Really UF? [discontinues Gator Bait cheer]

[malinoisvol]

bobcatgatorSophomore

Great quote from Wright:

“I’m not going for it,” said Wright, who won the Jim Thorpe Award for the nation’s best defensive back in 1996. “I created something for us. It’s a college football thing. It’s not a racist thing, It’s about us, the Gator Nation. And I’m Black."​

 

[jboyinmiss]

That may be the dumbest conspiracy rant I have read today.

snowflake alert

 

[Wireless1]

I do believe it happened during slavery, yes.

That doesn't make any sense. A baby would be an untapped asset to a slave owner.
The tale would be more believable if it were old people.

 

[OldandStillaVol]

I keep saying this over and over, but my complaint is that....

1. Where does it stop?

2. There are actually things like this that people celebrate because some people think this will actually bring about real change.

3. Because of #2, real people who have real power that you ought to be concerned about or could help bring about real change don’t have to be accountable or do jack. They’ll just break out a new list of meaningless crap to pacify people and give them “all the feels” the next time around

It’s up to UF fans / supporters to make their opinions known to their president. My position would be: An institute of higher learning should make decisions based on facts, not emotions. If there is historical evidence that the practice was used to terrorize slaves, then present them when making the decision. It weakens legitimate concerns when you lump unsubstantiated claims with them.

 

[BearCat204]

bobcatgatorSophomore

Great quote from Wright:​

​

“I’m not going for it,” said Wright, who won the Jim Thorpe Award for the nation’s best defensive back in 1996. “I created something for us. It’s a college football thing. It’s not a racist thing, It’s about us, the Gator Nation. And I’m Black."​

White liberals will tell him to stfu

 

[Chitlin&theDude]

That doesn't make any sense. A baby would be an untapped asset to a slave owner.
The tale would be more believable if it were old people.

We can't have logic injected into our current state of affairs. You must be a racist too.

 

[njvols]

Pretty weak

Florida president announces school will no longer use ‘Gator Bait’ in cheers moving forward

Now if we can just eliminate the "Woo"

 

[Dumbledorange]

where are your facts?

Alligator Bait Revisited - June/July 2017

 

[Dumbledorange]

snowflake alert

Fear alert. Stupidity approaching.

 

[Lawrence Wright]

Routinely? No way. It may have happened in some freak incident that inspired some BS myth. Now posted online as part of our age of endless MISinformation. Instigated by people who want to divide the country, and sadly propagated by good natured half-informed dupes.

where are your facts?

 

[Lawrence Wright]

 

[DuckinVol]

If you don’t believe it happened, that’s fine. They didn’t have smartphones during slavery.

There’s much more information out there than that one article.

Plenty of horrible things happened during slavery, but the fact slave children were far more valuable than an alligator make is unlikely. It would make absolutely zero fiscal sense. I'm sure a gator would eat my labrador retriever, but he'll also eat a piece of chicken.

 

[Lawrence Wright]

 

[Lawrence Wright]

 

[Chitlin&theDude]

Really.



Pointing out racists and racism? Never.

Then you can't stop there. Should we dismantle the Washington Monument now, or just let the mob destroy it?

 

[Lawrence Wright]

That doesn't make any sense. A baby would be an untapped asset to a slave owner.
The tale would be more believable if it were old people.

No one ever accused all slave owners of being intelligent.

 

[Dudley Smith]

This must be a very conflicted day for your online identity:

Lawrence Wright disagrees with ***hs' decision to drop "Gator Bait" cheer - GatorSports.com

 

[OldandStillaVol]

Sorry, those pieces of ‘evidence’ don’t fly with me. If what you posted would be accepted in a UF history thesis as evidence, that would say a lot. I am talking eye witness accounts of the practice or oral interviews with slaves who witnessed/suffered first hand.

 

[sierraorange]

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The other link you posted stated this was a false account and referenced The NY Times article of the same event. They pretty much reviewed all the clips you posted

 

[Chitlin&theDude]

That's a still from a movie!!!

 

[Lawrence Wright]

Research Reveals That Black Children Were Fed to Hogs and Used as Alligator Bait in the Early 1900s

 

[Chitlin&theDude]

Research Reveals That Black Children Were Fed to Hogs and Used as Alligator Bait in the Early 1900s

If it's online, it must true

 

[Lawrence Wright]

Sorry, those pieces of ‘evidence’ don’t fly with me. If what you posted would be accepted in a UF history thesis as evidence, that would say a lot. I am talking eye witness accounts of the practice or oral interviews with slaves who witnessed/suffered first hand.

If you don’t believe it, again, that’s fine.

Given what we do know about slavery, I don’t think it’s too far fetched at all.

 

[Lawrence Wright]

If it's online, it must true

Fake news?

 

[lukeneyland]

I've never felt any ounce of sympathy for the Florida scum. But I do today. The chant is relatively new and was never intended to carry racial malice. I hope the fans keep the tradition alive. This is so sad to see