He was a bad announcer for offending those poor sensitive jocks ...
Posted on 04/15/2018 4:26:18 AM PDT by Zakeet
The play-by-play announcer said Westbrook was 'out of his cotton-picking mind'
The Oklahoma City Thunder suspended play-by-play announcer Brian Davis for one game following his racially insensitive comment about Thunder star Russell Westbrook.
During the Thunder's final regular-season game on Wednesday night, Davis said that Westbrook was "out of his cotton-picking mind" following a nifty assist by the guard.
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He was a bad announcer for offending those poor sensitive jocks ...
They are really going out of their way to find racism, aren’t they.
We are being bamboozled big time.
Good grief.
What?
Cotton-picking is a racist term?
What? We are losing our collective minds.
Good grief.
Are you sure that's not an anti-Asian statement?
/sarc
The official way to bully whitey by the low IQ crowd.
Its racissst to say a black guy picked cotton.
That’s right up there with saying he loved to eat watermelon.
Anything is a racially insensitive trigger - it just depends on the context.
Cotton picking is done by machines now.
People haven’t picked it for a very long time.
Is ‘Pea picking’ out as well?
I’m just saying.
The term is entirely neutral.
Bogus charge against the guy. Completely bogus.
At least he didn’t call him a pickaninny..
Remember when offending some idiot snowflake wasn’t a punishable offense in America?
Exactly. It is a very common phrase.
They are just nit picking now.
He’s out of his potato picking mind...... Irish racism
Its a “figure of speech” and these PC morons don’t see that.
Man, this guy is getting so gyped! I mean he was sold down the river!
He may be trailer trash but the suspension is really off the reservation!
The whole NBA is a Chinese fire drill.
The phase became popular with Tennessee Ernie Ford’s TV show. He also liked to say bless your pea pickin heart.
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-269153.html
All harmless until the easily offended SJWs showed up
It’s an entertainment product which I have a choice, like the NFL...I am not buying.
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