White people, don't you dare go there

Jewish World Review ^ | Dec. 8, 2003 | Jimmie Walker

[SJackson]

As our society becomes more and more racially splintered, there is a stark reality...white people can't speak or register their thoughts about race nor can they have an open dialog without being considered racist.

When football player, Junior Seau was asked how to stop San Diego Charger star running back LaDainian Tomlinson, he said: "Put a couple of buckets of chicken and some watermelon in front of him and maybe that would stop him." The Miami Dolphin's Seau, who is himself a minority, was wearing a Tomlinson jersey at the time. He later said Tomlinson, a former teammate, was one of his best friends and that there was no issue. Tomlinson later agreed and said he didn't know what all the fuss was about.

Yet a few years ago, Fuzzy Zoeller, a white pro golfer, was asked what he thought Black Pro Golfer Tiger Woods was going to serve at the Masters dinner, Zoeller replied, "Chicken, watermelon, or whatever those people eat." Zoeller was called a racist, had to apologize to Tiger, and the Masters Tournament. He quickly lost his gig as a K-Mart pitchman.

Gambler Jimmy " The Greek" said Blacks were better athletes because they were bred to be that way by their slave owners. He was promptly fired.

Yet Chicago Cubs manager Dusty Baker, who happens to be Black, was asked about his players playing in the extreme heat. He said: " That is no problem for my players, because that's what we were brought over here for, wasn't it?" Baker never backed down from his comment, stating that's what his mother told him.

HBO had a special where personal letters of slaves were read aloud by Black celebrities such as Whoopi Goldberg, Ruby Dee, and Don Cheadle. In one of the letters, a slave girl wrote: "I'm a teenage girl and my master married me to a slave from another plantation because he was strong, big, and healthy. He wanted good, strong workers for his fields and big healthy slaves that he could sell."

[G.Mason]

So what's new?

[newgeezer]

Give it up already. I can call my sister a pig. But, if you try it, I'll kick yo' az. It's the same principle.

[biblewonk]

No caucasian clubs in school ping.

[dixie sass]

I don't know why people can't get over this color thing. We are all Americans and we all have the same opportunities to excel in life. We allow people to come in and say "whitey" does this or that or "blacks" do this or that or "hispanics" do this or that when the plain fact is each of us wants the same things.

We are all given the chance to excel and it is the individual that makes these decisions for themselves, oops, I forgot, we are a nation of Shepple - we let hollywood set the agenda about what each group is and how they should act or not act.

Geeze, people get over it. Realize that we have opportunites at hand and we are the only ones that can take advantage of them!

[FireTrack]

"Then Jackson demanded that they have Kentucky Fried Chicken delivered to the plane before he would agree to take off."

[WKB]

The Kid is still DYNO- MITE

[Godfollow]

Say, "nigor, honky, nigor, honky, nigor, honky" real fast and see what it sounds like. It sounds like honkynigor, which if you think about it sounds a lot like Schwarzengger... Beats me...

[WKB]

Mississippi DYNOMITE ping

[KellyAdmirer]

I guess Dusty Baker's fault was leaving his black players in the lineup for the playoffs as the weather got colder and colder. ;)

[Honcho]

Jimmy Walker doing politics and making sense? Who knew?

[ken5050]

Very funny, but also tacky, at the same time...

[Ramcat]

Last night I was listening to Dan Akroid's "House of Blues" and I heard a song by the Five Blind Boys "She May Be White But She's Funky".

Good tune.

[webstersII]

"Give it up already. I can call my sister a pig. But, if you try it, I'll kick yo' az. It's the same principle."

Wrong analogy.

The issue is that they can call other races (esp. whites) any names they want to and that's not considered racist. Ever seen a hate crime where it was a minority crime against a white person?

It's a double standard, that's the issue.

[gorush]

Very funny, but also tacky, at the same time...

That's me in a nutshell...

[Lazamataz]

Give it up already. I can call my sister a pig. But, if you try it, I'll kick yo' az. It's the same principle.

[newgeezer]

No caucasian clubs in school ping.

Now, that's different. Either disband them all (including the Congressional Black Caucus), or allow them all. The 'freedom of association' thing is a totally separate issue from the 'freedom of speech' thing. (The quotes being there because we're not talking about their legality.)

Again, when my fellow Cardinals fans get together, we will say with impunity that the Cards' pitching s*cks. But, we won't let a steenkin Cubs fan say it about our Cardinals without a fight. ;O)

[Tax-chick]

I think it's a sign of the overall decline of intelligence and education, as indicated by test scores and other measures. Can't anyone think of anything except "chicken and watermelon"? Wake me up when somebody gets some creativity, already ... I don't see racism here, just ignorance and mental laziness.