Hopkins Stands Firm on "White Boy" Jab

[Jolly Roger]

I knew it would get under his skin and it did.

Are you sure about that Bernard? He didn't look that bothered.

[hardmanbrit]

He has every right to make statements like that.

[PoetryInMotion]

Hopkins is the master at mind games, remember when he threw the Puerto Rican flag down and people made a huge fuss about it? hes the best at these games and is in Calzaghes head.

You call him a master as if he does it as an art form, it doesnt take a genuis to think of what he said, calzaghe could have said that, my whole point is cal would not have been able to get away with it. N I think only calzaghe knows whats going on in his head.

[PoetryInMotion]

He has every right to make statements like that.

So Calzaghe could call him a black boy?

[hardmanbrit]

So Calzaghe could call him a black boy?

Well, no, but it's kind of different.

[Orion]

You call him a master as if he does it as an art form, it doesnt take a genuis to think of what he said, calzaghe could have said that, my whole point is cal would not have been able to get away with it. N I think only calzaghe knows whats going on in his head.

I dont get anything you said here.

[Jolly Roger]

Hopkins is the master at mind games, remember when he threw the Puerto Rican flag down and people made a huge fuss about it? hes the best at these games and is in Calzaghes head.

What makes you think this?

[ExecutiveOutlaw]

whats BS is that if someone like pavlik said, "im not going to lose to taylor because he's black" the world would have fallen but since hopkins is black he gets away (for the most part) for saying, "im not going to lose to calzaghe because he's white".

if pavlik said that about taylor he would need to be escorted by a fleet of police to and from the arena out of the possibility of violence for his racist comment...

but hopkins gets away with it...i dont get it.

it seems like a black guy could flat out call a white guy a "cracker" or a "honkey" even in a white neighborhood but if a white guy called a black guy a "******" then it would make headlines and the white guy would probably get attacked by 10 black guys for his racist comment.

i know my last statement didnt have to do with the topic but its something i realized...

so when thousands of middle-upper class white people die from 9/11, we get articles about it nearly every day for the past 7 years

but for the one year anniversary of katrina, where thousands of poor black people die, most newspapers don't even mention it a year later

when a white women goes missing, the whole nation goes on a manhunt, but when its a minority, it barely gets a headline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman

when an innocent, unarmed man gets shot or has a plunger rammed up his ass by the police, hes black, not white

when someone has 500 grams of *******, a drug which is mostly used by white people, he can get 5 years minimum prison time. but for crack, which is used mostly in black neighborhoods, all it takes is 5 grams, 100 times less

when jessica lynch, the soldier who was a POW, returned home, she immediatly got multimillion dollar book and movie deals, although reports of her getting shot, stabbed, a ****d were false. yet when shoshana johnson, who was part of the same pow camp, was shot in both of her feet, she barely gets any recognition

i mean i could go on easily, but my point is, lets stop portraying white people as the helpless victims of bias or double standards, OK?

[Orion]

What makes you think this?

I just believe it is, i mean if someone said that to me id get pretty upset i mean i definetly couldnt just brush it off, BUT do i know for a fact it got in Calzaghes head no, but id have to guess it did.

[PoetryInMotion]

Dont get me wrong, im not a calzaghe fan, I like hopkins more because ive followed him more, and im not white, im mexican. Im just viewing this from a nuetral corner.