Bad to worse for Georgetown

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Counter-argument:

[tower912]

In the end, I think this was fairly inevitable.   

[WellsstreetWanderer]

Maybe I just wasn't as aware then, but I honestly think we're going the wrong way as far as that goes. For all the strides we made in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, I feel like we are discriminating more against African Americans than we were a decade ago. Not saying it's ever been easy to be anything other than a white male in America, but in recent days it seems to be getting worse for women and minorities rather than better, and that's been a trend for a few years now.

And by we, I mean we as a country.

Wow! You must not have been around in the 50's or 60's. 

[dgies9156]

So if several 4 star white basketball players wanted to go to Georgetown they would not sign them because they are not an "institutional" fit? If there were a school with the same academic standing as Georgetown that had a history of supporting  poor white basketball players would it be tolerated?

For those of you who believe this garbage, I would encourage you to find Dr. Peabody's Wayback Machine and return to the late 1960s or early 1970s. People said the same thing about Marquette then that's alleged about Georgetown today. Our coaches were color blind. Al didn't care what they looked like as long as they could play (and the same thing could be said for Coach Lombardi up at Green Bay).

Don't think for a minute the feuds between Al and Adolph "The Bigot" Rupp didn't have a tint of racism on Rupp's part. Keep in mind that Rupp's teams at the time were lily white and our's suffice to say, weren't. Our guys came to the game looking like members of a street gang and Rupp's looked like they just came from a country club.

Take a look at what the term "Cracked Sidewalks" means.

Our best players were African-Americans. Period. When Marquette went down to Knoxville or Athens, GA or to other places in the south, we shocked people. Someone very close to me once accused our team in the early 1970s of being "thugs" when we played street ball against Vanderbilt's finess ball.  Of course, we won. That big battle in South Carolina in 1972...

From my vantage point, I don't care what our students look like or where they come from as long as they're good ballplayers, honorable people and good students. I'm sure Georgetown feels the same way. It's the Jesuit thing to do.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Wow! You must not have been around in the 50's or 60's.

He said we're discriminating more now than we were a decade ago as in the early 2000s.  Not that we're discriminating more now then we were in the 50s and 60s

[brewcity77]

He said we're discriminating more now than we were a decade ago as in the early 2000s.  Not that we're discriminating more now then we were in the 50s and 60s

This. It's not worse than the 50s-60s by any stretch, but I think we're worse now than we were in the 1990s and 2000s.

[B. McBannerson]

This. It's not worse than the 50s-60s by any stretch, but I think we're worse now than we were in the 1990s and 2000s.

To benchmark, how old are you?  I disagree strongly with your comment, but it could be a result of how long we have been on this planet or how old you were in the 90's and 2000's. 

[MU82]

This. It's not worse than the 50s-60s by any stretch, but I think we're worse now than we were in the 1990s and 2000s.

Of course this is the case. Just look at who is in the effen White House, how he got there and who is chief advisers are.

Anybody who doesn't know what "Make America Great Again" means is living in a cave or just refuses to see it.

I know we can't talk politics here, but come on.

[Lennys Tap]

Of course this is the case. Just look at who is in the effen White House, how he got there and who is chief advisers are.

Anybody who doesn't know what "Make America Great Again" means is living in a cave or just refuses to see it.

I know we can't talk politics here, but come on.

IOW, "I know we can't talk politics here but I'm embarking on a political rant regardless".

[StillAWarrior]

IOW, "I know we can't talk politics here but I'm embarking on a political rant regardless".

This is why we can't have nice things.

[B. McBannerson]

Of course this is the case. Just look at who is in the effen White House, how he got there and who is chief advisers are.

Anybody who doesn't know what "Make America Great Again" means is living in a cave or just refuses to see it.

I know we can't talk politics here, but come on.

You do this often.  Was it not in that same 2000's that another gentleman made that effen White House for two terms and never would have in the 90's?

[mu-rara]

IOW, "I know we can't talk politics here but I'm embarking on a political rant regardless".

82 can't stop himself.  He's on the correct side of the mods politics so he can get away with it.

[brewcity77]

To benchmark, how old are you?  I disagree strongly with your comment, but it could be a result of how long we have been on this planet or how old you were in the 90's and 2000's.

40. I was in my late teens to early 20s in the 1990s and my 20s-30s in the 2000s. Spent a significant portion of time in both decades living and working in Milwaukee.

And not to get political, but it's not just MAGA in the White House. I've been noticing it for the past few years now, since well before the election cycle kicked off.

[jesmu84]

You do this often.  Was it not in that same 2000's that another gentleman made that effen White House for two terms and never would have in the 90's?

Which one of CBB's personalities is this? I get them confused

[tower912]

His 'friend'.   Like Hobbes to Calvin.

[Mutaman]

82 can't stop himself.  He's on the correct side of the mods politics so he can get away with it.

[rocket surgeon]

82 can't stop himself.  He's on the correct side of the mods politics so he can get away with it.

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[buckchuckler]

Nm

[Mutaman]

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Speaking of CBB's little friend. I wish he was imaginary like Hobbes. He thinks white men are the ones being discriminated against.

[Babybluejeans]

Well, that seems to do it for this topic! It was fun while it lasted. Cheeks and two of his ghost accounts show up in the same thread to mix it up about race...nice little throwback to the good ole days.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Y'all, this is why we can't have nice things. We had some good conversation about race relations going.

Oh well