Larry Merchant calls Wilder the “Last Black Hope”

[QueensburyRules]

- -Lar just honoring black history month like Wilder.

[nacho daddy]

I don’t disagree with your point about b hop.

You guys need to stop with the double standard stuff. You simply can’t compare real racism, the kind that we’ve seen in America for hundreds of years, with comments that a fighter may or may not make.

Of course if someone white made comments it would be taken differently. That is because white people, but particularly white men, occupy positions of power and access that others don’t. Further, there is a history of racism that other groups don’t have.

We can’t just pretend that all races occupy an equal place in American society. We also need to stop pretending that every group that looks to help people of color can be equated to the white racist organizations that have actively participated in murder and violence.

Its definitely wrong for bhop to have said that but that doesn’t make him the equivalent of a **** or klansman when he said it.

around 1.7 million white men died forming this country fighting the british French spain Canadians messicans Indians and each other. you are godamn right whites occupy positions of power

[champion4ever]

Why do people call Merchant racist because he doesn't like Mayweather and Wilder? Maybe it's their personality he doesn't like? From what i've seen of Merchant he doesn't like any fighters apart from Pacquiao.

He hates them because they are Americans of a particular ancestral strain.

[nacho daddy]

for god sake ******* is nothing more than a ethno religious supremacist doctrine that want to slave everyone ,its ****sm for ***s .
the only reason this is tolerated is because they have an incredible power in usa

blacks are to dumb to see that ***s took blacks from having decent families were respectful went to church worked and bothered no one to wild drugged lunatics who don't work where 80% of black kids got no father

[nacho daddy]

Last Black Hope?! There are so many big black dudes who are doing other things rather than boxing. If just a small percentage of those dudes took up boxing there would probably be more potential heavyweight contenders than Larry can count.

blacks are still heavily dominate in higher weight divisions

[nacho daddy]

for god sake ******* is nothing more than a ethno religious supremacist doctrine that want to slave everyone ,its ****sm for ***s .
the only reason this is tolerated is because they have an incredible power in usa

you have just described the cause of 90% of the problems in the US

[nacho daddy]

Your post is nothing but bull****, making excuses for Black behavior that you claim to find abhorrent from other races.

Be true to yourself and just own your racism.

the big dump was always full of sh it. makes sense .right?

[MoneyKasha]

Sorry to say it but Merchant has some point here, i must confess

I think since the Klitschko era, many African-American boxing fans have been hoping and clinging for an African-American HW champion, and many clinged to Wilder, because he reps his blackness quite blatantly

[D4thincarnation]

Dontae has a point. Merchant was happy to see an American lose to a foreigner. Just because the American was black and the foreigner was white.

We are supposed to be fiercely patriotic and stand for the flag and the playing of the national anthem etc. But when it comes to supporting a black American over a white man from another country that all goes out the window for some people.

These are the hard truths and hypocrisy that many don't want to admit.

Wilder was happy to alienate 75-85% of that population with his Black Pride rhetoric.

You reap what you sow.