We are a pretty tolerant country all in all--not perfect, of course but moving in a better direction than some. African American soccer players in Europe are subjected to thrown bananas, racist taunts and banners with the most hateful slogans imaginable.
We are a pretty tolerant country all in all--not perfect, of course but moving in a better direction than some. African American soccer players in Europe are subjected to thrown bananas, racist taunts and banners with the most hateful slogans imaginable.
WRONG We are tolerant ONLY if it fits into a certain point of few. If not, we are NOT very tolerant. A tolerant nation would be tolerant of ALL views and not of only certain views. Ask Condi Rice how tolerant we are as a nation. Especially when it comes to college campuses.
We are a pretty tolerant country all in all--not perfect, of course but moving in a better direction than some. African American soccer players in Europe are subjected to thrown bananas, racist taunts and banners with the most hateful slogans imaginable.
WRONG We are tolerant ONLY if it fits into a certain point of few. If not, we are NOT very tolerant. A tolerant nation would be tolerant of ALL views and not of only certain views. Ask Condi Rice how tolerant we are as a nation. Especially when it comes to college campuses.
No political arguments will you get from me. lol
I just happened to see Bryant Gumbel (real sports "Fields of Hate'). It was very surprising to see film clips of what is allowed at European Sports events.
For example, In this country we do not allow hordes of men at our sporting events putting up huge banners directed at our athletes that say 'you belong in the ovens of Auschwitz'. Nor do we allow unison chants cursing at the stars using racist names
Maybe some would say we are intolerant of fans' rights to be abusive. To each his own idea there.
Mostly, I was just surprised at the level of verbal abuse that was allowed at European sports events.
(This post was last modified: 05-25-2014 05:01 PM by snowtiger.)
We are a pretty tolerant country all in all--not perfect, of course but moving in a better direction than some. African American soccer players in Europe are subjected to thrown bananas, racist taunts and banners with the most hateful slogans imaginable.
WRONG We are tolerant ONLY if it fits into a certain point of few. If not, we are NOT very tolerant. A tolerant nation would be tolerant of ALL views and not of only certain views. Ask Condi Rice how tolerant we are as a nation. Especially when it comes to college campuses.
The pendulum has over swung so much in the other direction, that part of the nation is paralyzed with the fear of being called racist, while others take advantage of it.
And as proven here, it is quite common and popular to throw that race card.
The sooner we can eliminate the hyphenated Americans and all share in being just plain Americans, the better we will be.
(05-25-2014 04:23 PM)snowtiger Wrote: For example, In this country we do not allow hordes of men at our sporting events putting up huge banners directed at our athletes that say 'you belong in the ovens of Auschwitz'. Nor do we allow unison chants cursing at the stars using racist names
No we don't, but once I went to a Riverkings game at the Coliseum and some guy on the opposing team last name was Cox. You should have seen the looks we got from people sitting around us when we kept yelling that he sucked.
(This post was last modified: 05-25-2014 08:02 PM by MemphisTiger15.)
We are a pretty tolerant country all in all--not perfect, of course but moving in a better direction than some. African American soccer players in Europe are subjected to thrown bananas, racist taunts and banners with the most hateful slogans imaginable.
WRONG We are tolerant ONLY if it fits into a certain point of few. If not, we are NOT very tolerant. A tolerant nation would be tolerant of ALL views and not of only certain views. Ask Condi Rice how tolerant we are as a nation. Especially when it comes to college campuses.
The pendulum has over swung so much in the other direction, that part of the nation is paralyzed with the fear of being called racist, while others take advantage of it.
And as proven here, it is quite common and popular to throw that race card.
The sooner we can eliminate the hyphenated Americans and all share in being just plain Americans, the better we will be.
We are a pretty tolerant country all in all--not perfect, of course but moving in a better direction than some. African American soccer players in Europe are subjected to thrown bananas, racist taunts and banners with the most hateful slogans imaginable.
We are a pretty tolerant country all in all--not perfect, of course but moving in a better direction than some. African American soccer players in Europe are subjected to thrown bananas, racist taunts and banners with the most hateful slogans imaginable.
We are a pretty tolerant country all in all--not perfect, of course but moving in a better direction than some. African American soccer players in Europe are subjected to thrown bananas, racist taunts and banners with the most hateful slogans imaginable.
Yup. All African Americans should be playing for us---African Central Americans, African South Americans, African North Americans.
Might as well. We have Hatian-Americans(Altidore), German-Americans(Chandler, Green, Jones, Johnson, Brooks), Norwegian-Americans(Diskerud), Icelandic Americans(Johannson), and Martian Americans(Yedlin).
(05-27-2014 03:17 PM)salukiblue Wrote: Charlize Theron is a beautiful African American.
Why didn't Lennox Lewis box for the US in the Olympics? He's african american, right?
Lennox Lewis lived much of his childhood in Canada and actually represented Canada in the Olympics. So, if you are going by the extended standards put forth earlier in this thread, yes, he is an African-American by virtue of holding citizenship in a North American country.
(05-27-2014 03:17 PM)salukiblue Wrote: Charlize Theron is a beautiful African American.
Why didn't Lennox Lewis box for the US in the Olympics? He's african american, right?
If you know which African country a person is from, why not identify that country with the hyphen?
I'm sure you don't do this stuff over Indians.
India--a paradise for affirmative action. Their caste system has something called 'reservation'-- a certain number of government positions are set aside for the underprivileged or backwards folks who were formerly known as 'untouchables'.
(05-27-2014 03:17 PM)salukiblue Wrote: Charlize Theron is a beautiful African American.
Why didn't Lennox Lewis box for the US in the Olympics? He's african american, right?
Lennox Lewis lived much of his childhood in Canada and actually represented Canada in the Olympics. So, if you are going by the extended standards put forth earlier in this thread, yes, he is an African-American by virtue of holding citizenship in a North American country.
Lennix Lewis isn't from an African country so he doesn't qualify for this game of blowing smoke.
African-American in the US was credited as an alternative to "Black American."
(This post was last modified: 05-28-2014 02:58 PM by Latilleon.)
(05-27-2014 03:17 PM)salukiblue Wrote: Charlize Theron is a beautiful African American.
Why didn't Lennox Lewis box for the US in the Olympics? He's african american, right?
If you know which African country a person is from, why not identify that country with the hyphen?
I'm sure you don't do this stuff over Indians.
India--a paradise for affirmative action. Their caste system has something called 'reservation'-- a certain number of government positions are set aside for the underprivileged or backwards folks who were formerly known as 'untouchables'.
Indians as in Native Americans.
How can you live with yourself with a group called something that doesn't have anything to do with actually being born in India?
(05-27-2014 03:17 PM)salukiblue Wrote: Charlize Theron is a beautiful African American.
Why didn't Lennox Lewis box for the US in the Olympics? He's african american, right?
Lennox Lewis lived much of his childhood in Canada and actually represented Canada in the Olympics. So, if you are going by the extended standards put forth earlier in this thread, yes, he is an African-American by virtue of holding citizenship in a North American country.
Lennix Lewis isn't from an African country so he doesn't qualify for this game of blowing smoke.
African-American in the US was credited as an alternative to "Black American."
read bolded comment above. Don't need the history lesson, my friend.
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