ESPN is at rock bottom...

[Songbird]

Don't fork with Diddy. He's made.

 

[Drip]

I think I understand what Parker was trying to get at here - 'authenticity' is a central question in urban African-American culture - but this wasn't the place to have a nuanced Q and A about it. Bad tactical move, even if his approach to the subject was meant to be sincere.

'authenticity' is a central question in urban African-American culture? What book did you dig that out of?

Rap artists are an easy example to illustrate. Are they street? Or are they not? 'Authentic' or 'inauthentic?' It took Diddy years to get past that question.

WTF?

 

[Azrael]

I think I understand what Parker was trying to get at here - 'authenticity' is a central question in urban African-American culture - but this wasn't the place to have a nuanced Q and A about it. Bad tactical move, even if his approach to the subject was meant to be sincere.

'authenticity' is a central question in urban African-American culture? What book did you dig that out of?

Rap artists are an easy example to illustrate. Are they street? Or are they not? 'Authentic' or 'inauthentic?' It took Diddy years to get past that question.

WTF?

Why do you think some African-American teens denigrate other African-American teens for 'sounding white' or 'trying to be white' when they excel at school?

They challenge them for being insufficiently 'black.' For being 'inauthentic.'

 

[Norrin Radd]

Drip is a studio gangster.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Donovan McNabb was not black enough for the head of the Philadelphia chapter of the NAACP.

Discuss.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

@the_ironsheik "Bubba the Rob Parker talk about RG3 black and how he not like the black man. what the fork he talk about he sound like lanny poffo fork that "

 

[Azrael]

Drip is a studio gangster.

Careful. He'll bust a sternly worded PM in your ass.

 

[SellOut]

Watched the clip, it wasn't accusatory as much as it was "I'm just wondering." That being said, what if Skip had said it. And the fact it's a guy who went to school at South Connecticut State, Columbia and NYU questioning the authenticity of another black guy is kind of laughable.
Is it important for African-American athletes to be part of "the movement" as Rob put it. I have forking clue. I also don't forking care. Why does it forking matter. Isn't it OK to be post-racial these days? Apparently not.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Drip is a studio gangster.

Gangsta is the preferred nomenclature, dude

 

[poindexter]

I think I understand what Parker was trying to get at here - 'authenticity' is a central question in urban African-American culture - but this wasn't the place to have a nuanced Q and A about it. Bad tactical move, even if his approach to the subject was meant to be sincere.

When is it the right time to have a discussion about whether a black guy has a white fiancee?

 

[Norrin Radd]

Drip is a studio gangster.

Careful. He'll bust a sternly worded PM in your ass.

Excellent. Always happy to have new sig material.

 

[LongTimeListener]

I said this on the other thread, but if Awful Announcing is correct that RG3 has a "white fiance," we've got a much bigger story than race here.