# Dolphins linebacker compares officiating to Anne Frank

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**Created:** [November 8, 2010, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dolphins-linebacker-compares-officiating-to-anne-frank/559885 "2010-11-08T07:57:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dolphins-linebacker-compares-officiating-to-anne-frank/559885/21 "2010-11-12T16:04:15Z")

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Ah well, that’s nice that nobody noticed that tiny little colonialism, empire and slavery nasty detail of history. 🙂

I have a mental image of this football chap chatting to black people in Britain starting with the assumption that they cannot be British, something that would mark him as very racist if he were white. In his case, perhaps everyone decided “oh, he is a mad foreign American” instead. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dolphins-linebacker-compares-officiating-to-anne-frank/559885/22 "2010-11-12T16:08:55Z")

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> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> He did go, and presumably _was_ surprised. Weirdly, the idea that there are no black people in Britain is apparently common among the African-American community. I’ve been asked a dozen times if I knew any black people before moving to the US.

You’d think they’d have heard of Lennox Lewis, but I guess they don’t make the connection.

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