Holy Smokes, if this isn't a "character issue," I don't know what is. From Rotoworld: Uhhh, yeah, funny joke, Clay... Brian Cushing and and Clay Matthews are officially off my draft board. Probably off the Steelers', Bears', 49ers', Buccaneers' and Bengals' draft boards too. Have fun in the the pro locker room, guys. Found this "funny" little disclaimer on another site: (outsidethebeltway.com) Nooooo, in no way are we intolerant of others! That's ludicrous! All we're saying is, the black man is a plague on the Aryan Nation! What? What's wrong with that? I don't want to be righteously indignant here, but this is really awful. I think a league star who accidentally shoots himself in the leg or a league star who uses performance-enhancing drugs completely pales in comparison to a league star who would publicly states he would prefer the majority of his co-workers and a large percentage of his country to be arrested at birth.
Could be a mountain out of a molehill: (Daily Trojan) It's been widely reported that Sedrick Ellis is in fact black. If he's sticking up for these guys, it probably was just a joke. The egregious misspellings might have been ironic. OK, Cushing and Matthews. We'll see... You're lucky politically correct California college students went after you, otherwise I'd have no sympathy.
facebook and myspace strike again They misspelled "Aryan". Can't take them too seriously. Gopaul is a shitstirrer. She should become a reporter. She turns a joke into a huge outrage that spreads all over.
You've gotta admit, it's pretty fucking stupid to put that shit on facebook if it was a locker room joke.
as a black dude i dont take offense to it cause i dont really think he's racist but it was pretty stupid to make the joke public.
It's pretty stupid that they even thought about making the 'inside' joke a public statement on the most widely used networking site on the internet. His intelligence level can't the highest, but then again he did go to USC so what can be expected
It's so silly that this stuff gets drugged up now. USC is probably the most liberal place on the PLANET. No way these guys could have survived at the school, let alone on the team, if they really felt that way. Personally, I love guys with politically incorrect senses of humor. Good for them!
I'll bunch my panties when I so please, Electric! But yeah, that was kinda what I came away with after reading more about the incident. Rotoworld's all like "Yo, these muthafuckas racist and they think its funny!" and I'm all like "wha...?" and then I read more and Gopaul's all like "Yo, this shit gonna score me mad friends, yo" and then Sedrick Ellis is all like "I believe you've been influenced by a misconception, Ms. Gopaul" and Gopaul is all like "Yo black man: I'm an educated white woman in a liberal college, aight?! I know racism when I sees it, bitch!"
im sure since he plays on a team with mostly non-whites im sure it was a joke. more importantly i think both cushing and matthews are overrated. they feast on a weak division and profit from big play REY dominating inside and forcing plays their way.
i remember one of my buddies saying something about this, and showed me the facebook site with the pic of the baby handcuffed. we thought it was funny as hell! that said that was stupid as hell. If you guys want to remove the pot smokers who were stupid enough to fail their combine test, then you should probably remove these idiots for failing an intelligence test in front of the entire freaking country.
The thing to remember before villifying these guys as racists is that they are still kids. 18-21 you are not mature and you don't think things through, that is part of being young and dumb. Their teammates were all in on the joke and it was probably posted thinking all guys on the team would get a kick out of it, and basically ignored the rest of the student body/outside world. Not the smartest choice, but that immaturity has a lot to do with age.
One of the big issues people not just athletes are having is that they think facebook and similar social networking sites are much more private than they are, so instead of this being an in-joke only they can see, but the privacy settings are actually much looser and it ends up a big thing
They're probably shooting up the Steelers' draft board right now. Pittsburgh is one of the most racist cities in which I have ever lived. You would not believe how many times I still hear Steelers fans referring to Mike Tomlin with the "N-word" despite having a SB title: "Not too bad for a fucking n-----."
