Cal to Receive Nat’l Race Relations Award
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Calipari's popularity drastically dropped when the team kneeled. No one on here can really debate that. It can be said that his team was playing bad then, and that is the reason everyone started complaining, but, there is a significant portion of our fan base that quit liking Cal at that point because of the kneeling and nothing short of a National Championship, or maybe a Final Four could have redeemed him. I find it hard to fault 18-20 year old kids (yes, kids "I realize they fight in wars, and that is an issue too") that come from such different backgrounds than most people on here for having different opinions than the people on here about race, politics and life. When they are the age of people on here and have lived a life outside of AAU basketball and college recruiting where basically everyone is trying to exploit their talents, they may have a different opinion than they do at that point in their life. If anyone on here that bitches about the handlers or families around these recruits was actually a top 100 recruit and understand what those kids go through, please speak up. It is really easy to be jealous because we weren't as good as them and to expect them to act the way we look back and hope we would have acted.
It means you are a weak loser controlled by politicians if you use it every other word. It also means informed.
Wokeism is puritanism designed as progressivism. But, you people are so looney its hard to get through to you.
He's been a great ambassador for the university, no scandals, and has done a lot for those that can't. While I wish his "basketball school" comments were a little more thought out, I don't see how he can't be considered a good guy.
Sorry, I’m not a loser controlled by one of the trash political parties. That applies to one of us tho. Great system and control they have over y’all by making politics a sport tho. They made you think that you have to choose between one of 2 bad choices.
The irony in your statement is you're so controlled by your woke leaders you automatically think im a typical blue vs red guy. Hilarious, but like I said. Puritans have never been the smartest people around.
I’m not a red vs blue guy but you are. That’s why you run around screaming woke this and woke that. It’s a word they use to control their sheep. I reject your trash political party and the trash democrats too. Neither control me or have me repeating their talking points. Me saying woke means informed hurt your right wing feelings because they brainwashed you to believe otherwise.
There are obviously people that view everything that happens in the world, be it a basketball game or a war, through a political lens. Those people suck. And they show up in every thread on a UK basketball or football message board.
“Woke” in its original definition simply means the acknowledgement of unequal systems and the understanding of how those systems became entrenched in inequality. That’s it, it’s just the acceptance of reality.
The way the Right uses it, it means anything that is black or LGBTQ when it could have just as easily have been white. It’s a dog whistle of white supremacy. They stole it and completely bastardized it, and you can see how it was effective in silencing those who speak out against inequality.
Woke isn't used correctly anywhere. By definition, to be "woke" is grammatically incorrect from the start. The correct usage would be "awakened," but apparently those who started the "movement" are either illiterate or believe their following is.
And the English hated the Irish, Welsh, Scottish, etc.
Racism isn't always solely about skin color, but culture as well.
I think you are misinterpreting Brooks comments. He is not stereotyping anyone named Adolph. He is saying that the name Adolph conjures up negative thoughts for people because people associate that name with Hitler, so he thinks changing the name to something that doesn't have Adolph in it would be a good move. He is basically saying that because of Hitler you can't have anything with the name Adolph on it anymore. He isn't associating Rupp with Hitler in any way. He isn't making a judgement about people with the name Adolph. He is basically saying the first thing people think of when they hear the name Adolph is Hitler. That being said, it's a very immature thought process. People are more intelligent than that. They don't hear the name Adolph and automatically assume negative things. So the statement wasn't very well thought out and it was very immature in the way he looks at things, but I don't think he was saying anything negative at all about Rupp or people named Adolph. In fact, he says he doesn't know enough about Rupp to have an opinion. It's just an immature way of looking at the situation.
Brooks was not referring to Hitler when he referenced the name. He’s talking about the name of Rupp harkens back to an era when players like him were not allowed to play. That’s why they proposed the name change.
I didn't take it that way. I guess there is no way to know for sure, but I took it to mean the name Adolph has negative associations because of its past, which is Hitler. He said he doesn't know much about Rupp, so it wouldn't be Rupp's past he is talking about.
Keion Brooks was a member of the SEC council on racial equality and social justice. His comments were not because he thought Rupps name was the same as Hitler’s. It’s because the Rupp era was one where black players were excluded.
If you could find yourself a team of Proctologists that would remove your nose from John Calipari's rear end, you would get what I'm saying...... I've always heard. That when someone in a feeble attempt to win an argument has to resort to correcting another person grammar, that they have admitted defeat. Please find yourself a good Proctologist little buddy.
While I appreciate your lackluster attempt at comedy, during no point in my response did I give my opinion on Cal so your whole proctologist bit makes as much sense as your use of woke in your original comment. You continue to have sentence structure issues in this response, you might just need a team of English teachers to help you prove your point.
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