The official "I disapprove of Hopkins's comments" thread

[Mozza]

Where did you get "****** Blaster"?

That's what I have always know them as. It isn't a veiled reference to black people living in the ******s if that's what you're trying to get at.

[sonofisis]

You got the same white people in here who say racist **** all the time about floyd and others crying now....

nmuburner22, I have to put you on my friend's list, you are something else.

[Floyd R]

Hopkins-Calzaghe heats up!

Friday, December 7 2007

B-Hop: I would never lose to a white person
Super Joe: He will lose to me

A fight nearly broke out between Bernard Hopkins and Joe Calzaghe today during their first face-to-face meeting at the MGM Grand Media Center in Las Vegas. "I would never let a white boy beat me," Hopkins told reporters. "You can print that. I would never lose to a white person." Hopkins also dissed Calzaghe's win over Mikkel Kessler. "Kessler is not in my league, man. Who is Kessler? You think Kessler was a true warrior?" Calzaghe stated, "He ducked me four years ago. He thinks he's a legend but he lost to Jermain Taylor twice and, believe me, he will lose to me.....He'll get his arse kicked, full stop. He's all mouth. He doesn't fight, he holds." Both fighters said they would make their showdown happen in 2008, possibly at Yankee Stadium in New York City.

(copied from http://www.*********.com/*********_2...VByIlhUVY.html)

[kayjay]

Oh no Ray, it's justified because he said "White Boy". They are equal. So I have been told, anyway.

No it's not justified but it is equal. You can only ask me to treat people fairly and equally. You can't expect me to carry burdens of past centuries. We can only become equal by being equal, not by equalizing.

[beauty]

Explain the difference? If you call someone a ****** you are trying to put them down because of their race and if you call someone a white boy you are trying to put them down because of their race.

Over technicality is the difference my friend. I can sit and discuss someone and say, "Yeah, this white boy", and mean absolutely nothing by it. Bernard may have meant something by it, but generally speaking.

However, no one can sit and have a conversation and say "Yeah, this n.igger" and it not be classified as anything other than a slur.

[warp1432]

Why don't people realize this is just a lure for Calzaghe taking the fight. It's nothing serious and frankly, I don't find it racist at all.

[Welter_Skelter]

Where did you get "****** Blaster"?

That term came out in the 80's.. Boom Boxes were not called so.. till the Politcally correct late 90's...

[nmuburner22]

nmuburner22, I have to put you on my friend's list, you are something else.

Lmao......

[Ray Ray]

Oh no Ray, it's justified because he said "White Boy". They are equal. So I have been told, anyway.

Seriously, What did Hopkins actually say?

I'm just curious.

[beauty]

No it's not justified but it is equal. You can only ask me to treat people fairly and equally. You can't expect me to carry burdens of past centuries. We can only become equal by being equal, not by equalizing.

Amazing how that is equal in your mind. I agree with everything else. However, the first part, no. That is not equal.