Players Speaking Up

#226
#226
landscapingvol said:
You are so full of crap. I mentor, coach, and teach in a high poverty school. I spent my 20’s volunteering after work with several public housing projects mentoring and teaching African American children and couldn’t beg enough for help. My father was an alcoholic and wasn’t around and my mother worked two jobs to make ends meet. I worked full time to pay for all three of my degrees while going to school full time. You don’t have the first clue about others. You continually play the victim and blame all of African Americans ills on an institution that ended 150 years ago. As far as reparations go, not every black person in the US is a descendant of a slave, very few people actually owned slaves, every ancestor of a white person didn’t migrate to the US before the Civil War, many whites fought against slavery and actually gave up their lives in doing so.
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Funny thing is there plenty of blacks that hate his attitude. Plenty have no time for his victim nonsense.
 
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#227
#227
C,
What other stereotypes can you dig out? Go ahead, take your time. When you run out of them use that same tiny brain and try to come up with why you might be wrong, just for fun. I grew up in East TN, too. I understand you’re thinking, and I know it’s rooted deep, but you can’t just keep regurgitating the same crap. Challenge yourself.
 
#228
#228
TheMookieMonster said:
This doesn't even dignify a rebuttal. How incredibly awful to say that the culture of African Americans is mostly that of rioting, violence, fatherless homes, etc.
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I’ll add that “African American” would imply an immigrant from Africa. For the sake of argument which cultures in Africa do you feel are that great. Female mutilation? For a historical perspective do you view selling your own people as a positive? All the resources imaginable but rampant crime, corruption, poverty, starvation, disease......Just where in Africa would you be proud to call home or a paradise that people were sold from by their own people hundreds of years ago?
 
#229
#229
allvol123 said:
You are a person that resorts to that claim at any opportunity that you find yourself able.

I just laughed at your last 3 sentences. I think you suffer from dementia.
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Look, I dont blame you. You don't know any better. You had ****** parents, and their parents were probably ****** too. If you procreate, hopefully your kids will be better.
 
#230
#230
C-south said:
How are blacks brutalized by white people? I see it BY FAR the other way. How are Asians discriminated against? The only discrimination I can remember in recent times is Asians being denied to universities in order to allow less qualified black people to be admitted.
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That settles it, this guy has not seen Asians being discriminated against except when it came to college so "unqualified " blacks could get in. Cause all the white folks that were admitted were well qualified....
 
#233
#233
Franklin Pierce said:
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism... A hyphenated American is not American at all...There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American."

President Theodore Roosevelt
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Digging up quotes from the early 1900s doesn’t help your cause.
 
#235
#235
TheMookieMonster said:
The problem is I’m confused as to why you paint the African American community in such a low light? I’m not “offended” as you keep saying. But you’re saying that the culture of the community is violence, low education, poverty, abortion, rioting, absent fathers, etc. which is a gross generalization.

I could make the same incorrect assumptions and generalizations about white people. How does any of this help?
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If my “generalizations” are wrong then what’s the problem? Do you honestly believe racism is greater problem for black people than the issues I stated? You can say all you want about pos white people and I’ll agree.
 
#239
#239
The Original Fade said:
Digging up quotes from the early 1900s doesn’t help your cause.
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How about this then ... if you are of English , Scottish , Irish decent that’s born in America and you visit any of those countries , how would they refer to you ? Now let’s do the same test for black people born in America .. if a black person visits Africa how would the people there refer to them ? Hint.. there’s only one answer to both questions .
 
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#240
#240
allvol123 said:
Why did you fail in life? What were the specific incidents that caused it?
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I can honestly say that my only failure so far is engaging you in conversation. I decided to amuse myself. Your rebuttals were expected and weak. You should probably ask your parents why they failed you? Why didn't they raise you better? Did they not love you? What was the issue? You are worthy of love. You matter, no matter what anyone else says. You are important. Not to me, but to someone.
 
#241
#241
titansvolsfaninga said:
I can honestly say that my only failure so far is engaging you in conversation. I decided to amuse myself. Your rebuttals were expected and weak. You should probably ask your parents why they failed you? Why didn't they raise you better? Did they not love you? What was the issue? You are worthy of love. You matter, no matter what anyone else says. You are important. Not to me, but to someone.
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I asked a serious question and you chose to answer cowardly. Your choice.
 
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#245
#245
Johnnyreb#VFL said:


And whoever this is (The Vol Nation, I don’t think it’s this VN) don’t tell our athletes to essentially “shut up and play.” These kids can have an opinion and use their platform if they choose. Big Trey did not take too kindly to this.

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This is the indoctrination and conditioning that has happened in America. Think about it, six weeks ago none of this was even a question.

As far as I'm concerned he can quit. These fools want to destroy the program, and will sabotage it if they don'tget their way. I think there are plenty of good kids that want to play for the University of Tennessee without being a-holes. The athletic program has a problem.
 
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#246
#246
Franklin Pierce said:
You are saying that what constitutes being a good American has CHANGED since then because the black folk now want to be known as hyphenated Americans, and SEPARATE THEMSELVES from other American citizens?
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I demand to be called Scottish/English/Native American American. I am as Scottish as they are African so it’s legit
 
#247
#247
Johnnyreb#VFL said:
I can only speak from my point of view, not sure about others but here is some of my experience. I’ve been harassed by the police. I’ve had the police pull guns on my friends and I when I was a kid for little to no reason. I’ve been physically abused by the police. I’ve had store owners follow me around their store (backwards cap and baggy pants). I’ve had people see me walk by their car and lock their door as I approached. I’m going to have those same conversations with my son about what to do if you get pulled over. Don’t make any sudden moves, hands on the wheel, ask for permission to get anything, don’t speak unless spoken to. I had to work hard to make grades to keep a high gpa and gain acceptance with scholarships into college with little to no help academically. I’ve had to compete for my educational opportunities and jobs and have been rejected many times. I’m not privileged. If white privilege does exist, I haven’t been a benefactor of it. I can’t speak for all white people, just me. To acknowledge and apologize for something that I can’t relate to doesn’t make sense to me and quite frankly seems a little insulting to black people.

All that being said, I still fully support people speaking out on matters that bother them. We can have open conversations. Some people need a little direction, some people just want to be heard.
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It sounds to me like the coaches need to step up. It's ok to speak up but it's another thing to issue an ultimatum like they are bigger than the program. This divisiveness doesn't help any cause. He must not understand many won't care if the season is cancelled with this type of attitude. Then he can get him a regular job and then recruit some different character kids.
 
#248
#248
landscapingvol said:
I demand to be called Scottish/English/Native American American. I am as Scottish as they are African so it’s legit
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It is NOT Legit, unless you are a NATURALIZED American Citizen. You are either an American or you aren't.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic ... There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else​
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