Rooting for a fighter based on skin color is racist

[FISTIC ART]

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Lmaooooooooooooooooooo... laughing is a great thing...heals the soul....ok ill just make one point............

its dangerous to be racist.......

but its just as dangerous to think everything is racist............

[pesticid]

first of, why am i an idiot? i made an observation and you resort to calling me names.

it goes all ways, not just white people liking white people. liking kelly for being a great fighter is fine, it just seems people want to put WHITE on his resume, like it's a positive or negative. his color has nothing to do with how he fights, but everyone seemed excited about a "white" champion.

No, everybody is excited about one of the most powerful punchers in all of boxing today. That's what everybody is excited about. The rest is all in your mind. I was at a bar during the fight where white fans and black fans were picking Taylor to win. In the end, everybody was ecstatic about Pavlik.

[Valgas]

Boxing is a race war, yall need to take off your PC pants and quit being ****sexuals in denial. It's been about race since the first negro stepped in the ring e.g. "The Bad Negro (-e +i -ro +ger)" JJ.

Racism isn't a social construct either. It's an unconscious, natural human instinct. We should learn to deal with it until it becomes just a minor annoyance. We're pretty close now.

To those of you who claim to be "color blind" when it comes to who you root for and who you favor. I'd bet bout $1,000 dollars that you couldn't pass a lie detector test if you were asked if race mattered to you. Your genes know the truth.

[Ta Khent]

Boxing is a race war, yall need to take off your PC pants and quit being ****sexuals in denial. It's been about race since the first negro stepped in the ring e.g. "The Bad Negro (-e +i -ro +ger)" JJ.

Racism isn't a social construct either. It's an unconscious, natural human instinct. We should learn to deal with it until it becomes just a minor annoyance. We're pretty close now.

To those of you who claim to be "color blind" when it comes to who you root for and who you favor. I'd bet bout $1,000 dollars that you couldn't pass a lie detector test if you were asked if race mattered to you. Your genes know the truth.

I suggest you read "The Isis Papers" by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing.

[Damn_Zany_Gun]

Boxing is a race war, yall need to take off your PC pants and quit being ****sexuals in denial. It's been about race since the first negro stepped in the ring e.g. "The Bad Negro (-e +i -ro +ger)" JJ.

Racism isn't a social construct either. It's an unconscious, natural human instinct. We should learn to deal with it until it becomes just a minor annoyance. We're pretty close now.

To those of you who claim to be "color blind" when it comes to who you root for and who you favor. I'd bet bout $1,000 dollars that you couldn't pass a lie detector test if you were asked if race mattered to you. Your genes know the truth.

I am not a racist.

[Mrvooh]

I've really noticed among my friends and a lot of people on this board that they root for people based on skin color. why is that? i appreciate black fighters (taylor, mosley, clottey), white fighters (pavlik, hatton, wlad), asian fighters, latin/ hispanic fighters. all my friends wanted to root for pavlik because he was white, and i just didnt get that. i was rooting for taylor (more for manny than for taylor, but i do really like taylor), but wasnt upset that pavlik won. it was a great fight for so many reasons (not PPV, both fighters hit the canvas, big punches).

race is still an issue because we allow it to be. ****, in the latin/ hispanic culture racism is based upon country of origin. With everyone oppressing each other the man doesnt have to get his hands dirty.

I don't consider that really racist, only when racial comments are made about any fighter.
It seems pretty normal for one to want his or her race to win. There are other choices like wanting you church denomination, or a family member, or a hometowner to win,,,I get to the point where I sometimes route for a white in boxing, the the blacks / Asians in TENNIS,,,I sometimes go for the underdogs.
tennis has been Euro dominated, so I route for USA guy James Blake, who is pretty darn good. But then I route for Nash in basketball. This is not always the case with me ( i WANTED tAYLOR )..But about 1/3 of the time, I find myself guilty of that, but mostly with the new guys, such a Andy Lee, but I also like Dawson...BTW, MOST Hispanics are considered white...But PACMAN is alao one of my favorites

[StackMo]

Most Hispanics actually are not considered white except by themselves and even then only by the ones in denial.

[Thread Stealer]

No It Isn't.

[Valgas]

I am not a racist.

FAIL!

Ta_Khent, NICE av, bad book.

But anyway, color-struckism in boxing is gonna stick around for a while because there will always be this one wack motha****a who will bring up race in some form.

[MightyMikeA]

Just like infants respond more to women who look like their mothers, so it is human nature and in ingrained genetic switch in us that leads us to prefer boxers who look like us. This is not racist, but rather basic human psychology. I'm Mediterranean and if two boxers are in the ring, one who looks like Sam Peter and the other who looks like Rocky Marciano are both unknowns, I'm biologically going to prefer the guy who looks like Marciano. Not because I'm racist, but because there is a genetic switch in like like everyone on this planet to respond to people who look similar to me.

Get off this **** already and don't make such a big deal about it. People are just people.