Racism - Forever and Always

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by argentine soccer fan, Oct 25, 2023.

  1. russ

    russ Member+

    Feb 26, 1999
    Canton,NY
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    They'd have to get up too early on a Monday.
     
  2. Graduated from the law school of the trvmp university.
    Not implying stanfoord etc are any better, though.
    American universities are geared to produce people, in their law schools, not about ethics and justice, but in finding loopholes in the laws for their co alumni from the mba branches to run businesses with as less as possible considerations for health and well being of their customers and employees.
     
  3. MattR

    MattR Member+

    Jun 14, 2003
    Reston
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    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It's called Capitalism, duh.
     
  4. soccernutter

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    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
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    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Even he wouldn't dare put Jr on the court.
     
  5. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Guinness

    Apr 10, 1999
    Columbus
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #1055 Kryptonite, Apr 25, 2025
    Last edited: Apr 25, 2025
    Which Black man will be inspected and then selected to break bones for the rich white man? (That sounds like a Zack de la Rocha lyric.)

    It's all the rage now on ABC, ESPN and NFL Network.

    It'd probably be better without the NFL Draft, but the developmental system ship sailed decades ago. Those players don't *have* to sign up, but the parallels between slave auctions and American sports drafts are definitely present.
     
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  6. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
    Apr 1, 2002
    The back of the bus
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    Atlanta
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    Some who watch Bugs Bunny
    Are the same who hoard money

    Zack could have said a lot these past few months, but he burned it all up not taking clear sides when he had the chance to support a Dem platform.
     
  7. Smurfquake

    Smurfquake Moderator

    Aug 8, 2000
    San Carlos, CA
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    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I haven't been watching, but there's a lot on BlueSky that shows up in my feed. I guess Deion Sanders' kid didn't shuck and jive with the appropriate amount of deference, so he got passed over in the first three rounds?
     
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  8. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
  9. Val1

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    Arsenal
    Mar 12, 2004
    MD's Eastern Shore
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    SD summarized it pretty well in the Sports thread. Sanders was trying to game where he would go, and apparently he played the clown in a couple of interviews for teams he didn't want to play for. He also didn't attend the NFL combine, hosting his own event which was reportedly pretty lackluster. He tried to out-glitz the NFL with his own draft party.

    If a GM didn't think Sanders was going to actually have a chance of winning the starting spot, Sanders didn't give the impression of a guy who was going to do the hard work.
     
  10. russ

    russ Member+

    Feb 26, 1999
    Canton,NY
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    Liverpool FC
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    United States
    His reward is going to the one place where he might be QB1-Cleveland.
     
  11. KCbus

    KCbus Moderator
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    United States
    Nov 26, 2000
    Reynoldsburg, OH
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  12. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
    Apr 1, 2002
    The back of the bus
    Club:
    Atlanta
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    Depending on where she lived, $300K won't do her a lot of good. Besides, this could be a few major donors. Think of the number of Christian organizations waiting to help out Becky With The Courage Of Her Convictions. They'll waive the tuition so her spawn can soil the air at some private school, but her a new Tesler, that sort of thing.

    Should have remembered she had a family before she displayed her mainstream conservatiam, tho. They ain't off limits, despite what soccertrout probably thinks.
     
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  13. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
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    Chicago Fire
  14. soccernutter

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    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    You might have made a good point, but since you insist on doing this ********ery, your point(s) get lost. Too bad, because when you don't do this ********ery, you actually have interesting and thoughtful things to say about race.
     
  15. soccernutter

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    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
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    Tottenham Hotspur FC
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    United States
    Thanks for repping him.
     
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  16. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Guinness

    Apr 10, 1999
    Columbus
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    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  17. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
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    Chicago Fire
    Apparently went into skim mode. Didn’t connect the nickname to you, either.
     
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  18. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
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    Chicago Fire
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GiveSendGo

    Perhaps.

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  19. Over here in the EU banks would throw out these people/organisations in fear of being fined for not preventing support of terrorism etc. These fines are huges. Without a bank account living becomes a struggle.
     
  20. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Gee, it would be such a shame if the folks wherever she moves to drive her out of there too.

    Make her live in Couer d’Alene.
     
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  21. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
    Apr 1, 2002
    The back of the bus
    Club:
    Atlanta
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    My only point in saying this ********ery is that y'all reached out and got played. And it'll happen again. Nothing to do with race.
     
  22. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
    Apr 1, 2002
    The back of the bus
    Club:
    Atlanta
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
  23. KCbus

    KCbus Moderator
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    United States
    Nov 26, 2000
    Reynoldsburg, OH
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Speaking of Kyle Rittenhouse...

    IMG_1696.JPG I know nothing about the Karmelo Anthony case except the bare minimum. I get in enough shouting matches on the internet as it is. But when I do decide to learn something about it, I won't be using Kyle Rittenhouse's opinion on a self-defense case as source material.
     
  24. argentine soccer fan

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    Jan 18, 2001
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Club:
    CA Boca Juniors
    Nat'l Team:
    Argentina
    Here is one from Argentina. Reprehensible racism and soccer related. A well known sports radio journalist at a leading radio station from Buenos Aires used strong racist terms to criticize Boca Juniors' president Juan Roman Riquelme. It's all over the news.

    https://noticiasargentinas.com/rede...criticar-a-riquelme_a681b9ce87b960839f59e3e2f

    Among other things, Anello called Riquelme "un negro ignorante" (an ignorant black), and other derogatory terms, like burro (donkey) and "verdulero" which literally means "vegetable salesman" but is used in Argentina as a classist insult to refer to so called "lower class" people. Later he added, "I call things as they are, the black I call black, the brown I call brown, and the ignorant I call ignorant".

    Actually the fact that there is such a strong response in the media and loud demands for sanctions for those responsible for these actions shows that at least we are making a bit of progress as a society. But there is a long way to go. This being Argentina, I want to see what they do, if anything, to the man who threw these reprehensible insults, and to the other people who were with him at the radio station and allowed him to continue with his diatribe.
     

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