Popovich - "we live in a racist country that hasn’t figured it out yet”

It's then irony that she is lambasting a basketball player voicing his opinion because of educational requirements while she is constantly defending a man who has a joke legacy admissions degree managing the highest office in the land .

 

Moreover those players made intelligent decisions to leave school early in order to make millions right away. If they had decided to stay in school instead that would've been the stupid thing to do. Also KD went back and got his degree at UT I am sure she doesn't know that.

Anyways, idiots like her don't deserve the attention. She is pandering to her viewers and those of Fox News. Call her an idiot and then move on.

 

What is even more hilarous is that LeBron James has a wider range of vocabulary than Donald Trump.

 

So, I don’t know you and I don’t know Popovich. Why should I give more credence to your thoughts than I do Popovich’s?

It seems you’re just talking semantics (as many of us do at times). The USA has certainly made progress since the slavery days, followed by the Jim Crow days, followed by other days, but the USA still is not where it needs to be with regards to race relations (and yes, this does apply to how blacks see whites as well).

It’s going to continue to take time. For instance, I am one generation removed from the time that Jackie Robinson was the first black player in MLB. It was still ‘acceptable’ for large numbers of people to holler out the N word and get no repercussion. That generation is still alive. My generation lived through times of blacks only fountains and bathrooms (for example). My children’s generation lived through times of blacks and other races still much less racially equal to whites. To deny that there is still racial inequality and racial issues (once again, in all directions), means that you’re ignoring what’s going on.

Yes...you are correct that opportunities exist for minorities and others have overcome the racial inequality to get good educations and good jobs and be successful.

That being said, read that previous sentence one more time and think really hard about it.

 

You forced me to go back and read the handful of posts I have made in this thread. Nowhere did I write that the USA has a long way to go. Why are you misrepresenting what I wrote?

By the way...what do you mean look forward? Do you mean looking forward to a time when race doesn’t play a part in our day to day lives?

 

No doubt that the players made the smart decision to go pro. But we as a society shouldn't assume that celebrities are intelligent regarding public policy/government and follow their lead.

 

Sorry if I seem dense, but are you saying our country needs to continue moving forward and make progress regarding race relations.

 

So to summarize, racism still exists in the USA and we need to continue to move forward and improve race relations?

 

We shouldn't assume anyone is intelligent regarding policy or that the intelligent ones are necessarily acting objectively or in good faith. Politics and policy affect everyone, college education has only been accessible to a majority of the population for a generation or so and we've had political movements and meaningful commentators long before that. I see no reason racist non-practicing lawyers and racist has been disc jockeys have more of a voice than athletes or entertainers, entertainers in particular were a generation or two ahead of the rest of the country on social issues.

 

Racism is over because Democrats keep losing. This logic turd once again brought to you by cml750.

 

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I think you may want to work on your reading comprehension because what you think I said and what I actually said are no where remotely close.

 

I'm not the grown man using infant's fables to handwave racism "cuz mah tame wun!" Keep washing yourself in the blood of Christ while your prophet's getting his own lawyers disbarred because he can't pay for his own damn whores.

 

You may want to see a therapist because you have some real issues.

 

It seems to me that both sides are kinda wrong. I think 'racist country' is taking it too far. America today is the least racist America ever, and that is just a fact. On the other hand, it seems that the other side just wants everyone to forget that this 'racism' word even exists, and denies the problem.

 

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