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Good grief, I'm glad I am not held to what I did when I was 15. :shock:
Right, I read what he said. Paula Deen admitted that she used the N word over 3 decades ago, and she grew up, and it was all over the news and she lost her career. Why does Jordan get a pass?
I'm not saying Jordan should be hated and lose his current career over this, but I also don't think others should have their name smeared and lose their careers either over similar past actions or feelings.
Who cares? Those of you who haven't used the N word cast the first stone. If you say you never have...you are a liar.
I'm sick of all this whiny race-baiting crap. You all need to grow up and realize Utopia is unreachable. Man is fallible and sinful.
I didn't get that at all from Zyphlin's posts. What I got was that given the time period, 40 years ago, and the conditions under which he had spent those 15 years, Jordan's teenaged anger was environmentally understandable, and he has since matured and evolved beyond those feelings once he had the opportunity to experience other environments, other individuals. There was no "pass" given.
I'll go further and speak for myself when I say that if the situation was reversed, if a white kid was raised in an environment where whites were targeted by black gangs who wielded all the power in his environment and sowed all the terror against him and his race, it would be environmentally understandable for him to develop strong anger against black people. Now if he continued that anger and hatred as he matured and experienced other environments and other individuals, then his viewpoints would be based more on ignorance and lack of ability to self-assess.
Racists of any color are not born; they are made, based on their environment and their experience. To me, at least, that makes perfect sense.
When I was kid it wasn't "Eeny, meeny, miney,mo, catch a tigger by the toe..."
When I was kid it wasn't "Eeny, meeny, miney,mo, catch a tigger by the toe..."
It is socially acceptable for black people to dislike white people in the "White Guilt" society we live in.Why is this not big news in light of the recent Donald Sterling scandal? Paula Deen lost her career simply for saying that she used the 'N' word a long time ago. Why no backlash on Michael Jordan?
Michael Jordan's upbringing detailed in new book - ESPN
It is socially acceptable for black people to dislike white people in the "White Guilt" society we live in.
You still haven't said why you think it's okay for a 15 year old black kid to say he's against the white race, but you don't think it's okay for a 15 year old white kid to say he's against the black race. Because of that, I'll chalk it up to giving blacks a pass on racism. That's all I needed to know.
Zyphlin said:So yeah...it's not ridiculous to suggest that a single notion from Michael Jordan almost 40 years ago when he was not an adult being highlighted in a book is not going to get the same attention as someone caught making a racial statement this month who has a RECENT history of racially questionable actions, or a woman who was in the midst of a lawsuit regarding racial prejudice whose business partner was at the time being accused of using the word (and her excusing it to a degree) at their business establishment.
Zyphlin said:I find it disheartening
If some famous 15 year old in the public eye came out TODAY and said he was "against all whites" then yeah...I'd say that would deserve attention and similar public concern (but probably a different reaction, as it is still the difference between a kid and a well into their life adult) as the Sterling or Deen situations.