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Boise St. star's wedding draws racist threats (Ian Johnson)
Fox Sports ^ | 25 July 2007 | Unattributed

Posted on 07/26/2007 3:31:35 PM PDT by GOP_Raider

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The Boise State running back who scored the winning points in the Fiesta Bowl, then proposed to his cheerleader girlfriend on national television, says he has hired security for their wedding because of racial threats.

Ian Johnson, who is black, and Chrissy Popadics, who is white, are due to be married Saturday in Boise. Since his Jan. 1 proposal, Johnson said, he has received phone calls, letters and some personal threats from people who object to their marriage plans.

"You take it for what it is - the less educated, the less willing to change," Johnson, 21, of San Dimas, Calif., told the Idaho Statesman for its Tuesday editions. "But we're not acting like we're naive to all the stuff that's going on. We know what's been said. We're going to make sure we're safe at all times. It's an amazing day for us, and we'd hate to have it ruined by someone."

"It's really sad because a lot of people that are probably doing it are the same people who were cheering me on," Johnson said.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.foxsports.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Idaho
KEYWORDS: boisestate; ianjohnson; idaho
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To: BurbankKarl

Cute couple, they seem very happy..


21 posted on 07/26/2007 3:45:45 PM PDT by mnehring (Ron Paul is as much of a Constitutionalist as Fred Phelps is a Christian)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

Not in Idaho. Lovely people there but it is very “white”.


22 posted on 07/26/2007 3:46:02 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: GOP_Raider
Ian Johnson, who is black, and Chrissy Popadics, who is white, are due to be married Saturday in Boise.

Would that be according to the old "one drop rule"? That rule by the way was intended as a way of keeping the descendants of slaves fathered by whites classified as black and hence slaves themselves. He looked like he had a fairly large proportion of European ancestry. If there are anythings that qualify as races among humans, he would have to be classified as mixed race.

23 posted on 07/26/2007 3:46:19 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Wings-n-Wind

Hey I’m in Texas - we’re usually the ones accused of being so backward and racist.


24 posted on 07/26/2007 3:46:19 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Rudy, Mayor of Sanctuary City)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I know for a fact that black women cannot STAND black men who marry or date white women

The pickings seem to be slim.


25 posted on 07/26/2007 3:46:34 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: BurbankKarl
Here is another one. She is a cutie allright!


26 posted on 07/26/2007 3:46:59 PM PDT by Michael.SF. ("The military Mission has long since been accomplished" -- Harry Reid, April 23, 2007)
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To: Wings-n-Wind

Idaho is not like Seattle or Portland.


27 posted on 07/26/2007 3:47:08 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: Wings-n-Wind

Umm . . . Idaho is not known as the “greenie-progressive utopian northwest.” Not yet, at least.


28 posted on 07/26/2007 3:47:11 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Wings-n-Wind

oh, you should see all the racist trash on the UW Huskies fansite...it is embarrassing


29 posted on 07/26/2007 3:47:38 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: Paleo Conservative
Little secret.. shhhh don’t tell the liberals or stormfronters.. we are all mixed race.. the whole concept of being 100% something is bogus..

..I, for one, am a proud mutt..

30 posted on 07/26/2007 3:48:34 PM PDT by mnehring (Ron Paul is as much of a Constitutionalist as Fred Phelps is a Christian)
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine

That’s what I thought too. I’ve met a lot of racists with degrees. A piece of paper isn’t what makes or breaks a character defect.


31 posted on 07/26/2007 3:49:24 PM PDT by digitalbrownshirt (http://digitalbrownshirt.blogspot.com)
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine
Not in Idaho. Lovely people there but it is very “white”.

Reminds me of the line from "Blazing Saddles":

"You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new west. You know. Morons."

32 posted on 07/26/2007 3:49:48 PM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: BurbankKarl

Great photos...a magic moment.


33 posted on 07/26/2007 3:51:01 PM PDT by Cuttnhorse
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To: dfwgator

LOL.....that is a great line and that movie causes me to blush : )


34 posted on 07/26/2007 3:51:59 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine

Lots of white supremacist enclaves in Idaho, as well. At least there used to be.

I wish the couple a life of happiness and special blessings.

(That was the most exciting college football game I’ve ever watched.)


35 posted on 07/26/2007 3:52:55 PM PDT by Rushmore Rocks
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To: mnehrling

My husband is participating in the Family Tree DNA project. It is an amazing project tracing roots.


36 posted on 07/26/2007 3:53:04 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Rudy, Mayor of Sanctuary City)
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To: 1rudeboy
Umm . . . Idaho is not known as the “greenie-progressive utopian northwest.” Not yet, at least.

Well...maybe Ketchum-Sun Valley. But I don't consider them part of Idaho...at least not like Challis, Mackay, Salmon, or Leadore.

37 posted on 07/26/2007 3:53:42 PM PDT by Cuttnhorse
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To: dfwgator

LOL!! Very good.


38 posted on 07/26/2007 3:55:04 PM PDT by Cuttnhorse
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To: Cuttnhorse
Well...maybe Ketchum-Sun Valley.

I used to go there for Christmas vacation, never saw so many celebs in my life.

39 posted on 07/26/2007 3:55:39 PM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
To prove how small the world really is, my brother (who is a student at BSU, pictured here, to his older brother's right had a class with Chrissy--I think it was business statistics, I can't remember off the top of my head. But from what he told me, pictures don't do her justice.
40 posted on 07/26/2007 3:56:38 PM PDT by GOP_Raider (Your one stop shop for all your useless information needs.)
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