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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: Javier on June 29, 2010, 05:47:07 PM

Title: When black american athletes are in a slump people question their ego and
Post by: Javier on June 29, 2010, 05:47:07 PM

work ethic

Example: Matt Kemp 2010

3rd game in a row he's not starting

Title: Re: When black american athletes are in a slump people question their ego and
Post by: Chamillitary Click on June 29, 2010, 06:03:49 PM

Well the stereotype has Blacks as lazy. :P

Title: Re: When black american athletes are in a slump people question their ego and
Post by: .:DaYg0sTyLz:. on June 29, 2010, 09:18:29 PM

Its like when Black athletes yell at their teammates....they are "trouble makers" or "Cancers". When White athletes do it...they are "leaders"

Title: Re: When black american athletes are in a slump people question their ego and
Post by: Halu Sination on June 30, 2010, 12:04:24 AM

Quote from: .:DaYg0sTyLz:. on June 29, 2010, 09:18:29 PM

Its like when Black athletes yell at their teammates....they are "trouble makers" or "Cancers". When White athletes do it...they are "leaders"

Haha, seriously. Like in the BJ Upton/Evan Longoria argument, nobody actually knows what was being said to BJ Upton. For all we know, maybe someone called Upton's mother a whore. But the media automatically portrayed Upton as some thug who can't take criticism.