A fan is at fault for making all the Hurricanes football players from participating on twitter due to a racially charged tweet. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/um-hurricanes/fl-um-football-0920-20100919,0,6619084.story I found this guy earlier today on twitter and now everyone has received word. www.twitter.com/motown305 Read his tweets for yourself. I've screencapped them in case he deletes them. Joe Rose wants him to call into the show tomorrow. www.twitter.com/richiehedd is mine.
Apparently he doesn't like black head coaches either. Uses the n-word but isn't a racist. Great guy. Here's a classic. Somebody might want to break the bad news to him.
I'm impressed the guy could make time out of his busy schedule (banging his sister, shooting critters from his porch, meth) to learn the magic of the internets and tweet.
This reminded me of the scene from "Dumb and Dumber" (or maybe it was the sequel) where one of the characters sees an old newspaper article about the moon landing and start cheering b/c he'd never heard.
Growing up in the thriving metropolis that is Miami and hearing the words "n*gger" and "spic" every ****ing day of my existence, I can tell you with certainty that you can take the racist out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the racist.
I'm all for freedom of speech, but I have to admit my patience gets tested at times like this. This is up there with that preacher that wanted to burn Qur'ans on 9/11. Sure, you're free to do it, but should you?
I envision Stitches with the handgun ready to off himself reading this tool's tweets....this can't be real, has to be for attention...
I don't think that's a Southern trait by definition. There have been plenty of examples of racism in the North, Yonkers and Cicero certainly come to mind. I know some of my own brethren, who may live in south Florida, but who are largely from the North, use the word swartza (sp?) which means "black." Saying that it's only a reference to black people is a cop-out because I've never heard it used in a non-derogatory context. Something that I can never figure out is how people like that make derogatory comments about blacks but tend to speak in Ebonics.
That's probably because it is the actual word for "black" in German. As far as whether or not it's racist.... I guess it depends whether or not it was a German-speaking person using it. In your case I'm guessing not But IMO the bigger point is calling someone "black" - is not racist.
I think he's referring to Spencer Whipple (Mark Whipple's son). Spencer Whipple is a backup QB in Miami behind Alonzo Highsmith and Jacory Harris. Mark Whipple is the offensive coordinator.
Believe me, I know; I've encountered it even here, in the supposedly enlightened Pacific Northwest. Although I've encountered it more in the "inland" Northwest, but that's to be expected since Idaho and Eastern WA is home to the most confirmed and self-proclaimed white supremacists in the country. But racism is more intrinsically woven into the fabric of the South than any other region. I recall as recently as 20 years ago when I was a salesman covering central FL, driving into a town on a Monday morning and seeing bunting and other parade stuff lying around, and being told with an icy stare that it was from a Klan rally the day before. Proudly. And like I said, I heard the word "spic" directed at me pretty much every day as I grew up, and the n-word being a part of the everyday vocabulary of both white and Cuban people around me. I knew lots of folks from the Northeast who were fairly amazed when I told them that, because they grew up hardly ever hearing those types of racial pejoratives. edit: and the word "Schwartzer" does mean "black" in German but it most certainly is pejorative when used derogatorily by racist Jews.
