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Why no white players on the US Olympic basketball team? (vanity)
08/21/2016 | Me

Posted on 08/21/2016 2:03:57 PM PDT by God luvs America

Watching the awards ceremony and I notice not a single white guy on the team. Usually I wouldn't care and I'm all for putting the best players on the team but after all the whining we heard about no black nominees during the Academy Awards this must be asked.


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KEYWORDS: 2016olympics; athletes; teamusa
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To: God luvs America

Carmelo Anthony in his post-game interview said something interesting, “I know America can be great again.”


41 posted on 08/21/2016 2:56:00 PM PDT by DC Packfan
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To: DC Packfan
Carmelo Anthony in his post-game interview said something interesting, “I know America can be great again.”

Hmmmmmm.

42 posted on 08/21/2016 2:56:29 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: God luvs America
I expect you, or someone with the facts, to produce evidence detailing how the Olympic basketball team was racially selected.

Not that it matters...much. So long as the players chosen produce a gold medal, is it important the melanin content of their skin and the haplo grouping they hail from?

43 posted on 08/21/2016 2:57:36 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: dfwgator

44 posted on 08/21/2016 2:58:33 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: God luvs America

Because white males be racist, Negro. She it! How come you ain’t be nowin dat she it? You be sufferin from dat white priv ledge. Best you adjust yo attitude or da department of just us be coming down on yo ass.


45 posted on 08/21/2016 3:02:25 PM PDT by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: wally_bert

LOL, The White Shadow.

Remember on SNL, they did a parody called “The Black Shadow” will Bill Russell as the coach who was always getting into trouble, and his white players always bailing him out.


46 posted on 08/21/2016 3:03:28 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: God luvs America

In the last NINE olympics, all eight finalists in the 400m dash have been West African.

The last nine Nobel prizes in Chemistry, Medicine, and Physics have gone to Europeans or East Asians.

Basketball is not a sport where Europeans excel at the top level.

So what?


47 posted on 08/21/2016 3:05:16 PM PDT by Jim Noble (The polls can have a strong influence on the weak-minded)
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To: InterceptPoint

This guy was ‘born to the breed’.
It’s Klay Thompson; 26 y/o, 6ft, 7in son of former NBA player Mychal Thompson.Mychal was born in the Bahamas. Mother, Julie was a volleyball player in college.


48 posted on 08/21/2016 3:07:05 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: TomasUSMC

I was accused of being a racist by a lib a few years back.

Why?

Because I said I liked hockey.

True story.

.


49 posted on 08/21/2016 3:07:58 PM PDT by Mears
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To: God luvs America

R-a-c-i-s-t-s


50 posted on 08/21/2016 3:08:25 PM PDT by ataDude (Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
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To: God luvs America

Rick Barry got old.


51 posted on 08/21/2016 3:08:56 PM PDT by muleskinner
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To: Thumper1960; All

thanks for proving my point...now what about all the whining over no black nominees for the academy awards?


52 posted on 08/21/2016 3:10:41 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: God luvs America

My son had the same reaction to my watching an ancient NBA game between the Celtics and the Lakers, probably from the 1970’s. He thought it was college ball. :=)


53 posted on 08/21/2016 3:18:22 PM PDT by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not auccomplishments; they're jobs.)
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To: dfwgator

West Point graduate and former Army officer, so he has credibility.


54 posted on 08/21/2016 3:20:05 PM PDT by nickedknack
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To: Jim Noble

I think the Serbians, Lithuanians, Spaniards, and other Europeans playing / who have played in the NBA would disagree.


55 posted on 08/21/2016 3:24:01 PM PDT by nickedknack
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To: God luvs America
What point. Present one that you can have proven and we can go from there. Preoccupation with race is well past tiresome and is full into moronic territory.

As for "Academy Awards", who cares. Self absorbed jackasses stroking other self absorbed jackasses. Hollyweird means nothing to me, or to most sentient beings.

56 posted on 08/21/2016 3:27:30 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: God luvs America

White guys on the team would have signaled “white privilege” and “cultural appropriation”.


57 posted on 08/21/2016 3:34:40 PM PDT by disndat
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To: Puppage

They teach us how to play ball . . we teach ‘em how to read!


58 posted on 08/21/2016 4:01:51 PM PDT by 2nd Amendment (Proud member of the 48% . . giver not a taker)
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To: SamAdams76
but it still doesn't make it right that we can send a bunch of professionals to represent us at the Olympic games.

I'm with you on this one.

59 posted on 08/21/2016 4:39:23 PM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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To: God luvs America

Basketball keeps them off the streets and out of trouble. Most of the time. Sometimes.


60 posted on 08/21/2016 4:41:40 PM PDT by lakecumberlandvet (APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS.)
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