Posted on 04/17/2010 1:58:46 PM PDT by EveningStar
Catching up with an HBO sports documentary which ran several times in March: Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals, painted Boston Celtics basketball star Larry Bird as the victim of a racist national milieu exacerbated by President Ronald Reagan...
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Did you see the episode where he went on an on about Muhammad Ali being “blacker” than Joe Frazier?
Gumbel is crazy.
I saw the doc and wanted to throw a brick through the screen after the Reagan smear. It had been a pretty good show up til then. Without any proof the makers of doc asserted that Black civil rights were rolled back. Then a picture of the supposedly evil Reagan who was responsible. I’ve concluded not to recommend this thing to anyone for its blatant dishonesty and race-baiting. Disgusting libs ruin everything. Even sports reporting.
That was never explained. Like all lib statements it was just assumed that Black civil rights were rolled back somehow because Reagan was president. The people who made this doc are dishonest pigs.
has larry bird ever acknowleged his love child daughter and tried to make things right or is he still considered a dead beat dad like alot of nba basketball stars who are not heros because of that way of thinking?
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