Hey lemme tell you something about my mom's basement, okay? It's cold in the summer, and warm in the winter. I have an awesome black light poster of my WoW guild and there's plenty of room for my black leather gaming chair / futon (I've named him Funton).
PLUS a Mini-fridge. Yuup.
It's not about making anyone look stupid. If my words feel heated it's because they come from an honest place. You have to be honest with yourself as well, otherwise, what's the point. What's the point of any of it then? Honest discourse. Oh yeah, we'll walk around the edges but it's rarely that we ever step towards the middle. Well guys like me will only see things from the inside out.
With that said, I'm not going to say something without having a butt load of fact backing me up.. (because I'm not the smartest guy round these parts, so I'd rather look like an ass than a
dumbass).
Lien said:
huh... what match is that? I know you didn't mean it but that's not a common thing. I know about the Italy/France match in Rome where the neo-nazi italians gave a salute to the french-arabs and black players last year. Biggest controversy in football history. Was it that one you were thinking about?
I'm not sure where you are from, but I'm guessing you're European. (only because an American would've definitely scolded me to stop my bitchin already)
And since I don't know where you're from, I can't give you specifics for your region.
Before I get started, it'll be important to remember that with more people (diverse and not) come more problems. In many ways, the lack of a diverse community will only hurt these countries in the future (I say in the present as well).
When your children deal with America come 2050, they'll see the difference first hand. Things will have changed dramatically, drastically even, and it'll the most diverse nations leading the way. Especially if we're no longer oil dependent. uh-ohs...? Yeah, uh-ohs.
So I gotta tell you, I'm shocked that you're shocked. Maybe Europe is better at hiding their trash America, but anyone with a working nose can tell garbage when they smell it.
You won't have to take my word for it.
http://www.eurocup2012.com.pl/eng/16/bb ... -stadiums/
Here's a BBC piece posted on April 10, 2008.
Yeah, you should watch it.
This is beyond ridiculous, but as Leszek Miklas, the President of Legia Warsaw (football team) claims, "Our supporters are Nazis."
Oh yeah, and they're hosting the Euro in 2012. This shouldn't be something you want aired over television worldwide. How was Poland chosen? I payed DirecTV in advance and I'm TiVo-ing every bit. Well, not really. Then again I just may. I got a hell of a topic coming your way, Lien, just wait till 2012!
The Chinese Olympics, that's not a shit storm. We expect that from them. The ironic part is that Europe will pay a far greater price if only on the merit of their skin color.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWYpmF1j288
Now how about this one? Granted it's an older game (1987; in my lifetime) but had this been in any American sport, the media would still be talking about it to this day [notice how I made sure to mention the year, even saying it's an 'older game', but feel free to repeat it if you find it necessary]. Sweeping changes across the board would've been made. I'm talking stocks dropping, jobs lossing, and.. um, titties a-giggling? Hey, I'm still in here guys!
Okay, back to serious militant Chris. Bananas on the pitch, or as the commentator calls it, "the jungle."
While I'm thinking about it, something that I've always hated was the subtle diss because it's really a two-handed slap. One being the obvious slam, but the second is even worse.
"Your brownie brain can't handle my subtle gems, my wordplay. I am beyond pleased with myself." Dude, just say what you feel next time. Yes, I know that takes balls but I feel any real man would respect themselves to say what they felt without being so cute about it.
So If this were to happen in the NFL???? Pandemonium. Seriously. If anything, consider yourself lucky, but not privileged as this shouldn't be happening at all at a sporting event. I'm not black and this stuff still finds ways to hurts me. I'm not the only one, it's not so odd to feel for another.
In America, we'll literally go out onto the court to fight our athletes. I'd punch the hell out of Donovan McNabb if I had the chance, but I'm not gonna throw bananas and stuff at him! No monkey mannerisms. It is really beyond degrading. It's a whole new uncharted degrading. These are men, and what these *cough*
not so common occurrences really are is a ways of emasculating these men; putting them under your thumb. (China, anyone?)
It's another two-handed slap.
And why? Isn't football EU biggest, most favorite sport? Then why crap on your athletes? And if the
athletes get treated this way, what does that say for the black and brown
civilians?
Also think about the minor leagues where the rules are going to be far more lax. Klan rallies and a ball game in one. sheesh
Quickly now, from only what you've seen or read so far, what have you gleaned about the minorities in Europe? [minority is another odd term, seeing how life in general it is based on your color and not your genetic makeup]
What I've beginning to realize is that being a minority in Europe is not the life for me.
Unless I happen upon a section of people my skin tone, of course.
So you understand that our media (and our populace) is so much larger all around and yet segregation still exists here in North America. Some by choice, some because of economic reasons. Whatever the reason behind it, it's still segregation and that's moving backwards.
So Lien, if you seemed taken aback before, wait till you get a hold of this. If you were to do a google search on "racism" + "football", you'll get over 3 million results. Welp, there you go.
This is
the sport that's covered by your media. The biggest sport you have. So that leads one to wonder what it's like for the people who don't play sports, who aren't covered by the media? What's it's like for the minorities who carry no celebrity with them? I really wanna know. I can't take anything on face value alone because everyone has their agenda.
Me too, huh. But this topic is fair, no for reals this time. No, not fair for TV. Hell, if you were to broadcast the things me and my friends talk about, oh my god no. Never, not even on satellite radio.
The revolution will not be televised. The outcome will. If you notice towards the end of the BBC video, one of the men is trying to elaborate more on England's own racism in sports but the other male reporter cuts him off repeatedly.
So the guy finally gives up. He finally takes the cue to shut up. Hey, as bad as we are, it's always in our best interest to make the other guys look worse.
Speaking of TV, someone just got a whole lot more interested in the Euro come 2012. That cameraman is gonna be busy.
Here I go, changing the flow again.
I began my schooling at a private Christian school. Texas has always been very diverse so naturally every race was there from day one, since my first day of pre-kindergarten. Because the school was so thickly wrapped around the Christian upbringing, no one ever got the chance to even learn how to hate the next person based on any of their differences.
I didn't know racism until I transferred to a rural public school in the 6th grade.
When I begin my family I've decided that my children will go to a Christian school as well, and when they want to leave they can. If a part of this is about brainwashing them to praise Jesus, the other 75% isn't. I want them to get an understanding of how all people should be treated, which apparently is only taught when there's a Bible lesson to go along with it. That's what I taught, at a Christian school.
And when they get older, if they want to change schools, they can.
Here's something you may not have known about us MEXICANS. When we hear any man call a black man a nigger in a slanderous way, it'll sting us just as if he called us a wetback.
Honestly, "wetback" doesn't even do it for me, but nigger is something else because I know where that systemic train of thought is rooted. Plantation days, picking cotton.
Some may not think it's fair. That MEXICANS and AFRO-AMERICANS 'get' each other so naturally.
Well, you're damn right it's not fair, but we didn't make it this way. Because not only have we been collectively grouped together (by default), we've also been put in all the same cages.
And we're still those cages, together. That's why I'm like fuck breaking the minorities groups up, because we're all in the same category. When you do good I do good. Hell, when I do bad, you do bad.
We're America's problem. We're the crime. Seen COPS on FOX television lately? We're, by default, all the bad things about America. As a group.
Again, consider yourself lucky you're not as diverse in your communities. Lucky for today. I have a feeling it's going to be unlucky tomorrow. 200 years and counting is something that's just damned hard to forget!
I could have been a lot more honest with you guys, Ohh, wait, "honest" is the wrong word, I meant "rougher" or "meaner" because, yeah, I'm being so very mean to you guys here.
biased American minority bs
Racism in Football
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_football
And, no, it wouldn't have been better if we never talked about this. It's a downer, for sure. But this is the stuff people carry with them everyday. We carry, not just me. (hell, just look above this very post!)
Maybe this is why I can only laugh about it in the end (with my friends). This is why all I got is jokes. Because the little things in life are sometimes the only things I can see. But I don't hate you. If anything I love you more.
"A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down."--Mary Poppins << Subtle!
Mmmm, swallow that shit. << nuh-uh, Not So Subtle! :shock:
Mom! We're out of Hot Pockets! BUT MmMmOM!!!