Racism - Forever and Always

While it's still available

 

Kinda reminds me of one of my favorite NY Mets - Edgardo Alfonzo. He's Venezuelan.

 

Dutch don't see race

 

Edwin Gorter must have been Swiss

 

Yes, you absolutely should understand, but what you need to understand has not been made clear to you. I'm a bit concerned that you see me as "on edge".

I'm more of a reporter. I cut to the chase, and I sometimes use descriptive terms that don't go over well with the ruling class, but I am a fair and accurate judge/predictor of human behavior.
I want to say that I predicted all the losses POCs and women and gays and the poor have already incurred, faaaar beyond what the other left-leaning posters here saw coming. There is no edge for me to be on- there is only a flat plane of conservatism as far as you can walk, fly or drive. The issue is not Auria. Auria sharpened Occam's razor for him at Occam's request. NostAuriaDamus has been validated in every Trump decision since he decided to run in 2016. The issue is America. You have that part correct.

And there's nowhere to go. Mom's 85, probably can't relocate. I'll hold out as long as I can and die here, thanks.

 

Pele or Jimmy Brown....pick one!

 

This really isn't a suitable replacement for being displaced and sent across an ocean. It just isn't. There wouldn't be any interest in altering their genetic makeup if it meant soiling my own.

ASF it's not like he brought this part up. You did this all by yourself. I'm seriously trying to understand why a displaced, mistreated Indian would imagine a night with some European redneck (because back then, they're the only ones who'd ******** him) with 75 miles worth of dick on her odometer already, as some kind of accomplishment. She's been around the block enough times that the town square is named for her. And I don't even want to think about the poor, scared young Indian women being pawed and drooled on by this or that Miles Cowperthwaite

Again. I'd avoid this as much as I could in the interest of not having a child become a serial killer or eat too much mayonnaise. I kid, but you're describing in one case a man who doesn't deserve the gift he's about to take (because a good Indian woman would never give it to him) and in another, a woman who isn't worth the attention you might have to give her to get her to do what she's always done for White boys without much convincing.

 

Pele is the GOAT. I don't need to have seen him play live to know that.
Jim Brown was no Jerome Bettis..

 

Bullticky...Jim Brown was the one I loved/hated to watch the most. I cried when he got his in "'The Dirty Dozen"!

 

The Dirty Dozen and others were why he only "got his" a few years ago... He'd won an NFL title, the team was aging, and cinema offered more money with way fewer risks.

I never really hated a player, and the only times I came close were when the Steelers had to play Jacksonville. Fred Taylor was a good RB against anybody else, but he turned into a total beast against Pittsburgh on multiple occasions.

 

That's Garrincha, not fire-marshall-bill-looking twerp at yanited.

 

Correct about Veron, incorrect about Maradona.

He's still more beloved than Messi, I think. People identify with his passion, his grit, his explosive personality, and his poor background, than with Messi's quieter demeanor and European upbringing.

So yeah, the little brown guy with black hair is the (almost) unquestioned national hero.

And that's just another one of the Latin American paradoxes when it comes to race. In certain respects super racist... in others, pretty open.

 

Interesting. Do you think it has anything to do with him being dead? And this passion thing. Europeans equate that with emotional behavior and femininity. Why wouldn't the Albiceleste follow that instruction from their UEFA overlords?

I wonder what Enzo Corle- uh, Fernandez would have had to say about Veron. He's not Black, but he's about as Black as it gets in Argentina unless they're hiding people...

I guess when you set up a whole food chain to make people fight one another instead of realizing that, despite whatever squabbles between civilizations there, they were facing a more sinister power than anything on their continent, and uniting against the Spanish big boss... you get lots of confusion among the victims as to who the perps are. That's by design.

It's actually kind of brilliant, got millions of people following a Eurofaith, speaking a Eurotongue, and still arguing among themselves as to who is actually human and who is not. Frankly, I'd like to see Messi go on some sort of tour trying to stop his fellow citizens from dehumanizing folks who are only a shade darker.

 

That's an interesting way to describe rape...

Often as property...

Also, Sally Hemmings says hello

 

The use of racial terms as both pejoratives and terms of endearment throughout Latin America is almost impossible for outsiders to understand. In the Northern European/Anglo world, if you're using a racial term in casual conversation, it's used as an insult, end of story.

In Latin America, it varies tremendously.

Having said that, this case with Riquelme is also very clear: the motherfuker was being racist

 

Thank you.

Damn... center fielder didn't even look up- somebody got their windshield busted in the parking lot

Well put. Jefferson had a "relationship" with a woman who could not refuse consent. That's not a relationship.

 

The dead always get elevated but Maradona was a national hero even while alive.

Very much so.

They were completely outnumbered so they gave a lot of mestizos (indigenous/white mixes) many privilege and social advantages so that their allegiances would lie with Europeans instead of the indigenous.

Maradona himself had a lot of anti-racist positions. He defended Bolivia's decision to play in La Paz (over 3,600 meters of altitude) when many South American countries were against it. Altitude isn't race but there were racial undertones behind this.

He also spoke out against discrimination in Argentina and brought up how he himself was discriminated (for being poor and dark) while growing up.

He famously riled up Neapolitan pride against the richer, whiter northern Italians.

So the national hero for racist Argentina is this dark dude that had a lot of very public anti-racist stances.

I'm telling you, Latin American race relations is mighty complex.

 

You don't say?