OT LaVar is costing his son MILLIONS of dollars

To be fair, Bones, I do believe you first fired off a comment about dviss bringing race into everything. I don't care to scroll back through the convo, but I'll take dviss at his word that it was other people that first brought race into the conversation. Regardless, race plays into everything in our society, and dviss was right about our society not liking loud-mouthed black men and that is partially responsible for the backlash against Lavar.

 

It was a true, general statement about 'merica.

 

I've seen him do it a couple times, maybe I got confused with another poster and it seemed like he brought it up more than he does.

I even agree with your point, I'm just saying everyone's situation, no matter what color they are, is different because of their race and other's perception of it. Everyone's situation would be different if they were a different race, so you could speculate for days on what differences would be present if they were a different race. Because of that, I just don't see the point in it.

 

This was the point I was trying to make. Acting like it's untrue is cognitive dissonance IMHO. It's the reason we never saw Obama angry.

 

I didn't act like it was untrue, I just meant that I still think he'd be getting a ton of attention if he was white because of all the outrageous statements he's made. Because of that, race doesn't play a part in his attention as much as his mouth does.

 

My whole point is that I'm sick of hearing about Lavar when his boy doesn't even play for us. And my larger point is that he's harped on so much because he is Black. I don't think it would be the same if he were white. You disagree and that's fine. The bottom line is take that Lavar shit to the OT section because it's not Blazer related.

 

Sure, on a micro level we're all individuals - but that argument is rather reductive. Black people have a shared, common experience that transcends the individual. The repeating pattern is so vastly different, and more uniform, than the patterns of shared experience that any other race in the US have.

 

I completely disagree. Why don't people like Stephen A? He knows basketball better than damn near anyone in this forum. He is well spoken and eloquent. Buuuuuuuut since he's black and outspoken, all the other info gets missed or not cared about and he's known as screamin' A.

 

That's some low hanging fruit.

 

One of my daughter's favorite books. She encouraged me to read it several years ago. I still have a copy sitting right here next to me on my bookshelf if anyone wants to borrow it.

BNM

 

You don't have any response to anything else I said?

I like Stephen A. Smith, hated Skip Bayless. Didn't disagree with the point you're trying to make, you just completely misunderstood mine and the way you acted about it was kinda fucked because you should know I'm not racist but you implicated me as such.

 

I wouldn't go that far, but I do agree he is underrated. He gets a bad rep because of his participation in the skip bayless clown hour.

 

If Lavar was white, he'd be publicly stoned for saying racist shit. But he's black, and he said racist shit about white people. So no one gives a fuck.

Do you not see the big OT up there?

 

Yeah, if he were white, he'd be president.

Seriously, I dislike Lavar Ball for the EXACT same reasons I dislike Donald Trump. It has nothing to do with race. They are both loud mouthed, disrespectful, attention seeking, narcissistic, racist, misogynistic assholes.

Concerning your "they killed MLK" comment. At first, I was taken aback by it. After all, I didn't kill MLK. I was 6 at the time. My mother's reaction to his assassination is one of my most vivid early childhood memories. My mom was a strong woman. It's really the only time I remember seeing her cry. When I asked her why she was crying, her exact words were. "They killed him and all he was trying to do was bring people together".

BNM

 

I have to admit that I can stomach Stephen A Smith much easier than Skip Bayless.

 

Is that some sort of metaphor for being condemned in the media, because I sure don't recall any white racists actually being stoned in my lifetime.

BNM

 

Funny, I guess you don't remember telling everyone to shut up about Lavar, when he said racist shit.

Remember? It was all false outrage. And white people weren't allowed to complain about racist people, because it doesn't affect us.

It's ok, you can pretend you didn't read this.

 

Si