Comments Thread For: Mayweather Says Black/Haymon Fighters Being Played Down

[BlackSoul]

I would imagine the reason there are so many black boxers in America is because they know that boxing is a field in which they can excel and achieve success, if they have the talent, without having to deal with the racism they come up against in other areas of society.

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[stuff jones]

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You sound like you're 10. If you're not, I suggest spending less time online and more time learning to read and write.

[richardt]

there are always EXCEPTIONS to the rule tho the RULE NEVER CHANGES
and i wouldnt care if a mexican fighter said about blacks on the skreets out in the west my people is at war with them

Maybe you don't think you care but you would be offended and many others would too. And when a public figure insults a group, he may be living in a free speech society, but that doesn't mean he is free of repercussions to said comments. No one appreciates when their group, race, color, nationality is insulted as a whole. It accomplishes nothing but tensions among all people and feeds on itself and grows and that is how some street wars are started and sustained.

And yes, when I see someone insulting blacks on this site, I report them and have done so many times. The same for other groups. Racism is not to be tolerated. Nothing good comes from it, no one ever convinces anyone that they are superior or makes someone else feel that they are inferior, the only affect is the feeling of being offended and resultant animosity.

[48cantCstraight]

Yes because canelo and ggg are fighting monsters lol I don't think any of those guys would fight a washed up Kirkland who hadn't fought in 2yrs.

Canelo and GGG are fighting better competition than all of Haymon's fighters. Was Kirkland a **** fight? Yea but that's just one fight. PBC fighters fight bum after bum. Again, name me one white fighter who has had as much mainstream success as Floyd, Roy Jones, Tyson, and on and on.

It's pathetic how some fans play the race card. Any time a non-black fighter gets any hype, you got all these punk a$$ b!tches yelling racism. Really? Just the fact that a white fighter gets hype bothers you? That tells me there's something seriously wrong with you. If GGG is such a hype job then Curtis Stevens or Monroe Jr. shoulda knocked him out. Kirkland shoulda knocked out Canelo, and Trout shouldn't have been doing the Zab Judah dance in the ring against him. You guys are sad

[BlackSoul]

Maybe you don't think you care but you would be offended and many others would too. And when a public figure insults a group, he may be living in a free speech society, but that doesn't mean he is free of repercussions to said comments. No one appreciates when their group, race, color, nationality is insulted as a whole. It accomplishes nothing but tensions among all people and feeds on itself and grows and that is how some street wars are started and sustained.

And yes, when I see someone insulting blacks on this site, I report them and have done so many times. The same for other groups. Racism is not to be tolerated. Nothing good comes from it, no one ever convinces anyone that they are superior or makes someone else feel that they are inferior, the only affect is the feeling of being offended and resultant animosity.

i wouldnt care AT ALL bc there is a not so silent war bein' waged on in the skreets and its a representation of that hatred for black skin in every society on the planet we can go and there is some derogatory word for black skinned people
whites have created the most which they have infected all other societies they'd wind up conquerin' = n!gger, monkey, etc etc i can fill up damn near this entire thread with their words they've created against blacks
mexicans ******
filipinos su nog, nog nog
arabs abd
these may be nationalities in REAL LIFE but in an "american" context this is how its broken down. and there are many more colloquial terms that are used but this is just a general breakdown.
no race on the planet has been attacked like the blacks, we get it from all sides then when one speaks out to something that COULD BE CONSIDERED "racial" then erbody wanna raise hell.
racism & prejudice are two very different terms

[BlackSoul]

Have you noticed how boxing and other blue collar or working class sports, and also popular music, are fields in which people who are mostly excluded from business and academic careers because of prejudice and/or lack of educational qualifications, tend to have more success than anybody else? This applies to the UK and other European countries, as well as the USA.

There are a whole lot of complex reasons why this happens, too complex for me to go into here, even if I had all the answers, which I don't.

I'm pretty sure though, that in the States, black kids are attracted to boxing and rap music because they know that there, if nowhere else, they can express themselves and, if they have talent, make money doing it, without being held down by racism and prjeudice.

I watched the video you linked to. I found it both shocking and, when I got over my shock, hilariously funny, in the same way as the Seinfeld show that guy appeared in was funny - laughing at the ridiculousness and pretentions that exist in modern day society.

The comedian, trying to be clever and edgy, lets his egotism take over because some guys are talking to each other instead of listening to him, loses his temper, and makes an utter embecile of himself up on stage in front of everybody.

One of the black audience members, walking out in disgust, shouts to him "That was uncalled for, you cracker-ass mother ****er!"

Hilarious!

and another thang i have to say is that BOXING in the BLACK community is NOT and has NOT been a sport of attraction to black people in decades.
the #1 & #2 sports blacks go into is Basketball & Football
boxing probably isnt even top5 but if it is its barely in the top 5

[alexguiness]

no they're not. only black athletes get paid for that
and there is no "complaining" its called pointing out hypocrisy

Michael Jackson, Jay Z, Jamie Fox, Will Smith.

To name just a few.

'Pointing out hypocrisy' actually sounds worse than complaining.

[richardt]

i wouldnt care AT ALL bc there is a not so silent war bein' waged on in the skreets and its a representation of that hatred for black skin in every society on the planet we can go and there is some derogatory word for black skinned people
whites have created the most which they have infected all other societies they'd wind up conquerin' = n!gger, monkey, etc etc i can fill up damn near this entire thread with their words they've created against blacks
mexicans ******
filipinos su nog, nog nog
arabs abd
these may be nationalities in REAL LIFE but in an "american" context this is how its broken down. and there are many more colloquial terms that are used but this is just a general breakdown.
no race on the planet has been attacked like the blacks, we get it from all sides then when one speaks out to something that COULD BE CONSIDERED "racial" then erbody wanna raise hell.
racism & prejudice are two very different terms

You live in or are exposed to that world. The one I live in is one where my family and the people I know respect and admire black people (and all others), one where I worked for 8 years for an African-American owned technology business; the owner who was my favorite boss ever, the world where I don't tolerate racism and do not make friends with people who hold racist attitudes, the world where I despise anyone who would repress or enslave another human being, the world where the best friend I ever had was black, the world where I enjoy the soul food cuisine, enjoy the culture and the music and the people and admire and respect blacks, the world where some of my money goes to help kids of all backgrounds with meals in Africa and elsewhere.

That's the world I live in because I make that my world and the more people who can do that, will live in the SAME world, a world where even on a trivial level as boxing, I have NEVER watched a fight and wanted a fighter to win or lose just because of his color, nationality, etc. Can you HONESTLY say the same??

Its about admiring and respecting everyone and others who do not look like you and NOT labelling them and building huge walls between them. I DO NOT agree with people who say white people this or white people that anymore than I do with people who say black people this or black people that, or Mexicans this or that. That is not how society evolves, it is how it declines. I am not being idealistic either, it is my reality and the reality of the few people I know closely. If someone is not on board with my world, I don't want to know them, period.

And as to prejudice and racism, racism in the current climate is easy to identify. It often uses items to degrade a group. Racism includes the use of racial slurs and by DEFINITION, any reference to a particular groups food, behavior, preferences, styles in a derogatory manner is racist. When Don Imuse called the black womens basketball team "Nappy headed Ho's" he was making a racial slur by degrading them and their hairstyle. When Adrien Broner said he was going to beat that burrito-eating dude, he was making a racial slur based on a food group. See the top of this paragraph....those references just made are about a groups food and style. If someone refers to blacks and makes a derogatory comment about fried chicken, that is a racial slur. Simple.

And Mr. Soul, if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. You talk about how you could "fill up a thread with their words". Anyone could fill up a thread with words from every sector. There are good and bad people in every group, nothing new. My wife who is the most charitable, sweet, accepting person anyone could meet - who does not have a racist bone in her body was on a bus when she was 16 and a black lady and her daughter were sitting across from her and the mother pointed to my wife and said "that is the devil right there". I have a close friend who has a heart of gold and accepts everyone and when he was a teen was taken down to a river and beaten by 3 black teenagers because of his color. They tried to kill him till a guardian angel out of nowhere showed up and scared them away. And today he holds NO hate for blacks because he, like anyone with intelligence and common sense, who isn't emotionally f.ucked up, knows that there are good and bad people from every sector.

If you only trust some whites and some mexicans, then there is nothing wrong with that, perhaps they have to build your trust before they can be called your friend. But if you blanket despise them all, then that is the height of ignorance and is categorically a mental problem. You should be attempting to bring down walls, even if only a few but it sounds to me that you are blanketing everyone which is part of the problem and you create the self-fulfilled prophesy that you despise in others. I reach out to everyone in my every day life and build bridges, not walls. I did that from the time I was raised in a ****** in Oakland to my current life in contra costa. I don't judge first when I meet people who do or do not look like me, I reach out to them with a warm smile and sincere demeanor and that's how I live. Are you doing the same, or are you letting the poison of hate eat away at you like acid till there is nothing left of your "soul"?

[GOT BEEF?]

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[mathed]

i wouldnt care AT ALL bc there is a not so silent war bein' waged on in the skreets and its a representation of that hatred for black skin in every society on the planet we can go and there is some derogatory word for black skinned people
whites have created the most which they have infected all other societies they'd wind up conquerin' = n!gger, monkey, etc etc i can fill up damn near this entire thread with their words they've created against blacks
mexicans ******
filipinos su nog, nog nog
arabs abd
these may be nationalities in REAL LIFE but in an "american" context this is how its broken down. and there are many more colloquial terms that are used but this is just a general breakdown.
no race on the planet has been attacked like the blacks, we get it from all sides then when one speaks out to something that COULD BE CONSIDERED "racial" then erbody wanna raise hell.
racism & prejudice are two very different terms

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