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<blockquote data-quote="FrankRizzo" data-source="post: 495882" data-attributes="member: 2232"><p>1) Yes, each race's experience is unique in the USA, not only black, from Mexican to my wife's Asian, to Native American, to Irish, Italian, Jewish, etc. The black roots are very unique, as are the recent black immigrant roots from Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, etc. And each has a unique history to it. In the past.</p><p>2) I'm proud of all races when they do good, embarrassed of all races when they do evil.</p><p>I'll be blunt and honest about this part though: When growing up, I was a basketball player, and in the 80's, my dad & stepdad, and my friend's dads all rooted for the Celtics and against the Lakers. I rooted for the Lakers. Can you guess why the dads rooted for the Celtics? Yep, the same reason why 99% of black spectators in tennis root for Serena vs the white chick, and why 99% of the black spectators root for Tiger, and vote for Obama. Some might call it natural to root, side, like whoever they identify with, whatever. </p><p></p><p>But I hated the "white" Celtics even though I had been named MVP at Kevin McHale's Basketball camp, I didn't like Bird or Ainge, or Walton. I liked Magic, Worthy, Michael Cooper.....</p><p>But as I have experienced life since then, dealt with many things, seen many things, guess what? It's caused me to root for the white guy. What are those things? Thousands of things both close and afar.</p><p>3) I'm not sure what you're alluding to, getting at, with that one. You know for a fact that there are reasons there are zero White CB's in the NFL, or that every starting HB in the NFL is Black. You know that almost all the white WRs get compared to Welker or Jordy.... so what's your point?</p><p>Compare Matthew's senior film and his combine time to recent busts Aaron Maybin, Larry English, Aaron Curry... add in the Matthews bloodline.</p><p> </p><p>Yet Clay was called a 2nd Rd prospect by most so-called experts. Hmm.</p><p> </p><p>There's color-blind, and there's blind.</p><p>And there's reality.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FrankRizzo, post: 495882, member: 2232"] 1) Yes, each race's experience is unique in the USA, not only black, from Mexican to my wife's Asian, to Native American, to Irish, Italian, Jewish, etc. The black roots are very unique, as are the recent black immigrant roots from Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, etc. And each has a unique history to it. In the past. 2) I'm proud of all races when they do good, embarrassed of all races when they do evil. I'll be blunt and honest about this part though: When growing up, I was a basketball player, and in the 80's, my dad & stepdad, and my friend's dads all rooted for the Celtics and against the Lakers. I rooted for the Lakers. Can you guess why the dads rooted for the Celtics? Yep, the same reason why 99% of black spectators in tennis root for Serena vs the white chick, and why 99% of the black spectators root for Tiger, and vote for Obama. Some might call it natural to root, side, like whoever they identify with, whatever. But I hated the "white" Celtics even though I had been named MVP at Kevin McHale's Basketball camp, I didn't like Bird or Ainge, or Walton. I liked Magic, Worthy, Michael Cooper..... But as I have experienced life since then, dealt with many things, seen many things, guess what? It's caused me to root for the white guy. What are those things? Thousands of things both close and afar. 3) I'm not sure what you're alluding to, getting at, with that one. You know for a fact that there are reasons there are zero White CB's in the NFL, or that every starting HB in the NFL is Black. You know that almost all the white WRs get compared to Welker or Jordy.... so what's your point? Compare Matthew's senior film and his combine time to recent busts Aaron Maybin, Larry English, Aaron Curry... add in the Matthews bloodline. Yet Clay was called a 2nd Rd prospect by most so-called experts. Hmm. There's color-blind, and there's blind. And there's reality. [/QUOTE]
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