good god would racists like jesse jackson please stfu

[kiryan]

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/Jess ... son-071210

jesse jackson's comment.

“His feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality,” Jackson said in a statement released Sunday. “(Gilbert) sees LeBron as a runaway slave.”

a good response to his idiocy.

"It’s stupid. Dan Gilbert’s rant was certainly immature, but it wasn’t remotely racist. He sounded like a scorned lover, a guy who gave his heart to a relationship and found out on national TV that the alleged love of his life didn’t care about him at all.
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People were stunned and turned off by the hey-look-at-me circus James conducted on his way out of Cleveland. It was unnecessary and easy to avoid. It was cruel to all the young and old fans who supported him.
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From all reports, James knew months ago he was going to Miami with Wade and Bosh. His interviews were a farce. He invited white billionaires to grovel at his feet. And Jesse Jackson wants to call Gilbert a slave owner. Please.
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Everyone who objectively watched the Boston-Cleveland playoffs series knows James quit on the Cavs, selling out his teammates and costing head coach Mike Brown his job.
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Despite Brown’s African-American heritage, Jesse Jackson doesn’t care about Mike Brown. Jesse’s all good with LeBron’s betrayal of a black head coach because Mike Brown’s name doesn’t draw record TV ratings."

[Adriorn Darkcloak]

[kiryan]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5372266

Here's another article that doesn't paint the cav's owner in as good of light

"He has gotten a free pass," Gilbert told the AP in a phone interview late Thursday night. "People have covered up for [James] for way too long. Tonight we saw who he really is."

"He speaks as an owner of LeBron and not the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers," the reverend said in a release from his Chicago-based civil rights group, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. "His feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality. He sees LeBron as a runaway slave. This is an owner employee relationship -- between business partners -- and LeBron honored his contract."

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Lebron James was given EVERYTHING by cleavland and the cavaliers. He is an idiot. First, he demanded control of the team and the head coach whom he had fired a couple months ago in a bid for the caviliers to keep him happy. Then after wrecking cleaveland like that, he jumps ship to Miami? Maybe he isn't that dumb, I mean asking for the team was dumb, but if they were stupid enough to give it to you is that really an organization that can win a title? How can any good coach come to Cleaveleand knowing that 25 yo Lebron coaches the team?

However, that still doesn't excuse Jesse Jackson's ridiculous rant on Gilbert being a racist. Gilbert was not acting like a slave owner, he is acting like a jilted lover. He let Lebron do him in the ass in front of the whole NBA and the Lebron left him for better game.

[kiryan]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/1 ... 42363.html

Jesse Jackson thinks "Gilbert should face a "challenge" from the league."

It will be interesting to see what the league does. Rush Limbaugh was basically booted from trying to be a minority owner in a football team because he is often cast as a racist. Jesse Jackson was involved in this one too. A few players said they wouldn't play for Rush because he was a racist and basically somewhat behind the scenes the NFL had Rush pushed out. I wonder if the NBA is taking orders from black power groups too.

[Ragorn]

We've got two wars, a global recession, ten million barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, guns in Chicago, illegals in Arizona, Founding Fathers being removed from textbooks in Texas, North Korea threatening to nuke America if we don't pay them every dollar we and our children will ever earn in our lifetimes...

...and people choose to spend the entire weekend talking about where LeBron James is going to bounce a basketball next year.

[kiryan]

I'm talking about racism. Not the tea party is all white so they are racist, but actual people like Jesse Jackson going out there and spreading racism. The first article mentions that the author wasn't even going to write about it, but then a flood of emails from presumably african americans hit his inbox agreeing with Jessie Jackson.

[Sarvis]

I'm talking about racism. Not the tea party is all white so they are racist, but actual people like Jesse Jackson going out there and spreading racism. The first article mentions that the author wasn't even going to write about it, but then a flood of emails from presumably african americans hit his inbox agreeing with Jessie Jackson.

You've completely and utterly missed Rags' point. Your butthurt over perceived racism is less important than things like North Korea nuking America.

[Ragorn]

I'm talking about racism. Not the tea party is all white so they are racist, but actual people like Jesse Jackson going out there and spreading racism. The first article mentions that the author wasn't even going to write about it, but then a flood of emails from presumably african americans hit his inbox agreeing with Jessie Jackson.

You've completely and utterly missed Rags' point. Your butthurt over perceived racism is less important than things like North Korea nuking America.

Yeah, pretty much. Water is wet, the sky is blue, and Jesse Jackson is a racist. We know.

[kiryan]

Lol racism is less important than all that huh. That is really funny coming from a liberal.

[Sarvis]

You're the one who keeps bringing it up. You do realize that, don't you?

[kiryan]

Yes I do because GOP tea party religious people are the only people ever called racist. Liberals the NAACP and all those guys are the real racists.

[Sarvis]

Yeah, Republicans are just as repressed racially as Christians are theologically!

[teflor the ranger]

If we were being honest, everyone is at least a little racist. The only people that aren't either can't recognize patterns or are hellen keller.

[Sarvis]

If we were being honest, everyone is at least a little racist. The only people that aren't either can't recognize patterns or hellen keller.

What does recognizing Hellen Keller have to do with anything?

[teflor the ranger]

If we were being honest, everyone is at least a little racist. The only people that aren't either can't recognize patterns or hellen keller.

What does recognizing Hellen Keller have to do with anything?

Typo corrected, thanks.

[Ragorn]

Lol racism is less important than all that huh. That is really funny coming from a liberal.

Yeah, I'd say one guy being an asshat is pretty much less important than all of that.

Jesse Jackson, Rush Limbaugh, Al Sharpton, Glenn Beck: All racists. We know. If I started a thread every time Glenn Beck said something stupid, the internet would run out of bandwidth. Strawman arguments are very, very easy to formulate when you have idiots like these people saying literally anything they can think of to compete for ratings, and calling it "news."

Your problem, and the reason we call the conservative movement "racist" while you're stuck targeting individuals on the left, is because the conservative movement overlaps geographically with the portion of the country which is well known to have a large racist population. The conservative platform, by and large, is race-neutral. There's nothing racist about morality legislation, deficit spending, forcing religion into public schools, or unbanning assault rifles. Your problem is that your largest demographic comes from formally slave-owning states, many of which never figured out that whole hootenanny in 1964 when that clean-shaven colored fellow got shot giving a speech up 'er in Washington. So, while the conservative movement isn't racist, a fair proportion of actual conservatives ARE.

You're not the only ones.

But you've got the advantage of numbers :D

[Kifle]

If we were being honest, everyone is at least a little racist. The only people that aren't either can't recognize patterns or hellen keller.

What does recognizing Hellen Keller have to do with anything?

I lol'd.