Racist 10k Announcer at D1 Champs

[quote]My name is Lance wrote:

[The truth is, it's just no longer premitted by our lame, cowardly PC society to speak ill of any black person,

Right. We never see any ill spoken about black people hereon Letsrun, do we?

Be honest. The only group you cannot even disagree with in put society are Zi*nist Jews

Doesn't anyone know how hard it is to offer entertaining and colorful commentary on the air without occasionally misstepping?

This endless parsing for "racism," "sexism" or whatever in every botched attempt at humor would end up with no one outside the affected group permitted to comment on performances by "minorities," or majorities (women); and in the end, under PETA rules, only horses allowed to comment on horse races.

GG

It was Dwight Stones when they were talking about Solomon Hallies high school exploits.

the quote was "With these foreign athletes from countries like [Ethiopia and Kenya] sometimes you have to do what you do to stray dogs that you adopt and you don't know their real age....Sometimes the only thing that you can do is cut off a leg and count the rings." Then he laughed at himself...Larry did not try to bail him out and let it just hang. Awkward.

I thought it was far more offensive that he dared to compare Kenyans and Ethiopians to stray dogs in the first place, rather than the fact that he was advocating to cut off their leg over believing their documentation.

He did NOT compare Africans as stray dogs! He said the controversy of not knowing someones age in the NCAA is like when you get a stray dog and have to figure out the age.

asdfdsa wrote:

He did NOT compare Africans as stray dogs! He said the controversy of not knowing someones age in the NCAA is like when you get a stray dog and have to figure out the age.

Ooooooh. I see. He compared their characteristics and their situations. But them directly... Are you seriously defending this?

The average age of a 20 year-old Kenyan runner is about 31.

Dogs only live until about 15. How would it help?

Did UTEP have any American runners during their glory years? No..

Yes

And DS was/is a bit of a ...

it was a bad joke made worse after boston but not at all racist just stupid as can be...

"Racist" 10k announcer makes a joke, racist pizza delivery guy complaining about how blacks don't tip enough, etc, all small time. What about Obama who spent decades at a racist "church," or freaking Eric Holder, and that they both allowed armed black panthers to "guard" voting places in elections that brought them to power without legal consequences. And then there's the whole Trayvon Martin thing, a perfect example of how the racist Leftist establishment tries to incite violence by trying to spin self defense against a giant drug using football player as the murder of an innocent nine year old boy (only airing pictures of the assailant as a small child).

ggilder wrote:

Doesn't anyone know how hard it is to offer entertaining and colorful commentary on the air without occasionally misstepping?

This endless parsing for "racism," "sexism" or whatever in every botched attempt at humor would end up with no one outside the affected group permitted to comment on performances by "minorities," or majorities (women); and in the end, under PETA rules, only horses allowed to comment on horse races.

GG

Which is why far and away most commentators get it right and don't say racist, sexist things.

What's worse is Stones's continuing prejudice against the metric system.

He thinks if he reports metric marks, nobody will understand them, as if someone who wasn't familiar with an event would bother watching the NCAA meet at all.

US commentators have to explain every stupid little thing at major meets because of viewer ignorance, but they themselves encourage that ignorance with their feet and inches crap. They are an embarrassment to their country and should be forced into retirement.

Why? Mind you, the commentator was pointing out it is apparently a fact that it really was sketchy how old the runner really was.

Confused Briton wrote:

Among the dumbest statements ever made on Letsrun.

ryan foreman wrote:

As far as I can see there really isn't any system to document DOBs in East Africa.

Racism doesn't require racist intent you simpleton.

Really Webby? When did everyone become so racially sensitive? Is it because we are talking about east africans? So if runners from the British Isles had birth certificates that were questionable and the announcer said the exact same comment in reference to that group of people, would that be considered racist?

I think if natl media gets a hold of the comment the consequences will be more serious than banter on the LR board