Posted on 05/10/2007 7:43:40 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
It started with Spike Lee holding up a duplication of the USA Today sports cover story about NFL athletes and their problems with law enforcement. The story included 41 mug shots of NFL players who had been arrested in 2006 — 39 of those players were African-American.
Spike Lee began the panel discussion — The Black Athlete Forum at Atlanta’s historic Morehouse College, which featured Jim Brown, Vivian Stringer, William Rhoden, Stephen A. Smith, yours truly and others — by asking Alonzo Mourning and two other professional athletes to explain whether the image was fair or unfair to black athletes.
After some initial words about athletes needing to take responsibility for their actions, Mourning and fellow NBA-er Etan Thomas somewhat blamed the media for not presenting a fair-and-balanced view of athletes. When the athletes finished talking, I jumped in and made the point I’ve been making for the last several years:
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
No argument there.
Right....because there have never been jokes made about ribs. I guess it’s the 2006 loss and fatigue from the early 2008 campaign; but this place is becoming decidedly humorless.
If it had been Virgil’s Rib Joint, maybe. But BBQ carries not such connotation.
mmmmmm
ribs.
You know what they say, once you go BBQ, you never go back.
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