More background on how this email came to light. Again, the prime mover in this situation is not Levenson. It’s another Hawks owner who dislikes both Levenson and Ferry. But whatever his motivations, he’s right that about Ferry’s repulsive statements.
Bull. A lot of people say things like that. Just a couple of weeks ago, Shodan tried to stir up some shit in GD by saying Obama was responsible for the idea that the U.S. is now “post-racial,” which dates back to around the time of his election. (And I think it’s fair to use that term as equivalent to ‘racism is dead.’ It’s the same concept.)
I get to use the word appropriately and skip a lot of arguments that excuse racism, either by intent or just in effect. For example, using the word appropriately, I can say people who insist Africans are dumber than everyone else are racists. Or I can say people who devote lots of energy to insisting it’s plausible that Africans are dumb are racists. Because that shit is really racist. It’s absurd to insist that the word racism be reserved only for the use of racial slurs or people who admit they don’t like people of other races. I’m glad we all agree that’s a horrible thing, but there are plenty of other types of prejudice and discrimination that play a much larger role in the world than the few unreconstructed bigots who will admit they hate people based on their race. When people refuse to acknowledge that race plays a role in larger types of discrimination, they miss a lot of important big picture stuff - and again, while it’s all well and good to discuss what people are saying, it’s ridiculous to watch people contort themselves over and over again to try to find a way that some kind of anti-black comment isn’t really racist.
You’re doing it again. He did not mention race there. The whole sentence was “there are few fathers and sons at the games.” While he refers to race a bunch of times in that part of the email, he’s also talking about getting more suburban white dads and their kids to buy season tickets. Since he is glad their audience is less black, you can hardly think he’s wishing there were more black guys with their kids at these games. And again, the whole thing had very little to do with the topic in the first place.
That’s kind of a reinvention of your posts, which read in full:
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Nobody asserted that saying ‘white people have more money than black people’ is racist. Nobody said hiring some white cheerleaders and changing the background music was discriminating against black people. That was all discussed in detail in that thread and again in this one. (And for the record I also showed the Hawks have always had white cheerleaders.) So you strolled into the middle of discussion, threw around a lot of straw, and then scurried off to shit somewhere else. Why are you acting surprised you’re being called an asshole?
Yes, however will I live knowing that you and magellan01 don’t think much of me? I guess I’ll settle for trying to win approval from intelligent people.