MICHAEL RICHARDS SEES NO PROBLEM WITH THIS

Stupid som bitch. Crackity-ass cracka.

- NDGT

What’s wrong with calling someone a goon?

http://forums.projectcovo.com/showthread.php?t=1212491

This should shed some light into the subject.

I’m honestly shocked at this revelation. I thought you were just, you know, calling us lawyas.

these intranets confuse and frighten me. and i hate to ask this question, but why when i click on the links to SN does it take me to the fantasy sports section and not to the article?

- unfrozen caveman lawya

Does that mean I’m not racist if I had no idea “coon” referred to a person of color? I must’ve spent 10 minutes trying to figure out what hate word noon rhymed with. Here in South Louisiana we use coon-ass for white people too much for it to be associated with black people.

You learn something everyday, I guess.

I’m torn, but only in a sense that I grew up somewhere like Orson and know racism as well. While it’s hateful, ignorant speech, I am just very glad Facebook didn’t really come out big (and status messages even later) until I was out of college. Also, I have for many years had a high level of privacy, mostly to keep myself from being put in this position (then again, not saying things like that in the first place is probably the best decision).

All that said, I wish there was a way he could atone. Sadly, I think Mac did have to do it. And I don’t know that there’s many places in the country that can take the kid. It was a very stupid thing to do, but sad that it ruins football for him.

“That Dog” admires this guy’s honesty and offers to send him a “Biden ’08” sign to put on his lawn until Jan 20th.

@ 6

Doesn’t make you racist, just ignorant.

Too bad he didn’t just stick with the President Osama status message. That’s still copasetic.

I grew up in a ranch house and I am not racist.

Too bad. Had he just beaten somebody down, or vandalized something valuable, or gotten caught dealing coke, he’d be back on the practice field by Tuesday morning. Clearly, there are some crimes too horrible to be tolerated, and some crimes that simply cannot be reformed out of a young man by any amount of education or experience. Like using an antiquated ethnic slur once, on a web page. That’s simply inexcusable, pthological, and beyond the limits of what any young man ought to be allowed to overcome.

Um…… I don’t feel bad for this kid at all. What an ignorant POS.

@ 9

That’s “ignant” to you, buddy.

I do feel some sympathy for the kid. He made a stupid mistake. It was a horrible thing to say but at the same time, it did not hurt or hold the potential to hurt anyone physically. Racisim is wrong and should not be tolerated but unfortunately, anything short of hanging this kid out to dry for saying something stupid and racist would be a death sentence for that program.

It just feels wrong for people who commit crimes to be alotted a one game suspension but people who say things (not illegal and wholly protected by his first amendment rights however wrong the comments might be) gets thrown off the team.

SM @ 12. This is more than just an ethnic slur. Whether said in jest or not – and, quite frankly, how could it be said in jest?…If what is reported is true, he suggested that hunters take up their guns and kill a future President.

I’m not African-American but that sentiment – especially given the recent arrests of skinheads in TN plotting to do that very thing – is frightening and inexcusable.

@#12-
I agree with your sentiment…but I’m not defending anyone in the court of public opinion who drops racial slurs and lynching references in the same sentence. On facebook.

slightly OT, but is anyone else really, really scared for Mr. President-Elect’s personal safety?

@12 Makes a very good point. Making him stay on the team with this black teammates may teach him a real lesson.

But, to answer R12, you’re absolutely right – all those players who are out commiting felonies should be kicked off the team as well as this piece ftrash. No doubt.

Why the double standard?? A Orson said – recruiting. The Facebook idiot damages recruiting, while players being allowed to play after committing various felonious infractions generally doesn’t.

That young man just helped Miami more than he’ll ever know.

Buck Burnette would like to offer a laurel and a hearty handshake to our new sheriff of Washington, D.C.

oddly enough, the same exact joke was told last weekend at our tailgate at the OU game by a friend of my father-in-law, who was promptly met with that special brand of “did you just actually say that?” silence and “you’re no longer welcome here” death stares from the largely republican group – needless to say she tucked tail and left pretty quick, and i doubt she’ll be coming back

bj – I am generally not worried about his safety, not that some may or may not be plotting against him, but lets look at the teams. Secret Service vs. knuckle dragging, mouth breathing, idiots who cannot get out of the backwards ass past. I would set the spread pretty high in favor of the SS and look for them to cover. Their job just got more difficult to be sure, but I would suspect the plots are pretty simple.

Skinny…that was so eloquent and enlightened of you. I’m sure no one with BDS ever pondered such a thing and the Secret Service had it easy the last eight years.

Do we get politics on this board now for the next four years?

Sigh.

@ 12 – Amen to that

@ 21 – It’s “a laurel and hardy handshake”, but I digress

zz – you are right, a thousand apologies for bringing politics to this fantastic haven away from such foolishness.

If you will please excuse me, I will be over here administering some self flagellation.

@ 22…

Are you going to follow that by telling us how many black friends you have, as well?

You don’t get a cookie for doing what you are supposed to do.

When you consider how Burnette’s statement could’ve been interpreted as a threat of violence against a president-elect, he got off easy. In this day and age of zero tolerance and terror alerts, he’s lucky he didn’t end up with a dozen FBI agents at his door asking him what he he meant by that.

And now the noose at Baylor.

I’m moving. Pennsylvania is starting to look good.

“lawya” is a substitute for the “N” word?!?!

Really?

I’m confused and haven’t checked my urban dictionary frequently enough.

Man do I feel old.

Since obama isn’t in the white house yet, and George W is from Texas, maybe there were some raccoons nesting in the rafters that he wanted to get out before the new tenants moved in.

What we have here…is a failure to communicate.

12,
You make an outstanding point. In fact, it is without a doubt the best comment on this subject so far. Bravo! Yes, the backup center made a stupid and uncalled-for statement. And yes, that sort of thinking should not be tolerated (I hate using that word though, as I feel like I emasculate myself every time I use a version of the PC crowd’s favorite word, “tolerance”). His action was immature and shameful, but let’s not act like he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy. But, of course, we can always count on brave Orson to be the Racial Police! That being said, Coach Brown did not have another viable option.

I should also note that to vaguely threaten the President -electof the United States, regardless of his OR her ethnicity, might be the stupidest thing a college football player has done all year (Jimmy Johns just threw up his arms in triumph!). What an idiot, and I’m sure Aggie fans are loving it. Burnette will be lucky to escape his proper fate, exile to Elba…

Bobby @ 32 – I’m with you on the “no getting caught in bed with a dead girl” side of things, but so what if a football player gets caught in bed with a live (over the age of consent) boy?

zzgator @ 24 – you know and I know that most people with Bush Derangement Syndrome aren’t likely to have anything more dangerous to hand than an empty chai soy latte cup or an old Mac laptop that they were about to recycle anyway. I think the Secret Service can manage that.

#27

do you really think i posted that to make myself look better and not b/c it involved the same tasteless joke?

think before you post

Seriously. You’re all demonstrating astonishing feats of internet rhetorical FAIL. We’ll freeze the comments if you can’t keep it light, short, and not otherwise cut and pasted directly from the Big Book O’ Shitty online discussion tactics.

25

I’m pretty sure it’s hearty.

And as stupid as I thought this kid’s facebook status was, I think SM’s observation in comment #12 is an astute one. I further wonder what this kid’s fate would have been if he had any talent (say he was Colt McCoy, for example).

Again, ironically enough I have to draw from the Chris Rock school of thought in one of his most famous, or infamous, bits.

You don’t get credit for doing what you are supposed to do.

You don’t get credit for the baseline of “acting right.”

So, why would you bring it up? To tell us you and yours do the bare minimum and don’t accept people being openly racist?

Wow, that is amazing. Thank God for you. If I were Afican-American I would drive to Oklahoma or South Bend or wherever to praise you for your act of harmony.

I get that Oklahoma probably is not the most racially tolerant state in the US, but some things should just be universal. That is one of them.

Between this story and the one about an A&M player stopping people from egging a poster of Obama, this has been a hard week for stereotypes of Texas universities.

1. The secret service are REALLY good at what they do. I think the level of security in place to thwart terrorist attacks willbe able to handle the racist morons.

While, it’s not as bad as physical violence (and frankly less damaging than DUI), his ass had to go— both for recruiting and for team cohesion. Hell, if you wanted to really punish the kid they would have let him practice once or twice before cutting him loose- I’m pretty sure Orapko, et al would have taught the player a little lesson about respect.

Orson,
Was your last post directed towards my two postings? Because if so, that was not very tolerant of you. Nor was it very nice.

@DCtrojan

I was thinking about that, but how bad is throwing eggs at an Obama poster really. Now believe me, I can be very Forrest Gumpian in my racial pun know-how, but if No. Cal can have a ballot initative to name a sewage treatment plant after dubya(yes, I know it didn’t pass, but stil), isn’t throwing eggs at a poster of Obama really the same thing, and really is it that big of a deal? Again, I could be totally missing something here, I am remarkably oblivious at times, but just thinks.

But then again, I am sure he will get picked up at another school somewhere, so I am sure he will be fine. And yes, Brown absolutely had to do this. Playing football is not a right, it is a privlege. (yep, my spelling sucks)

So….. Obama’s wife, kinda hot. Nice.

@ David (6 and 14):

as a relative newcomer to South Louisiana, let me tell you that “coon-ass” sounds as racist as it is. You know why? Because it is making fun of white people using a word meant to refer to black people — i.e. you on the receiving end of the slur are so stupid/low-class/whatever that you’re almost black. So: racism, pure and simple.

meatybob @ 43 – in the grand scheme of things, a little egg-tossing just makes them look like tossers, so to speak – it’s not like they were burning him in effigy. I think that both sides – egg tossers and egg blocker – were exercising their speech rights. Sort of.

HOSS,

You’re an idiot. Do a little research on the term “coonass” before spouting off.

@ MSR: Oh, I’m sure research will turn up that it’s actually quite an elegant turn of phrase, and not at all related to the way the word “coon” has been used for centuries in these parts. Oh, wait, here’s some research for you, dumbass:

http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/coonass_coon_ass/

Just as I said.