Please read what I wrote before you jump to conclusions and write lengthy Sunday sermons.
Comment on what he said specifically and the fact that he talked about whites and blacks in that tone and how the black players wanted him as their coach. Others did.
And don't make this a conversation where you throw in irrelevant and insignificant terms like "conservative bs" and talk on and on about Iraq.
-Rudey
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Originally posted by Phasad1913
Political Correctness???? I am so SICK of people using that phrase and labeling people based on it as if it is something wrong with it. There is right and there is wrong. Is it right or wrong to insult people and put them down by the use of a term that is solely used to deminish people because of their race? Why is it that people who tout that it IS wrong are somehow made to feel bad because they want to dissuade the mainstream from engaging in that kind of insulting speech/behavior.
Its so funny that in this country where so many folks are out there talking about "doing what's right" (i.e. Iraq) and treating people with dignity and respect and so-called conservative bs like "colorblind, merit based society" and that that crap, there are SO many people on whom this concept is lost. Its like a lot of Americans can see the legitimacy of fighting and DYING for the sake of people in a totally different country, for exampe, for their right to be treated with respect and not put down and mistreated, but in this country, those who preach the same toward people right here are denounced uder the evil words "political correctness" It's rediculous.
As for this idiot coach, all this talk about he should have known better and its 2005 and maybe he isn't racist blah bla blah. Its a bunch of bull. This is exactly the problem in this country...and other parts of the world. Freedom of speech vs/ moral responsibility is at the core of all this. Yes, of course the man can say what he wants, but the problem is that so many whites in this country feel comfortable feeling this way and thinking this way about non-whites and in particular black people that to call them out on it causes more of a problem than the racist views. Now he may have resigned, but with the political climate in America right now and the anti-political correctness movement that has been expressed by rudey, I think that there is a larger mass of people who do not see anything wrong with the essence of what he said. They may not be very vocal about it, but they are there and it is THAT reality of the minds of the people in America that I think is the root for the persisting divisions in this country, not those who are trying to keep that kind of language out of the mainstream, or what you call "political correctness".
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