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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Will Smith
via Buzz Harris facebook ^ | 3-29-22 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Posted on 03/30/2022 6:04:15 AM PDT by raccoonradio

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To: raccoonradio

I guess I’m just old fashioned, but I wouldn’t stand by if my wife was insulted.


81 posted on 03/30/2022 10:33:12 AM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: V_TWIN
"Funny how black athletes gravitate to white women......easier to control and less chance of being slashed with a straight razor in their sleep I guess."

Black women have always been bothered by black men hooking up with white women. I think that's why so many of them over the years have gone to great lengths to dress, and look like while women. I've always said, if they hate us so much, why do they try so hard to look like us?

82 posted on 03/30/2022 10:50:30 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: mass55th

“if they hate us so much, why do they try so hard to look like us?”

My wife says the same thing about lesbians that dress like men....if they like women so much, why go to such lengths to look like a dude?


83 posted on 03/30/2022 11:07:49 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Wuli

“You have never been anywhere in Africa have you.”

Yeah, sure, Sunshine, go live in Africa and tell us what a jewel it is. It’s a sh*thole, the entire continent. They don’t report their murder rates so that crap is unreliable.


84 posted on 03/30/2022 11:38:11 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: Wuli

Since you wanted to compare murder rates within cities, you might want to also review that those murders are committed by Africans.


85 posted on 03/30/2022 11:39:53 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: mass55th

6 months?!?? WTF?


86 posted on 03/30/2022 11:40:37 AM PDT by stevio
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To: raccoonradio
Oh, that Will Smith.

I assumed that, as an athlete, Kareem would be commenting on Will Smith of the L.A. Dodgers.

87 posted on 03/30/2022 12:02:25 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: V_TWIN
"My wife says the same thing about lesbians that dress like men....if they like women so much, why go to such lengths to look like a dude?"

Exactly!

88 posted on 03/30/2022 12:06:24 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: raccoonradio

Before we get too outraged at Will Smith’s actions, I would point people to the exchange between Harry S. Truman and a reporter who went after his daughter.


89 posted on 03/30/2022 12:08:58 PM PDT by Windcatcher (Time to fly the other black flag -- one of no quarter for Marxists.)
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To: raccoonradio

https://www.sportscasting.com/kareem-abdul-jabbar-kent-benson-different-versions-ugly-sucker-punch-broken-hand-and-record-setting-fine/

. . .Right from the beginning, the two big men were getting physical with each other. There was some elbowing as the two battled for position in the paint. Things escalated with Benson elbowing Abdul-Jabbar in the stomach/groin area. While the game played on, Abdul-Jabbar stepped aside to gather himself and keeled over for a couple of seconds.

He returned to guard Benson and then sucker-punched the Bucks rookie in the right side of the head, knocking him to the floor. Abdul-Jabbar’s actions resulted in a record-setting $5,000 fine and a tongue-lashing from then-NBA Commissioner Lawrence F. O’Brien. . .


90 posted on 03/30/2022 12:42:53 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: budj

Or the ThunderDome.😁


91 posted on 03/30/2022 3:35:40 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: depressed in 06

Well,I suspect that she can hit harder than little Willy.🤔


92 posted on 03/30/2022 3:37:57 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Tired of Taxes

Butt GI Jane is white.
I suspect she was upset for being compared to a white person.🤔


93 posted on 03/30/2022 3:42:41 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Candor7
Like Love and Marriage, You can't have one without the other...


94 posted on 03/30/2022 7:49:48 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks

Thats right Fred.

in Japan though, its all called manners, literally “Reido”

The bowing way.

In the old days in America’s West, bad manners at a card table could get a person shot.

In Japan, bad manners could get ones head cut right of, decapitation.

People who act with oput manners today are legion. Many earn their livings on it and thrive because we are “civilized “ these days. But every once in a while you see the old way peek out if a set of social circumstances. This Will Smith/Chris Cox situation was one of them.

The Academy hored Chris Cox. Chris Cox siad somethig unkind and offensive whihci removed the dignity of Mrs. Smith. Now they are trying to oust Will Smith who gained immedate satisfaction for the wrong. The fault, according to the rules of manners is that of the Academy who hired Cox, and Cox himself.

I agree with Will Smith’s conduct, as gauche as it was.He did right by himself and his wife. Smith has entered the region of conservative action, maybe he will wake up and become a Trump supporter.


95 posted on 03/30/2022 8:06:50 PM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

It’s nothing but theatre imo. About as meaningful as our recent three hour eulogy on TV prime time of a cricketer. Manners and ethics don’t get a look-in when it comes to filling the timeslot between advertisements.


96 posted on 03/30/2022 8:14:12 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: Tired of Taxes

What he said was not offensive or derogatory in any way.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

It was offensive.

Mrs Smith has a disease of the scalp requiring her to shave her head.The disease is an auti immune disease called : “Alopecia Areata.”

Chris Cox badgered Mrs. Smith, it was the second time he did so in public. In doing so he removed Mrs. Smiths dignity at a formal event where manners are necessary. Mr. Smith wanted satisfaction as a result, and took it.

The Academy was wrong to hire Chris Cox for such a formal event, who is ignorant.Chris Cox was wrong to personalize his jokes against anyone at such a formal event, they should have been general, impersonal jokes.

The fault lies with the Academy and Chris Cox, not Will Smith.


97 posted on 03/30/2022 8:20:01 PM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Fred Nerks

Crikey, the left arenow tryng to crap all over Will Smith.

I am sticking it to the left. Conservative values need honorable mention , even if committed by accident by a lefty like Will Smith.

When the going gets tough, even the lefties resort to Conservative Values.

Shows how deluded things are.LOL.

And why Trump has such appeal to many Democrats.

All the world is a stage.


98 posted on 03/30/2022 8:23:01 PM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7
In doing so he removed Mrs. Smiths dignity at a formal event where manners are necessary

Dignity?!!? At the Academy Awards?!?! Bwahahahahaha!

99 posted on 03/30/2022 8:26:44 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Candor7
One of the best examples of Japanese etiquette I ever read about was in the book Yet Being Something Other written by Laurens Van Der Post. In the chapter The Ship and the Captain he takes you into the heart of the culture. Amazon have it.
100 posted on 03/30/2022 8:44:35 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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