no I think he is white

smokepurpleliveorange69 said:

Let someone make fun of the way “certain” coaches speak and let’s see what happens. Outcry would be enormous. But since it’s Coach O it’s fine. Terrible !

Do you not really understand why this is? Are you going to pretend that its the same thing? To give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you don't understand here's why its different.

Making fun of Coach Orgeron the implication is that he's the loveable Creole coach that is so intune with the community and the area he represents. He's so Cajun that he's perfect for a job like LSU, lets lean into and laugh in celebration.

When black coaches get made fun of about how they might speak its often because the implication is that they are somehow less intelligent and not fit to be a leader of men because of how they speak. Its why describing a black man as "articulate" is not appropriate even though white people mean well when they say it. White people are never described as "articulate".

Please stop fanning the flames and looking for reasons to cry about a double standard without understanding why a one might exist. Then you won't have to "wonder why that is".

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I don't remember that ever happening.

Sep 28, 2020, 10:15 PM

But there's, like, an article from the uber-liberal CNN from 2007 when this supposedly happened with the headline "Biden's description of Obama draws scrutiny": https://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/31/biden.obama/

Sen. Joe Biden planned to spend Wednesday focusing on his official announcement that he was running for president, but the Delaware Democrat instead found himself defending remarks he made to the New York Observer about his Democratic opponents.

Then there's this whole deal where Joe apologizes for those types of racially insensitive statements: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16911044/ns/nbc_nightly_news_with_brian_williams/t/sen-biden-apologizes-remarks-obama/

Sen. Biden apologizes for remarks on Obama

Sen. Joseph Biden has launched his bid for the White House on the issue of Iraq, but on Wednesday his campaign was sidetracked over race. [!]

Seems the issue was addressed at least with the standards of the times. I mean, in 2007 people still used the n-word and thought Ronald Reagan was good for the country.

Anyway, acting outraged over a lack of attention over relatively innocuous events from almost 15 years ago when those events ACTUALLY DID GET ATTENTION is either ignorant or intentionally disingenuous.

Maybe...um...if the ability to 'cancel' people through social media was even a thing in 2007, you might have a point. But you don't.