[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by Dixie Porter

Hey,

Leave Michael alone he's a good guy and an interesting media player. None of these guys are racially biased. Get off it. You're being sucked into pure BS.

Meanwhile my Lakers are doing just fine even though Kobe had a dull night (53).

Broke the bank on the Boys tonight. Plus they win the SB and I collect my future.

I'm not being suckered into anything. I understand where Irvin was coming from and as Somerfrost mentioned earlier, if this was said in the locker room or something like that, it would have gotten big laughs. I would have been laughing too. But it wasn't said in the locker room. It was said on national tv. I don't think it was something that came from a racist point of view from Irvin as much as it was a racial stereotype. What offends me is the double standard, even though it works in favor or black people. If they want to let Irvin get away with that or Barkley get away with some of the stuff they say, I have no problem with it. But then u can't turn around a fire a white guy that makes a racial statement. There can't be an uproar when a coach says that he needs to get more black players to throw and hand the ball off too because they are better athletes and more white players to throw it to them. Be consistent is all I ask. It's the same thing with affirmative action. We've (speaking of black people) never wanted to be treated different or given certain advantages. We just want to be treated equally. Sometimes that equal treatment will work out good for us. Sometimes, it won't.