Earl Campbell... Racist???

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UTK said:
Can't win with a white QB is pretty blatant racism.
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I agree he shouldn't have said it. But my point is he doesn't know what the **** he is saying. I believe he probably meant that this team needs a mobile qb to scramble to make things happen. He just happen to say black. I know him. I don't think he would have meant that and he respected Bum Phillips.
 
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knucklehead_vol said:
I agree he shouldn't have said it. But my point is he doesn't know what the **** he is saying. I believe he probably meant that this team needs a mobile qb to scramble to make things happen. He just happen to say black. I know him. I don't think he would have meant that and he respected Bum Phillips.
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You do know that Sam Ehlinger is mobile right??
 
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OrangeAllDay said:
So why would he have meant a “mobile” quarterback instead of a black quarterback, when they already have one?? Your logic doesn’t make much sense.
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I don't know. Black QBs are more mobile than white QBs more than not. White QBs pass better. Is that racist? Maybe so. But it's no different from what everyone here already thinks.
 
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BUBear said:
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Fact is, whether they admit it or not, everybody is a racist. The snarky psycho-sociologists call it ethnocentrism. It exposes itself under certain conditions. Those conditions include but aren't necessarily limited to:

Bigotry
Stereotyping
Limited experiences with other people or cultures
Preconceptions
Herd mentality
Illusions of grandeur
To justify biased, false, and unjust claims or accusations

Under the right circumstances, peer/social pressures all of us manifest racism to varying degrees.
And that includes Earl as well. And White coaches and team owners during Earl's era. It was widely assumed Black QBs were incapable of leading a team. Many capable Black QBs were converted to play other positions. It was why Warren Moon went off to Canada so he could play QB instead of another position the NFL wanted him to. I'm proud to say the UT was the first SEC school to break this stereotype when they took Condredge Holloway. In a nutshell, Earl is doing what the Whites did in his era, thus I guess you can call it equal opportunity racism. So just remember when you get all holy and high horsed about a brown or black person sounding racist, it's just par for the course. Everybody is racist.
 
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alaVOL said:
Racist? I don't know, but I like an honest option over the watered down PC garbage spouted by so many nowadays.
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I don't think it would be "PC" to say this statement is racist: "Until the University of Texas realizes you have to have a white QB, and nothing against the current black QB, you got to have a talented, white QB."

It was the kind of racist comment that keeps the country divided... the kind that isn't condemned but accepted due to a pervasive double standard. Justice always demands that everyone abide by the same rules.
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
Fact is, whether they admit it or not, everybody is a racist. The snarky psycho-sociologists call it ethnocentrism. It exposes itself under certain conditions. Those conditions include but aren't necessarily limited to:

Bigotry
Stereotyping
Limited experiences with other people or cultures
Preconceptions
Herd mentality
Illusions of grandeur
To justify biased, false, and unjust claims or accusations

Under the right circumstances, peer/social pressures all of us manifest racism to varying degrees.
And that includes Earl as well. And White coaches and team owners during Earl's era. It was widely assumed Black QBs were incapable of leading a team. Many capable Black QBs were converted to play other positions. It was why Warren Moon went off to Canada so he could play QB instead of another position the NFL wanted him to. I'm proud to say the UT was the first SEC school to break this stereotype when they took Condredge Holloway. In a nutshell, Earl is doing what the Whites did in his era, thus I guess you can call it equal opportunity racism. So just remember when you get all holy and high horsed about a brown or black person sounding racist, it's just par for the course. Everybody is racist.
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I like you... but I'm not buying.

It is long past time we recognize and absorb this simple truth- THERE IS ONLY ONE RACE. The genetic difference that cause one to have a little more melanin and another a little less... is a stupid way to divide people.
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
Fact is, whether they admit it or not, everybody is a racist. The snarky psycho-sociologists call it ethnocentrism. It exposes itself under certain conditions. Those conditions include but aren't necessarily limited to:

Bigotry
Stereotyping
Limited experiences with other people or cultures
Preconceptions
Herd mentality
Illusions of grandeur
To justify biased, false, and unjust claims or accusations

Under the right circumstances, peer/social pressures all of us manifest racism to varying degrees.
And that includes Earl as well. And White coaches and team owners during Earl's era. It was widely assumed Black QBs were incapable of leading a team. Many capable Black QBs were converted to play other positions. It was why Warren Moon went off to Canada so he could play QB instead of another position the NFL wanted him to. I'm proud to say the UT was the first SEC school to break this stereotype when they took Condredge Holloway. In a nutshell, Earl is doing what the Whites did in his era, thus I guess you can call it equal opportunity racism. So just remember when you get all holy and high horsed about a brown or black person sounding racist, it's just par for the course. Everybody is racist.
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I think you are correct here in a lot of ways. It seems like because of the horrible treatment that black people endured in our country’s past that people of color largely get a pass now for racist thoughts and behavior. Two wrongs don’t make a right IMO. By in-large it’s the people who think of themselves as progressive that will allow people to get away with this type of thinking because of white guilt of whatever people want to call it.
 
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sjt18 said:
I like you... but I'm not buying.

It is long past time we recognize and absorb this simple truth- THERE IS ONLY ONE RACE. The genetic difference that cause one to have a little more melanin and another a little less... is a stupid way to divide people.
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Ummm, far as I know, I didn't say there was more than one race. I discussed racism, which FYI is an attitude, not a biological phenomenon. So we got nothing to disagree about, honestly.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
I like how he mentioned Vince Young. Pretty sure I can find more money in my couch than that dude has in his bank account right now. Winning!
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You know VY sucks when the Longhorn Network fires him. 😂😂😂 All he had to do was show up at PR events and turn in time sheets but he couldn't manage to do either. 🤔
 
#75
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OrangeAllDay said:
You do know that Sam Ehlinger is mobile right??
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With Ejlinher the talent is there but the coaching isn't. If he hopes to make an NFL roster then he needs to follow Buchelle and Garrett Gilbert to SMU and get coached up.
 
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