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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. Richard Nixon, Lee Atwater, and recorded history disagree with this assumption.
  2. Racial issues are an area where I admittedly struggle in figuring out a way to approach with my 2nd grader and kindergartner. Like all of us, I want to protect them from the shittiness of society at large, but study after study says that approach only leaves them alone to draw conclusions for themselves. It's easy to be seduced into believing that kids don't take in and absorb the values our society presents to them. But the truth is studies show even kids as young as 2 or 3 years old aren't oblivious to the racial hierarchy of the world they see around them and place value on certain races over others. More often than not when I as an adult come across information that I wasn't aware of as a school aged kid, I find myself wishing that I it was presented to me then. It would've gone a long way towards explaining our world in a lot more detail and given me better understanding of it. That being said, the example @Johnny Sack provided about his kids' school seems like a poorly formed and clumsy way to accomplish the goal of expanding empathy for the society around us. So it does give me pause to think people who can't handle the task would be responsible for handling it. Especially with kids so young.
  3. The visa ban to immigrants from shithole countries might have been a tad bit racist.
  4. I didn't realize that he was one of us. Been a big fan of his on the ringer and listen to podcast. Heard about his cancer diagnosis just recently when The Ringer hired Wos. Godspeed to him.
  5. And as is often demonstrated in these forums most people come out of it without relative context and believe it magically ended in 1954 and was relegated to southern states. Turns out summing up the black experience in America to slavery, Jim crow, and MLK does a pretty piss poor job of educating people.
  6. I'm struggling to understand why it is odd to you that Nigerians don't suffer from systemic racial policies that took place before they were ever allowed to enter the country. And why does the existence of Nigerian success befuddled you as to how those racist policies affect American descendents of slavery, Jim crow, and the myriad of racist policies throughout American history? Are you under some weird belief that there were 0 consequences from generations ofbracist policies? You can literally take redlining maps from the 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s and trace them perfectly along impoverished and high crime areas today and have perfect alignment. Why would Nigerians immigrants (or any black immigrants) be affected by that sort of trauma? You should no more expect Nigerian immigrants to be affected by that specific set of racial trauma than one would expect Slavic immigrants to be affected by it. You have a poor understanding of the black American experience and have a woeful lack of understanding (or curiosity for that matter) of how that experience might still affect folks today.
  7. Those arent new videos. It's just that with increased attention people are discovering his old videos.
  8. I feel like there have been a shitload of football players who have done just that recently, but maybe the distinction is they did it in 3&1/2 years as opposed to 3. And I agree, given the fact that the basketball season crosses over into both the fall and spring semesters, it's impressive to see it done by a basketball player. That being said, with the trend towards athletes maintaining a fulltime curriculum year round as opposed to just going part-time during the summer (if they have classes at all) over the past 20 years I feel like it's become more routine. The sudden deluge of grad transfers with 2 years of remaining eligibility is proof of this phenomenon becoming more common.
  9. For some reason I always thought Brickhorn went to UPenn Law. Maybe I'm confusing him for someone else.
  10. I'm surprised you're surprised. Hepa was like DJ Augustin in getting nothing but As for at least his 1st two years on campus.
  11. His thread was borne out of former #1 NBA pick Kwame Brown going off on social media against other former players. Harriot began his thread by discussing the linguistic origin of Brown's accent (Geechi-Gullah) and, like he often does, he then wove that into a history lesson.
  12. Good for him. Gives him a chance to learn something rather than being slotted as a recruiting guru for the rest of his coaching career.
  13. Arrington was a 2x All-Pro and 3x Probowl player in only a 7 year career. Surpassing what Lee did in 11 years.
  14. He cited 2 guys who came back to the school while he was there. He even made the point to say that he didn't have a relationship with Lee. And on what planet was Lavar Arrington less effective than Sean Lee?
  15. Yeah what a beating that would be. A Texas Ex gaining a high profile, nationally prominent position. Oh the horror!!
  16. It sucks for the Cowboys fans who live in Houston like me. Although with they way the old rules governing competing broadcasts against the home team at home are seemingly going the way of the Dodo bird maybe I'll get lucky and they'll actually have Cowboys games on against Texans home games.
  17. Jack White and the fact he owns a place in Deep Ellum deserves a mention as well.
  18. I've never seen this show, but those of you who have what do you think?
  19. Sims' Dad is either an MD or Dentist and the rest of his siblings are fairly highly successful people as well. He's the baby of the family and the feeling among his family members is he needs to be pushed towards autonomy rather than spending another year in school delaying his personal maturation.
  20. Absolutely heartbreaking news. My condolences and sincere prayers go out to the Ehlinger family.
  21. Me thinks you're projecting a little bit or overly sensitive. He just he didn't have a relationship with Lee but respects him tremendously. I'm not sure what you expect him to say when about Lee relative to former LBs he actually created a bond with.
  22. Maybe the fact that Arizona has a new coach will allow him to qualify for a waiver.
  23. I don't know. If he stays in the East and continues to improve he may have a chance.
  24. Turn them off and go to native language with English CC. Netflix should make that the default, dubbing sucks. It's default for me with some shows but with other shows it switches back to the English dubbing. And it totally depends on the profile in use. Lupin defaulted to English dubbing on my wife's profile but native French and English subtitles on my profile. However the opposite was true for Heist with both of us.
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