ESPN is at rock bottom...

[Armchair_QB]

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.

Is bigamy illegal in D.C.?

 

[Double Down]

I'm sure he's a lovely, respectful partner from a good family LTL.

 

[btm]

@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 "

I'm glad we have Sheiky to cut through all the BS and cut right to the heart of the matter.

 

[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.

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

At a symposium called "Questioning the Assumptions, Questions and Cliches of Male 'Authenticity' in African-American Popular Culture"?

 

[Armchair_QB]

I just want to know what Griffin's wife thinks about him being engaged to somebody else.

 

[waterytart]

I thought Jalen Rose was ESPN's go-to for whether athletes are sufficiently African-American.

 

[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?

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.'

I just had a friend of mine, who is African-American, read your post and they laughed. They added that you have no clue about what you're posting and I'm inclined to agree.

 

[poindexter]

At a symposium called "Questioning the Assumptions, Questions and Cliches of Male 'Authenticity' in African-American Popular Culture"?

Besides guys like you, who would attend a symposium called "Questioning the Assumptions, Questions and Cliches of Male 'Authenticity' in African-American Popular Culture"?

Good god, we've got some real loads on this board.

 

[Drip]

At a symposium called "Questioning the Assumptions, Questions and Cliches of Male 'Authenticity' in African-American Popular Culture"?

Besides guys like you, who would attend a symposium called "Questioning the Assumptions, Questions and Cliches of Male 'Authenticity' in African-American Popular Culture"?

Good god, we've got some real loads on this board.

And that's being kind.

 

[Stoney]

I just had a friend of mine, who is African-American, read your post and they laughed. They added that you have no clue about what you're posting and I'm inclined to agree.

Funny how your singular friend turned all plural in the second half of the sentence. Not a good sign when you can't even keep your story straight within the same sentence.

 

[Mark2010]

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

Discuss.

Never understood what on earth that meant. Are we talking about someone's skin color or the way they act?

When I was much younger, sports was seen by many blacks as a way to escape the ghetto lifestyle. Over the years it seems too many now want to bring the ghetto with them. This has been a big part of the polarization of the overall socio-economic landscape and why more whites hate blacks and more blacks hate whites.

So what does it mean to be black? Is it the way one dresses, talks, acts, etc.? Is there a prescribed way one is supposed to do that?

You may not be able to control how you were born or what circumstances you were born into. You darn sure can control how you act and live.

 

[HandsomeHarley]

When ESPN has three successive clips about why the Lakers lost again, combined with Kobe and LeBron's opinions on just about every non-basketball related event under the sun, it just isn't worth sitting around waiting for the top 10 plays.

When ESPN spent parts of every telecast trying to get LeBron to sign with the Knicks when that was a hot topic, it became too much.

I remember when they reported the news, not shoved teams and players down our throats.

If you don't play in a large market, in ESPNland, you aren't shirt.

I forking hate ESPN.