Oakland Athletics Announcer Fired After Saying Racial Slur on the Air

Have no fear, we will all be silenced. Everyone must follow the correct line and speak the correct language. It must be so or else..............
 

My parents were from the mountains of NC and my maternal grandfather would say the nasty "N" word pretty often. We moved to Florida when I was 8 years old and I attended an integrated junior high school. There were mostly African Americans, Cubans and Whites. It was by no means easy, but it gave me respect for other races.
 

I once worked for an Indigenous health centre in Oz - mixed races - I was told almost immediately " we all use the terms blackfella and whitefella; and you are expected to follow suit/custom - which I did saying anything else would have sounded absurd. However on arriving home and using the terms indoors was found to be most mispleasing and I was requested not to do so - it's all about custom isn't it whether national /statewide /or organisational?
 
seadoug said:
My parents were from the mountains of NC and my maternal grandfather would say the nasty "N" word pretty often. We moved to Florida when I was 8 years old and I attended an integrated junior high school. There were mostly African Americans, Cubans and Whites. It was by no means easy, but it gave me respect for other races.
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I have respect for other races.. but I never saw a Black person in real life until I was an adult.. I'm not kidding.. . Where I lived there was no Black people .. and the only people who were non-white were a very few Asians who owned corner shops.. but they stayed within their own community we only ever saw them in their shops.. never outside. I think that will probably be hard for an American to believe given that non whites have been a huge part of the American culture for centuries. My cousing had children by a Black American sailor.. but by the time she returned home with the children they were divorced so we never even got to meet him..

Here where I live now.. there's less than 1 % non whites... yet 20 miles away in London.. altho' the govt would have us believe it's much less. in fact Non whites outnumber whites..

Of course during my working life I've worked with Black people..
 
seadoug said:
My parents were from the mountains of NC and my maternal grandfather would say the nasty "N" word pretty often. We moved to Florida when I was 8 years old and I attended an integrated junior high school. There were mostly African Americans, Cubans and Whites. It was by no means easy, but it gave me respect for other races.
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Reminds me of when we went on vacation out to Maggie Valley and that area of NC.
I was in the grocery store and something seemed off. I soon realized there were no black, only white. It was weird to me.
I live in eastern NC where the population is at least half African American in these small towns. Lots of Hispanic too as they are farming towns.
What is funny is I grew up in New England in an all white town. Nothing seemed odd to me then of course.
 
hollydolly said:
I have respect for other races.. but I never saw a Black person in real life until I was an adult.. I'm not kidding.. . Where I lived there was no Black people .. and the only people who were non-white were a very few Asians who owned corner shops.. but they stayed within their own community we only ever saw them in their shops.. never outside. I think that will probably be hard for an American to believe given that non whites have been a huge part of the American culture for centuries. My cousing had children by a Black American sailor.. but by the time she returned home with the children they were divorced so we never even got to meet him..

Here where I live now.. there's less than 1 % non whites... yet 20 miles away in London.. altho' the govt would have us believe it's much less. in fact Non whites outnumber whites..

Of course during my working life I've worked with Black people..
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Same here, HD. I had to wait until I was posted to Nova Scotia in 1959 to see my first black person. There's a sad story to go with that! :) It was a woman, carrying a load of groceries, with her two children clutching her skirt! I couldn't stand to watch her struggles so I crossed the street to help her! I saw her to her door, left her bags on the kitchen counter, left the house and was immediately surrounded by four black youths! One of them grabbed my shirt, buttons flying and hissed: "We don't like it when white boys mess around with our women!" Yes, for a while I was prejudiced! :)
 
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Old Salt said:
Same here, HD. I had to wait until I was posted to Nova Scotia in 1959 to see my first black person. There's a sad story to go with that! :) It was a woman, carrying a load of groceries, with her two children clutching her skirt! I couldn't stand to watch her struggles so I crossed the street to help her! I saw her to her door, left her bags on the kitchen counter, left the house and was immediately surrounded by four black youth! One of them grabbed my shirt, buttons flying and hissed: "We don't like it when white boys mess around with our women!" Yes, for a while I was prejudiced! :)
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..and I can understand that ! ..no different to if you'd been attacked by a dog or a snarling female.. either way it would have caused you to feel some type of way toward those if it had been them who'd attacked you... we take people as we find the,.. that's all that can be expected of us all..
 

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