Bash Prisco Club: Racist Part 1

You want to talk about racism??? You want to talk about being proven guilty to a crime without a fair trial. You want to talk about being pulled over just because of your skin color. You want to talk about the whole Tennessee and Memphis college basketball teams being called thugs just because of their skin color. AND YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT DUKE PLAYERS RAPING A BLACK GIRL AND COMPARE THAT TO FOUR BLACK MEN?

Are you aware of the wrong doings of white people for the last couple of centuries??? Oh and i'm still waiting on the apologies for all the wrongfully accused black folks during the civil rights movement and post-slavery times.

I didn't see any racism, real or implied, in the article, or the headline. It may have been inferred, but that is something else entirely. To imply is to make something understood without saying it, using words to convey a meaning without specifically saying it. To infer is to draw a conclusion, based on individual beliefs, about what is not said or written. In other words, a writer/speaker implies, a reader/listener infers.

Inferring something is not always wrong, and can be instructive at times. However, it can also be a leap of faith, and completely wrong. That is what I see in this case; I read the article as Prisco disagreeing with Young, not because he is black, or back at school, which is admirable, but because he doesn't think that Young is helping himself by not being with the team, learning the new offense and bonding with teammates. Agree or not, I find it hard to see racism, subtle or not, in that.

On the other hand, Prisco seems to think that Leinart is doing the right thing, not by being white, or partying, but by doing what he say he thinks Young is not doing; spending time with the coaches and his teammates. If the situations were reversed, I don't think that Prisco would be lauding Leinart for attending school, either.

That said, there will be folks who see this article as racist. There will always be folks who see things as racist or at least racially motivated; sometimes correctly, and sometimes not. There are those who see racism in everything, and those who never see it at all...

To ATL:

Racism exists, always has and always will. Certainly there have been those who are innocent who have been found guilty; those who have been pulled over for the color of their skin or not having money; those who have been immediately judged because of the color of their skin, and treated accordingly. You'll not, though (I hope), that such can happen to anybody in this country, whatever the color of their skin. This does not excuse the racism that exists, but I do want to point out that nobody is immune to such matters because of the color of their skin.

BTW, regarding the Duke case, it appears quite obvious that nobody was raped. The media fanned the flames on that story; it was ready-made, with sex, race, and sports all rolled up into one.

White people have done things wrong during the last few centuries. So have blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and everybody else. What I love about America is that we, as a country, have come a tremendous way from the wrongs of the past, and that people of every color have sacrificed to do so. That doesn't change the past, but it does provide the hope for the future, and we can see how far we have come already. I'm not saying that we are done, but we are not where we were either...

Ah yes, nothing like a controversial race thread to out TSanford 76 as the closet bigot that he is.  Go back to your Hannah Montana concert and stay off the 'big boy' boards.  I'm sending the short bus by to pick you up TSanford, so try to follow the bouncing ball:

Bottom line is Prisco is too narrow-minded to realize the difference between a good and a bad role model, so let's all say a prayer for his kids (and their mother) tonight before we go to bed.  In the meantime, if Prisco has any kids under the age of 10, I hope Child Protective Services are on their way to his house with this article as evidence that he is obviously an unfit parent.  Time for NFL teams to realize that they DON'T own players completely.  If the Titans wanted to keep Vince Young from earning his college degree, they should have put it into his contract.  So quick to bring up the 'honor your contract' argument unless it doesn't suit them.  What are they going to do?  Suspend him for conduct detrimental to his team?  Just because he realizes that being a good role model off the field and finishing his college degree might help him reach the hearts and minds of kids who want to emulate him?  Prisco would rather have Young in massive, drunken orgies instead of educating himself?

People talk about the lack of maturity in today's athletes.  If only the Titans could learn a thing or two about maturity from Vince Young.  This is the same organization that barred Steve McNair from their practice facility because he had a $25 million cap number.  Why did they do that?  Because they knew that he had too much self-respect to be forced into retirement in such a humiliating way and that he would opt to terminate his contract just to be able to play football that season.  Think about it people.  If you're taking your kid to a Titans game do you want them to follow the Vince Young example or the Titans management example?  Education or immaturity?  Loyalty to promises to your mother or just chasing after the closest buck?  If you even have to think about it, then no wonder you have a Hannah Montana avatar.