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Originally posted by Shark In Skirt
I'm going to apologize for my, rather, umm... rash comments. I don't regret them, but I do apologize if I offend anyone!
And I don't want to "throw the book" at him or anyone for racist commetns. I just want them to be idenified as racist!
XOXO,
Annie.
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I was offended, but I'll live and accept the appology for rashness with the understand that you aren't retracting the ideals or changing your mind. Does that sentence make sense?
Anyway, I do not condone racism in any way, but we probably disagree as to whether the comments and context in which they were made are racist. (See earlier posts vis-a-vis definitions, etc.) I see a pretty distinct difference between calling someone a clearly racist name, and making a poor attempt at humor using stereotyping.
I doubt that either of us will change our minds on that. So be it.
I'm a lot more concerned about a Trent Lott kind of situation than Shaq -- and that's really the crux of the matter to me.
As for the role model consideration mentioned by Champ -- it's a good point. My family doesn't consider (and never has) athletes as role models to begin with, so it didn't really occur to me at the time I was posting.
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