Kentucky's Andrew Harrison directs racial slur toward Kaminsky

Your right both Dekker and Kaminsky will be drafted in the first round but will be glue guys at best. Definitely not NBA stars. Kaminsky needs at least 50 more pounds of muscle to matchup in the NBA. We will see how he does against Jahil on Monday. And that carry move Dekker uses won't fly in the NBA. The real player who has a chance to be a star is Nigel if he can bulk up a bit.

Also the Bucks will probably draft one of them since it will increase attendence at the Bradley center so they will now have 5,000 people at the games.

rojo wrote:

OP,

Yes there are double standards. Blacks can use the word. Whites can not. Harrison actually used the word as a total sign of respect.

Harrison's use of the word here was actually quite complex - well at least more complex than you can understand. But using a 'racial slur" at a totally white dude, he's totally praising him.

He's not really being racist. Well I guess one could argue he's being racist in that implicit in his statement is that blacks are better than whites at basketball

Of all the stupid drivel you posted on your own site, this has to be the absolute most idiotic thing that's crossed your little mind and made it to the interwebs. And if anything was complex, you, sure as sin, would not be able to figure it out. Go find an Easter Egg, goofball.

Badgers Last Stand wrote:

Wisconsin is a great team no doubt and would love to see them win the title but that is a team without NBA talent on the other hand Kentucky is a team of significant NBA level players. Who would you rather be in the end? I hate how everyone thinks given the opportunity many Badger players would not be one and done. I'm telling you right now I would leave given the chance to earn that kinda cash.

Ugh, ever heard of Frank Kominsky? I'm rooting Duke, but Kominsky was far and away the best player in d1 basketball this year. Kentucky has nobody at his level. If Kominsky isn't NBA talent, nobody is.

It's more than just a double standard, and anyone who uses it knows this. Maybe you're cool with certain people using it as a way of saying, "Lookie here, I can get away with something that you can't. "Maybe you're cool with certain people using it as a way of showing their willingness to accept and promote inequality in their favor, because that's exactly what they're doing. Forget any of the "He meant it as a sign of respect" smokescreens. Anyone who uses that word does so to show that they can get away with it. Not only that, and more importantly, they do it to show that you can't, if you don't look like them. In so doing, they show that they're the kind of person who has no problem with inequality as long as they're on the beneficial end of it. They get off on the notion that they can do something that you can't. That's why people use that word. But go ahead, go on pretending that it's just another pesky double standard.

rojo wrote:

OP,

Yes there are double standards. Blacks can use the word. Whites can not. Harrison actually used the word as a total sign of respect.

Harrison's use of the word here was actually quite complex - well at least more complex than you can understand. But using a 'racial slur" at a totally white dude, he's totally praising him.

He's not really being racist. Well I guess one could argue he's being racist in that implicit in his statement is that blacks are better than whites at basketball

Usual letsrun nonsense wrote:

He did not say anything to Kaminsky. He referred to K as the N word under his breath. That is actually a term of respect to a white player -- or an indictment of the media that is constantly hyping the intelligence and work ethic of white players.

This pretense that black people have the same education, money, opportunity, rights and privileges as white people that underlines much of these right wing comments on letsrun is as obvious as it is ridiculous.

Saying "Fu(k that ni$ger is a term of respect? Seeing your state of mind I'm not surprised by the rest of your idiotic rant.

This is why they play the games.

Kentucky believed its own press.

Not shaking hands reminds of Florida State doing the same after my Ducks demolished them in the Rose Bowl. Incidentally, the Ducks played Wisconsin tough in the tourney.

^and this guy^

Some of you are unreal. The quote about Frank was pure racism, jealousy and resentment.

Harrison is a moron and true colors fly in situations of adversity. If you want to compliment someone, you don't say "fu$$ that (*&&^a.

A black person calling a white person the n-word can be, but is not always a sign of respect. Just last month I witnessed a black person shout at a white person, "N**** I will knock yo f*****' ass out!" There was no respect hidden in that comment, and there is no respect when saying "F*** that n****".

when bush or cheney called a ny times reporter a slur for a Jewish person under his breath and was caught on tape, did conservatives condemn him? but in that case, it was intended as an insult. in this case, harrison, who has shown no bad behavior in the past at all, to my knowledge, was very frustrated after the game and was clearly saying the equivalent of that sob, not using the term as a racial slur, and under his breath with his mouth covered of course. And he gets criticism anyway for being a sore loser, which is fine to say.

Alright letsrun idiots, here is the deal. White people used the racial slur in an insulting and paternalistic manner for most of the existence of the word. Then when a black guy says the word in public, white people are telling him when he can and cannot use the word. Still being paternalistic white people.

Now think about this. If the race that is the victim of the slur, can take the slur, own it, and turn that word around into whatever they want to use it for, good for them. That to me, is progress. You don't have the right to tell people how to use a word that has traditionally been used against them.

Harrison is the n**** not because of his skin color but by how he carries himself.

If Kentucky had won, all you would hear from frank is a congratulations to Kentucky.

[quote]where to begin wrote:

Anyone who uses that word does so to show that they can get away with it. Not only that, and more importantly, they do it to show that you can't, if you don't look like them. In so doing, they show that they're the kind of person who has no problem with inequality as long as they're on the beneficial end of it. They get off on the notion that they can do something that you can't. That's why people use that word.

But go ahead, go on pretending that it's just another pesky double standard.

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What are you talking about?If a bunch of black people are alone (in places you probably do not frequent much) and are using the word among themselves, who are they trying to show they can get away with it? They are not trying to show anybody anything. They are having a conversation among themselves in the way they see fit. They are not trying to send a message to a bunch of people who wouldn't be caught dead in that neighborhood. In that setting, the idea of inequality and who benefits by ones choice of words is entirely irrelevant. Most of the time when black people use that word there is no political statement being made, and it certainly isn't used to somehow keep white people in their place or denigrate them.

Hard as it may be for you to accept it, what white people think is not at the center of a black person's every thought or action.

Harrison might very well have muttered the same thing about Jahlil Okafor had he been asked about him instead.

When one woman calls another woman a b*tch, she is not being mysoginistic or attempting to somehow subjugate the other woman. Depending on the context, she could be messing around with a friend, or she could be expressing displeasure with another woman, but she is not asserting some sort of superiority based on her gender.

When one gay person calls another gay person a f*g (if they chose to do so for some reason), it would likely have a very different meaning than if the same thing were said by a straight person.

This is not to say that I condone the use of any of those words or that I would advocate that anybody use them. But, when I hear them, I understand that their usage has to be interpreted in light of the context in which they are used. Who is saying the word to whom, under what circumstances, and the nature of their relationship/interaction is all highly relevant. If you feel aggrieved because you probably should not be saying any of these words ever and you somehow feel like you ability to express yourself freely is being infringed upon, then you need to take that up with the people who you feel are keeping you from using those words, after you do some self-reflection on why it is so important to you to be able to use those words in your conversations.

Question. If Harrison had just called Kaminsky a b*tch, would you have thought he were being sexist?

Rojo? I wonder where you are getting your context from, play hoops much? Play a lot of inner city ball growing up? On those Ivy hard courts in college? Yeah, I'll bet you know exactly how guys interact. Do not make me laugh.

This guy who wrote this below had it right and in this context, if it was not meant as a slam, he would not have been so conscious to immediately CALL him? It was a total off handed shit talking slam.

What a crock. A "total sign of respect?" LOL. Perhaps you could portray it that way if he had said Kaminsky plays like a N*******. But instead he said "FuKK that N******." That is not showing any respect. That is the utmost sign of disrespect

as If Kaminski got lucky and had no game

Please , if this was reversed Steve A Smith would have been on air waves at 4 AM today calling for the kid to never play again? Oh that's right UK guys will have taken their last class by then.

jjjjjj wrote:

Yes there are double standards. Blacks can use the word. Whites can not. Harrison actually used the word as a total sign of respect.

Honest question, do we think that if he had said "f*ck that guy" it would have been an insult, but "f*ck that n*gga" is endearing to Kaminsky?

pc is the worst wrote:

Rojo wrote:

Yes there are double standards. Blacks can use the word. Whites can not. Harrison actually used the word as a total sign of respect.

Honest question, do we think that if he had said "f*ck that guy" it would have been an insult, but "f*ck that n*gga" is endearing to Kaminsky?

Quoted the wrong poster, meant to respond to Rojo.

OP here.

There would rightfully be a firestorm surrounding Kaminsky if he had uttered these words. What Harrison said at the press conference is not nearly as inflammatory, rather than if Kaminsky had said it. That much is clear, and I agree that it probably should not turn into a big deal. However, Harrison did not say those words as a sign of respect.

Speaking those words aloud at a press conference is unfortunate, to say the least. It is hopefully just a phrase he spoke out of sheer frustration at losing such a big game, rather than being a sign of poor character.

I hope he learns from this mishap, and is better able to guard his emotions in the future.

As a black man this statement simply translates to

"That person is whatever, I don't want to talk about them'

Not that serious

And I work at one wrote:

This pretense that black people have the same education, money, opportunity, rights and privileges as white people that underlines much of these right wing comments on letsrun is as obvious as it is ridiculous.

This quote drips with Progressive-Marxist nonsense that has been inflected upon you in indoctrination centers formerly referred to as universities.

Too bad you didn't attend one of those universities. You might have learned how to construct a sentence