# Reggie White dead at 43 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 26, 2004, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reggie-white-dead-at-43/281690 "2004-12-26T16:24:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reggie-white-dead-at-43/281690/41 "2004-12-27T20:42:16Z")
> [@Ace#1](#): > > You know, I really detest this semantic game that some feel the need to engage in when defending bigotry. You made the assertion. Now put up or shut up, Sparky. ---
**Author:** ![Ace\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19b73/32.png) [@Ace\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace_1)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reggie-white-dead-at-43/281690/42 "2004-12-27T20:44:42Z")
> [@Tigers2B1](#): > > Too bad you view the world as such a black and white issue **Ace#1** – good luck - I’m not the one rewriting history to claim a football player was a saint. A man is dead, isn’t that enough? When you try to elevate his reputation, you are promoting the same things he supported with his life. Isn’t it enough to remember a great football player? Why pretend his personal life was anything other than what it was? ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reggie-white-dead-at-43/281690/43 "2004-12-27T21:57:48Z")
> [@Ace#1](#): > > You know, I really detest this semantic game that some feel the need to engage in when defending bigotry. > His comments are full of ignorance and hate. I guess you compare people you have no antipathy towards to child molestors, but most of us consider that to be a pretty hateful charge. Then go start a fucking Pit thread. Did you happen to notice how this started out as a thread for those that liked him and suddenly turned into this shit? Better yet, start IM’ing **Milkman**. You two sound like kindred spirits. (How the fuck Hitler got involved in this is beyond me.) :rolleyes: :wally ---
**Author:** ![Ace\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19b73/32.png) [@Ace\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace_1)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reggie-white-dead-at-43/281690/44 "2004-12-27T22:31:16Z")
What is wrong with acknowledging the truth? Does White’s prejudice change the fact that he was a great football player? Why the insistence on changing the facts (for example claiming that he apologized when he never did) to put the man in a better light? My **only** objection is to the lies and false sainthood put on an undeserving figure. Remember the man for what he was good at, playing football, but don’t claim that his heart was full of love as a reporter on NBC did. We lost a great football player, and a flawed man. To pretend he was anything else is to pretend his flaws were virtues. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2004, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reggie-white-dead-at-43/281690/45 "2004-12-28T00:20:31Z")
Unfortunately, through no fault of the OP, this thread has gone south. Rather than move it to **The Pit** , I’ll just close it. **Cajun Man** for the SDMB [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reggie-white-dead-at-43/281690.md?page=2)