“If you are a teacher, be glad I am not your superintendent, for I would make it mandatory that all teachers take a karate course,” Langford said. Recalling his days as a youth, the mayor reminisced, “[Teachers] would knock the paint off your body. And when your parents came, they would finish the job . . . And it’s not against the law—it may be against man’s law to go home and knock your kids out, but it ain’t against God’s law, and God’s law takes precedent over man’s law every day!”
‘It’s child abuse to talk about spanking.’ Child abuse is taking your child to the mall and paying $200 for a pair of sneakers for a kid. That’s what child abuse is. Taking your little boys to the mall, punching holes in their heads to put earrings in ’em and them hollering, ‘Black kings wore them!’ Name one!”
“When we picked up almost 20,000 tons of garbage the first time around [during Langford’s initiative to clean up 23 communities in 23 days], and the second time around we’re picking up equally as much garbage and trash. There’s something wrong, something dreadfully wrong,” said Langford. “I hate chicken, I just absolutely don’t like chicken because of all the chicken boxes that’s thrown [out], they just drive past your house and [throw out] chicken bones . . . And this is adults doing this. We blame everything on these kids . . . They drive in front of your house, take the cigarette ashtray, open the door and pour all of the butts in the middle of the street. We need to put their little butts in jail for this nonsense. I mean, how long do we want to keep paying for the irresponsibility of people? And yet they call in here on a daily basis, ‘Will you come pick up this and pick up that.’ We just picked it up yesterday . . . You fine some of these people $2,000 to $3,000 for doing this . . . Forget the fine. It ought to be required by the courts that you ought to go out there and clean up a whole mile of where you dumped it for 30 days. That’ll stop it!”
Langford later admonished women who pursue relationships with men who mistreat them, in the process offering men a glimpse of what they’re missing because he wasn’t born a woman. “C’mon, get a life. If he mistreats you early on, don’t you kid yourself, it’s only going to continue,” Langford scolded. “Because if I was a woman—yeah, and be glad I wasn’t born one ’cause I would have been a fine little thing. Yeah, that’s right. I’d have been the kind when you’re walking down the street [that] looks like two little boys under a blanket fighting.” link here.
Take it from me, Mumblety Peggers, as one who has seen our fearless commissioner, he is the one that looks like two boys under a blanket. And it is creepy!
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it's crazy down at city hall. no doubt about it.
I don't get it. Am I supposed to be offended or alarmed by these quotes. The only thing these quotes do is endear the guy to me. I like his quotes. That is the kind of mayor I would want.
you can react however you want. I was just throwing them out there.
If he is endearing to you, you should move back to the 'ham. I am sure U-haul would love to have a rental checked in opposed to check-out.
I have said to others that Langford will either be the best thing for the city or the worse thing the city has ever seen. The latter is becoming more and more possible.
Maybe I'm mis-reading these quotes but what is so bad about tougher discipline, a rational perspective on indulging children, demanding personal responsibility, and rebuking women for making foolish choices?
You go, Larry, whoever you are.
Geez, he doesn't need to be the mayor of Birmingham, he needs to be the Superintendent of the St. Louis Public Schools! I like this guy, at least he isn't afraid to say it. He may be horrible about actually changing anything, but at least he didn't bite his tongue!
Well looky there, Paul, me and you agree about something.
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