LMAO

I don't spend time worrying about it. But, apparently Rob Parker does.






I'm hungry.

Isn't the goal to turn a blind eye to race and judge everyone based on character instead of skin color?

I wouldn't call it entertainment, I'd call it krap.

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I understand what this guy is trying to say, but its pretty much all around reeruned. My main issue with it is that its divisive and that's all that really needs to be said..

But to go a bit further, I also don't like it because it just seems so arbitrary. Ok, so he has braids in his hair and that makes him 'blacker' somehow? What if he had dreads? Would he be even more black? Would he be 'more black' for liking fried chicken and playing basketball? How about driving a Cadillac?

Does a Hispanic person not liking rice and beans make them 'less Hispanic'?

And to highlight the fact that he has a white fiance? That was his worst move, in my opinion. First of all, it basically makes it seem like you're against interracial dating/marriage, and secondly you sound like a complete idiot for commenting on someone else's feelings. Who gives a shit if he's gold and she's silver? If they love each other that should be all that matters..

Like I said, I understand what the guy is saying because I've seen that general line of thought in action before; but trying to grasp that type of mindset is tough because its so damn stupid. Be yourself; you don't have to be defined by some predetermined racial constructs.

It reminds me of the Dr. Seuss quote: "Today you are you. That's truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you"

Proof that you can be a minority race and still be as big a racist bigot as a white male Klan member.

Yet so many Blacks voted for the honky Obama and like Tiger Woods too now right??

I always knew there was a 'cause'. Do we have any cornball brotha's here that can explain it to us?

Chris Rock is surprised by this comment...And Dave Chappell...and every other black comic.

Jamie Foxx isn't.

http://youtu.be/XNhPeAd4t-k

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I can't stand it when people refer to blacks as African-American. I don't know why this term has been accepted as the politically correct way to refer to someone's skin tone. The majority of blacks in America are not from Africa.

IMO if you are going to refer to someone as their skin color, at least call them "browns".... because nobody is "black" either. Granted, I am not White on the color palette.

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ESPN fires Rob Parker http://wp.me/p14QSB-6SM5


Rob Parker, the commentator who created controversy when he questioned whether Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III is a “cornball brother” because he has a white fiancee, has been fired by ESPN.

“Rob Parker’s contract expired at year end. Evaluating our needs and his work, including his recent RGIII comments, we decided not to renew,” an ESPN spokesman said in a written statement.

ESPN can spin this as simply a decision not to renew his contract, rather than a firing, but the reality is that ESPN specifically stated on December 20 that Parker had been suspended for 30 days, and as of December 20, ESPN was expecting Parker back at the end of his 30-day suspension. (He made the comments on December 13, so a 30-day suspension from that date would have ended on January 12.)

So why did Parker’s discipline change from a 30-day suspension to termination? ESPN isn’t saying, but it may be that the network was unhappy with a recent interview Parker gave in which he said that ESPN knew what he was going to say on the air before he said it. In that interview, Parker also seemed to backtrack on his previous apology, complaining that people took his “cornball brother” statement out of context.

Parker has long been known for drawing attention to himself by stirring up controversy, and it’s unsurprising that he eventually took it too far and got himself fired. But ESPN is hardly blameless in all this: Parker made his comments on ESPN First Take, a show that celebrates provocation, and at first ESPN’s producers were so pleased with Parker’s comments about Griffin that the network re-aired the comments on Best of First Take. It was only later, after ESPN was criticized for airing the comments, that the network apologized.

And now, much later, ESPN has finally done what many viewers said it should have done from the beginning, and fired Parker.

ROFL

Was wondering why if youre a Jags fan, why you had Bray as QBOTF for KC