This has to be quick. I don't have much time before Mrs. Field gets back. (Sometimes a woman shopping can be a good thing)
I knew I couldn't just go quit this thing cold turkey.
Some quick thoughts: First and foremost. Thanks to all of you who put one down for the kid with The Black Weblog Awards. We won (all of us) in the best political/news blog category. This award means a lot because it's, well, black folks. It's always good to get recognition from your own. So we did it.
I was at the "Newseum" yesterday with some folks who are holding it down for the First Amendment. That museum is all that, and I would recommend it for all of you. Mrs. Field and I actually got a personal tour from the brother (Frank Bond) who produced an excellent documentary about the civil rights era (Good dude) and who seems to be a big honcho over there with the Freedom Forum people. He actually interviewed me for a show that should be on PBS some time later. It had to do with journalism and the role new media is playing in it's development. I think I was there so the the folks could get a field Negro's perspective on things. You know, ask the tough questions: Like why aren't more people of color represented in the main stream media? And where are our stories being reported?
Hey, what's all the fuss about the chosen one speaking to the little school kids? Don't presidents do this kind of stuff all the time? Although I guess we really never had a president like this one before.
Some folks will consider Roger Stevens a hero. I won't. It's not cool slapping a kid in public. (In public black folks. In public! I know you all tear up those behinds behind closed doors, so don't even start with me.) Especially another persons kid.
I guess you all have seen the video by now of that dude from Oregon doing like Joe Frazier on the kid from Boise State. Yep, that kid was talking smack and the dude let him have it. (Why do thoughts of Shabazz come to mind when I see that video?) Here is the thing: What dude did was wrong. He should not have punched an opposing player like that. (The guy didn't even his helmet on.) I don't care what the guy said or did to him, (well, unless he called him a nigger, or talked about his mama) he has got to practice restraint and self control. Some of these folks already think that us brothers can't control our tempers.-- I wonder where they got that impression? --so we have to work extra hard to control our emotions. Dude might have just cost himself millions of dollars because he was a projected as a high draft pick in the NFL. That other dude probably wasn't even going to get drafted. Sad.
Imagine sending your daughter off to a fine institution like Spelman only to be given the news that she was shot to death by some ignorant ass urban terrorist while walking and minding her own damn business. This shit has got to stop!
I gotta go. I will holla later.
What, you in DC and you caint call nobody?? Hmpf!
ReplyDeleteL
I am glad that idiot from Oregon got cut from the team. Regardless of what he claims his motivation was, he acted like a little girl both when he threw the sucker punch and then afterwards when he had to be restrained! He was actually hysterical!
ReplyDeleteOn another note: The contractors guarding the embassy in Afghanistan. As a black man, I know you, like I were relieved to see that there were no brothers there doing "butt shots" or what ever other perversity those guys were into.
Note to DJ Mike "sometimes getting "in" with the in crowd isn't worth the price of admission."
P.S. Do you want us to write Ms. Field emails and try and get our brother a "kitchen pass"so you can enjoy your holiday too?
I hope your wife catches you:)
ReplyDeleteNo nookie for you:(
malik said...
ReplyDeleteI am glad that idiot from Oregon got cut from the team. Regardless of what he claims his motivation was, he acted like a little girl both when he threw the sucker punch and then afterwards when he had to be restrained! He was actually hysterical!
9:15 PM
You are SO right, Malik..actions have consequenses. Our children need to learn this simple fact, before they act.
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ReplyDeleteAnd congrats on the award FN.
ReplyDelete(((((Applause))))
The Spelman student getting killed was a tragedy. It's a shame so many HBCU's are in terrible crime ridden area's.Clark needs to put some fences or something up around the campus.
ReplyDeleteOn the football thing: I think the player who punched that guy ought to have been suspended but for his entire senior season? That to me was over-kill. How about half of the season. I think that would have been fair.
And where is the precedent to suspend a player for a season for punching another player? I'm sure this isn't the first time this has happened. Has anyone else been suspened for a season for doing this?
Bro. Field,
ReplyDeleteYou may want to update your HNOTD winner. Michael Strayhan has officially declared himself not to be an African American, but just an American. Sure, he's free to call himself whatever he wants. However, he doesn't strike me as being someone who realizes that his "American experience" is due to having always been a great athlete, and having a gazillion dollars in the bank; Not because we're just a bunch of "Americans." Most people's lives do NOT mirror his (especially ones of his hue). Additionally, it's almost as if he's dropping a hint that he's gained some sort of enlightenment (no, not the en-lighten-mint that MJ got :0) that the rest of us need. All I have to say is this. In the real World we ARE who we are, but if the people who have REAL power see us some other way, what they think of us trumps what we think of ourselves, because they have the ability to influence our destinies, and not vice versa. For that, bro. Field, I'll proclaim that "Field's Field hand's" HNOTD is Mr. Strayhan..LOL, big time!
It's ok, I am pretty sure Mrs Field already know that a Field Negro "aint gonna do right" to save his life. Congrats on the award. By the way dont do like some of the other negroes and issues an apology down the road for all this truth you are sharing with us.
ReplyDeleteRule No. 1 of shit talking on the football field: Keep your damn helmet on.
ReplyDelete"where is the precedent to suspend a player for a season for punching another player?"
It's still taboo for a black fist to meet a white face on national television. It's almost as bad as if the brother had killed a dog. He's lucky they didn't give him jail time, although that might still be coming.
@Ernesto
ReplyDelete"It's still taboo for a black fist to meet a white face on national television. It's almost as bad as if the brother had killed a dog. He's lucky they didn't give him jail time, although that might still be coming."
You're right about that.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=86695
ReplyDeleteThings are worse than I originally thought. Strayhan's words are part of an "I Pledge Allegiance to Obama" YouTube stint, PRODUCED BY OPRAH WINFREY'S HARPO PRODUCTIONS COMPANY.
It's all beginning to make sense now...shewwwwwwwwwww :0(
Field Hand G,
ReplyDeleteI am sure that on the first Columbus ship to touch America there was an African, and our claim to America is as much as any with European ancestry. Since most Africans didn't immigrate and African slaves built America, and much of America is African, why is there a need to Hyphenate our identity. Were are American, although we are people of African decent. Calling ourselves American gives ownership to something we created, it is not dismissing the blood and sweat in this land.
I may have been a second class citizen, but never have I been a second class American.
kinda like Liston & Ali
ReplyDeleteField-"Some of these folks already think that us brothers can't control our tempers.-- I wonder where they got that impression? --so we have to work extra hard to control our emotions."
ReplyDeleteYou are so right, Field. But the truth is many brothers CAN'T control their tempers and that dude from Oregon and Shabazz are classic examples. They are possessed by the demon of ruptured shame that triggers RAGE beyond their control. It is not ordinary anger that can be restrained by the holder. Rage has a flashpoint that sets it off like the wildfires of California.
Congratulations on your award. You are very deserving of it.
Field sak passe? Congratulation on winning the BWA....I voted for you and my momma voted for you...truely happy for you.....La paix..........leahrose
ReplyDeleteHathor said, "I may have been a second class citizen, but never have I been a second class American."
ReplyDeleteHathor, could you elaborate?
@Hathor
ReplyDelete"why is there a need to Hyphenate our identity."
Why not? No one questions Italian-Americans or Irish-Americans. So why can't we claim America while still calling ourselves African-Americans? It seems it's only ever people of color who are called on to forget their ancestry. Sort of like how some people refer to people whose ancestors came from Spanish speaking countries as Hispanic.
If someone says they are Hispanic exactly what does that tell you about them? Nothing really. But if someone says they are a Boricua or Chicano that tells you something about them.
So a Black person just saying they're American doesn't really say much. Were your ancestors enslaved in America? Doesn't tell you. Did your people immigrate to the U.S. willingly? Doesn't tell you.
Black folk need to learn violence ani't the answer.I know its in you genes but damn.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Obama can put some kinda drug in kool-aid that kills that gene in you people.
Bush tried to put a drug in Snapple that made black men sterile.That didn't work for shit.
fields, congrats on winning that award.This is only the second time i've ever voted for a black man.The first was Jesse Jackson in 1988.
That negro swept the south and still lost.Damn racist northerners.
Monie,
ReplyDeleteNo one questions Italian-Americans or Irish-Americans.
Exactly, but most of us are not children of immigrants. The Black experience here is purely American it is not Brazilian, Jamaican or Guyanan. Being African is also a vague concept, because many of us do not know our origins in African; not a country, kinship group or language. We only connect to Africa in some general aspects of culture that is common to sub Saharan Africa, but our fundamental commonality is in the slave Diaspora.
A person can call themselves whatever they want. You may chose too, but I have chosen not to. I do not go around challenging people about what they call themselves. I do not feel because one would chose not to call themselves African American, that it should be a reason to attain the status of HNOTD.
That Boise player got just what he deserved. There are many instigators, they are found in sports, politics, schools everywhere. In politics they go by the name BECK, Dobbs, Hannity,Buchanan, just to name a few. S0, I realize the young man who threw the punch will probably lose millions; however, I am so tired of those individuals that are the catalyst that start a bunch of strife and they are able to walk away from it. The only person we ar talking about is the person who threw the punch. What about the instigator ?? We have pundits that start stuff and walk away. Think about that for a moment.
ReplyDeleteField,
ReplyDeleteI still think Mr. R(acist) is a clone of Frank Drackman although he denied it in yesterdays comments. Maybe he shares the same cell.
A lot of children will miss the opportunity of hearing a President speak specifically to them. I somehow think that the right stirred up the controversy along with Van Jones to keep cover for Beck & company. I think so many are buying into crap that Obama is a sleeper candidate. For whom, it is hard to tell; Al Queada, Lenin and Trotsky, Hitler and Goering, or Chairman Mau. It is easier to think that, than to admit they are not ready for a black man to be POTUS.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the Web award. :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd big thumbs up to Mrs. Field for putting her foot down.
Memo from the Truth in Lurking Dept:
ReplyDeleteField, I'm just your average West Coast 57 yr. old White Guy, who lives well within the WSZ in the S.F.Valley--I've lurked in your site for several years, and even thrown in an Anon comment now & then...I used to think that perhaps you (and many others here) were overly sensitive and looking for Racism everywhere (even in you coffee grounds)...BUT, i gotta 'fess up the truth and say I was WRONG !
If anything, you've probably understated it...the last two examples (i.e., Barry being dissed for addressing school kids and asking them to study harder AND the Oregon punk being suspended for his ENTIRE Senior season) prove to me that not only is racism rampant in this land, it's getting worse daily, and will continue unless guys like me get off our collective asses and try to at least admit it, and then perhaps, try to do something about it...I seen the future and it don't look good at all.
Uhhhhhhh, Hathor. Do you really think that some Aryan maggot will have a change of heart because Mike Strayhan calls himself an American. The INTENT of the Ad. is foolish, short sighted, and contrary to history. We went from being niggers, to Negroes, to Black people, to African Americans, and now, some want to make the BIG jump to being an American (smh). See? THE JOB TITLE CHANGED, BUT THE DAMN STATUS OF THOSE HOLDING THE TITLE IS JUST LIMPING ALONG. So think about this non-hyphenated term: NIGGER! That's what the teabaggers regard you in private, and whether you know it or not, they still have more power than you do. We've only had TWO Black Senators in U.S. History, and bunch of house House folks, and only ONE real Supreme Court Justice, yet everyone is all of a sudden one big happy family. Geez, I sure hope that you aren't a teacher.
ReplyDelete@Hathor
ReplyDeleteThanks for explaining your P.O.V.
MrR and Frank are not the same person.
ReplyDeleteBlacks always respond to MrR and they tend to ignore Frank. Don't ask me why. Guess it's because Blacks are drawn more to MrR, esp. the women. Go figure.
@Field Hand G.
ReplyDeleteThere have actually been four Black U.S. Senators since Reconstruction; Ed Brooke, Carol Moseley Braun, Barack Obama and Roland Burris.
And there where two during Reconstruction; Hiram Rhodes Revels and Blanche Bruce.
Van Jones just resigned.
ReplyDelete@Anon/ 1:13 AM
ReplyDeleteMore like Barack threw him under the bus. I was hoping Barack would push back on this Van Jones nonsense from the Right.
And did they think doing it on a Saturday night would make it better? The Sunday morning talking heads are going to be buzzing about his.
Weekend at the shore with the lovely Mrs. Field. Tough life. We almost feel sorry for you. Yeah, sure.
ReplyDeleteField Hand G.
ReplyDeleteOur name changed, while we were Americans, we earned that, no one can change that. That is not bestowed by the white man. This is my home. The love it or leave it BS doesn't fly with me, I am not giving it back to those who brought us here.
Why does our language have to be different than theirs. We let the right usurp the word liberty, coded racism so it's acceptable, made liberal and progressive a dirty word and now they can destroy us, even as their agenda has failed.
But hey, what's in a name?
Vann Jones has resigned. That did it for me. Enough is enough! The rightwing can spit out all the hate, incite race wars, incite insurrection, incite secession, cheat on their wives, start a war without reason, molest children, steal money from the USA treasury and transfer it into the hands of their buddies,and everything else evil under the sun, and they don't have to resign nor are they asked to leave. I'm hotter than fish grease right about now. That really did it for me! I'm through cheerleading for the President.
ReplyDelete@granny -- I hear ya. I'm so mad I can't see straight. And what makes it so bad is Obama has only hurt himself and democrats more by doing this. The nuts won't be appeased. They're gonna be a hundred times worse! And now who in congress be they democrat or republican, left or right is going to compromise on health care when they think if the squeal loud enough they'll get whatever they want?
ReplyDeleteI'll tell you someone else I'm mad at that hasn't gotten the scorn he deserves for this sh*t: Rahm Emannuel. Rahm was supposed to this big bad pitbull who could give Obama all the cover he needed, crack some skulls when congress got too rowdy or GOPers that got too crazy, and grease the wheels whenever necessary -- to play hot tempered to Obama's cool reserve. He portrayed himself like a political Don Corleone. Where the h*ll has he been? I think he's compromised so many times he doesn't know the difference between a compromise and a victory. Ultimately, this is on Obama but Rahm needs to hear some of it for the badass talk he likes to give.
I can't believe the hallmark so far of the Admin is wimping out. Please, somebody wake Obama up. There's still time but he needs to land some serious nutbusting punches soon.
--j
Congratulations to another immigrant like myself that nade it big. I voted and my family voted for you. Keep the flag flying!
ReplyDeleteCan someone wake his O ness up! He is a one term President if he keeps this shit up. There is no response from the White House on the incessant attacks from the Planet Wingnuttia. Am I the only one that believes the wheels came off too early on this ride. Albeit he is giving in to people that will not give him the benefit of doubt if their lives depended on it.
1:12 a.m. @ Monie. Geez, I meant two REAL Senators. REAL. No Black politician had meaningful power during Reconstruction. Did you really think I was unaware of them? One of the two you mentioned was an avid spokes mouth for "free" Blacks, but cared nothing about those still in bondage. He was a minister, too....damn, that shit goes wayyyyyy back :0) And you think Roland Burris and....never mind. If you don't know the difference between tokenism and real power, fine. I sense that you meant well, but I had to come back and let you know that I'm aware of the token mulattoes that have been in the Senate (and the not-so-mulatto Burris).
ReplyDeleteWait. Wait. Stop the presses! I disavow everything I wrote earlier. I'd only been sit a video snippet of the "I pledge" video. You know what. I feeling it, big time. For the last 20 years, I've given of myself in the ways that these people are speaking. And we (on the left) need this image to establish the fact that we ARE on higher ground than they. They preach with words, and we embrace deeds. Believe it or not, "some people, some place" are using a cooked up idea of mine to fight paralysis (I know, I have no way of proving this, but it's true). So totally disregard everything (except the statement about the ineffective Senators; we've only had two REAL ones).
ReplyDeletePeace. It's been a naughty night :0)
Wat Up SpearChuckers!!!!!
ReplyDeleteIf y'all watermelon chompin, ear bitin offin, sweet young Thang shootin, Foodstamp usin for Lottery Tickets, would check MY blog you'd see I'm totally supporting that Colored Boy from Oregon...
Any dude wearing a 1981 "Loverboy" bandana deserves whatever he gets...
Gotta run, "Counts" in 5 minutes, then I'm hitting the links... Country Club Prison...
Frank
Looks like the Color of Change and its followers won the battle with advertisers but Glen Beck won the war at the WH.
ReplyDeleteNow that Van Jones has resigned, maybe you folks will shut up with all of your loud mouth boasting about Obama and the Dems running the show. And that God chose Obama to lead this nation and Blacks to the promised land.
You are so immature and naive. Looking back on your grandiose comments since Obama's election should humble you and make you wiser. But it hasn't. Instead you throw temper tantrums like a 2-year old, and see red like Granny.
Looks like you lefties owe CF, MrR, Frank, and AB an apology because they continue to be right and you continue to be in denial.
anon 7:31
ReplyDeleteyeah you're right if only we'd had john mccain and sarah palin instead, things would be soo much better!
but everybody else is right..obama needs to stop trying to appease everybody and put his foot down. u cant play mr nice with crazy ppl
ReplyDeletecoffee and cigarettes said...
ReplyDeletebut everybody else is right..obama needs to stop trying to appease everybody and put his foot down. u cant play mr nice with crazy ppl
Here's the thing with that.Obama needs to appease Republicans because he knows if Kennedy/Obamacare passes he's going to have to provide cover for Democrats in 2010.
If only the rinos vote for Kennedy/Obamacare than Obama faces 2 choices-----
Drop the public option and lose his liberal base.
Pass it with the public option and only rino support and suffer a major defeat in 2010.
Anonymous said...
You are so immature and naive. Looking back on your grandiose comments since Obama's election should humble you and make you wiser. But it hasn't. Instead you throw temper tantrums like a 2-year old, and see red like Granny.
Looks like you lefties owe CF, MrR, Frank, and AB an apology because they continue to be right and you continue to be in denial.
You are so right.Just a few short months ago Democrats were all cocky and arrogant.They said Republicans are dead,bitter,mad,crazy, never will run this country again.
Hope and change has taken over the the country.A brave new liberal world is upon us.
Now Democrats look like old beaten down dogs ready for Michael Vick to attact battery cables to their nipples and kill them.
Van Jones is gone?? Say hi to Rev. J. Wright and Obama's white grandma while your under that bus Van Jones.
It's high time for our prez to act like that brother who cold-cocked that white boy; to hell with the folks that are NEVER going to play nice: get ghetto on their asses, Barack, otherwise we're all gonna' get played, just like brother Van did!!!!!
ReplyDeleteRepublicans ARE Assholes!
ReplyDeletePresident Obama is giving a whole new meaning to the term "cave-man"
ReplyDelete...yop
Sup y'all!Ihave got to sneak a comment.-Thank god for crackberries:)-
ReplyDeleteThanks again to all of you who voted for me! I can't say that enough.
I know I am supposed to be enjoying my vacation,but I can't.I just saw were Van Jones quit,or should I say was forced to quit.(I am starting to sense a pattern here)
The right is fighting back and the left is sitting on their collective asses.Not good.
I gotta go.If Mrs.Field catches me on this thing you all will be reading about me."Blogger found dead".Wife is a prime suspect."
"...to hell with the folks that are NEVER going to play nice: get ghetto on their asses,..."
ReplyDeleteYeah, to hell with those Democrats who won't support Obama.
Get 'ghetto' on their asses? Since when has acting ghetto ever got anyone anywhere? That's what that dude from Oregon did and look what happened to him.
You folks never learn do ya?
@Field Hand G
ReplyDelete"...Geez, I meant two REAL Senators..."
Lol, okay got it.
You would think the President would know how to handle the right considering he has two young children. When they throw tantrums, ignore them, or they'll cry and scream for everything they want. It's not just him, it's his advisors as well. They are so out of touch, it's baffling.
ReplyDeleteField "The right is fighting back and the left is sitting on their collective asses.Not good."
ReplyDeleteConsidering the way things are going in Congress and the WH, the Dems are just as weak with 60+ votes as they are with 35.
The left has always sat on their collective asses; and it's hard to break a very bad habit. Laziness, unskillfulness and undependability are the negative trademarks of Democrats. They have big arrogant mouths that they can never back up (like Blacks are known for-remember Gates?).
Meanwhile, the Republicans DO what they say will do.
Let's face it. The Republicans are much harder workers, more focused and smarter than the Democrats will ever be.
Anon 7:38,
ReplyDeleteNow might be a time to STFU and don't get too callous with your tongue in real life situations.
Granny,
I'm at my last nerve.
Field,
ReplyDeletehave a good time down here in DC. Would have lved to share a red-stripe with ya.
B1Bomber
FN, I think you may have an addiction - Internet. Mrs FN may need to have an intervention soon.
ReplyDeleteCheck out this link and read the screen grabs from over at Fox Nation.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.newshounds.us/2009/09/06/racist_violent_comments_on_fox_nations_van_jones_victory_thread.php#more
Unbelievable, we're the crazy according to them.
happy lockdown fn!
ReplyDeletesee:
VAN JONES = CZAR CASUALTY
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http://aliciabanks.blogspot.com/
peace
ab
Anon 7:31 said, "...Instead you throw temper tantrums like a 2-year old, and see red like Granny."
ReplyDeleteHathor said, "Anon 7:38,
Now might be a time to STFU and don't get too callous with your tongue in real life situations.
Granny,
I'm at my last nerve."
Hathor, your comment to Granny validated what Anon7:31A said.
BTW, I couldn't find Anon7:38 that you referenced your comment about. Did you mean Anon7:31?
I guess when you are on your 'last nerve', you are so angry that you can't think straight.
Again, follow the money. Obama took 22 million dollars in campaign money from the insurance/pharma companies.
ReplyDeleteWhat slays me is that this is the same guy that wingnuts call a socialist. Mr. R you dumbass, socialists don't take 22 million from corporations.
Rahm Emmanual is a water carrier for Wall Street, just like virtually every other major player in this administration. THEY will never be foreced out. Don't be distracted by the Republican/Democrat hype. They are two sides of the same coin. It's time to let both parties know we are on to the scam. None of this mess gets fixed until there are 100 percent publically financed campaigns!
Missed ya, dude. Looking forward to when you're not on lockdown anymore.
ReplyDeletePsst, did you hear what happened with Shawne Merriman and Tila Tequila?
GrannyStandingforTruth said...
ReplyDeleteCheck out this link and read the screen grabs from over at Fox Nation.
http://www.newshounds.us/2009/09/06/racist_violent_comments_on_fox_nations_van_jones_victory_thread.php#more
Unbelievable, we're the crazy according to them.
Yep you are the crazy.
Who the Fuck is Shawne Merriman?
ReplyDelete@ Truth in Lurking Dept: "[R]acism [is] rampant in this land, it's getting worse daily, and will continue unless guys like me get off our collective asses and try to at least admit it, and then perhaps, try to do something about it...I seen the future and it don't look good at all."
ReplyDeleteI didn't want you to think that your comments went unnoticed and unread.
Join the fray. Many of us here have been fighting the good fight most of our life.
We all (white and black) have a vested interest in the outcome. Many of us are seeing the future through the prism of the past, and I agree: "it don't look good at all."
But know this: I've only begun to fight!
Anon 4:31,
ReplyDeleteRemember I'm a child of the 60's.
You will tee hee one to many times and destroy more than a reputation and you will not be able to count on passive resistance to save your ass.
You chicken hawks will not be wanting to deal with old crazy Vietnam Vets. I know you will be sending your trash to do your dirty work as in the days of the Citizens Council, but now, there is no fear.
I'll throw more than a tantrum.
@Hathor "You chicken hawks will not be wanting to deal with old crazy Vietnam Vets. I know you will be sending your trash to do your dirty work as in the days of the Citizens Council, but now, there is no fear."
ReplyDeleteI too am a Vietnam Vet but I have no desire to hurt anyone. Why add more anger and hurt to America and to a world that is already overflowing with it?
Try visiting the Vietnam Wall and maybe some of your craziness will be transformed so that when it's time to die, you will pass away in peace....Enjoy Labor Day.
Anonymous 4:40:
ReplyDeleteKiss my grits! BTW, you wish that I was crazy. Sorry to disappoint you. Nah, on second thought I'm not sorry. ______you!
Congrats Field! And I LOVE the Newseum although I haven't been there since Prez Obama won.
ReplyDelete"You are so immature and naive. Looking back on your grandiose comments since Obama's election should humble you and make you wiser. But it hasn't. Instead you throw temper tantrums like a 2-year old, and see red like Granny."
ReplyDeleteShut the fuck up. Seriously.
Sometimes you gotta be blunt with it. Anonymous Cowards such as these deserve no flowery or clever insults, just blunt ones.
I agree with you on the Oregon situation. Blount went way overboard. Having played in college myself you come to realize taunting and trash talking is part of the game. No one likes it, that's part of the reason why you try your damn best to win. Also, as far as Spelman is concerned, I have a daughter and would love for her to go to Spelman, I even live in Atlanta but if something like that happened to my daughter I don't know what I would do. I can tell you though, that movie "A Time to Kill" comes to mind because I don't know if I could just sit there, do nothing and accept something senseless like that....
ReplyDeleteFor all these people saying that this Oregon kid got what he deserved (being suspended from his football team for the rest of the season by his university) go back and look at the whole video. The Boise State kid not only verbally taunted him he put his hands on him to make his point. A Boise State coach was on his way to grab his kid after seeing him taunt the Oregon player. Then the Boise kid was dropped like a rock.
ReplyDeleteI love all this I would of just did nothing talk cause its not true you would of at least reacted cause that's human. Yes the Oregon was suspended from playing football but he's still on schoarlship and attends practice and all his classes. This suspension was done by his university not the NCAA so I wouldn't be suprised that if he is reinstated before the end of the season.
By Boise State not even making their kid sit for at least one game will hurt them in the way coaches and writers vote for them in the college football polls. Boise State is a non-BCS school so they basically have to win every game to get to a good bowl game and don't think that after that first loss some writer or coach is sitting back thinking "but y'all didn't sit your guy and he started it" and give them a low ranking. Oregon stood tall and did the right thing and karma comes around quick in football and I wouldn't be too worried about that Oregon kid missing upon his NFL payday; he is currently ranked the the no. 2 running back in college, so he'll be fine. Didn't hurt Ray Magamula (sp) when he was dancing behind Erin Andrews, a Samoan grinding behind blone, blue eyed white woman lol (that peeping tom video was messed up too). But he plays for the Bengals so it might of cost him lol
@Truth in Lurking Dept - I'm so glad to hear you say this. Now if only more of us "white" folks would see the truth and then fight for justice.
ReplyDelete@Black Diaspora - I should have known you would be there to offer moral support. Again, I thank you for your willingness to educate me and others.
Yo field...well while lil becky an' them wasn't allowed to watch Obama's speech they are being bussed to hear more 'my pet goat' indoctrination...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/Kids-Didnt-Hear-Obama-But-Will-Be-Bussed-for-Bush-57827022.html
makes me sad to be a Texan...