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Did ESPN announcer make racist comment about Venus Williams?

Still wondering how politics got worked into this or how this got worked into politics.
 
poweRob said:
Still wondering how politics got worked into this or how this got worked into politics.
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Yes.
The fact that many "Conservatives" assume that liberals are the only ones who call out racist words and actions says an awful lot about the state of the Right today.
 
CycloneWanderer said:
I think it would be a fitting analogy even if it's an insensitive one. It's definitely a poor choice of words. These people are paid to talk all day, chances are they will say something dumb eventually.
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I played tennis for over 40 years and have watched plenty of professional matches on tv. Never heard an attacking player called a gorilla. Beast maybe, especially referring to a big serve and volley game. But never gorilla. I agree they are bound to say something stupid given the amount of commentary.
 
RickJames3000 said:
Yes.
The fact that many "Conservatives" assume that liberals are the only ones who call out racist words and actions says an awful lot about the state of the Right today.
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There's a goddamn librulz boogieman under every bed and around every corner in that world.
 
RickJames3000 said:
Yes.
The fact that many "Conservatives" assume that liberals are the only ones who call out racist words and actions says an awful lot about the state of the Right today.
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What is racist about the word gorilla?
 
MaggieD said:
What is racist about the word gorilla?
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Do you really not understand why comparing a black woman charging a tennis net to a gorilla would be racially problematic?
Are you really this tone deaf?
 
Cardinal said:
Well, I'm not really sure myself, and watching the video doesn't clear it up either.
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Really? When used in conjunction with "charging"?

There is not anywhere to hide on a tennis court, so the idea behind the word "guerrilla" is incongruent, whereas "charging the net" is a commonly used tennis term, and a "charging gorilla" is a commonly understood phrase. Guerrilla warfare did not use the concept of a "charge", in fact it was nearly the opposite.
 
Gimmesometruth said:
Really? When used in conjunction with "charging"?

There is not anywhere to hide on a tennis court, so the idea behind the word "guerrilla" is incongruent, whereas "charging the net" is a commonly used tennis term, and a "charging gorilla" is a commonly understood phrase. Guerrilla warfare did not use the concept of a "charge", in fact it was nearly the opposite.
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I really shouldn't have chimed in on this topic. I don't know the first thing about tennis.
 
RickJames3000 said:
Do you really not understand why comparing a black woman charging a tennis net to a gorilla would be racially problematic?
Are you really this tone deaf?
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I remember a woman who yelled out her front door for the little monkeys to get down from the tree in her front yard. She was vilified by the media nationally because a few of the kids were black. I remember a politician crucified by the left for using niggardly in a speech. If YOU hear gorilla or monkey or niggardly and think it's racist, I think you might want to examine your own perspective.

I am not tone deaf. Color blind would be more like it. You?
 
MaggieD said:
I remember a woman who yelled out her front door for the little monkeys to get down from the tree in her front yard. She was vilified by the media nationally because a few of the kids were black. I remember a politician crucified by the left for using niggardly in a speech. If YOU hear gorilla or monkey or niggardly and think it's racist, I think you might want to examine your own perspective.

I am not tone deaf. Color blind would be more like it. You?
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When someone claims that they are "color blind", it's an immediate red flag. It suggests that the user of the term is either delusional, ignorant or lying about their racial attitudes.

Who knows? You might just have a "blind spot". Still your post suggests a fairly notable insensitivity.
I don't know you beyond this board, so I don't know how you've come to your conclusions.

But if you think comparing a black woman to a gorilla is acceptable, then don't act shocked when people call you a racist.
 
RickJames3000 said:
When someone claims that they are "color blind", it's an immediate red flag. It suggests that the user of the term is either delusional, ignorant or lying about their racial attitudes.

Who knows? You might just have a "blind spot". Still your post suggests a fairly notable insensitivity.
I don't know you beyond this board, so I don't know how you've come to your conclusions.

But if you think comparing a black woman to a gorilla is acceptable, then don't act shocked when people call you a racist.
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It's only a problem in the brainwashed culture of victimization training.
 
RickJames3000 said:
When someone claims that they are "color blind", it's an immediate red flag. It suggests that the user of the term is either delusional, ignorant or lying.

Who knows? You might just have a "blind spot". Still your post suggests a fairly notable insensitivity.
I don't know you beyond this board, so I don't know how you've come to your conclusions.

But if you think comparing a black woman to a gorilla is acceptable, then don't act shocked when people call you a racist.
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Stop assuming the worst of an announcer who would have to be insane to say that imputing the meaning YOU are. Tell me. Is your undisclosed liberal? Of course it is. Liberals are often the most intolerant of all.
 
Erod said:
It's only a problem in the brainwashed culture of victimization training.
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It's clearly a problem for you, as you are constantly whining about Conservatives being labeled as racists.
 
Hari Seldon said:
I played tennis for over 40 years and have watched plenty of professional matches on tv. Never heard an attacking player called a gorilla. Beast maybe, especially referring to a big serve and volley game. But never gorilla. I agree they are bound to say something stupid given the amount of commentary.
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I haven't watched near as much tennis as you. I've never heard it either. In this instance, I imagine a gorilla charging the net and the impact it would have on the opponent (intimidating them or at least forcing them to react and make a bad shot). It seems like a compliment to me, though I'd certainly understand how it might not be received as one considering the circumstances. There are other animals that charge, but I would hesitate to use them in a tennis analogy. Charging the net like a goat? Like a bull? Actually, this makes me think there is a reason we don't see many animal analogies in tennis. It's not really a sport that works with animal analogies as easily as others.
 
And ESPN has not fired him yet?

This is unusual restraint from them.

Maybe they are learning, maybe the election of Trump has something to do with it.
 
RickJames3000 said:
When someone claims that they are "color blind", it's an immediate red flag. It suggests that the user of the term is either delusional, ignorant or lying about their racial attitudes.

Who knows? You might just have a "blind spot". Still your post suggests a fairly notable insensitivity.
I don't know you beyond this board, so I don't know how you've come to your conclusions.

But if you think comparing a black woman to a gorilla is acceptable, then don't act shocked when people call you a racist.
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Immediate red flag huh?

Who in the world made you chief of the thought police?
 
RetiredUSN said:
Immediate red flag huh?

Who in the world made you chief of the thought police?
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What the **** are you on about? I didn't start this thread.
And why so defensive?

Do you fancy yourself "color-blind" as well?
 
RickJames3000 said:
I agree. Your response was indeed "simple".
But I don't know why you'd be so defiantly proud of that.
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Your words

When someone claims that they are "color blind", it's an immediate red flag.


Again, I will ask who made you the authority over what people think, and what they mean by their words?

Answer the question, or shut up.
 
RetiredUSN said:
Your words

When someone claims that they are "color blind", it's an immediate red flag.


Again, I will ask who made you the authority over what people think, and what they mean by their words?

Answer the question, or shut up.
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You need to get over yourself.
This is a message board. Don't get prickly when someone expresses an opinion you don't like.

We're done here, kiddo.
 
RickJames3000 said:
You need to get over yourself.
This is a message board. Don't get prickly when someone expresses an opinion you don't like.

We're done here, kiddo.
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No.........you kept pressing the issue, so answer my question.

You can't, so you revert to what you are doing now.

You posted a opinion, and now you are running away from it.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
And ESPN has not fired him yet?

This is unusual restraint from them.

Maybe they are learning, maybe the election of Trump has something to do with it.
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Without a doubt. Trump has something to do with it.
 
Hari Seldon said:
Without a doubt. Trump has something to do with it.
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A good read on that general subject:

How Trump Left Hollywood in the Cold
The industry’s power players had started to take White House access for granted. Now they find themselves on the wrong end of the president's tweetstorms—and shaken that they might not understand America at all.
A prominent network executive summed up the sense of shock in the industry to me. “One thing interesting is that people in L.A. and Hollywood, we supposedly have our finger on the pulse of the American people,” he said. “And one of the things that people feel truly rocked by now—truly rocked—is that those of us who spend our lives anticipating and understanding the tastes and the preferences of the American people suddenly have to wonder whether what we’re feeling is causing us to make, for a large part of the audience, the wrong thing. And that the agenda a lot of our creators have is a reinforcing loop of a lot of things that people have just rejected.

“Because,” the executive added, “people here exist in a closed feedback loop and writers’ rooms that are similarly liberal, where nobody voted for Donald Trump. So their feedback is completely distorted on the meaning of this, and what to do about it.”
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Indeed, a common theme of conversations with Hollywood liberals in recent weeks is that they have been missing something, that they need to work harder to understand the feelings and concerns of voters in the broad heart of the country, whether by somehow reaching out on an individual basis to friends and relatives in red states, or by reading “Hillbilly Elegy,” J.D. Vance’s memoir about his upbringing in Appalachia, which has become a kind of ur-text for liberals belatedly seeking to understand the disaffection of tens of millions of their fellow Americans. It would be easy enough to mock this impulse as a fatuous, too little, too late recognition of what any viewer of “Duck Dynasty” already knew in his heart, but one hears it repeated over and over with utmost sincerity.
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How Trump Left Hollywood in the Cold - POLITICO Magazine
 
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