From Marley's site:
Skippack Township, Pennsylvania -- After spending the evening presenting a two hour motivational speech punctuated with tales of his in the ring exploits, with no break, to select inmates of the Graterford State Prison on Thursday evening, Bernard Hopkins issued a direct challenge to newly crowned I.B.F. crusierweight champion Tomas Ademek. Hopkins, who called Graterford State Penn his home for nearly five years as a young man, was informed of Ademek's Thursday night victory over Steve Cunningham and responded, "I would love to go up in weight to beat another robotic white boy."
Hopkins recently starched middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik - a white boy - over twelve rounds.
50 years ago black people couldn't even ride the damn bus and they had to go to seperate bathrooms and places to eat. not to mention the constant persecution they endured in daily life just for being black. consider this a little well earned payback that the black people get to hold over your head for years of racism.
this isn't 50 years ago. our next president is black (who i voted for by the way). get you shit together and stop using the race card
well that's a great point, part of what irks me, and exactly what i was speaking about....in the U.S. white is white etc..
Some Americans are ****ing stupid, that was essentially the whole point, and yes while i have little exposure to people from central and south america i do realize that they are different and do differentiate between them even though they may have the same skin colour.
Different cultures, histories, etc
I am supposed to grant a pass and not state my opinion when it differs because of others ignorance or delicate sensitivity?
not at all and I wouldn't want you to.
Alan Minter: "no black man will take my title"
Has been said by a white guy way before and also said by Jim Jefferies
That was wrong of them, but does that make it ok for Hopkins to be racist.
Paul Williams, get the fuck out of here. Williams always mixes it up but is NOT one dimensional
I meant Danny Williams, but you know, if thats what you think!
That's never brought up in the maiinstream media, so most black people are not aware ot it. Farakhan and Malcolm X were accused of being anti-Semitic when they talked about it.
i know, i was getting up on my high horse and chastising Americans for not knowing their own edited history while at the same time using that distorted history as the basis for their views
Hopkins would probably beat him too.
As long as the white folks don't get offended by racist Hopkins again he's not doing it. Hopkins is in clearly for the money and if racism works that's what he will use. Can't expect much better sense from an ex-con, i know he can be nice too but he's offending allot of people with these remarks. Hang them up already B Hopp, you are too old! You were too old 7 years ago, you are too old now!
lol i fell for it too.
Just like you feel everybody shouldn't understand or care about America's ****ed up history. Here in America we look a people by colour not nationality. So whether you are actually slavok(sp),ukranian,russian or jewish you are looked at as a white person. Just like majority of people don't try to differentiate from Puerto Rican, Mexican, Brazilian, Panamanian, etc. In America your colour defines you not your nationality.
well that's a great point, part of what irks me, and exactly what i was speaking about....in the U.S. white is white etc..
Some Americans are ****ing stupid, that was essentially the whole point, and yes while i have little exposure to people from central and south america i do realize that they are different and do differentiate between them even though they may have the same skin colour.
Different cultures, histories, etc
I am supposed to grant a pass and not state my opinion when it differs because of others ignorance or delicate sensitivity?
White people as well as black people HAVE seen where racism leads before which is a pretty good reason to be intolerant of it now. Racism by one group of people just leads to racism from others, so people cant bitch about wanting equality and then expect to get away with MORE shit than other people thats not equality at all.
Best statement in this entire thread, so far.
And about Hopkins comments, do you really take him serious? Hes just trash talking, its funny how everyone gets angry about Hopkins comments! Hes no racist!
Hopkins is a piece of shit
Adamek would beatdown that racist bitch
What?? How would he do it? Hopkins lets guys like Adamek look amateurs!
I can see why Hopkins is angry about Adamek because Cunningham was a fighter from philly. Hopkins wants revenge and i would love to see it! Hopkins would become champion in another division, and that at the age of 44! What a great man Hopkins is!
i hear what you're saying but what ALL AMERICANS black white and any other colour need to understand is to not automatically expect that other people, especially other whites to give a shit about YOUR countries history and to share your opinions, AND NOT TO APPLY IT TOO ALL CAUCASIAN PEOPLES, DOMESTIC AND ABROAD, CUZ IT DOESN"T APPLY TOO ALL.
That is my biggest problem and what causes my reactionary firm opposition to those opinions.
take me for example, i live in Canada and am mostly Ukrainian and 1/4 Slovak, so what the **** do i have to feel guilty or give a shit about in regards to the poor black man being oppressed in the U.S.? nothing and i'm apathetic so don't be shocked when you encounter it
whites aren't all the same and don't have the same histories, even in your own country, something like 90% of your slave owners were of British Ancestry, then i'm assuming also some German, French, Jews etc..
there is a youtube video of a lecture about the slave trade and this Prof. Tony Martin touches on jewish involvement, in it he cites a study by a jewish historian who did a study of the 1830 census and found that in the south approx 75% of jewish families owned slaves where approx 36% of white families owned slaves, so per capita twice as much yet i don't hear blacks frequently bitching about jews.
Also Blacks don't have a monopoly on oppression
again referring to what i'm most familiar with
Ukraine was subjegated, oppressed, and encountered slavery in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Tsarist Russia, Soviet Russia, and along with those had to constantly fight against Mongols and Ottoman Turks along with those others
Likewise i'm not trying to petition the Austrian, Hungarian,Russian,Polish,Lithuanian,Mongolian, etc governments trying to get money cuz of the past and some (like myself) may view this approach as these people being whining, moaning, little pussies. You won't recieve any undeserved sympathy or elevated position placing you to be more important than any other group from me. I don't give a **** so deal with it cuz you sure aren't going to change my opinion.
Just like you feel everybody shouldn't understand or care about America's ****ed up history. Here in America we look a people by colour not nationality. So whether you are actually slavok(sp),ukranian,russian or jewish you are looked at as a white person. Just like majority of people don't try to differentiate from Puerto Rican, Mexican, Brazilian, Panamanian, etc. In America your colour defines you not your nationality.
there is a youtube video of a lecture about the slave trade and this Prof. Tony Martin touches on jewish involvement, in it he cites a study by a jewish historian who did a study of the 1830 census and found that in the south approx 75% of jewish families owned slaves where approx 36% of white families owned slaves, so per capita twice as much yet i don't hear blacks frequently bitching about jews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcu5GmDAJ_Y&feature=related