Posted on 05/08/2019 8:59:25 AM PDT by OddLane
The Chicago Cubs are investigating a fan who appeared to flash a white power sign in back of a black reporter during a live broadcast, team officials said.
Doug Glanville, a former outfielder for the Cubs now working as an analyst for NBC Sports Chicago, was covering Tuesday night’s game at Wrigley Field against the Miami Marlins when a fan seated behind him used his left hand to form an upside-down “OK” symbol — a hand gesture sometimes associated with white supremacy.
“We are currently investigating an incident that occurred during the Cubs’ May 7 broadcast on NBC Sports Chicago while reporter Doug Glanville was on the air,” Cubs president of business operations Crane Kenny said in a statement to The Post. “An individual seated behind Mr. Glanville used what appears to be an offensive hand gesture that is associated with racism.”
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But black power salutes are fine for those performing the superbowl halftime skit.
Got it.
The OK sign is NOT a racist or white power symbol! People need to get a life!
Do we know the fan knew what the hand gesture meant, NO
Now you’re on board. No more “O-Tay” symbols with thumb and forefinger and no more finger guns. I believe the peace sign will soon be banned as it seems to indicate a persons legs spread so could be viewed as a signal to rape someone. Yes, they are that friggin’ wacko-O-doodle.
Idiots. 4chan larp.
But if he got in trouble for flashing a gang sign the ACLU would be filing suits against the Cubbies faster than Kyle Busch on steroids.
The thumbs up gesture is also a racisms, for those of you who are not up on these matters. The thumb is a 1, the fingers are 4, giving you 14, and indicating the racismist/supreemist 14 words. Basically, the only way to be safe, white is to just kill yourself.
Keep in mind this is the same city that let Jussie Smollett get away with his fake hate crime he pinned on white people.
Right on, right on, right on.
Zac-Lee! I have a buddy I play guitar with on occasion and we met at an event in South Lake Tahoe. He pulled off his watch cap and asked me if his hair was all Buckwheat lookin’. I had to tell him yeah, pretty much. He is an AA by the way. No problem. SJW’s can KMA! LOL!
So do the umps have to change it up now too?
Huh? Looks like a right ‘arm’ on the ice cream sign to me. What hidden meaning is that?
This sign is NOT racist. It’s the OK sign!
What they have done is turn an innocent gesture into something racist.
I quote myself: hate crime laws were created to criminalize anything a White says or does, or doesn’t say or doesn’t do, and to set free non-Whites who physically attack Whites.
True now as ever before.
Black Power symbol on the Left (of course).
Obama's favorite ice cream shop on the right.
Some people see a similarity.
This is ridiculous.
This is called the Circle Game. (there are cruder names for it)
The goal is to hold the gesture below your waist, get someone to look at it, and then you get to punch them on the arm. This has been around since the 1980s. I remember doing this with my friends in junior high. I guess I didn't realize we were white supremacists...
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-circle-game
I’ve seen this hand gesture used between friends in a game where the signaler makes the sign either over the head or under the waist. If the other person looks at it, the signaler can slap the neck of the other person. However, if the second person can break the ring area within the sign with his finger before the signaler can put it away, the target gets to slap the neck of the first person. It’s dumb, but in the big score card of stupid things life, this guy owes neck slaps to everyone in the tv audience... which might be cool.
... or he might be a racist!
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