Onus wrote:FireNellieQuick wrote:I think it says more about what people want to think about authority figures if they assume he was trying to joke.
An owner would have to be monumentally stupid to crack a joke like that with the Danny Ferry/Donald Sterling situations going. Sending it out as a mass email is begging for someone to take offense. Believe it or not, there are quite a few black employees at W's HQ.
I think its sad that our knee-jerk reaction is to assume the absolute and total worst, always. Try an experiment: type hoodish into your phone via text or some kind of text box. Then type Hiddish. And see what happens.
"hoodish" turns into "hooding" and "hiddish" turns into "his dish" ...
Swahili also gets auto capitalized
this is on an iphone
Also to be honest the D is quite far from the O, pressing it twice. Perhaps if it was hoddish
Lot more to this than meets the eye. I think the players he was referring to were Festus (Swahili), Nedo (Hungarian, btw it's not a language like Australian but okay to use to refer the speaker's language(s)), Kuzmic (Serbian), Bogut (Australian) and I am not sure about Yiddish. That's the part I'm still stumped on. Who is that? Himself?
Typing "hoodish" does make sense if you consider it slang with the other black players, but why would he send that out if he was answering an email seriously. Besides, as already pointed out it's not a word. So the question remains how did it end up on his iPhone's autocorrect?
That said, this thing has been overblown. Let the season begin.
