LAMPLEY'S Advice for KIRKLAND: Go GHETTO on Him...!!!

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  1. Squire

    Squire Let's Go Champ Full Member

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    But Kirkland is what you'd call 'ghetto', he was arrested for armed robbery. It would have been a racist comment if if were about Audley Harrison or Lennox Lewis, who I as far as I know have no criminal convictions between them, but it was about James Kirkland.
     
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  2. DrX

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    so....what makes kirk ghetto...dude ****ed up and changed his life


    but i know white people logic so whatever...
     
    DrX, Mar 24, 2012
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  3. Bogotazo

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    But I wouldn't categorize anyone as "ghetto", because it implies the poor have certain general characteristics about them. When Lampley is telling him to go "ghetto", he is telling him to get wild and violent, as if being black and from a rough area means that you're like that by default. Get me? I understand where you're coming from because Kirkland's marketing strategy is centered around him being a product of the ghetto, but that doesn't make it OK for a white man who has made his living wearing a tuxedo for decades to tell viewers that a black man "going ghetto" means becoming wild and violent.

    It's not a huge deal, but it's not something people like for a reason.
     
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  4. Hermit

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    Cuz with Adamek you don't have to tell him.
     
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  5. slugger3000

    slugger3000 You Mad Bro? Full Member

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    That **** had me laughing!
     
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  6. PetethePrince

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    I thought I heard that but it sounded so absurd that I couldn't believe it that is actually what he said.

    It's racist, but it was kind of funny.
     
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  7. Squire

    Squire Let's Go Champ Full Member

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    I can see your point of view :think
     
    Squire, Mar 25, 2012
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    mustnt been much of a fight if this is the biggest story to come out of it.
     
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  9. Cellz831

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    he aint racist. i like lampley. hes never disrespectful. he might be corny as hell, but hes cool.
     
    Cellz831, Mar 25, 2012
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  10. KO KIDD

    KO KIDD Loyal Member Full Member

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    Maybe not the smartest thing to say but i doubt he was doing it to be mean
     
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    lewishamboy, Mar 25, 2012
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  12. janeschicken

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    :lol::lol::lol:
     
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    How is it rasict?....ignorant ? Yes. .....rasict? No
     
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    Allah knows how to spell Barrera.
     
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