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Quixote1818

(28,926 posts)
Fri Mar 12, 2021, 11:57 PM Mar 2021

2 announcers left their mics on during the anthem called girls taking a knee "fucking n**gers."

There you have it! The folks who are so upset about the kneeling reveling exactly who MOST of them really are!

Hot mic catches announcer using N-word while high school basketball players kneel during National Anthem
Sky Palma
March 12, 2021

During a basketball game at Norman High School in Oklahoma this Thursday, a live mic caught an announcer using the N-word while angrily lamenting players who chose to kneel during the playing of the National Anthem, OU Daily reported.

More: https://www.rawstory.com/norman-high-school-n-word/



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2 announcers left their mics on during the anthem called girls taking a knee "fucking n**gers." (Original Post) Quixote1818 Mar 2021 OP
I'm sorry - did you say two "former" announcers left their mics on ??? CincyDem Mar 2021 #1
Slobs aka former announcers... Bluethroughu Mar 2021 #2
I Oklahoma? Well, maybe. soldierant Mar 2021 #6
The asshole blames his racism on his friend, and then his diabetes: dalton99a Mar 2021 #3
these racist pieces of shit Skittles Mar 2021 #5
The party of personal responsibility UpInArms Mar 2021 #8
Diabetese? Claire Oh Nette Mar 2021 #10
Nah. Y'all just another loud mouthed racist. stopdiggin Mar 2021 #11
"There's a very good reason for that, your honor, I'm a diabetic...? AdamGG Mar 2021 #14
its the white privilege excuse magicguido Mar 2021 #16
🙄 LakeArenal Mar 2021 #18
THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE TO OVER COME!!!!!!!!!!! a kennedy Mar 2021 #4
Despicable. I hope he lost his job. nt littlemissmartypants Mar 2021 #7
The outrage! Claire Oh Nette Mar 2021 #9
Fire their asses and hopefully they'll never find work again. Laffy Kat Mar 2021 #12
K&R for exposure Blue Owl Mar 2021 #13
Their career is over n/t aggiesal Mar 2021 #15
just shameful llashram Mar 2021 #17
The Twinke Defense! prodigitalson Mar 2021 #19

CincyDem

(6,346 posts)
1. I'm sorry - did you say two "former" announcers left their mics on ???
Fri Mar 12, 2021, 11:59 PM
Mar 2021

If they're not gone before sunrise, that's almost as bad...like there's going to someone waiting to hear "their side of the story".

dalton99a

(81,426 posts)
3. The asshole blames his racism on his friend, and then his diabetes:
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 12:33 AM
Mar 2021
UPDATE: The commentator, who identified himself as Matt Rowan, issued a statement Friday afternoon. In the statement, Rowan acknowledged his comments as "inappropriate and racist."

In the statement, Rowan wrote he suffers Type 1 Diabetes and claimed his sugar was spiking during the game. He claimed the circumstance could lead to him becoming "disoriented" and " (saying) things that are not appropriate, as well as hurtful."
http://www.oudaily.com/news/commentator-uses-racist-slur-during-norman-high-basketball-game/article_09e748ca-834f-11eb-b70a-3f530d85cc32.html


UpInArms

(51,280 posts)
8. The party of personal responsibility
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 01:13 AM
Mar 2021

Failing to be responsible for his blood sugar level and ...

his racism

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
10. Diabetese?
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 01:19 AM
Mar 2021

He was so disoriented that he thought he'd time travelled to 1852 and it was OK to use racial slurs against children?

Yeah, that's not a symptom of diabetes. Thats a symptom of racism.

stopdiggin

(11,285 posts)
11. Nah. Y'all just another loud mouthed racist.
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 01:47 AM
Mar 2021

Born and bred. And -- you' been safely getting away with it your whole life. 'Til now. Bye. And good riddance.

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
9. The outrage!
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 01:16 AM
Mar 2021

They're gonna kneel like that...

yeah, silently. Respectfully. Quietly.

Not running their mouths through the National Anthem they claim to love and revere so much.

Fire them. Then let the girls sue for hate crimes, pain and suffering.

these girls can play, and those fat ol' white boys can just watch. The future is female, and mocha colored.

Laffy Kat

(16,376 posts)
12. Fire their asses and hopefully they'll never find work again.
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 02:29 AM
Mar 2021

I am so beyond sickened by this shit. it never ends.

llashram

(6,265 posts)
17. just shameful
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 12:38 PM
Mar 2021

these two are calling themselves americans when their only allegiance is to those of their skin colour. 70 million+ Americans voted for the 1st Racist, the former guy misguiding this country for 4 long years. Now they have made their ugliness, always there, known. January 6 2021 has shown all of us how DEEPLY racist culture has been dyed into the fabric of the so-called quilt of American diversity.

While the "melting pot" idea has been the ongoing lie portrayed for generations, a bubbling crockpot of racial animosity has been the truth for quite a few of those generations. The crockpot of hate and racial animosity called the "melting pot" boiled over on January 6 2021. And while The heat has been dialled back somewhat since January 6, 2021, yet the hate in the 70 million-plus trump voters has not.

And we have not yet returned to the pre-trump levels of hope many I know were quietly enjoying from racial division enjoyed by a majority of Americans while President Obama was POTUS, nor shall we, I think.

I have high hopes the Biden/Harris administration will be able to repair the huge rips in the 'American quilt' of races and cultures. Yet with the infesting of our military and police forces, our national and local legislatures by avowed racist RW hate loving bedbugs, the bed covered by the "American quilt" of races and cultures is rife with the vermin of hate tearing at our fabric and poisoning our society.

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