Comments on: Basketball

By: Rufus

Rufus — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:22:37 +0000

…and within Mexico. I’ve worked there, and the Spanish Mexicans are often very racist to the Mayan, Incan and Aztec Mexicans.

By: Rufus

Rufus — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:21:30 +0000

Same with Asians. Call someone from Japan “Chinese.” Call a Korean “Fillipino.” Asian countries are full of racism. I doubt most folks in the West know of the brutal genocide done by the Japanese in the last century.

By: Floyd

Floyd — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:33:39 +0000

They all hate Mexicans…. if you want to get in a fight… call a non-Mexican Hispanic a Mexican. I’ve only seen the phenomenon. Very rasscist places when you cross our borders out of the U.S. We have it very good here.

By: Rufus

Rufus — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:28:01 +0000

A dirty secret about racism:
The worst pockets in big cities are almost always areas with a predominant, 1st generation immigrant population. European immigrants are often very racist, and they bring that nonsense with them to the States. Latinos have the same issue. Mexicans hate Columbians. Puerto Ricans hate Mexicans. They all hate Cubans… Liberals never, ever talk about that, but the immigrants they claim to love are not the noble unwashed they imagine.

By: Rufus

Rufus — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:20:38 +0000

Complete horse-pucky. Larry Bird was one of the best of his era, arguably the best. If you absolutely, positively had to have a basket, there is no one else, except for Magic, who you’d rather have with the ball. There are some guys; Joe Montana, Wayne Gretzky… who are winners. There may be guys with more skills (although all 3 had plenty of that too), but scoring the winning shot in a close game is a lot different than making a dunk in the NBA all star competition. Walter Payton was never the fastest guy in the NFL, not even in the top 50, but if you absolutely, positively had to have one yard there is no one you’d rather have carry the ball. Larry Bird was amazing in the clutch and like Gretzky and Magic, he had a phenomenal sense of the court. He knew where all the other nine players would be before they did.

By: Matt Helm

Matt Helm — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:54:12 +0000

Boston hasn’t been its racist self in a long time. It’s stuck with that stereotype though. Even Southie and the North End are no longer Irish and Italian havens where racism used to thrive. If you go to these places today you’ll see they were infiltrated by a melting pot of people. One reason is that the apartments that have been in those places since the turn of the 19th century are tiny (my grandfather lived in one) and the mentality of a whole family (or families) living in one of those places no longer exists. It was more affordable to move to the suburbs at one point and have more room. Those apartments attracted single people and couples from all walks of life eventually, who didn’t mind the small living space. Southie has more spacious apartments but it became real trendy to move there in the 80s and 90s and young people flocked there, diluting the Irish racist pool.

By: Floyd

Floyd — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:35:05 +0000

John… it is always interesting to me that where liberal big-government Democrats rule… racism flourishes.

By: Floyd

Floyd — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:34:32 +0000

It was mostly a sentence about the busing crisis giving rise or exacerbating racial tensions going into the 1980s.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:33:53 +0000

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

By: JohnFN

JohnFN — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:31:38 +0000

They also leave out Boston as one of the racist big-cities in America and also one of the most liberal.