Has Bud Mackey showed up yet ? Dom Ferguson got any eligibility left ?
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I’m curious about that to. He graduated too late from HS to enroll for the summer semester at UK. He can’t enroll until the fall semester. Does he have to wait until then to come and participate in individual workouts and pick up games?
Wow only on the Rafters can a thread about pickup games descend into a discussion of racism and savagery. In my 8 years in the ABQ I got involved with a woman who was a a full blood Apache. A Native American princess. We would talk about how my distant ancestors the Celts and Picts weren’t much different than her more recent ones. Savages who killed in brutal ways, lived in tribes, and relished killing each other.
Stereotyping and generalizing is also a form of racism and discrimination. I'm not sure that ALL people of different races feel the same way as you are insinuating, nice try.
I deleted my post which was discussing our basketball team, UK, which we all support because it got flipped into an entirely different conversation that made no sense by some moron...not naming names.
Really a sad world we live in when goobers have to try and make something out of nothing.
I'm tired of listening to it and reading about it- we are all people, not monsters....at least most of us aren't.
I don’t give a flying F if you’re offended. Fact is most black athletes talk like they’re from the ghetto they make lil Wayne sound like he speaks the Kings English so every now and then there’s someone who’s well spoken if the shoe fits wear it
The way you speak has zero to do with race or skin color and everything to do with your culture and economic environment you were raised in. There are a wide range of dialects across this country and many are difficult to understand if you are not familiar with them. Some dialects spoken by white people in the deep south are so bad they show subtitles on tv when the people speak. Some dialects in Louisiana that have a Cajun cultural influence are extremely hard to understand. The problem comes when people stereotype people as less intelligent because of the way they speak. It is way more a function of their culture and economic environment than IQ.
Many black athletes come from modest means and areas of the country where they learned to speak in a certain manner. If the majority of college basketball players came from the hollers of West Virginia or Cajun Louisiana regions we may have a hard time understanding them at times as well. A black person from England sounds completely different than a black person from Atlanta Georgia. Dialect is not a black, white, or IQ thing but people tend to generalize and stereotype these issues often to the detriment of black people.
Oh really do they?? I’ve never met black people from england and I’ve never been to the south please lecture me some more
Mods....please delete this thread. It has nothing to do with basketball at this point.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/...BgfG8XNzhg3q5mlXCS_r5YncMwGowHNuxAel1SP-JBklC
That's just a quick search though....I've no opinion or care.
Never seen a white person described as well spoken. It’s almost like people are amazed some black people can form a coherent sentence. One person that wasn’t well spoken though... Eric Bledsoe. Bless that little guy. He’s come a long way since that 2009 “get **** right” press conference.
I’m offended at your lack of understanding of the difference between “could care less” and “couldn’t care less”. No offense, of course. If I say that it means you can’t be offended.
Being savage is a compliment now. It’s means you’re like hardcore awesome or something. I dunno. Kids are weird.
I’m sorry, but a lot of black and white athletes talk with slang and use incorrect grammar making it hard to understand at times, so it can be refreshing to see otherwise. It isn’t racist if it’s true, and nothing is more annoying than someone with an agenda that refuses to let people see things for what they are without making them out to be racist.
I am white and so I know that I cannot truly understand where someone from another background, ethnicity, etc. is coming from. That being said, my personal belief is that we all should make it our goal to be unoffendable. People say a lot of things to a lot of groups and individuals, but it ultimately is their decision on whether they let that get to them. I look at it that if someone is not intending something to be offensive then I won't be offended and if they do intend for it to be offensive then I am only letting them win to be offended by it. So either way the best thing is to not get offended. I tell my kids all the time that if you know someone is trying to get at you, then ignore it. That is the only way the other person does not get satisfaction from it. Same applies here I would say.
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Bud Mackey, that is a blast from the past. So, so much wasted talent on that kid
Not to mention the world has lost its sense of humor. No one can say anything anymore and everyone is offended about something.
The bottom line is stereotypes and generalizations are human nature...they also are a part of every race, religion, etc. They are human nature because by nature the vast majority judge a book by its cover and specifically the differences between a vs b.
Today it is about it being unacceptable for some races to say something to/about another race but acceptable/funny if another race says something to/about a different race. This also doesn't isn't limited to just race....but religion or lack thereof, gender, politics, sexual orientation, everything one could imagine.
Lol, I asked for this thread to be deleted and I'm still commenting...
NP. It was. She was uh, a wildcat pun intended. But a sweet lady, a single, divorced mom with 14 and 12 year old daughters, and an ER nurse. 5 years older and a complete departure for me in every way. A good friend at the time and still was talking about her on the phone just last night.
Of course you don’t care. You’re hiding behind the anonymity of your keyboard.
One of the biggest issues in race relations is one person claiming to speak for an entire group when they do not know the entire group, whether they may belong to that group or not is irrelevant. That is racism or bigotry in its worst form but it is used masterfully by some. (I am speaking for me.)
Dude need extra cash by bringing drugs and a gun to school, gotta make sure he strapped at all times. He probably would of had a decent career and made a living overseas. What would possess him to bring that **** to school when you have a full ride for basketball is beyond me. I guess he was keeping it real and it cost him
