Sammy Sofa

Yeah, don't bother trying to trade for one of the best pitchers going because some guy on a message board will have to read about it.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2009-11/50365141.jpg His face is so tiny in the first one.

Yeah, how dare he not be able to just kick right through someone's arm. Lighten up, Mojo. I was commenting on his touchdown saving tackle. It's easy to take the wrong way right now.

Yeah, how dare he not be able to just kick right through someone's arm.

Alright, I've got better things to do.

Beautiful.

He was on top of Warner after a play, took his hand and deliberately punched him through the hole in the helmet right in front of a ref. Classy.

I don't have the game on; what did Harris do?

Hah! Noah rules.

Really liking how he's kept looking as good as he did in the 2nd half last season. Rip those boards, son.

Yeah, in an ideal world the Bulls still have Gordon, but who wanted to spend the money for 2010 on him? They can live without what he brought for a year.

Oh, OK, everything's fixed. I guess with Obama as President things like redlining, blockbusting and the 15% tipping point for white flight will vanish. All of those studies after studies that show that people whose names are considered or who even just sound "too black" are hired at a dramatically lower rate than white applicants of equal or lesser qualification are now all better, right? Mojo it's pretty simple, if African Americans are starting to take some of the highest offices in the nation, some of which are based on America's vote, we ain't as racist as feel good liberal minded white people like to say we are. Think about it, black man voted into office. If were really as horribly racist to the extent you think, it doesn't happen. Period. You're really not grasping this at all.

Well, it was Derwood.

Oh, OK, everything's fixed. I guess with Obama as President things like redlining, blockbusting and the 15% tipping point for white flight will vanish. All of those studies after studies that show that people whose names are considered or who even just sound "too black" are hired at a dramatically lower rate than white applicants of equal or lesser qualification are now all better, right?

Though you'll likely refute it it, you need to see that white racism and black prejudice (I differentiate because I think racism hinges on power. You can still be prejudiced as [expletive], however, without power) come from profoundly different places. The contexts, both today and historically, are completely different, so to compare the two equally is both the height of irony and intellectually dishonest. That's not justifying black prejudice across the board, but to generalize it as being the same as white racism simply isn't realistic. If a black person dislikes a white person, or anyone else, because of the color of their skin, its racist. Racism is wrong. I'm not saying that white racism and black racism are the same thing, merely that neither are justified. Black people justify it because they were oppressed. That much is a fact, but its also something that the vast majority of white people today did not participate in. White people use just as bad reason to justify their racism, either because they just think they're better, or they're afraid of black people cause they are more violent, also a fact. The bottom line to me is that both sides are using facts to justify their racism, but they are twisting the facts to make them fit and entire race when they simply don't. No, they are oppressed. Just because they're not getting whipped and enslaved or having the dogs and fire hoses turned on them on your TV doesn't mean that the racial divide in this country has somehow magically been "fixed" over the last 40 years. If anything, it's even more insidious since it's not so obvious. Who needs slavery when we can just rock on with things like residential segregation, not hiring people because their name "seems black" or intentionally not working with black businesses? You can keep acting like racism in this thing of the past that peple have nothing to do with, but the basic reality is that racist and racial ideas have shaped pretty much every aspect of how whites and blacks interact in this country, with one group coming out way on top and the other intetionally being kept down at the bottom. It's unfortunate that you seem to insist that the playing field is level to the point that everything can be judged equally. It's like you're effectively saying, "hey, knock it off black people. You've got your equality. Now play fair, say thanks and be nice!" "Black racism" does not impact white people in any way, shape or form even remotely similar to how white racism impacts, well, pretty much everyone else. For two groups to be "equally racist," both groups would need to have comparable power. That's pretty [expletive] far from the reality that we have in front of us.

Though you'll likely refute it it, you need to see that white racism and black prejudice (I differentiate because I think racism hinges on power. You can still be prejudiced as [expletive], however, without power) come from profoundly different places. The contexts, both today and historically, are completely different, so to compare the two equally is both the height of irony and intellectually dishonest. That's not justifying black prejudice across the board, but to generalize it as being the same as white racism simply isn't realistic.

It's beyond an issue of "racism" and just the inherrent sense of "us" and "them" that we all have to varying degrees.

Why wouldn't Miami want to get something in return for him? I would guess that the chances of him returning to the Heat next year are slim, no? Why would a team give up the haul it would take to get him when he would just be a FA a short time later? It's not like baseball trades where you can give up prospects for a player that's likely to be a rental but can be a difference maker for a few months. With this the team trading for him would likely have to give up key players that they were banking on making/keeping them competitive in the first place.

I guess that just goes to show my foe list isn't always working in my favor. And no, I'm not saying that about you. That's a perception we all have to some degree whether we want it or not.

You know damn well what I mean. Social and economic programs designed to primarily benefit african americans. Affirmative action, educational grants, etc... the system as it's set up now does not give everybody equal opportunities. But feeling guilty about slavery shouldn't have anything to do with whether or not you feel they deserve the assistance provided by those programs. There are much better reasons to help. I don't know what your problem is with me using the word "aid", as most of those programs absolutely fit the definition. But you feel free to go on LULZing. It's exactly the sort of arrogant, dismissive, and ignorant behavior we've all come to expect from you when anything remotely political comes up. Only when something ridiculous that's remotely political comes up. Nobody brought up "feeling guilty over slavery" or "white guilt." And I laugh at "give aid" because whether you meant it or not (and it doesn't seem like you did with your clarification) it's still indicative of the "keep them at arm's length" attitude that's basically built into us. No, it's not attempts to simply make America fair for all Americans after centuries of disparity, something that's going to take a long time to accomplish. No, it's "giving aid," as if they're third world peoples who need our charity and pity. "Giving aid" makes me laugh because it makes it sound like benevolent generosity from on high being deemed to share with those less fortunate as opposed to the basic obligation we should feel as human beings to make sure all of our country is as truly equal as we want to claim. It seems you recognize this at least in part from the post above, but the term "giving aid" made me laugh because it's reflective of how deep the racial divide is in this country even when people aren't being malicious because of it. These aren't and should not be issues of "guilt;" they should just be the result of facing up to the reality of how our society works now and how we want it to function in the future. "Giving aid" denigrates it all to sounding like handouts. And the social and economic programs you generalize are not designed to primarily help African Americans: they're designed to help any of the disenfranchised in our country, or groups that have been deprived their fair slice. Things like affirmative action have been far more beneficial to white women more than any other group. This isn't an issue of only creating avenues to assist the long process of levelling the playing field racially in America, nor are they designed to help African Americans above anyone else.

"Give aid?" LULZ

Trade for DWade around the midseason mark? Can't they just wait to sign him? They could, but give 'em Salmons. If the Bulls think they want to get out of the first round, you gotta get Wade. But you are right, you don't have to do this now. But you could get outbid for him in the offseason. Isn't Salmon's deal only through this season? If so, why would they take him for Wade? A trade for Wade seemingly would require the Bulls to give up players that they need. It doesn't make much sense to do that when they can just wait until the offseason and sign him without giving up anyone.

Trade for DWade around the midseason mark? Can't they just wait to sign him?

Can we chalk that one up as MERELY A REFLECTION OF YOUR ADMITTEDLY SHORT LIFE EXPERIENCE, too?

It's amazing that some of the people expressly marginalized as "surplus people" socially, economically and politically over the entire history of this country wouldn't be too fond of the people that that society was designed to benefit and empower the most.