Can we let the man rest in peace, now, and stop quibbling over whether or not he was a racist? This is a football discussion forum. As far as football goes, Reggie White was one of the best ever. End of discussion.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pack Attack)</div><div class='quotemain'>Can we let the man rest in peace, now, and stop quibbling over whether or not he was a racist? This is a football discussion forum. As far as football goes, Reggie White was one of the best ever. End of discussion.</div> I can let it die. However, we do often discuss more than simply the football abilities of a player. I.E., T.O,. being an complete and total selfish jerk.-
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>I can let it die. However, we do often discuss more than simply the football abilities of a player. I.E., T.O,. being an complete and total selfish jerk.</div> Yeah...but T.O. is still alive and well and able to defend himself. And he still has time to straighten up (though he never will). Besides, BF1...the whole Favre/Strahan thing is plenty for you to be bitching about.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (nflfan04)</div><div class='quotemain'> youve been here half as long and have 1000 posts, see a pattern? </div> actually u came in march 04 i came in july 04
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pack Attack)</div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>I can let it die. However, we do often discuss more than simply the football abilities of a player. I.E., T.O,. being an complete and total selfish jerk.</div> Yeah...but T.O. is still alive and well and able to defend himself. And he still has time to straighten up (though he never will). Besides, BF1...the whole Favre/Strahan thing is plenty for you to be bitching about. </div> Well, i dont think he would defend himself from the comments on this chat board if he were alive, yes the farve/strahan thing is enough for me to bitch about(it is nice you ackknowledge there is a thing. I accept this as saying he did and should be banned from football and all his accomplishments wiped out.) Finally, the dead defned themselves themselves with the life the lived. That is why he cant defend himself.
Here is a link to the transcript of Reggie's speech. Be your own judge. In the context, he was trying to say we are all different, but all made by God. I think he should have said it a little differently, but I think he was a good Christian man who has that one unfortunate incident that we shouldn't allow to blemish his record and all the good things he accomplished in his short lifetime. http://my.execpc.com/~dross/aw/regwhite.html
You know what I love about you, BF1? Your penchant for taking people's posts and dissecting them as literal translations. You're quite good at it. No, I don't think Reggie White would magically appear and "literally" defend himself on this message board if he were alive, any more than any NFL player we decide to bash would. The point of my post was: "Let's show some respect for the dead." Next time I'll just come out and say that instead of trying to get cute about it. As far as Favre/Strahan goes, I wouldn't give it a second thought...if you didn't talk about it every day. I don't think there's anything to talk about, but you seem to think there is. If you're looking for me to say "Favre laid down," I won't. I have no idea what he was thinking or doing and I'm not going to try to speak for him or make guesses about it. Feel free to continue talking about it, though. It seems to make you happy.
Here's the meat of the controversy via C&P, but I still encourage you to read the transcript. When are we as people going to wake up and realize that crime is coming outside of the communities, and because the crime is coming outside the communities, we ask ourselves another question. Why would these young people deal drugs? Why would these young people distribute guns in their communities? Why are they doing this? They're doing it because they lack other opportunities. When I look at the history of America, and particularly the history of slavery, one of the main reasons that Africans were enslaved was because of economics and skin color. Now, let me explain what I'm talking about. During the time that the New World was to be built, the Europeans had to make a decision whether they were going to enslave their own. They couldn't enslave their own because their own could assimilate. They couldn't enslave the Indians because the Indians knew the territory, and the Indians knew how to sneak up on people. But the only people they could enslave was the Africans because of their skin color. We couldn't assimilate, and because of our skin color if we escaped, we were sent back to our plantations pretty much. If you look at American history from the time that slavery started, at least from the time that slavery started, every 10 to 30 years the government would do something to make sure that the black man was not able to compete economically. I know that we over the last 30 years will look back and we say there's been integration, there's been desegregation, but there's something we have to understand about integration and desegregation. Without assimilation there's no desegregation, nor is there integration, because people of all ethnic backgrounds have to be able to compete economically in order to build their families. Slavery has hurt our families. It's hurt our families big time. The conditions of the inner cities has hurt our families and other people's families also, and it's always interesting to me to understand one thing. Actually, I was told this by a friend of mine and a friend of his told him. We always should look at the situation and ask ourselves a question. Why did God create us differently? Why did God make me black and you white? Why did God make the next guy Korean and the next guy Asian and the other guy Hispanic? Why did God create the Indians? Well, it's interesting to me to know why now. When you look at the black race, black people are very gifted in what we call worship and celebration. A lot of us like to dance, and if you go to black churches, you see people jumping up and down, because they really get into it. White people were blessed with the gift of structure and organization. You guys do a good job of building businesses and things of that nature and you know how to tap into money pretty much better than a lot of people do around the world. Hispanics are gifted in family structure. You can see a Hispanic person and they can put 20 or 30 people in one home. They were gifted in the family structure. When you look at the Asians, the Asian is very gifted in creation, creativity and inventions. If you go to Japan or any Asian country, they can turn a television into a watch. They're very creative. And you look at the Indians, they have been very gifted in the spirituality. When you put all of that together, guess what it makes. It forms a complete image of God. God made us different because he was trying to create himself. He was trying to form himself, and then we got kind of knuckleheaded and kind of pushed everything aside. You know, they say the dumbest animal in the world is a sheep. A sheep will rather walk through a barb wire fence than go through an open gate. And if you look at the Bible, we're compared to sheep. And the reason we're compared to sheep is because without our shepherd, we don't know what to do or where we're going. And I believe when I look at this nation today, that we pushed the shepherd aside, and because we pushed the shepherd aside we're experiencing major problems in our nation.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pack Attack)</div><div class='quotemain'>You know what I love about you, BF1? Your penchant for taking people's posts and dissecting them as literal translations. You're quite good at it. </div> Ok so you want me to "read" things into your posts and not take what it says literally from now on? So i should even read more into the what that says literally about me taking things to literally. I'll do it.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (kcgsc)</div><div class='quotemain'>Here is a link to the transcript of Reggie's speech. Be your own judge. In the context, he was trying to say we are all different, but all made by God. I think he should have said it a little differently, but I think he was a good Christian man who has that one unfortunate incident that we shouldn't allow to blemish his record and all the good things he accomplished in his short lifetime. http://my.execpc.com/~dross/aw/regwhite.html</div> I must say, his comments on homosexuality, are rather refreshing and i have more respect for him
I really don't see anything too racist about the passage, Unless your uber sensitive, Reggie was a good man who upheld the Christian Religion very well and I think he was just trying to say that all in all were all brothers and sisters no matter what color our skin is.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TheBeef)</div><div class='quotemain'>I havent had a chance to read it yet, Im asian and Im too busy turn TVs into watches....</div> you are asian?
im half asian, half latino....and me and the 20 or 30 people that live in my house are too busy turning TVs into watches to read the transcript....
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TheBeef)</div><div class='quotemain'>im half asian, half latino....and me and the 20 or 30 people that live in my house are too busy turning TVs into watches to read the transcript....</div> oh yeah, i need those 100 watches by friday
we will meet our deadline, but you need to drop off the next shipment of TVs by tommorow, we are running low....
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TheBeef)</div><div class='quotemain'>we will meet our deadline, but you need to drop off the next shipment of TVs by tommorow, we are running low....</div> I need you to do it from VCRs, your half asian that should be easy for you
