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Post by 404whore on Nov 6, 2013 21:40:43 GMT -5
You know another show that is really well done is "A football life" on NFL Network.
Last night they did Randall Cunningham. Very well done.
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Post by wolfgang on Nov 7, 2013 8:37:53 GMT -5
I thought it was well done. I've heard for years that some police had roughed King up and told him to never come back to this town. Never knew if that was true. Well now I know. Wolfgang you should watch it. You will enjoy it. If you saw the preview you've already seen most of the part about King talking about the police. Theres a lot about UT basketball and Mears and game footage. Like Rudedog I was surprised they didn't mention the KY cigarette incident but other than that I liked it. ti, I suppose I might see it eventually. There were lots of stories, both good and bad, that were floating around back then. It's pretty tough getting all the facts straight forty years later. It just seems depressing to me whichever way you look at it.
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Post by Thunder Good-Oil on Nov 7, 2013 9:09:50 GMT -5
About 5 years ago I was behind Nard in line at a fast food joint on N Broadway. He got his food and sat down. When I had my tray I walked over by him and said "hey, aren't you number 53?". He smiled and gave me a fist bump.
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Post by Magnum on Nov 7, 2013 11:49:20 GMT -5
I did like it cause I saw them play. It wasn't as good as what I would have liked though. I wish they had mentioned when King guaranteed he would never lose to Kentucky again as long as he was here...and they didn't. Beat them 5 straight. Oh, they were probably told the story, but there was no way that those clowns at ESPN would say anything bad about one of the blue bloods of college Basketball. That story is solid gold. No way that should have been excluded. I loved parts of it, like when John Ward was talking, and them showing game footage, but the racism aspect was over the top. Everything seems to be about race these days, and it is stupid. I think the media knows racism is slowly going away, and they have to play it up to get a reaction. I think the racism angle ruined the 30 for 30, because the story of their friendship is a pretty cool on. Two kids from NYC, who didn't know each other before coming here, became legends. The fact Ernie had no clue about the treatment by the cops, while here, tells me that story is not as big a story as they played it up to be. The story about Condredge, showed it was not nearly as bad as they made it out to be.
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Post by TNCOWBOY on Nov 7, 2013 13:43:41 GMT -5
You know another show that is really well done is "A football life" on NFL Network. Last night they did Randall Cunningham. Very well done. Another Philadelphia QB where the liberal media was desirous of a black QB succeeding.
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Post by The MOUTHPIECE on Nov 9, 2013 23:48:39 GMT -5
The racism angle is so prevalent today magnum, much more so than say even the mid 90s.
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Post by Magnum on Nov 10, 2013 19:02:17 GMT -5
Racism sells, because some have made money off it, for years. Now that racism is nowhere near as prevalent, as it was 20 years ago. the race baiters, have to make themselves relevant.
Racism, and race relations, were big time news stories for years. That kind of died down, so now with 4-5 full time, 24/7 news channels, they have to MAKE things into news stories.
Seriously, would that Richie Ingognito deal, with the Dolphins, been a story, 20 years ago?
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Post by relic on Nov 11, 2013 0:37:15 GMT -5
Racism sells, because some have made money off it, for years. Now that racism is nowhere near as prevalent, as it was 20 years ago. the race baiters, have to make themselves relevant. Racism, and race relations, were big time news stories for years. That kind of died down, so now with 4-5 full time, 24/7 news channels, they have to MAKE things into news stories. Seriously, would that Richie Ingognito deal, with the Dolphins, been a story, 20 years ago? No, absolutely not. (Ingonlionito) And sadly I guess Imagree with you on the first 2. Still, though, if we can see it, then we can help others to see it, and then, well, who knows?
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Post by Thunder Good-Oil on Nov 11, 2013 7:00:09 GMT -5
Racism sells, because some have made money off it, for years. Now that racism is nowhere near as prevalent, as it was 20 years ago. the race baiters, have to make themselves relevant. Racism, and race relations, were big time news stories for years. That kind of died down, so now with 4-5 full time, 24/7 news channels, they have to MAKE things into news stories. Seriously, would that Richie Ingognito deal, with the Dolphins, been a story, 20 years ago? What was it that that road side sign near the Brushy Mountain had on it?
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Post by relic on Nov 11, 2013 17:43:39 GMT -5
Racism sells, because some have made money off it, for years. Now that racism is nowhere near as prevalent, as it was 20 years ago. the race baiters, have to make themselves relevant. Racism, and race relations, were big time news stories for years. That kind of died down, so now with 4-5 full time, 24/7 news channels, they have to MAKE things into news stories. Seriously, would that Richie Ingognito deal, with the Dolphins, been a story, 20 years ago? What was it that that road side sign near the Brushy Mountain had on it? Was it a damn eagle, or wings, or some such?
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Post by Thunder Good-Oil on Nov 11, 2013 17:49:31 GMT -5
It was more like a warning
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Post by Magnum on Nov 12, 2013 1:32:01 GMT -5
I lived near there the first 23 years of my life, and I never saw it, but I heard of it.
The one that supposedly said " ****** , don't let the sun set on your black ass"? Is that the one?
One year, this dude that was kind of like the White Fred Sanford, made a hand painted sign saying "Happy James Earl Ray Day" on the weekend of MLK day. He lived down the hill from me, on the highway that led to Brushy.
I called him with a John Bean style call, in my best black voice, telling him I was going to come take it down.
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Post by Thunder Good-Oil on Nov 12, 2013 6:45:35 GMT -5
How big a boy are you?
That was it. And if I was a bruther I don't think I would.
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Post by TNCOWBOY on Nov 12, 2013 10:46:49 GMT -5
That "don't let the sun set on you" is urban myth I think. That exact sign supposedly was in Erwin. Now, I can't say for sure they didn't have one at some point. But not in the 43 years I have been alive.
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Post by Magnum on Nov 12, 2013 12:13:49 GMT -5
That "don't let the sun set on you" is urban myth I think. That exact sign supposedly was in Erwin. Now, I can't say for sure they didn't have one at some point. But not in the 43 years I have been alive. Yeah. I heard it being several different places. HOWEVER, one time, Geraldo Rivera came up there, about 20 years ago, when he had that show on WGN that came on after Morton Downey Jr, to interview James Earl Ray, at Brushy Mountain Prison. There is a place called Jones Grocery, where you turn off Highway 62, onto Highway 116 to go to the prison. The day after Geraldo was there, I heard he asked some of the old boys that hang out at the store, "Where do all the black guys hang out"? To which one old boy replied "You see that oak tree right there"?
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