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ESPN Pundit Apologizes For Saying Black People Aren’t Oppressed In America [VIDEO]
The Daily Caller ^ | 9/2/16 | David Hookstead

Posted on 09/02/2016 9:34:40 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo

ESPN sports pundit Paul Finebaum apologized for saying black people aren’t oppressed in America.

“I really don’t understand, not to look at the country back then, this country has issues, but this country is not oppressing black people,” Finebaum said during an appearance on ESPN.

He is now backing off of his comments.

“I could spend the rest of my life trying to talk my way out of it, but I can’t. I blew it. I simply did not have a good grasp of the situation. I know better. I’ve lived in this country. I see what is going on all across the country from north to south, east to west, and I have no excuse,” the outspoken pundit said.


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To: 1malumprohibitum

Even the proverbial blind squirrel gets the nut every now and then. He might not do anything good with the nut, but he gets it.


21 posted on 09/02/2016 9:48:08 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

but this country is not oppressing black people,” Finebaum said during an appearance on ESPN.”

Obviously this drug addicted fool has never heard of the Demonrat party

Remember kids, this is what happens after a lifetime of doing drugs, you become very very STUPID!!


22 posted on 09/02/2016 9:50:03 AM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: A CA Guy

There’s a spiritual side to it, not just a materialistic side.

It was invited to certain parts of society, in part through the misguided ministry of other certain parts of society.

God did not put people here to be other people’s pets or pet-keepers. I hate nanny states, I hate them with a passion. I have seen how they crack whips on entities, causing those entities in turn to crack whips on others, in a hierarchy of veritable Simon Legrees.


23 posted on 09/02/2016 9:51:01 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Puppage
WTF? Am I in a nightmare? What’s happened to America? I swear I don’t recognize it any longer.

Epic fail for Obama and the dems. Epic success for Nikita Krushchev when he predicted that the communists would bury us without firing a shot. The country is now fragmented beyond repair by liberalism.

24 posted on 09/02/2016 9:53:34 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ("Political Correctness is communist propaganda writ small" - Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: MAKOTHEDOG

Finebaum must be a proper good liberal not to have been suspended or fired for his comments.


He works for ESPN. Goose step along to the party line or get beheaded. Those are his two choices.


25 posted on 09/02/2016 9:53:58 AM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Finebaum is right, and his message really hits home with me. Tonight, when I get home from work I’m finally going to do it... Yep, I’m going to free my slaves.

Fact is... I’m tired of being The Man. It takes a lot of work ‘keeping them down’. Would rather take up a new hobby, like clubbing baby seals.


26 posted on 09/02/2016 9:54:14 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Rap music: Soundtrack of the retarded.)
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To: Mr. Mojo
Apology not accepted. Get out the dunce cap!


27 posted on 09/02/2016 9:54:32 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: TakebackGOP

They’re being repressed, terribly repressed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8ukak8P2vY

(Monty Python classic)


28 posted on 09/02/2016 9:54:51 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: woweeitsme

A two-term black president, no less. I wonder if the Obozo family feels oppressed.


29 posted on 09/02/2016 9:55:05 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: ClearCase_guy

They are NOT oppressed but LOVE victim status and refuse to give it up.

Even a 1/2 black president doesn’t make them happy.

(By “them” I mean the whiners and SJWs——not the average black who just plods along like the rest of us.)

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30 posted on 09/02/2016 9:55:50 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Mr. Mojo

they aren’t. sick of hearing this. i believe there is racism. i believe there is racism on both sides of the racial divide.

i treat other people of different races with respect, and expect the same.

that is how it should be.

and MLK Jr. had it right—something the racists on both sides forget—we should judge someone by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.

truth.


31 posted on 09/02/2016 9:57:50 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Mr. Mojo
I think these “public persona people” that spill forth on stuff be it race, religion, climate change, whatever, they had better learn to be ready for a fight. One of the old 1990ish New York City mayors (Rudy/Mario/Ed?) said you can go down to Time Square and start passing out $50 bills, 1/3 of the people would say stop, 1/3 would say pass out less, 1/3 would say pass out more, no one would be happy.
32 posted on 09/02/2016 9:58:45 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: Sans-Culotte

We had a spiritual foundation in widespread Judeo-Christian belief. We walked away from it. The sin is a multitude of individual sins, not some failure of governments to mandate what they never could mandate.

Communists were quite perceptive to note that they could fill such vacuums with their malarkey.


33 posted on 09/02/2016 9:59:38 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

The Ministry of Propaganda will tolerate no deviation from the narrative.


34 posted on 09/02/2016 9:59:45 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Mr. Mojo
I have watched all of the white commentators 'have their consciousness raised' by their black counterparts on this issue!

ESPN has engaged in a massive effort to defend the bum!

35 posted on 09/02/2016 10:02:28 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Mr. Mojo

36 posted on 09/02/2016 10:02:58 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: BlueStateRightist

Wally Cox's brother?

37 posted on 09/02/2016 10:04:40 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Mr. Mojo

“It won’t happen again, Massa!”


38 posted on 09/02/2016 10:05:13 AM PDT by onedoug ("The Union, next to our liberty, most dear." --John C Calhoun)
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To: onedoug

how ironically apropos


39 posted on 09/02/2016 10:06:33 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

How are Blacks oppressed?


40 posted on 09/02/2016 10:07:21 AM PDT by sport
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