Seau: racist 'Watermelon' remark was a joke

[sbp]

http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/story/6742425


Someone alert the PC police now! :| :disgust:

Nevermind-its not a white guy.

 

[kaizersose]

if any white player or coach said that, the NAACP would be nailing him to the proverbial cross as we speak.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: kaizersose
if any white player or coach said that, the NAACP would be nailing him to the proverbial cross as we speak.

yeah i couldn't help but thinking that myself. gotta love double standards

 

[PatboyX]

i dont know. i agree but...if he really did happen to love friend chicken and watermelon...who careS?

 

[Dragnov]

I find it funny in every one of these threads you guys start crying and bringing up how you feel you're getting shafted on everything.

How ironic that you guys sound just like Jesse Jackson, the person you so dearly hate.

WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! WAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!

 

[Macro2]

fried chicken and watermelon are two of my favorite foods...so what?

 

[308nato]

Originally posted by: Gr1mL0cK
I find it funny in every one of these threads you guys start crying and bringing up how you feel you're getting shafted on everything.

How ironic that you guys sound just like Jesse Jackson, the person you so dearly hate.

WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! WAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!

I missed the whining and crying. Maybe you could point that out.

 

[Red Dawn]

A Somoan Player said that about his Friend who happened to be Black whom he regularly gets together with and eats Fried Chicken and Watermelon with. What's the big deal? I guess if taken out of context it could be seen as insensitive but his friend isn't complaining so why should anybody else? It's not like that Good Old Boy Fuzzy Zeoller saying that crap about Tiger Woods after Tiger won the PGA Championship because Fyzzy was alluding to Tiger being black.

 

[smashp]

I love eating fried chicken, BBQ ribs, Black eyed peas, greens, mac and cheese and Watermelon.....



Heres a little secret.


Im White.

 

[CaptnKirk]

"and load him up with fried chicken and tell him to keep eating."

Make him keep eating - that's how you slow him down or stop him.
It's a joke !

 

[ogmios]

Can anybody please explain why fried chicken and watermelon can be potentially racially insensitive? I really don't get it. Thanks.

 

[Horsep0wer]

lol. someone ask Seau if he wants a pineapple since he's Samoan. hehe

 

[konichiwa]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: kaizersose
if any white player or coach said that, the NAACP would be nailing him to the proverbial cross as we speak.

yeah i couldn't help but thinking that myself. gotta love double standards

I think if a white guy got together with the RB every weekend like Seau did, became his close friend and chowed on watermelon and fried chicken with him and then said this remark, he would get the same response Seau did. An initial reaction followed by an "oh, nevermind" once it was cleared up.

Get off your reverse-racism trip...

 

[Sternfan]

Originally posted by: konichiwa

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: kaizersose
if any white player or coach said that, the NAACP would be nailing him to the proverbial cross as we speak.

yeah i couldn't help but thinking that myself. gotta love double standards

I think if a white guy got together with the RB every weekend like Seau did, became his close friend and chowed on watermelon and fried chicken with him and then said this remark, he would get the same response Seau did. An initial reaction followed by an "oh, nevermind" once it was cleared up.

Get off your reverse-racism trip...

Do you visit Planet Earth much, because you sure don't sound like you do.

 

[Sternfan]

Originally posted by: smashp
I love eating fried chicken, BBQ ribs, Black eyed peas, greens, mac and cheese and Watermelon.....



Heres a little secret.


Im White.

I would hate to be your toilet, hahahaha

just joking with you

 

[konichiwa]

Originally posted by: Sternfan

Originally posted by: konichiwa

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: kaizersose
if any white player or coach said that, the NAACP would be nailing him to the proverbial cross as we speak.

yeah i couldn't help but thinking that myself. gotta love double standards

I think if a white guy got together with the RB every weekend like Seau did, became his close friend and chowed on watermelon and fried chicken with him and then said this remark, he would get the same response Seau did. An initial reaction followed by an "oh, nevermind" once it was cleared up.

Get off your reverse-racism trip...

Do you visit Planet Earth much, because you sure don't sound like you do.

I live here. Have anything constructive to say?

 

[tk149]

Originally posted by: ogmios
Can anybody please explain why fried chicken and watermelon can be potentially racially insensitive? I really don't get it. Thanks.

I'm going to assume this is a genuine question...

Fried chicken and watermelon are two foods that stereotypically, black people like to eat. Not that others don't like it too (like me - I love fried chicken and watermelon and I'm asian).

So if a jerk desires to insult a black person, the jerk says something like, "How 'bout some watermelon and fried chicken, N*g***?" Kind of like if someone were to say to me, "How 'bout some pork flied lice, ch*n*?"

Obviously, in Seau's case, he did not mean it as a racist remark, or at least one meant to truly insult his friend.

 

[ogmios]

Originally posted by: tk149

Originally posted by: ogmios
Can anybody please explain why fried chicken and watermelon can be potentially racially insensitive? I really don't get it. Thanks.

I'm going to assume this is a genuine question...

Fried chicken and watermelon are two foods that stereotypically, black people like to eat. Not that others don't like it too (like me - I love fried chicken and watermelon and I'm asian).

So if a jerk desires to insult a black person, the jerk says something like, "How 'bout some watermelon and fried chicken, N*g***?" Kind of like if someone were to say to me, "How 'bout some pork flied lice, ch*n*?"

Obviously, in Seau's case, he did not mean it as a racist remark, or at least one meant to truly insult his friend.

Thanks. Now I get it.

 

[sbp]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
A Somoan Player said that about his Friend who happened to be Black whom he regularly gets together with and eats Fried Chicken and Watermelon with. What's the big deal? I guess if taken out of context it could be seen as insensitive but his friend isn't complaining so why should anybody else? It's not like that Good Old Boy Fuzzy Zeoller saying that crap about Tiger Woods after Tiger won the PGA Championship because Fyzzy was alluding to Tiger being black.

Or Shaq "I can't act or rap worth crap" O'Neill putting down Yao Ming. :Q