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(News) Black NFL Players Protest Rush Limbaugh’s Effort to Buy Rams

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Black NFL Players Protest Rush Limbaugh’s Effort to Buy Rams

Right on

Good for the players. I hope if Limbaugh buys the team, the entire team simply walks off and goes elsewhere. It's about time Limbaugh's racism came home to roost.

- Babaroni October 9, 2009 1:46PM

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- Not the same.
  
  I don't think his being white and buying the team equals him buying black people. This suggestion seems a bit harsh. I didn't think you'd say something like this.
  
  - SolarSanitizer October 9, 2009 6:02PM
  
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  - That's not what I said at all, Solar
    
    I think you may have misunderstood my comment. I did not suggest that he was a white man "buying" black people (i.e., slavery). The article above points out that Rush Limbaugh has repeatedly made a number of racist comments about the black players in the NFL. Now he is looking to buy an NFL team (in which case, he would be the employer of a number of black players, not their owner -- he owns the team just as other employers might own a company but employee the company's employees).
    
    The point is, these men do not want to WORK for a man who has repeatedly derided them and made racist comments about them and their African American colleagues.
    
    And I can't say I blame them one little bit.
    
    - Babaroni October 9, 2009 11:13PM
    
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    - Oops
      
      I mean "...EMPLOY the company's employees..."
      
      - Babaroni October 9, 2009 11:14PM
      
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    - Oh, I see what you are saying.
      
      It seemed not at all like you, from what I know about you on here.
      
      What racist things has Rush repeatedly said about black football players in the NFL?
      
      - SolarSanitizer October 10, 2009 1:56AM
      
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      - See below
        
        Mokeem gave a good list in a comment below, and there are several of them listed in the OP. As I recall, his comment regarding Donovan McNabb (from OP above, "he referred to Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb as “overrated” and said that the media was “very desirous that a black quarterback do well.") was what lost him his brand new job as an NFL commentator back in 2003. If that were the only thing he'd ever said, though, it probably wouldn't be such a big deal. But he has a history of saying derogatory things about black citizens in general, and about Obama's race in particular, which appear to reveal aspects of his character which would make him quite unpopular with black people (and with anyone who opposes racism , regardless of their skin color).
        
        Maybe he says this stuff just because it makes him more "controversial" and improves his ratings with his target audience, but if you are going to make racist comments for whatever reason (profit being really an especially disgusting motive), you're going to reap what you sew, eventually.
        
        - Babaroni October 10, 2009 1:38PM
        
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        So, you don't know
        
        Seems that you do not know what Rush has said, but you read somewhere that Rush is a racist , perhaps? Are you describing what you know, or are you relating something you heard or read?
        
        - SolarSanitizer October 10, 2009 1:52PM
        
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        I've read and heard
        
        I've read published news accounts of his actual comments. In addition, I listen to his show from time to time, until he says something which makes me so sick I have to turn off the radio, which generally takes about 5 minutes or less.
        
        A published news account with direct quotations is certainly sufficient documentation to establish that a racist remark has been made. The man *lost his job* with the NFL for making a racist comment. That's well-established.
        
        - Babaroni October 10, 2009 2:03PM
        
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- Maybe we'll get a team
  
  that will have a winning record instead of a criminal one.
  
  Sounds like Kiwanuka needs to get another subculture if he doesn't like his being called out for "white kids are getting beat up on the bus while black kids are chanting 'right on," If it had been a lone black student that got beaten on a busload of white kids, Jesse Jackson and the rest of the 'community organizers' would have been there with their rent-a-mobs demanding 'justice'.
  
  - asdf October 10, 2009 5:04AM
  
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- rush & the rams
  
  spoken like a genius Barbaroni! i just posted a similar comment, but the censors have yet to release it.with the comments he's made in the past, how could he even began to entertain that thought? he clearly is a racist of the worst kind!
  
  - tonekowski October 13, 2009 12:04PM
  
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