Posted on 05/06/2023 11:24:08 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The Oakland Athletics said they are "working to address the situation" after play-by-play announcer Glen Kuiper apologized on the air for appearing to use a racial slur during a pregame segment before Friday's game at the Kansas City Royals.
Kuiper appeared to say the slur on NBC Sports California when he referred to a visit to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.
Before the start of the sixth inning, Kuiper apologized.
"Welcome back to Kauffman Stadium. I just want to ... a little earlier in the show, I said something, didn't come out quite the way I wanted it to," Kuiper said. "And I just wanted to apologize if it sounded different than I meant it to be said. And like I said, I just wanted to apologize for that."
It appeared that Kuiper mispronounced the word "Negro," making it sound instead like a slur.
(Excerpt) Read more at espn.com ...
His brother is the announcer for the San Francisco Giants. Will he be fired too?
Sorry dude. Apologies don’t work. All they want are examples made so that others are more afraid than ever to open their pie holes.
Blacks call each other the suposedly evil N word everyday and nobody says squat.....I refer you to every other rap “song” in history.
Apologizing in situlike this is a monumental mistake IMO.
Another victim of the -ist and-phobia nerds.
The traditional southern pronunciation is nigra, and it does not mean the other word, but all this crap makes one want to use it.
The leagues were called the Negro leagues. The biggest league for black players was called the Negro National League; that was its name.
I’ve heard some sports guys stumble over this and call them the “black” leagues, probably because the term “Negro” has fallen into disuse in recent decades. So people are afraid to say “Negro” out loud.
NEVER EVER APOLOGIZE TO THE LEFT!
He White, so he toast. No mistakes are allowed.
“Apologies don’t work”
Not only that, it usually just makes it worse......once the race hustlers see your weak they smell blood in the water and don’t stop until the alleged offender is completely destroyed.
Non White Baseball Players who had to former their own league over 75 years ago, where you can read about the Non White players’ history on the MLB website, but white sports announcers cannot say....
You know, something like that......
Exactly. The woke do not look at apologies as a means for forgiveness. It is only an admission of guilt that requires a conviction and a sentence. Never yield ground to evil.
Audio?
I’ll try to find it. It does sound like that. Are there even 1,000 people who watch the Las Vegas A’s pregame?
It’s on twitter.
Thanks.
I find it Orwellian the news can’t even say or indicate what the word was using asterisks or dashes.
Did you find it? I can’t find the clip on YouTube, but it was on Twitter earlier.
Like Doug Adler, teh tennis announcer who praised Venus Williams for her “guerilla tactics,” and got fired for it.
How many times did we hear Lyndon "Great Society" Johnson pronounce it precisely that way? It never sounded like a slur to me.
In these kind of situations, apologies are tantamount to peeling the scab off a sore...
What’s wrong with the root negre?
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