Barry Hearn smiles: When I was running boxing we were slave traders

[bigdunny1]

WTF!!!! He had a old white man moment. Where they tell you to your face something racist as phuk because they going senile and can no longer remember to keep these comments to themselves. SMH

[ippo]

Bob arum is the same way.

[alexguiness]

The atlantic slave trade has to be one of the worst practices of human rights to ever exist, it's worse than other slaveries because not only was it slavery, but the whole system put in to protect and hinder those who it effected.


USA and similar chattel slavery was much more strenuous, racist, degrading..than any other form of slaver practiced on the planet. Other cultures and ancient civilizations at least had basic rights and treated ****** with dignity, you just couldn't beat the hell out of a slave. Not to mention, ****** typically were captured by people close by, so for the most part the people conquering them would have a similar culture to them. In a lot of societies ****** could rise through the ranks. In west Africa ****** could rise and actually marry into the family and had rights, it was more like light indentured servitude(Still slavery). It's also by far the most known story of slavery because it was by far the biggest slave trade in history, it also lasted a significant amount of time compared to other slavery.

Sorry friend but your post is total BS.

You are making a generalization about ALL ****** and their experiences throughout history and using the lens of 'systemic racism' to weaponize the African American experience. The African American experience of 'slavery' is now a political football and has lost all credibility due to extremely bias and inaccurate slant used by race hustlers to further their agenda on things like reparations.

[Weebler I]

Refreshing to hear him being candid tho

He was joking though. Inappropriate as hell mind.

[elfag]

Yes I am. I like it to be out in the open. Not whispered.

The other day when Arum said Haymon is telling his fighters don't deal with the white man I said even if he is telling them that he isn't wrong because ***s & Whites have always exploited black & latino fighters. Barry is proving my point.

As opposed to.....




What promoters werent ***ing fighters over until GBP and latter Haymond came around?

[Jax teller]

I assume he's talking about world boxing. Even if it's just the UK, most of the big names were, and are non-white.

I think he should apologize, explain himself, and get over with.

That makes it even less likely to be offensive, if he's talking about general world practice in boxing, how's that racist? He neither said nor implied anything discriminatory and neither did he refer to race in anyway.

It's pretty simple promotional contracts where like slave deals for ALL boxers (big name or not) and the promoters where the distributors of those contracts now boxers are the ones calling the shots on fight by fight deals.

You don't need to try so hard to be offended.

[Jax teller]

The missing context was obviously deliberate. This forum is race baiting central, do you expect anything different on here?

I've never met a group of people that wanted to be hated and scream racism so bad that they forget that the two key ingredients for racism (race and discrimination) were completely absent in Barry's comments.

[LacedUp]

Refreshing honesty, and hilarious 15-minute straight speech from the old geezer.

Unfortunately, guys like Haymon, Arum, King and Warren aren't following suit and are still tying their fighters to slave contracts and prevent them from maximizing revenue.

[Honeyman]

Reperations should of been paid long ago but the white supremist America decided to pay off the slave traders,that’s not even to mention the whole of Africa being carved up by Europe.If America are happy to pay Israel then the western world should do the same with Africa as opposed to raping it for its resources.

[davef]

bit awkward it was an attempt at humour more than outright racism but no big deal ppl just get triggered by everything these days im sure twitter users are loving acting outraged over it though