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Phenix
Footballguy
Yes, but I can't get past the fact we still look at a word as more than just that and that people feel entitled to give a word meaning that is not intended this day in age. Don't lump me in with the dumb down society that see that.
How do you say black in spanish?
Phenix
Footballguy
lol, because I defend the word for its real definition I'm now a racist.... I LOVE AMERICA!
Amused to Death
Footballguy
Riley Cooper Excused From All Team ActivitiesRiley Cooper has been excused from all team activities, the Eagles announced early Friday afternoon.
The statement reads:
“As we have said, Riley Cooper will be seeking counseling and we have excused him from all team activities. This is all new territory and we are going to evaluate this timetable every step of the way. He will meet with professionals provided by the Eagles during this period of time to better help him understand how his words have hurt so many, including his teammates.”
The announcement came with a statement from Cooper as well.
“The last few days have been incredibly difficult for me,” it reads. “My actions were inexcusable. The more I think about what I did, the more disgusted I get. I keep trying to figure out how I could have said something so repulsive, and what I can do to make things better.
“Right now, I think it’s important for me to take some time to reflect on this situation. The organization and my teammates have been extremely supportive, but I also realize that there are people who will have a tough time forgiving me for what I’ve done. The best thing for me, and for the team, is to step away for a period of time.
“During this time I’m going to be speaking with a variety of professionals to help me better understand how I could have done something that was so offensive, and how I can start the healing process for everyone. As long as it takes, and whatever I have to do, I’m going to try to make this right.”
The statement reads:
“As we have said, Riley Cooper will be seeking counseling and we have excused him from all team activities. This is all new territory and we are going to evaluate this timetable every step of the way. He will meet with professionals provided by the Eagles during this period of time to better help him understand how his words have hurt so many, including his teammates.”
The announcement came with a statement from Cooper as well.
“The last few days have been incredibly difficult for me,” it reads. “My actions were inexcusable. The more I think about what I did, the more disgusted I get. I keep trying to figure out how I could have said something so repulsive, and what I can do to make things better.
“Right now, I think it’s important for me to take some time to reflect on this situation. The organization and my teammates have been extremely supportive, but I also realize that there are people who will have a tough time forgiving me for what I’ve done. The best thing for me, and for the team, is to step away for a period of time.
“During this time I’m going to be speaking with a variety of professionals to help me better understand how I could have done something that was so offensive, and how I can start the healing process for everyone. As long as it takes, and whatever I have to do, I’m going to try to make this right.”
Amused to Death
Footballguy
Maybe a thread title edit reflecting he's excused from team activities is in order? Some may have stopped reading this thread.
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GoBirds
Footballguy
Bigboy10182000
Footballguy
This is needed. Go away for a bit and so will this. Next week NE comes to practice with us so all eyes will be on the murderer I'm sure.
Amused to Death
Footballguy
Yes agreed. Hopefully RC is able to move on and educate himself and the locker room can move past it as well.
Steve Tasker
Footballguy
Donny Loved Bowling
Footballguy
Kerry Collins managed to overcome the negativity and continue his career. And he wasn't even drunk when he used the word... against a teammate no less.
(One of the rare time Collins was not drunk.)
(One of the rare time Collins was not drunk.)
shader
Footballguy
Kerry Collins didn't live in the twitter generation. Most people have probably forgotten he ever said that.
Bigboy10182000
Footballguy
The "Twitter generation" will only effect the boom of the story. He goes away for the week and the vultures (media) picks at some other carcass' and/or creates something else.
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Ruffrodys05
IBL Representative
I'm really tired of folks playing the racist card in this country.
I have a close colored friend that I've known for a long time. I have used this (omg, horrifying) "n-word" to describe him, in his presence. I have also called him "token", on many, many occasions. He calls me "cracker" and "whitey" in my presence, sometimes in the same freakin' sentence!!! Usually, we do this in bars to "eff" with closed-minded people.
I personally would not be offended if some black professional athlete got into an altercation with a white security guard at a concert and stated he would, "jump that fence and take on every white cracker out there...", and then that video clip somehow went viral. Whatever. Who freakin' cares?.....Well, not me, that's for sure.
I have a close colored friend that I've known for a long time. I have used this (omg, horrifying) "n-word" to describe him, in his presence. I have also called him "token", on many, many occasions. He calls me "cracker" and "whitey" in my presence, sometimes in the same freakin' sentence!!! Usually, we do this in bars to "eff" with closed-minded people.
I personally would not be offended if some black professional athlete got into an altercation with a white security guard at a concert and stated he would, "jump that fence and take on every white cracker out there...", and then that video clip somehow went viral. Whatever. Who freakin' cares?.....Well, not me, that's for sure.
Phenix
Footballguy
Phenix
Footballguy
Tom Skerritt
Footballguy
Ruffrodys05
IBL Representative
I still don't care. Their values are misplaced if they worry about silly little words. When I was growing up there was a saying that rang true in my head and still does. I'll let you good folks in on it, in case you haven't heard it.......
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but WORDS CAN NEVER HURT me!"
Grow some thicker skin people.
Rookie_Whisperer
Footballguy
1st, you have a "colored" friend? I don't know where to even start with that......
2nd, so you have a "friend" that you "joke" around with so you apparently think it's OK to go anywhere in the US / world and call random people racial slurs out of anger. I suggest you go to some larger and more diverse cities and give it a shot and tell us how that works out for you.
Just curious, what do you call random Asian people walking down the street? How about those people of Latin American descent? Do you "joke" with them as well? Do they also find it funny? How about homosexuals? Do you "joke" around with them? Love to hear how that goes over as well.....
You have some hard life lessons to learn. Good luck with that
Rookie_Whisperer
Footballguy
Ignorant people tend to stick together and wish more people saw things their way instead of accepting reality
Bigboy10182000
Footballguy
GregR
Footballguy
Here's the actual link to Merriam-Webster.
Here's a cut and paste of what they actually have as the definition. Italics, formating, etc, are theirs.
1 usually offensive; see usage paragraph below : a black person
2 usually offensive; see usage paragraph below : a member of any dark-skinned race
3: a member of a socially disadvantaged class of persons <it's time for somebody to lead all of America's ######s … all the people who feel left out of the political process — Ron Dellums>
See ###### defined for English-language learners »
Usage Discussion of ############ in senses 1 and 2 can be found in the works of such writers of the past as Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, and Charles Dickens, but it now ranks as perhaps the most offensive and inflammatory racial slur in English. Its use by and among blacks is not always intended or taken as offensive, but, except in sense 3, it is otherwise a word expressive of racial hatred and bigotry.
KellysHeroes
Footballguy
if Maclin wsn't injuried, Cooper would have been released by now.
Banger
Footballguy
this always cracks me up when a politician gets caught sleeping with an aide or someone says something inexcusable, things that they clearly know are wrong, then they get caught and then all the sudden they need to go to counseling to figure out why they did what they did. So phony.
Yenrub
Footballguy
Did you leave out everything Webster's said on purpose?
Also this from the Webster's learner's dictionary
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/search/
FunkyTeaParty
Footballguy
Riley Cooper is taking a leave of absence to take a cell phone camera awareness class.
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Ruffrodys05
IBL Representative
Concept Coop
Footballguy
[SIZE=10.5pt]This is a silly statement. Words are a form of expression. They don’t change who a person is, but they can certainly give incite into the things that make a person who he or she is. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]And what is 'elitist' about being offended by offensive behavior? [/SIZE]
ImTheScientist
Footballguy
trader jake
Footballguy
I can't wait for games to start.
Partailly so stories like this, BioGenesis, and a few other oversensationalized topics will just go away.
Partailly so stories like this, BioGenesis, and a few other oversensationalized topics will just go away.
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
Cooper can go to all of the meetings and get all of the sensitivity treatment he wants, but if he is still using that word so casually as an adult, then that attitude towards blacks is a part of who he is and that ain't gonna change overnight.
I think he'll be cut by the end of next week.
I think he'll be cut by the end of next week.
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Steve Tasker
Footballguy
Ruffrodys - have you actually referred to your friend as "colored" to his face? Just wondering.
squistion
Footballguy
Taiwanese animation treatment of Riley Cooper dropping the N bomb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_1988717297&feature=iv&src_vid=EcLdMcbkGPM&v=xFTqo4rlcG8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_1988717297&feature=iv&src_vid=EcLdMcbkGPM&v=xFTqo4rlcG8
Somebody
Footballguy
2 days from now! It's not a real game but it's still something. I'm looking forward to Sunday.
Bigboy10182000
Footballguy
I tend not to feed your kind but....This isn't going away.
With him being gone, there's little to talk about....something else will come up in the meantime and no one will care ala Kerry Collins
dickey moe
Fingerpicker
I have lots of colored friends.
Ruffrodys05
IBL Representative
Yes. In private conversations, and in public.
I'm colored too......white. Well, kinda peachy really. (At least that's the color I used from the Crayola Crayon box when I was a kid. I'm not aware if they've come up with a color called 'skin' yet.) When I stay in the sun too long, I am red. When I spend short amounts of time in the sun for many days in a row, I am brown.
The color of a person's skin has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on whether they are a good/decent/great person or not.
Stealthycat
Footballguy
LOL
Its the way every NFL black skinned player talks - big ####### deal
get over it - get over it regardless of your skin color
if ya'll want to give black people words no other color skin can use, lets do that, but its racist to say white's can't have their words too then
which way do you want it ?
Concept Coop
Footballguy
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Invictus~Bronte
Footballguy
If people are going to be persecuted by the court of public opinion, which is the height of hypocrisy, and are going lose their jobs, social standings and are being brought to court on civil charges, just make it against the law, period.
That way EVERYONE is on even playing field, held accountable and treated equally for breaking the law. Our ridiculous society has chosen to treat a word like a crime so make it law and be done with it.
That way EVERYONE is on even playing field, held accountable and treated equally for breaking the law. Our ridiculous society has chosen to treat a word like a crime so make it law and be done with it.
FunkyTeaParty
Footballguy
There should be some sort of punishment for thinking the word too.
Concept Coop
Footballguy
Nobody is treating a word as though it's a crime. You suggested we should do such, but I haven't heard anyone else do so.
Invictus~Bronte
Footballguy
When people are losing jobs, a living and being sued for using a word, that's the same treatment someone receives for committing crimes.
Todd Andrews
Footballguy
That animation sums it up perfectly.
A lot of (whip) crackers in here who dont seem to understand this issue at all.
Concept Coop
Footballguy
Who is being sued?
If Riley doesn't like the stardards to which his employer is going to hold him, he doesn't have to work for them. He signed a contract which allowed his employer to fine him for certain behaviors. This is clearly one of them.
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Invictus~Bronte
Footballguy
Paula Dean was just sued for using the same slur.
In keeping with the Cooper subject in particular, one reporter likened it to " if a player steals from another player in the locker room, he's basically gone off the team and can never be trusted. In my opinion what Riley Cooper did was worse"
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So if stealing and theft is a crime, and many consider this more egregious, why not make it a law so we all know the rules and can all be held accountable equally?
In keeping with the Cooper subject in particular, one reporter likened it to " if a player steals from another player in the locker room, he's basically gone off the team and can never be trusted. In my opinion what Riley Cooper did was worse"
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So if stealing and theft is a crime, and many consider this more egregious, why not make it a law so we all know the rules and can all be held accountable equally?
Concept Coop
Footballguy
I don't know know anything about a Paula Dean lawsuit. But it is not a crime. You can't be sued for saying the word.
Is your question rhetorical? Or are you really asking that? Plenty think working on Sunday is wrong - should that be a law? Or pre-marital sex?
Thinking something is wrong, or an indication of poor character, is not the same as suggesting it be a crime. I am sure these people would defend Riley's constitutional right to say what he did.
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