N8isScofield wrote:Meat wrote:I wonder if anyone would have said anything about the 90's knicks, pacers or rockets front court player's dead dad and not expect to get their ass whooped. george karl better be thanking his god for safe spaces. imagine talking **** bout oak, mason, the Davis's boys or carl herrera's dead parent?
While the fact that Melo's dad is dead is obviously sad and rightly the kind of thing that should make such talk off limits my focus was on the racist undertone. I think it was very clear what he meant by talking about them having money and not having fathers. It was very clear to me that you had a racist pig playing on a stereotype that his bigoted mind can't get around. I think the real problem is that George Karl has a planation owner's mindset but he was only ever an overseer and the slaves are of way more value. He should have coached at Dartmouth or somewhere where his biases wouldn't have inhibited his ability to do his job correctly.
I agree a 100% and this is 100x worse than Phil's posse comment. There are definitely racist undertones.
And to think, Melo's dad dies of cancer and this fool who had and survived cancer would say that. Unbelievable but at the same time a 100% believable n
