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BCBG25
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gpark33
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 Posted: 10/29/07 11:44 am ::: |
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| I wish C. Viv would have just not commented on this in the first place.
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tangle3156
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| Posted: 10/29/07 11:57 am ::: |
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She's a drama queen........she couldn't help but offer up her "two cents".
Not the first time she's reacted before knowing all the facts.
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Str8_Butta
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| Posted: 10/29/07 12:14 pm ::: |
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| Doris (or whoever) shouldn't have asked her about that, she's a College coach not and NBA Coach. Let her stick to what she knows best, she could have also declined to answer but neither happened so it should be over with now.
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harlem_basketball
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| Posted: 10/29/07 12:24 pm ::: |
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How is her reacting with half the story any different than everyone else who did the same once the deposition got out? When you hear half the story without context AS WE ALL DID, yeah, he was dead ass wrong and his comments were disgusting. Are we all drama queens?
I hate Isiah with a passion, but when you read the ENTIRE thing and not the chopped up version from Anucha's lawyers, his comments actually were taken out of context. I don't see ESPN, NBC, ABC, CBS, the Post, Daily News, NY Times or Newsday apologizing for running with the story for the last month on front pages and as lead-ins, looping the tape ad nauseum.
Rev. Al hasn't apologized and neither has anyone else who jumped on the story, from the media to fans. I give Stringer credit for acknowledging her mistake. She's one of about thousands who needed to do so. And no, she shouldn't have commented on it, but the question never should have been asked just like the story never should have been ran with without the whole story. But of course, the media just loves to appoint certain people as the "voice of race and gender issues" these days. Hell, Rev. Al already forgot about his "boycott" and is on to his next race baiting agenda.
Isiah's lawyers need to apologize to him for not objecting to the spliced version in the first place.  |
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beknighted
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| Posted: 10/29/07 1:02 pm ::: |
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I will admit that I'm not going to read the whole transcript, largely because I'm not that interested in Mr. Thomas. However, what I saw in the press during the trial was that Thomas was quoted initially as saying it was okay to use the "b" word for black women and then it was clarified as him saying that it wasn't okay, but that it was less bad when used by black men about black women. If that's what we're talking about, then in my view it goes from about an 8 on the offensiveness scale to, oh, a 5, but it still seems offensive. If, on the other hand, there's other context (like that he's saying that's what some other people think), then I might have a different view.
Either way, I wish CVS hadn't talked about it without all the facts. I'm not sure that I agree the question was inappropriate, though, given the Imus thing and the discussion at the time about attitudes towards women in general and black women in particular.
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