Posted on 02/13/2018 2:17:46 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
A reporter last night asked San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich why it’s important for the NBA to celebrate Black History Month.
Popovich isn’t one to pull any punches:
‘I think it’s pretty obvious. The league is made up of a lot of black guys. To honor that and understand it is pretty simplistic. How would you ignore that? But more importantly, we live in a racist country that hasn’t figured it out yet.’
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Perhaps it’s time to stop watching the NFL, NBA, hit the gym, do some home improvements, etc.
I figured out he is an @$$hole. But anyone who watches the NBA will put up with anything.
And yet Black Panther is going to have a massive box office haul.
Set Pop up with a marshmallow question first so he can pontificate and virtue signal about how b.a.d. dem NBA ownuh racists is in de league; then just press play on Stephen A. right in front of Pop and watch him turn beet red, ask him to comment lofl....this is the kind of breakout paradigm-shifting interview that Project Veritas ought to expand to....
Is his racism the reason that only a third of the team is white, and it looks like they only have one guy with Asian blood in him? And where are the Mexicans?
Yes; the USA has to many racist! But there are racists in all races. There is white privileged. There is male privilege. There is female privilege. There is wealthy people privilege. There is beautiful people privileged. There is tall mens privileged. Etc... The real problem to many people no longer practice manners, etiquette or compassion. Just look at the way people drive or push shopping carts you’ll know what I mean.
Actually, what we’re seeing is not “racism”, per se, but the reaction of the left to the demise of reaction to the “race victims’” cries of anguish.
“The boy who cried wolf” lesson of civil rights is long passed, and we’re left with people who are just sick to death of hearing about it. People who - short of giving away all of their worldly goods to the nearest minority person, then committing suicide - is left with nothing else they can do about helping.
Zillions of taxpayer dollars have gone into trying to “make up” for slavery, preferences, quotas, set-asides, and welfare are never enough.
Prime Minister Thatcher once stated that “socialism is fine until you run out of other peoples’ money”...that is true; we might not be completely out of money, but we’re not willing to give up lifetimes of hard work and the welfare of our own families to support some pseudo-guilt trip apology for something we had nothing to do with, period.
No one alive today was ever a slave owner, and no one alive today was ever a slave (in America). To say so, or to pretend just isn’t so.
I was in high school when it all started; I remember all of the arguments about integrating schools, reparation, marches, riots, etc.
Integration was a new word I had to learn because the 6pm news brimmed with libs talking about minorities wanting the same “chance” and “access” as whites. Well, they eventually got it. But, they - IMHO - got it too fast and too much. The takers became insatiable...they didn’t want some, they wanted it all. Nowadays, they want more than “all”.
Colleges, minority groups everywhere are now demanding - guess what - SEGREGATION. Separation from white people. They’re even financing brain-washing groups to tropical shores just to get relief from “white women”.
But, after a while, it starts to become like the “WOPR” computer in the movie, “War Games”...with a quote the givers, the majority, are starting to apply...”the only way to win, is NOT to play the game”.
I don’t listen to their incessant rants, lectures, and filibusters on TV news, internet, or anywhere else. They all boil down to one them - “gimme more”.
I’m done giving. The taxes I HAVE to pay are my “contribution”. I won’t give a dime to any liberal, or minority cause or charity. I don’t care how sad, pitiful, needy, fair/unfair the claims...tough shit. You’ve squandered and plundered until it’s running out...and I’m not playing anymore.
I was always expected to get up, dress up, and show up; work, raise my family, pay the bills and pay my taxes...and I haven’t seen a single person - black, white, male, female, legal, illegal - who isn’t obligated to do the same thing with their own lives.
I don’t give a damn how well you can dance, sing, or dunk a basketball. I could care less how shiny your “threads” are or what kind of wheels you drive. If taking away your handouts, freebies, material things leaves you at “homeless” status...you’re not “cool”...you’re not a “big shot”...you’re a worthless bum.
I’m out of the game. The word “racist” means nothing to me as it’s so, damned, over and wrongly used, it is an idle guilt tripping mechanism to work on liberals with too much money and a room temperature IQ.
“Diversity” will not work on humans much better than getting Bluebirds to date Cardinals...cows to marry pigs...or any other animal species. We will always come back to our own kind. If you want to make that about the money, it’s your weak display of knowledge and understanding...not my “racism”.
What some of these jackass people like this particular coach here needs to figure out is that the reason why so many people may not like people like him is not because of the color of his skin, but because of the content of his ugly grievance-meister jackass character.
Calling people racist deflects the conversation away from broken families and cultural issues which should be discussed and resolved.
I like Stephen A. Stephen A. would give Pop tough questions that would make Pop get angry. You’re right.
If we live in a racist country, you white moronic idiot, go someplace and coach basketball, like maybe North Korea or maybe Venezuela...
This idiot is biting the hand that feeds him. Look at the crowd. The NBA audience is almost exclusive to whites. White man is paying the player’s salaries for a silly kids game..
Why is anything that this racist asshole, Popovish, says on freerepublic in the first place?
it’ll be a decent day when this guy is ignored.
Why do blacks get their own history months and no one else does?
At least it's the shortest month of the year.
Sure coach, that’s why the powers to be gave these poor victims their own whole month to cry their victimhood and console each other. Cannot find a larger crowd if crybabies.
Just another liberal suffering badly from Chronic Perceived Racism Syndrome. Glad the NBA has been dead to me for a couple of decades; NFL has only been dead for a couple of years, but it will be decades before anything - if anything - changes.
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