OTD 1987- The racism in America's pastime was out in the open for all to see
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Deplorable.
And some people say we are not a much better society in 2024. Smh
And some people say we are not a much better society in 2024. Smh
There are still millions of Americans who think similarly
Many on the Bball board.
That was around the same time a reporter asked Doug Williams how long he’d been a black quarterback.
Other than curtisj, who?
Pointing out that players in the list of top 100 seniors or in the NBA are mostly black is not racist. No white person or any other skin color is denied an equal opportunity to compete.
Also around the same time ( 1988) Jimmy the Greek gave his thoughts on why African Americans are superior athletes.
What is the point of anyone resurrecting this 37 year old clip?
I bet I can find a few posts of yours crying about “erasing history” when statues of losers like Robert E Lee get taken down. You’re a history buff, aren’t you?
What is the point of you replying to the post that resurrected the event?
This is rich, coming from one of the board's top "anti-cancel culture" advocates.
People are still idiots sadly.
When my wife I first dating eight years ago, I was surprised to be suddenly lectured about black people by white folks. The nerve of some people.
One guy I went to high school with and had known for 25 years went on a lecture on how brain injuries were killing football.
‘Yeah, with all these new head injuries and brain trauma, you’re going to see a ton of kids quitting football. Twenty years from now, only kids with half a brain will be playing the game. White kids will quit the game in droves so it leaves kids with half a brain. So it will all just be blacks playing the game.”
Guy was an engineer…..
When my wife I first dating eight years ago, I was surprised to be suddenly lectured about black people by white folks. The nerve of some people.
One guy I went to high school with and had known for 25 years went on a lecture on how brain injuries were killing football.
‘Yeah, with all these new head injuries and brain trauma, you’re going to see a ton of kids quitting football. Twenty years from now, only kids with half a brain will be playing the game. White kids will quit the game in droves so it leaves kids with half a brain. So it will all just be blacks playing the game.”
Guy was an engineer…..
Archie Bunker did so a decade earlier…….they have that extra bone in their foot. Science has spoken.
Students at Iowa city west called me the n word plenty in the 80s. My favorite was some idiot calling me Cambodian haha. Dude needed a map I guess. One racist even won a MacArthur genius later in life. Teachers and administrators ignored it. In those days, I'm pretty sure we had maybe 5 black students in my graduating class, maybe less and maybe 4 Indian students. There are of course no bigots in Iowa and everything is Iowa nice.
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My Indian fraternity bro from Toronto has similar stories from when he first moved to Tallahassee in 1983. Some rednecks in a pickup truck chased him as he was walking to his off campus dorm. He heard the N word plenty of times.
People sometimes wonder why I'm not an Iowa homer even though I live in Iowa. It's because of these type of experiences. So in some ways, I was happy South Carolina stuck it to them. Those South Carolina players or their parents have probably experienced what I have, and thus we, minorities, neither trust or keep white people close. Ironically, my uncle married a white Iowan and their kids are interracial. No one would rent to them in Iowa City in the early 60s and they had to live in a garage.
I see you didn’t answer the question but you love to deflect. What’s the point of the post? To judge someone 37 years ago by today’s standards? We are all guilty of saying stupid stuff. What’s the point of rehashing stupid comments from 37 years ago? If all things that could be discussed or brought up, OP wants to bring up 37 year old race comment?
Maybe. Do you think America is more racist now than 40 years ago? I guess it’s all about perspective and how you view America.
I know this, if you keep bringing up 40 year old comments, it’s hard to move on and make the world a better place.
As Morgan Freeman said about race in his interview, “stop talking about it.”
Good question.
Honestly in some ways, it's more racist. Look at the comments on social media when you can post anonymously. Look at what Trump says versus when what Ronald Reagan said. Same political party. Biden doesn't get a free pass either. He's said vile things about people like me who apparently run only 7/11 stores.
Personally I think people are more nuanced in their racism and better at hiding it because of the repercussions that Campanis, Cosell, and others received. Limbaugh suffered repercussions but went on to fine tune his racism and he had tens of millions of fans because he used acceptable words.
I lived in the self described “New South”, for four years. As far as I can tell that meant they only broke out the N word when they figured you could be trusted.
Many of them hid it from everyone for decades. TRUMP liberated them and made it ok to be openly racist again.
And Trump and MAGAism has made it possible for ignorance to be a viable excuse.
