Everywhere I look I see racism.
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 could have said fn mind and only the FCC would have cared. What has become of our society?
The play-by-play announcer said Westbrook was ‘out of his cotton-picking mind’
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The dictionary recognizes it as a non-racial phrase used for emphasis.
heh heh
But he did jew ‘em down from a 10 game suspension to one game!
(irresistible)
Idiocy.
I suppose I could be accused of pandaring.
That’s the biggest problem - the offended usually aren’t offended but pretend they are since it garners them attention.
All are playing parts in this silly pantomime.
And still...the human mic stands posing as reporters won’t ask the most basic how? or why? questions of the people they are paid to cover. Doing so would reveal that these idiot jocks don’t know what happened last week let alone 100 years ago.
Tennessee Ernie would disagree.
“THE.” I just said a racist word. Yes, “the” is racist because it’s about White Privilege and how evil White Males are, and how they are racist. So now you can’t say “the” any more.
What word is next?
He was blackballed....Oh, my God, I used the word black! I didn’t mean to be racially insensitive; oh, there I go again..I didn’t mean to use the term racial.
I happened to be an American who is black and I use that phrase quite a bit. Does that mean I’m racist against myself?
At least his name wasn’t Robert Lee!
I remember when people used to get offended only at things normal people got offended at. Now they look for reasons to be offended just to bully others.
Shame.......that’s racist! Against lice.
Everywhere I look I see racism.
Remember 10 or so years ago when a DC bureaucrat was fired for using the word “niggardly” in the completely condign context of discussing a stingy City budget..?
You really would think that he would argue against his firing by saying something like, “hey, dummies, niggardly is a real word...”, right..?
Absolutely not:
His defense was, “But i am a GAY man..!”
I’m not kidding.
That’s how stupid balkanized we are.
And then there are Brazil nuts. I found one in my little dish of mixed nuts from Costco, and I started to reminisce about my youth.
So now “cotton picking” mind is “racist”?
I guess TCM could get severe blowback from it’s millions of “progressive” fans the next time it airs the original Al Jolson movie.
If it hadn’t been for cotton, we would have never needed them...they’d still be living in grass huts in Africa, instead of living in the greatest country in the world.
I remember a saying that went around when I was a kid (down here in the south), “If we had known they’d be this much trouble, we would’ve picked our own damn cotton.”.
I’d like to see a survey on exactly how many blacks, alive today, have ever even SEEN a cotton plant, much less picked any.
It must be hell reliving slavery with a pair of 200-dollar shoes and a 700-dollar cellphone in your droopy drawers, all the while making millions throwing around a little round ball.
When the word, “racism” stops being pure “leverage”, all things will calm down.
In the 40s and earlier, schools in the Bootheel of Missouri (both black and white) had a month-long ‘cotton picking’ vacation. It was so the kids could help harvest the crop.
How many Warner Brothers characters and cartoons of old will now have to be banned for using the term cotton-pickin’? I’m pretty sure that Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam both used the term at least once.
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