"NFL owners have a slave mentality."........Lebron James.

[milwaukee mike]

Look what's happened to Detroit, Michigan over the years as that is a complete and absolute disaster and tragedy of a once major city that has gone to complete shiit...

The motor city is a ghost town today full of drugs, crime, poverty and empty crumbling houses and office buildings that no investors would ever touch in a million years.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_Detroit

detroit gets most of the press, but the same thing has happened to milwaukee, cleveland, kansas city, etc etc

all hard-working midwest blue collar cities that now have a large % of their population with no skills or work ethic, because upper and middle class people aren't having 10 kids anymore... so the population growth is all poor

[JIBBBY]

detroit gets most of the press, but the same thing has happened to milwaukee, cleveland, kansas city, etc etc

all hard-working midwest blue collar cities that now have a large % of their population with no skills or work ethic, because upper and middle class people aren't having 10 kids anymore... so the population growth is all poor

Well said Mike, I agree.. That's not the old white mans fault either.

[Grosshhit]

Lebtard puts a ball into a hole for millions of dollars, did anyone expect him to have anything intelligent to say?

[RavensFan2k3]

Blacks do not want to advance

They are lazy race

Would love nothing more than to see you drop dead, merry christmas

[NardVa]

When in the history of America has this country ever tried to harm, kill or deny a person anything because their skin is white? I'll wait....

This is just another example of some body not being intelligent enough to put what Shannon Sharpe is saying in context.

[Kermit]

When in the history of America has this country ever tried to harm, kill or deny a person anything because their skin is white? I'll wait....

Depends exactly what you are getting at.

[NardVa]

Black people standing up against racism is not racism..

Another example of somebody not having enough intelligence to under context and meaning.

[JIBBBY]

When in the history of America has this country ever tried to harm, kill or deny a person anything because their skin is white? I'll wait....

This is just another example of some body not being intelligent enough to put what Shannon Sharpe is saying in context.

We avoid that kind of trouble.

[Kermit]

Black people standing up against racism is not racism..

Another example of somebody not having enough intelligence to under context and meaning.

Was that white woman being racist to them? Post the video, I'll wait...

[NardVa]

Depends exactly what you are getting at.

The majority of America is white (more than 70%). To be specific when has "White America" ever tried to deny, harm or kill a person because their skin is white. I'll wait...

[NardVa]

Was that white woman being racist to them? Post the video, I'll wait...

Everybody pay attention. People like Kermit is part of the problem. Do a little bit of Google searching and easy to connect the dots on what these students are protesting about.

[Mr KLC]

When in the history of America has this country ever tried to harm, kill or deny a person anything because their skin is white? I'll wait....

This is just another example of some body not being intelligent enough to put what Shannon Sharpe is saying in context.

That's it!!! We are the Cracker Walking Dead intent to get every black person that's out there. You got us! I'm going out to get in my car and run my daily quota down right now.

[Grosshhit]

End slavery!!!! Aboish the NFL and NBA now!!!!!! Lebron for prez!!!

[NardVa]

lol u triggered them just by saying they were triggered lol. so interesting how white people are so consumed with race when this country was intentionally built for them to benefit from it. just the mere mention of it triggers them because imagine there being racism against blacks in the good old usa lol. as they make racist comments throughout a thread in which they deny racism. this you truly cannot make up.

Couldn't have said it better myself.....

We're in 2018 and there's a plethora of information and data out there to show how slavery and everything there after effected black people as a whole in a negative way where as it did the complete opposite for white people as a whole. You can't argue with people who choose to ignore data and facts.

[pavyracer]

When in the history of America has this country ever tried to harm, kill or deny a person anything because their skin is white? I'll wait....

This is just another example of some body not being intelligent enough to put what Shannon Sharpe is saying in context.

Here you go:

On the outskirts of South Omaha, Nebraska, was a shantytown of perhaps 3,000 Greek laborers, a number swollen by unemployed railroad workers waiting out the winter. Anti-Greek feeling in South Omaha was already intense owing to the carousing and gambling of the Greeks and, possibly, because many of them were viewed as strikebreakers.

The precipitating incident occurred on February 19, 1909, when one immigrant, Irish-born Police Officer Ed Lowery, arrested fellow immigrant, the Greek-born John Masourides. Lowery was a family man with a labor background. He joined the police force after losing his job at a lard processing plant for refusing, in sympathy with striking workers, to cross a picket line. Thirty-six years old when he left a Peloponnesian village near Kalamata in 1906, Masourides was in many ways a typical Greek immigrant.

He was dark and of medium height, wore a mustache, could speak no English, but could read and write some Greek. He left behind a wife and four children and made his destination Sunrise, Wyoming, where he planned to join his brother Gust. In Wyoming, John worked as a miner for several months after his arrival. The brothers then decided to come to Omaha to start a grocery and confectionary. This they did in South Omaha.

Masourides was with seventeen-year-old Lillian Breese when Officer Lowery arrested him for vagrancy. Some claimed the policeman was drunk and enraged at seeing a Greek publicly walking with a “white” prostitute. Other accounts say Breese was an English teacher and Masourides her student. These two accounts, it should be noted, are not mutually exclusive. Regardless of Breese’s primary vocation, what isn’t in question is that Masourides shot and killed Officer Lowery on the way to the police station.

In court, Masourides said he was attempting to throw his pistol away to avoid being held for carrying a concealed weapon, and was forced to defend himself after the officer began firing. Other witnesses said Masourides fired first. After a failed attempt to lynch Masourides, a petition was circulated and published in two local newspapers:

The so-called quarters of the Greeks are infested by a vile bunch of filthy Greeks who have attacked our women, insulted pedestrians upon the street, openly maintained gambling dens and many other forms of viciousness.

More ominously it declared:

Therefore be it resolved: That we, the undersigned citizens and taxpayers of the city, hereby believe that a mass meeting should be held on Sunday afternoon, February 21, 1909, at the city hall to take such steps and to adopt such measures as will effectually rid the city of the Greeks, and thereby remove the menacing conditions that threaten the very life and welfare of South Omaha.

During the meeting, the crowd was encouraged with anti-Greek speeches. One witness recounted hearing, “One drop of American blood is worth all the Greek blood in the world!”

Following the meeting, over the course of many hours, a mob rampaged through the Greek quarter, burning most of it to the ground. Some thirty-six Greek businesses were destroyed and all the Greeks—and many other immigrants who were mistaken for Greek—were driven by the mob from the city. Later, Mary Demos, the owner of Demos Brothers Confectionary, would testify that when she called the police station for help against the mob, the officer answering “laughed at [her] over the telephone.” Her shop was subsequently wrecked and looted by a group that Demos claimed included police officers.

Another newspaper, which was considered more moderate toward immigrants (and did not publish the anti-Greek petition), still managed to rationalize, if not justify, the rioters’ behavior:

The thing that sticks in the crow [sic] of the anti-Greek element is that they work cheap; live even more cheaply, in groups; are careless of many of the little details that Americans set much store by; once in a while are impudent, ignore the restrictions of American law that lay heavily on the true patriot—in short, do not mix, are not “good fellows” like the citizens we get from northern Europe, for instance.

The press coverage of the riots triggered copycat anti-Greek demonstrations, sometimes violent, in Kansas City, Kansas, and Dayton, Ohio. The irony of immigrant-on-immigrant xenophobia was not lost on at least one newspaper, the Shreveport Journal (Louisiana): “We note with interest that Mr. O’Shaughnessy of Omaha objects to the ‘Greeks taking America.’ As if the O’Shaughnessys and the O’Tooles and other Irish had not already grabbed it.”

One year later, Masourides was found guilty of second degree murder and sentenced to fourteen years in prison. He was furloughed by the governor after five and one-half years, deported, and emigrated, perhaps to Egypt.

The South Omaha riot was given wide coverage in the Greek American press and in Greece. The Greek government lost no time in protesting the acquiescence of the local authorities to the brutality of the mob. The Greek government, along with the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, lodged a formal demand for compensation. In 1918 the US Congress did indemnify the Greeks, but for just $40,000 (equivalent in 2012 to $618,000) and not the $288,000 claimed.

[jjgold]

James a racist piece
Of garbage

I hope he blows his knee out

[Kermit]

Couldn't have said it better myself.....

We're in 2018 and there's a plethora of information and data out there to show how slavery and everything there after effected black people as a whole in a negative way where as it did the complete opposite for white people as a whole. You can't argue with people who choose to ignore data and facts.

It's no different when the data and facts for the disproportionate amount of violent crime gets introduced into the conversation. It always gets ignored.

[Mr KLC]

Watching the slave trade in full force now while the Pistons and Hawks are forcing 10 guys to run back and forth with a heavy ball. I'll let you know when I hear them all call the head coach, "Massa".

[packerd_00]

When in the history of America has this country ever tried to harm, kill or deny a person anything because their skin is white? I'll wait....

This is just another example of some body not being intelligent enough to put what Shannon Sharpe is saying in context.

Saying that doesn't happen nowadays, you must be pretty clueless.

[pavyracer]

Watching the slave trade in full force now while the Pistons and Hawks are forcing 10 guys to run back and forth with a heavy ball. I'll let you know when I hear them all call the head coach, "Massa".

[milwaukee mike]

When in the history of America has this country ever tried to harm, kill or deny a person anything because their skin is white? I'll wait....

This is just another example of some body not being intelligent enough to put what Shannon Sharpe is saying in context.

well my kids have to pay for college tuition, and if they were black and had anywhere close to the same grades/test scores/etc they would get free tuition at much better schools.

so my son is being denied marquette tuition at 40k/year for being white... i would love to see some examples of what anyone RIGHT NOW is being denied for being black... if you look back at history we have all been oppressed so please don't use that as a crutch

[kingdom]

how were whites in milwaukee benefitting from race in the 1800s? there were only 200 black people in the entire state in 1840, in 1910 there were about 3000, and now just in the milwaukee area there are over 300,000 blacks.

milwaukee is really benefitting from the black population going from 3000 to 300,000... in the last 100 years we have gone from one of the most prosperous cities in the world to mostly slums, you would think that if whites really benefitted from having blacks around people would be lining up to move here

reading comprehension strikes again. where is it said you benefited from having blacks around? you benefited from laws in education, banking, and housing that gave you an advantage over others. there were mass efforts by whites to prohibit blacks success for hundreds of years. from slavery to reconstruction. it was against the law for a black man to be able to read at the risk of death if you learned how to do so. how sick is that. blacks were very prosperous post civil war and were property owners and had strong political positions. but the ignorant whites of the south were jealous and still butt hurt over losing the war. and voting laws were created to again prohibit the progress of any blacks. and later jim crow, lynching etc. the inherent fear always existed. my parents were born in the late 1940s and werent allowed to drink the water or pee in the same toilet, let alone get the same educational or job opportunities. so you can deny or belittle the racist history of this country all you want. but its simple fact. redlining, denial of loans for housing and business. it all existed into the mid 70's giving an unfair advantage to whites. bringing it up bothers you all. but you have pride in the rest of your history. no denying of any american successes. but the ugly parts you never want mentioned. blacks have been in an ideological war with this country for hundreds of years. fighting perception, discrimination, and unfair laws and sentencing. but surprisingly whites are often the ones bitching about race whenever it is mentioned. i dare you to wiki reconstruction and jim crow. redlining, etc. it is the history you are not taught in school because it is not pretty.

[kingdom]

well my kids have to pay for college tuition, and if they were black and had anywhere close to the same grades/test scores/etc they would get free tuition at much better schools.

so my son is being denied marquette tuition at 40k/year for being white... i would love to see some examples of what anyone RIGHT NOW is being denied for being black... if you look back at history we have all been oppressed so please don't use that as a crutch

pure ignorance. once again.

[jjgold]

Blacks throw everything away they get
They love violence , sex , drinking , drugs and not working

Sad

[Mr KLC]

reading comprehension strikes again. where is it said you benefited from having blacks around? you benefited from laws in education, banking, and housing that gave you an advantage over others. there were mass efforts by whites to prohibit blacks success for hundreds of years. from slavery to reconstruction. it was against the law for a black man to be able to read at the risk of death if you learned how to do so. how sick is that. blacks were very prosperous post civil war and were property owners and had strong political positions. but the ignorant whites of the south were jealous and still butt hurt over losing the war. and voting laws were created to again prohibit the progress of any blacks. and later jim crow, lynching etc. the inherent fear always existed. my parents were born in the late 1940s and werent allowed to drink the water or pee in the same toilet, let alone get the same educational or job opportunities. so you can deny or belittle the racist history of this country all you want. but its simple fact. redlining, denial of loans for housing and business. it all existed into the mid 70's giving an unfair advantage to whites. bringing it up bothers you all. but you have pride in the rest of your history. no denying of any american successes. but the ugly parts you never want mentioned. blacks have been in an ideological war with this country for hundreds of years. fighting perception, discrimination, and unfair laws and sentencing. but surprisingly whites are often the ones bitching about race whenever it is mentioned. i dare you to wiki reconstruction and jim crow. redlining, etc. it is the history you are not taught in school because it is not pretty.

Don't deny history. Look at then, and look at now. Maybe you all should acknowledge the progress.

[Venom72]

pure ignorance. once again.

Lol yea i almost responded to that post with the same thing, i knew this thread would end up being 99.9% ignorant ass shit

[NardVa]

well my kids have to pay for college tuition, and if they were black and had anywhere close to the same grades/test scores/etc they would get free tuition at much better schools.

so my son is being denied marquette tuition at 40k/year for being white... i would love to see some examples of what anyone RIGHT NOW is being denied for being black... if you look back at history we have all been oppressed so please don't use that as a crutch

The fact you have white people in "white America" believing that white people are at a disadvantage in "white America" is laughable at best. I swear you can't make this stuff up.

[Kermit]

Lol yea i almost responded to that post with the same thing, i knew this thread would end up being 99.9% ignorant ass shit

So Lebron James is free to spout whatever bullshit that he wants, but no one is allowed to criticize or call him out on his bullshit because he is black?

And I don't agree with any of the nonsense that JJ has been spewing by the way.

[kidcudi92]

Watching the slave trade in full force now while the Pistons and Hawks are forcing 10 guys to run back and forth with a heavy ball. I'll let you know when I hear them all call the head coach, "Massa".

[pilebuck13]

The fact you have white people in "white America" believing that white people are at a disadvantage in "white America" is laughable at best. I swear you can't make this stuff up.

Minority’s have a extreme advantage in opportunities in this country based solely of the color of their skin. We have federal mandates that require we hire minority’s on federal construction projects. We have people walking right into union halls immediately getting into apprenticeship programs based solely of them being of color. How is that in any shape or form fair? Please try to answer that without bringing up things this country did 70 years ago please. In this day and age the excuses are over with blaming white america is hilarious. Had a black president. Time to get over it. They have done more destruction to their own communities in the last 30 years then any white man.

[Mr KLC]

There has been a steady increase in the share of Americans who view racism as a big problem in the U.S. – especially among African Americans. Since 2009, the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency, the share of those who consider racism a big problem has grown among all racial groups. This is especially true for black Americans. In 2017, about eight-in-ten blacks (81%) said racism is a big problem in society today, up from 44% eight years prior. By comparison, about half of whites (52%) said racism is a big problem in our society, up from 22% in 2009. There were also partisan divides on this question, which have grown from 2015.

[NardVa]

Minority’s have a extreme advantage in opportunities in this country based solely of the color of their skin. We have federal mandates that require we hire minority’s on federal construction projects. We have people walking right into union halls immediately getting into apprenticeship programs based solely of them being of color. How is that in any shape or form fair? Please try to answer that without bringing up things this country did 70 years ago please. In this day and age the excuses are over with blaming white america is hilarious. Had a black president. Time to get over it. They have done more destruction to their own communities in the last 30 years then any white man.

I notice a lot of people in this thread are just regurgitating white media talking points and have never looked at the actual data. If you looked at the data you would know the biggest benefactors of minority quotas as a whole is white women (Example: You wife, girlfriend, sister, daughter, aunt, mother, etc.). White women benefiting from minority quotas indirectly benefits white men.

[Venom72]

So Lebron James is free to spout whatever bullshit that he wants, but no one is allowed to criticize or call him out on his bullshit because he is black?

And I don't agree with any of the nonsense that JJ has been spewing by the way.

Bron can say what he wants just like you or me, nobody said hes off limits to criticize cause hes black, ill call anyone out on they bullshit nobody gets a pass from me cause they race or gender, now as far as what he said, i see whats he trying to say, but i feel like he could have said it better, and i dont even agree with it mostly, but am i gonna go crazy and act triggerd and start trashing blacks and saying ignorant shit like most posters here?? No, celebs or athelets dont get that much energy from me bro,and plus it went from talking about lebrons comments to morons just making racist comments,which im not suprised by from this site, btw good to kno you dont agree with golds dumbass comments lol but i dont take his bitch serious anyway

[Venom72]

I notice a lot of people in this thread are just regurgitating white media talking points and have never looked at the actual data. If you looked at the data you would know the biggest benefactors of minority quotas as a whole is white women (Example: You wife, girlfriend, sister, daughter, aunt, mother, etc.). White women benefiting from minority quotas indirectly benefits white men.

Ive agreed with everything you said bro, but youre wasting youre time with these dudes in this thread ,sbr is one of the last places you can have a decent convo about social issues...or anything other than gambling and sports talk for that matter lol

[pilebuck13]

I notice a lot of people in this thread are just regurgitating white media talking points and have never looked at the actual data. If you looked at the data you would know the biggest benefactors of minority quotas as a whole is white women (Example: You wife, girlfriend, sister, daughter, aunt, mother, etc.). White women benefiting from minority quotas indirectly benefits white men.

White women? Minority women get the same advantage. White media talking points? I have worked around many minority apprentices women and men. While everyone else has to test and sometimes wait years to get into apprenticeship program. They show up and directly get a job not to mention the programs in the inner city that buys them all their tools and work gear and boots. If that’s not a advantage based solely of skin color what is it? Please tell me what it is. Wait let me guess this is because blah blah blah white males get no fukin special programs or grants or business licenses...your response above was ridiculous. Don’t get me started on the native Americans time to shut down all this special treatments across the board and make it best candidate for the job wins!