Comments Thread For: "Fighting Words" - Angel Garcia to Blame, Though We Enabled Him

[The D3vil]

Meh, boxing's the only sport that isn't governed by what's deemed offensive or not.

Do I want non-Blacks using the word? No and I will act appropriately if one calls me that, but I'd rather just seen Danny Garcia get his ass kicked by Keith Thurman then anything that would happen to Angel.

[Kigali]

N word? Got to be kidding me. The meaning and "sting" of that-once-upon-a-time BAD SWEAR WORD....had been intelligently dissected long, long ago. Doesn't AT ALL mean same as before. Matter of fact//& even though these boxers using that in a WAR sort of way..yet just the same it's friendly word to use in modern.
No use to get bent out of shape.
Where this writer been?????

Broner got sacked for saying mexican.

I remember everybody being OK with him getting sacked.

[Jsmooth9876]

Truth be told I think it was the ******* that enabled him the most...

[StrangerInTown]

Danny's gonna get whooped real good In The Name Of The Father.

[fightfanjoe]

All this pissing and moaning is disgusting. Angel Garcia a a street dude. This isn't a ****ing ******* arts lecture, its boxing. All these sports writers could never make it as "real" journalists, and are a bunch of ***** ******** still mad about the election; hence the outrage. If you are offended by what Angel said, you really need to toughen up and stop being a *****. And if you don't like what I'm saying now, you can go **** yourself.

[KeyboardWarrior]

Angel Garcia isn't a street mofo when Ruben Guerrero is present.

[Ray*]

He did worse to Amir Khan and people lapped it up, I thought what was said at the time was disgusting and disgraceful but people want to complain and write articles about it now? Nah you better all laugh about it, suck it up because you all enabled that act from Angel Garcia.

[Butt stuff]

He did worse to Amir Khan and people lapped it up, I thought what was said at the time was disgusting and disgraceful but people want to complain and write articles about it now? Nah you better all laugh about it, suck it up because you all enabled that act from Angel Garcia.

Yeah that was terrible. I remember my blood boiling watching that.

[THC]

The difference between the non-blacks I know that use the word and what Angel did is that they use the word among people that they know aren't offended by it. Growing up around blacks doesn't make you black. It also doesn't give you universal "black privilege." Angel wasn't in a private setting among peers. He was at a press conference that was gonna be accessible to every person on this planet with a TV and/or internet access. That's a lot of different people from a lot of different backgrounds. Several of whom simply see a non-black spewing the N-word in a confrontational manner.

Yes, the context is critical here. If Angel wants to throw racial slurs at his inner circle before the cameras start rolling, have at it. But promoters should not willingly give him a pubic stage or carte blanche for any behavior that damages the event or boxing in general. Already being a marginalized sport in North America, it does not need to be associated with xenophobic rants that could scuttle the possibility of gaining a larger fan base (through mainstream non-cable broadcasters).

[borbor]

The Nword deserves to be forgotten by everyones vocabulary ...... i don't care if you think you can own that term because u from da hood or not ....and its even worst if black people use it on themselves ...makes them look as is they lack respect for their brothers and ancestors

Angel .....that want to be hoodster should apologize or get punched in the mouth

Lets also remember how Bhop once called Calzaghe a white boy at a press conference......... lets call a spade a spade

These people need to get called out if they choose to show their ignorant side
as they seem to like to open their mouths and have others listen to their vanity and truths as they say

.....****ing geniuses they think they are