I've been a fan of true equality. I don't believe in any of the "isms".

Skin color, gender, sexual preference. Rock on with your bad-selves.

Got into a discussion last night with a gentleman that had more pigmentation in his skin. It wasn't overly contentious. But when there was, in a 5 minute period of time, him commenting on the virtues of black player athletic abilities, followed by I can say that, you can't.

Followed that up with a comment about that white boy.

My bulls**** reservoir overfloweth.

Other than me and my partner in debate, the room with 6 other people in the room went mute.

Do you embrace, endorse, fight, mumble quietly against Double Standards? Do you ignore them on the surface, while you seethe below the surface.

Shouldn't we all be working toward abolishingRacism, Sexism, and Affirmative Action as they are all the same thing?

In the end, brand affixed to me at the end of the conversation was I was Too Real.

Wtf does that even mean?

I don't wanna get car jacked or something...

Racism.

Really. I mean when you're EVER in that spot again...yell it out...LOUD. Make EVERYONE stop and wonder..."WTF is HE talking about".

We're past that point. Now, there's just people holding on to hatred and bigotry.

Black, white, yellow, red, brown, stripped, polka dotted...it doesn't matter.

Barry Sanders is THE Best Running back to play the game...doesn't hold the record...you saw him play...he ran his ass off more than Jim Brown and NEVER had holes that the supposed all-time great had. Jimi Hendrix...is a true GUITAR GOD...doesn't hold the sales Michael Jackson does or the hits...played better than Eddie Van Halen on his best day.

I suppose this same idiot at the bar talks about women in the same manner too?

He's an ass hole. Personally when I'm confronted with it...I do what I said above or just let the guy know...there's no communicating with him anymore...he showed you he's not evolved to hold a conversation.

Emmitt Smith ...8-[

Is a straight ahead runner that trips on his own feet.

Got lucky...admit it.

The Dallas Cowboys are a team that believed in strong linemen...once upon a time...unless you're some true believer that everything the Cowboys do is great and the best of all-time.

Bathe in that...while you're just soaring to the stars on your Jerry rocket...I want you to think for a bit...what if Barry Sanders had the same consideration and the same holes to run through? Barry had speed. Emmitt wasn't fast and you know it. E had one cut move...that's it. E fumbled the ball more than Barry too.

Yeah. You know it...you're afraid to admit it. Just like 8 is afraid to call it out when he's in front of it.

DARE to stand up and declare what is right and true. When you see it, you just know greatness...bigotry...whatever it is.

CARPE DIEM!

You want to live by the letter...you're living by what someone else defined. DARE to be your own man.

ifs and butts were candy and nutts everyday would be Christmas too...

Emmit holds the record !!

Yes...yes...you read from the book.

Don't dare to stand up on the desk...read the definition from the book.

Thank you.

You're excused.

hey,,

BTW,

we're gonna be in FLA the second week of June,,

Let's get together,,

wheel,

While still not worthy of holding Barry's jockstrap......🌫 whatever

whatever

Sanders was a pusssy quitter,,,

Good thing for yer boy I guess....then he'd hold the "best back ever" OUTRIGHT

Saying "white boy" isn't really in the same class as stereotyping.. You ARE white.. It's undeniable.. It's okay to call you white boy.. But assuming that this guy would walk his black ass (notice the finesse) out to the parking lot just to mug you for the Movado wristwatch you were flashing around the bar 10 minutes ago is no bueno..

Black ass and white boy are equally inoffensive..

I get what you mean, though.. Some guys are tools..

He played for a loser team with an even bigger loser owner that in one conversation says one thing and in another does different.

I suppose Jim Brown is a loser too?

Smith quit too.

so did OJ...hell...they ALL quit. Some on their own terms...some because they were ground down into sausage and were too stupid with their money to walk away or needed the adulation that the screaming jersey wearing fools gave them.

Doesn't change the fact that you couldn't and wouldn't dare to think of what Barry's records would've been had he been given the same O-line to run through does it?

That's okay though. Thank God that some can and do step out of the shadows and dare to dream.

When the rubber meets the road? Daring to be vocal about it...despite the consequences...is an awesome feeling. Not afraid to go there. Imagine Mt. Everest without Sir Edmund Hillary? It would just be a mountain we'd read about. He can describe it. Thanks to tv...we all can see it. I saw it. I was paying attention. I ripped the blinders off because my father said it was okay to. He dared me to dream.

There's no tellin' how many ankles Barry broke.. That guy was a freak of nature..

I kinda see where yer coming from...but honestly....I'm NOT White....a little salmon or pinkish mebbe but not white.

This is a convenient "color class" to shove all the fare skinned folks into so that we don't try to sell ourselves off as "minorities" IMVHO

Yes, he was. A humble man that I got the opportunity to meet at the Lakeside Mall in Michigan...at the food court...reading the paper drinking coffee. He answered every question I had for him. The hardest one...when you're running...you seemed to look past the guy in front of you...his answer...when you play chess...you have to think 2-3 moves ahead...I thought of where I was going to be then...my eyes would give me away. That's why I went to the shaded facemask.

My Boy ?

that sounds like a racial slur ...

I am offended !!

Say "when"...maybe Michael can join up for reindeer games?

we'll be there June 8th-16th. We'll be in Cocoa .

I was thinking of driving over to Tampa for the day and stuff...