Posted on 10/20/2005 6:41:50 AM PDT by WmCraven_Wk
So to you on this thread, we've gone from being "niggers" to "gang bangers."
What else, while you're on a roll?
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In a nutshell:
a) Yes it is racially motivated.
b) Get used to it. The days of having your abberant behavior excused because of your race are over.
c) Employees of most other corporate entities must adhere to a dress code, what makes you so special?
d) Asking you to wear a suit is not the same as slapping you in irons and forcing you to pick cotton in the southern sun for 20 hours a day.
e) If you don't like it, I'm sure there are plenty of other professional basketball leagues on the planet offering competitive salaries (/sarcasm).
If you are black and don't get what you want, scream "racism" and watch people scatter like cockroaches for fear of being labeled a racist ( which is akin to being a child molester).
It's well on its way and the players don't even see it.
I think that has a lot to do with the perception of NHL players in comparison to NBA players. You simply don't have as many off-the-field incidents in the news involving NHL players.
No. It just targeted Mr. T wannabe's. What it is with some people. They don't get there way, have to conform to some rules, and everything becomes discrimination.
there is just too much entertainment out there for people to be throwing good hard earned money into something they can't identify with...
You're joking, right?
The thuggery of the '70s was beat back in the NHL at the beginning of the Gretzky era. Now, they have distorted the penalty structure for fighting('instigator' rule etc) in vain attempts to make The Game fight-free. It's a mistake, of course.
The occasional spontaneous scrap is part and parcel of hockey, as played by men.
I don't know enough about jewelry and sneakers to comment on NBA demonstrations of manhood.
"The occasional spontaneous scrap is part and parcel of hockey, as played by men.
I don't know enough about jewelry and sneakers to comment on NBA demonstrations of manhood."
ROLFL!!!
No but on the ice these guys have to be the worst role models in professional sports. We are outraged over the NBA dress code but where's the outrage when a hockey player drives his stick into the top of his opponents head from the back. Where's the wringing of hands about role models when in hockey a player attacks his opponent from the back driving his head into the ice until the molested players lifeless body slides across the ice leaving a bloody trail. You talk about fan-friendly, didn't a couple of NHL thugs go up in the stands last year attacking fans with their sticks? Hockey is no more than the WWF with skates the only difference being that the blood is real.
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Stupid might be too strong. Read about the "Bell Curve" and you will see why these eleven year old children act like eleven year old children.
ROLFL!!! = ROTFL!!!
$@#*& fat fingers
With all the important things going on in the World, who has time for this whining?
Oh I get it now, it's manly to slash your opponents throat on the ice. It's a good "manly" thing for kids to see "men" clutching their throat as blood spurts between their fingers. But if that same kid see's a man wearing a jersey and a chain he should run away because he just witnessed a "thug" and he should be scared of him. Get over your fear of clothes.
"So to you on this thread, we've gone from being "niggers" to "gang bangers."
What else, while you're on a roll?"
Well did you hear the one about....(just kidding). I'm refering to the people who seem adamant on dressing and acting like thugs in public, the people who hang out in groups at the mall looking like they just came out of a rap video or drive-by shooting, then bitch when people show disdain for them because of their "gangsta" culture. Yeah they can wear whatever the hell they want on their spare time, but that doesn't mean they won't be judged any more positively than people who wear normal clothing.
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"I feel like if they want us to dress a certain way, they should pay for our clothes"
Sure, buy him a polyester suit from Wal-Mart. Hell, I'll kick in for that.
...old rules that target young black males whose "skills" are associated with hip-hop culture.
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