of royalty.

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Heisenberg 2012/08/05 18:00:53 (edited)

Crass

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Yet another milestone in the decline of the USA.

Liberals will say 'so what?' without any knowledge of what the c-walk stands for.

The crips are a criminal organization built on murder, robbery an intimidation that have oppressed predominantly black neighborhoods through massive violence.

For Compton's most famous woman to celebrate this criminal organization is depressing.

Appropriately enough:

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Heisenberg to C-ZAR™,... 2012/08/06 00:37:23

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Irrelevant.

The sig heil has been absorbed into white supremacist music culture.

You OK if Phelps were to sig heil after his victories?

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C-ZAR™,... to Heisenberg 2012/08/06 00:48:43

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You're going to compare a dance to a KNOWN gesture of Hate?
For all you know, Crips started the dance in clubs where Crips may frequent

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Heisenberg to C-ZAR™,... 2012/08/06 00:55:29

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What's the difference between the two.

Two murderous groups except one was obliterated, the other is still around killing people.

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C-ZAR™,... to Heisenberg 2012/08/06 03:00:20

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Because nobody gives enough of a damn to do anything, just hopefully hoping they wipe each other out

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Heisenberg to C-ZAR™,... 2012/08/06 17:33:26

Well you happen to be chatting with someone who spent years 'doing something'.

The heart of the gang problem is the gang culture. Wipe out the gang culture and the problem goes away.

You start by not glorifying gangs.

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Torchma... to C-ZAR™,... 2012/08/06 12:57:03

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Both are part of the leftwing culture.

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C-ZAR™,... to Torchma... 2012/08/06 13:53:44

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There are gangs in right-wing culture as well

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Heisenberg to C-ZAR™,... 2012/08/06 17:34:16

Not in the American right. The American right hates gangs unless you see civil war re-enacting as a gang.

Societies maybe. I love historical societies.

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Shadow_Wolf 2012/08/05 20:53:18

Class

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Your taking it out of context, maybe you see it as the Crip Walk, however she might have just been dancing. Unless she put up a crip gang sign after she did the dance, I would have a complaint. If I put up the famous illuminati hand sign (I hope most of you know what it is for this hypothetical situation) most people would assume I'm part of the stupid illuminati. However my situation I am actually blocking out the sun to get clearer vision of something (extremely bad example I know). Never the less there are still many situation where people just take things out of context and don't actually ask the people themselves. PS that tv was a potato

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seadog6608PWCM 2012/08/05 20:47:05
tblackb 2012/08/05 20:37:56 (edited)

Crass

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perhaps inappropriate for the moment. she is from compton. why can't it just be part of her heritage like so many people in the south claim the confederate flag is part of theirs?

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bodaishinboy 2012/08/05 20:34:20

Class

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There should really be a "Whoopty Freak'n Do" option. She was dancing. That's all.

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Miss Capri 2012/08/05 20:30:13

Class

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Oh, get a life! It's her gold, let her dance! It's not going to burn the eyes of the royals to see that, and they are not the ones who won anything. If you ask me, that ridiculous James Bond stunt the queen lent her image to was incredibly tacky. James Bond? Really? If the queen can be seen with James Bond, it won't hurt the royals any to see Serena Williams express her excitement at winning gold. It's not like she strips, or tosses pies, or anything like that. Let her have her moment, people and stop looking for things to make a huge deal out of. Gah!

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Georgia50 2012/08/05 20:24:36

Crass

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Had to go with crass although I've never heard of the crip walk until now. Wiki states that MTV at one time refused to air any video that contained the c-walk due to its nexus with gang violence, so I'm erring on the crass side unless someone posts some mitigating circumstances.

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selena costa 2012/08/05 20:14:39 (edited)

Class

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She was happy and playing around. Why judge her. You guys are just jerks acting like u would do anything different.

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sherdon2 2012/08/05 19:55:21

Crass

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Is she a gang member?

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Heisenberg to sherdon2 2012/08/05 20:00:27

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No and no claim was made to that effect by me.

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C-ZAR™,... to Heisenberg 2012/08/05 21:58:03

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Then what's the big deal?

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sherdon2 to Heisenberg 2012/08/05 22:25:32

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And..I never suggested you or anyone else did. I was only asking a question. Many people come from all walks of life so I did not know. How does anyone know she knew or thought it was the C dance I just thought she was doing steps to the ole' Bop.Serious question...what makes these steps the C dance?Ignorant on on gang signs.
Have a Blessed Day.

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Simi Dave 2012/08/05 19:42:31

Crass

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Actually, aside from not doing anything after a huge win, seriously, how many people knew this was anything beyond a "happy dance"? I find the crassness more in doing a happy dance than the C-dance. Again, who knew???

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Heisenberg to Simi Dave 2012/08/06 00:38:53

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Most people in Compton knew and those of us with knowledge of gang culture knew.

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Simi Dave to Heisenberg 2012/08/06 21:39:10

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Sorry, Art. I gotta go with much ado about nothing on this one. A rare instance of our disagreement.

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Heisenberg to Simi Dave 2012/08/06 22:03:40

You are aware of her comments to reporters and that her sister was murdered by crips?

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Simi Dave to Heisenberg 2012/08/07 19:21:13

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no. I wasn’t. I knew she was murdered back in, like ’03, but did not know it was a gang thing. I still don’t feel offended by the particular dance, per my first comment, but I am surprised that she would do a crip-y kind of thing, seeing as they killed her sister.

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Heisenberg to Simi Dave 2012/08/08 01:49:08

Being offended is an emotion and I don't worry about offending people.

I worry about promoting a murderous group of thugs.

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Jim A 2012/08/05 19:30:24
C-ZAR™,... to Jim A 2012/08/05 21:59:22

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No Insult, Pride, can't we have any?

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Pamela ... to C-ZAR™,... 2012/08/05 23:46:05

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JERK! Get a life you looney liberal.

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C-ZAR™,... to Pamela ... 2012/08/06 00:08:26

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What does politics have to do with this thread?
Why should blacks have to kiss your ass just to gain your acceptance?

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Pamela ... to C-ZAR™,... 2012/08/06 10:33:08

They don't , but my opinion was it was not class. These days is seems you want us to kiss your BUTT.

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C-ZAR™,... to Pamela ... 2012/08/06 13:55:28

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Wrong, just stop worrying about everything we do

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Heisenberg to C-ZAR™,... 2012/08/06 00:39:53

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Yet another inappropriate gesture but at least this one had a little substance.

You don't politicize the games even when the issue of civil rights is valid.

What Williams did had no substance, no point, just a witless celebration of gang culture.

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C-ZAR™,... to Heisenberg 2012/08/06 00:51:26

It was just a dance

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Heisenberg to C-ZAR™,... 2012/08/06 00:56:10

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Just like this is just a salute.

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C-ZAR™,... to Heisenberg 2012/08/06 02:18:54

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The Crip walk doesn't have origins in hate, not the same

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jean to C-ZAR™,... 2012/08/06 02:58:46

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Yes it does and a lot of killing and terror too.

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C-ZAR™,... to jean 2012/08/06 05:13:50

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The organization itself does, how does the dance?

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jean to C-ZAR™,... 2012/08/06 13:18:35

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Crips have a history of and continue to shed a lot of African American blood and love to brag about it.

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C-ZAR™,... to jean 2012/08/06 13:56:57

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Is the dance part of the bragging?
Do they Crip-walk on peoples graves??

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Heisenberg to C-ZAR™,... 2012/08/06 17:35:23

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Yes actually.

The cwalk is an extension of throwing gang signs or making gang calls.

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