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Post by Swarm on Dec 10, 2007 21:47:49 GMT -5
...can return to the Falcons in 2010 as long as he doesn't "eat a lot of fried chicken and fries..."
Wow.
Wow.
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Post by Trent Lawless on Dec 10, 2007 22:34:47 GMT -5
Evidently Fuzzy Zoeller already took care of collard greens and watermelon for everybody.
Ooch.
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Post by Pete Beck on Dec 10, 2007 22:43:51 GMT -5
yeah he did...The wife was on the computer when he said it and i asked her if she heard...she didn't she is pretty sure, just like me, that the PC police will be out tomorrow!
I wonder how many folks are gonna get the Fuzzy Zoeller reference?
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Post by stephenvegas on Dec 10, 2007 22:49:49 GMT -5
I wonder how many folks are gonna get the Fuzzy Zoeller reference? Zoeller was a golfer and he made that racist comment about Tiger Woods. |
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Post by PureHatred on Dec 11, 2007 17:22:34 GMT -5
Terrible choice of words. But I seriously doubt he made any sort of racial insult; the man was a key to creating the rule where NFL teams are requied to interview minority candidates for any coaching and/or executive position.
He was trying to say that Vick was going to have to work hard and avoid fatty foods if he wanted any chance to come back to the NFL. Just stuck his foot in his mouth.
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Post by Werner Mueck on Dec 11, 2007 17:24:57 GMT -5
Sort of like Cossell and his "little monkey" comment years ago.
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Post by Trent Lawless on Dec 11, 2007 22:55:48 GMT -5
Innocent mistake or not, a guy in his position should think a little more about what he says before he says it.
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Post by Avarice on Dec 11, 2007 23:03:53 GMT -5
Isn't it sterotypical of us to link black people to fried chicken?  |
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Post by sickman on Dec 12, 2007 11:02:51 GMT -5
I heard the best comment about this yesterday on ESPN.
Not a direct quote but what I took from it was this: "I wish the media would stop looking deeper into stuff then what it actually is. I'm quite certain that Mr. Blank has eaten fried chicked sometime in his life."
Don't remember who said it but it was a black man.
I agree completely. Why can't someone say something without it having some sort of an alternate meaning. People try so hard to make things bigger than they truly are.
The Fuzzy Zoeller and Tiger Woods thing happened a dozen years or so ago. A lot has changed since then but sadly too much has stayed the same.
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Post by PureHatred on Dec 12, 2007 12:27:56 GMT -5
The Fuzzy Zoeller and Tiger Woods thing happened a dozen years or so ago. A lot has changed since then but sadly too much has stayed the same. Two totally different things though. Zoeller was making a joke where he intentionally used the fried chicken/black people stereotype as humor. "Now that he won the Masters, hopefully the dinner won't be fried chicken and collared greens.." or something along those lines. Blank made an off the hand remark that was mainly about bad prison food and it just came out wrong. TL said it best though: he probably should've that those words out more. |
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Post by sickman on Dec 12, 2007 13:32:16 GMT -5
Well, I wasn't the first one to bring up the Fuzzy and Tiger instance, but yes they are two totally different circumstances.
I really don't think what Blank said was a big deal. It's only a big deal too people that are trying to make it so.
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Post by Trent Lawless on Dec 15, 2007 10:07:35 GMT -5
It's just a fact of life that many people will read into things more than they should. I certainly can see the differences between the Zoeller instance and this one, but still, come on, there's plenty of other foods he could've used and gotten the point across. It's not inconceivable that somewhere in his subconscious, that association between the food and the race was made. I'll even grant that he probably wasn't even aware of it on a conscious level.
You just can't make off-the-cuff remarks that come off as racist and then say "I was only joking." Ask the Greaseman or Don Imus about that one. Whether our society should be that sensitive is open to debate, but people still have to think first.
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Post by sickman on Dec 16, 2007 1:17:03 GMT -5
This is not to start a race war. Let me first say that.
I find it interesting that the majority of the people that had a problem with this were white. The few black people that were questioned about this said the same thing that I am saying. Not a big deal.
A little off topic but a valid question non the less. A black comedian makes fun of whites and it's "edgy". But mostly everybody brushes it off. A white comedian makes fun of blacks and all of a sudden he's hissed. The PC police step forward and say "thats not appropriate". Why is that?
Apples and oranges? Most definitely.
The main point is that this isn't the 1950's anymore. Unfortunately racism is going to continue in one form or another for the rest of our lives. But we don't have to be so overly sensitive about nothing.
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