Soo much uproar over the MA cop with the WHY-TEE Licence Plate...WELL GUESS WHAT!

[xultar]

A very special friend of mine sent me the background information on the picture.
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His name is Mike “Whitey” Daniluk. He grew up in the multi-cultural projects in cambridge, was given the nickname by the other kids. It’s a common nickname in MA. He spends a lot of his time volunteering in teen centers, etc. He’s not a racist. Just a guy nicknamed whitey by his friends because his hair was so light.


I can't wait for the Xultar is a racist apologist aka Uncle Tom replies to posts so bring it on. I can take it.

I hadn't plan to start a thread today but sometimes you just gotta. You just can't control those lying "alleged animal care" workers

And to you lurkers peace and love to you.

[sui generis]

1. snork

:hi:

you nailed that - when they can't call you a racist they call you a racist apologist, on DU!

with friends like that who needs enemas.

[Schema Thing]

2. Information is cool

I know a lot more when I know a lot more.

[hedgehog]

3. Now, if his plate had been "why tpwr" or some such, then people

would have had a complaint.


I'm waiting for the post condemning JFK for nominating Whizzer White to the Supreme Court.

[BlooInBloo]

4. lol!

[WilliamPitt]

5. "Whitey" is a real rare nickname here in Boston, too

http://i.cdn.turner.com/trutv/trutv.com/graphics/photos/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/james_whitey_bulger/8-2-Whitey-Bulger,-1994-mug200.jpg

Um...

[MADem]

6. HA!!!!!! That was one of my guesses!!!

I said that unless he was a blond as a kid and nicknamed Whitey, he's got trouble!

It is a common nickname, not just in Boston but among northern Europeans of English speaking heritage across the country. Beaver Cleaver had a friend named Whitey.

It's usually a nickname given to children (who often keep the name long after their hair color changes) who are platinum blonds as kids. Many, like Mister Bulger, keep the name into adulthood!

Edit to add a blurb on the sad life of "Whitey Whitney" from LITB:

Whitey from Leave It To Beaver





Stanley Fafara was born September 20, 1949 and grew up around Studio City, California. His mother wanted him to be an actor and so he landed work in commercials, "Rin Tin Tin", "Wanted: Dead Or Alive", and the role of Whitey Whitney in "Leave It To Beaver". When Beaver left his teacher's classroom with a note to bring home to Ward and June, Whitey had the first line spoken in the show, "What did she do to you, Beaver?". "Leave It To Beaver" aired originally from 1957-1963 on CBS and ABC.
But Whitey Whitney's life during "Leave It To Beaver" and Stanley Fafara's life after that show, were entirely different.

During his teenage years, he was drinking and doing drugs. By the age of 22, he started dealing drugs.

In the 1980s, Stanley was breaking into pharmacies and was sentenced to a year in jail for burglary. When he got out, he resumed drug dealing to support his habit and worked some jobs.

In the 1990s, he moved to Portland and wanted to leave the drug world. But he descended into being a junkie. After life in a rented motel room and then the streets, he put himself into a detox center in 1995.

He became clean and sober, moving into a halfway house for recovering addicts and alcoholics. Later, living near Skid Row, Social Security checks helped him barely get by until he went into the hospital.

Wanting to get back into show business, Fafara took some acting classes near the end but it didn't work out.

Stanley Fafara had surgery to repair a constricted intestine caused by a hernia. In a Portland, Oregon hospital, he died of complications from that surgery on September 20, 2003.. . . .


http://www.geocities.com/alcus2/fafara.html

[elocs]

40. Thanks for the info on Stanley Fafara. One of those "what ever happend to..."

I loved watching "Leave it to Beaver" as a kid.

[imdjh]

7. Get whitey

[Caliman73]

8. Xultar is a....

Nah couldn't do it. Once racial tension is in the news, everything takes on that air of "racism". I think that Crowley had something to do with race, but less so than a case of "RESPECT MY ATHORITA!" The Boston cop Jarrett is definitely about race. That guy is an asshole. The license plate sounds like it is just a license plate.

[louis-t]

9. 'member Whitey Ford? I know a guy named Whitey Stone.

I don't think it's as common as it used to be. I had a caddymaster when I was a teen who couldn't remember anyone's name, so the light-haired guys were "Whitey", the skinny guys were "Slim", and the big guys were "Tiny". The "Tiny" thing was kind of degrading, but the caddymaster was a pretty big guy too.

[MADem]

15. See my blurb about "Whitey Whitney"--Beaver Cleaver's pal--upthread.

"Tiny" used to be common for big guys way back when, too. It wasn't viewed as degrading either--it was viewed as "ironic." Of course, back then obesity wasn't as common.

[louis-t]

29. Wow, I never knew his last name.

Whitey, not the Beav.

[rateyes]

17. And, St. Louis Cardinals baseball manager Whitey Herzog?

Best there ever was, IMO.

[louis-t]

28. Oh, yeah. Forgot about him.

[endarkenment]

10. you are begging for it

but no, my first take on it was 'duh' whitey is a real common boston area nickname.

[xultar]

12. I'm into eS&M i guess.

[Ignis]

32. That's it, I'm going to fax you a spanking!

:spank:

[Starry Messenger]

11. I'm glad you started it.

I had just heard this as well. :thumbsup: His friends are going to bat for him in the comments section on Gawker, too. He sounds like good people.

[xultar]

13. Temptation to get caught up in the outrage over powers calm reflection on DU.

I thought we didn't do that.

[Greybnk48]

14. My Dad's nickname was "whitey" because of his white blonde hair also.

No racism involved.

[havocmom]

16. Xultar is one of DU's best

Thanks for posting this info, it's very helpful. Now, get outta the way of all the jerking knees! Don't want you to get hurt. :hug:

[xultar]

18. Nah...I just don't mind getting an ass kicking a day. Loosens the cellulite.

[havocmom]

21. LOL

I keep mine loose by falling down a lot. Not enough people care to kick me.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

34. Get OUR OF MY HEAD!!!

GMTA .................

[eleny]

19. I appreciate an honest and true back story

Thanks, hon!

[gmoney]

20. "Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey; see a doctor and get rid of it."

Words to live by.

[BlooInBloo]

22. I only recall 1 thread about that, with 20-30 replies. Is that the uproar you're referring to?

Or was there something more?

[xultar]

30. You know I gotta exaggerate. I get that from my grandma on my mama's side.

[BlooInBloo]

31. Gotcha.

[DefenseLawyer]

23. Well that's what happens when there is a history of racial problems in your city

or your police department- your innocent nickname license plate takes on a whole new possible meaning. I think it was a stretch for anyone to assume this guy was making some overtly racist statement with his vanity plate, still when your colleagues are engaged in questionable behavior again and again regarding race, people are naturally going to look twice at something like that.

[BlooInBloo]

35. Except that it didn't happen. There was no uproar on DU.

[DefenseLawyer]

38. Point taken

Although obviously people did look twice at the picture.

[TheCowsCameHome]

24. Does Whitey Bulger know about this?

He holds the franchise, you know.

:rofl:

[dysfunctional press]

25. don't forget my friend whitey mcwhite...

http://myspaceprofiles.org/profiles/6215342.html

[texastoast]

26. I named one of my Pyrenees Whtey

He was just all white, unusual for a Pyr and unlike his siblings.

I might name something Red, Brownie, Blackie, or Old Blue. I had a black cat named Spooky (she was born on Halloween). Oh, shit. I'm in trouble now.

[proteus_lives]

27. Thanks for the info!

I don't want to call ya anything. :hi:

[rvablue]

33. Thanks for posting the facts. n/t

[Joe Fields]

36. Hey, you just call'em as you see 'em.

Peace and love...

:toast:

[left coaster]

37. I hear ya!

Growing up outside L.A. in the 60's, there were a set of towheaded twins of Scandinavian ancestry in my neighborhood.. we called them Whitey and Brighty, respectively.. because of their hair color, you see..

[CoffinEd]

39. Why-tee license plate equals Uproar?

Not sure how "common" the nickame "whitey" is up this way in Boston (at least among us black folks), but I suppose Dan Quayle was correct when he said (and I paraphrase), "A mind is a terrible thing to lose, or not have have all."

In my humble opinion, this was surely a no-brainer. Must be a generational gap or something.

By the way, I'm a transplanted southerner who has resided in Massachusetts for most of his life and is married to a woman who was born and raised in one of the "multi-cultural" (I prefer the term "multi-ethnic" instead) projects in Cambridge.

[TheKentuckian]

41. I totally missed this hubbub

It sounds really stupid, though. I'm thinking a white bigot wouldn't go with "whitey" as a way of pumping his cause as I've never heard it used that way as anything but a slam.

Some might want to turn down the "sensitivity meter" a bit and I'm nearly polar opposite to Crowley taint licker.

[BlooInBloo]

43. We all missed it. It didn't happen. There was no DU uproar about this.

[KamaAina]

42. My sardonic guess was that he just didn't like golf very much

"Why tee?" :P

[jeff30997]

44. K&R

Thanks a lot for the info. :thumbsup: