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I never understood the whole "Facebook Status" thing and apparently Buck Burnette, a former Texas Linemen doesn't get it either.
After the election, Buck thought it would be humorous to put this message up on Facebook.
"all the hunters gather up, we have a #$%&er in the whitehouse"
Whether or not Buck is racist remains to be seen but I'm guessing this kind of stuff doesn't help his cause...
And if you can't figure out what that word is, maybe Randy Marsh of South Park can help you out...
Take it away Randy
And needless to say, we probably won't be hearing from Buck anytime soon. That is, until he gets promoted to Grandmaster and we see him starting brawls on Jerry Springer.
Here is Buck's apology
Clearly I have made a mistake and apologized for it and will pay for it. I received it as a text message from an acquaintance and immaturely put it up on facebook in the light of the election. Im not racist and apologize for offending you. I grew up on a ranch in a small town where that was a real thing and I need to grow up. I sincerely am sorry for being ignorant in thinking that it would be ok to write that publicly and apologize to you in particular. I have to be more mature than to put the reputation of my team at stake and to spread that kind of hate which I dont even believe in. Once again, I sincerely apologize.
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The sad thing is that Obama actually visited the University of Texas football team while campaigning in Austin. I saw a special on it on ESPN.
Hopefully he learns his lesson and much respect to Mack Brown for dealing with this appropriately.
Buck is one of the absolute nicest guys I have ever met. He is one of the most honest, sincere, caring, non-judgemental guys around. I know he didn't post this intending to hurt anyone. We all make mistakes and everyone needs to consider that before talking bad about him. He has already been punished enough for what he has done. Football is his life. If you don't know him, then you need to stop judging him so harshly. He definately does not deserve this.
Buck may very well be a nice kid, but statements like that paint him as a racist...
Ok, other anonymous. You may have a valid point; maybe I'm misinterpreting what he said. What did he mean by "all the hunters gather up, we have a #$%&er un the whitehouse"?
Why "hunters" specifically? Why are they gathering up? What does he mean by "#$%&er un the whitehouse"? And what does that have to do with all the hunters (which makes me think of people carrying weapons) gathering up?
I mean, I think I know what it means. That is, reading it suggests to me he means a certain thing. But what it says to me is exactly the type of comment that is not only stupid, but dangerous. It's the type of comment that desrves to be judged and judged harshly. He's entitled to his opinion and freedom of speech; but if that's his opinion and that's what he chooses to say, then he has to face public opinion. After saying something like that, he can't hide behind his history of good character, generally, or that he simply "made a mistake". Just like he's free to say that, we're all free to "talk bad about him."
Like I said, I may be misunderstanding his comment, but if I'm not, then: yes, he definately does deserve this, getting kicked off the team, and a whole lot more.
Idiot.
If Buck did not know that what he was posting then he is the dubest human being on the face of the planet. There is only one way to take the word he used. If he finds it acceptable to use that word then he is not a nice guy and deserves everything he gets. He has lost his scholarship, I doubt anyone else will pick him up as black teammates would not want to play with thim and I hope that the Secret Service pays him a visit. What a dumbass.
I'm not sure what he said cannot be construed any other way but racist
It is a racist comment, and he should be punished for it. He has been punished enough without having to read all of these terrible things about him from people who don't know him or where he came from. I'm just saying that all of you shouldn't judge so harshly when you all make mistakes too. Wouldn't you want people to not be so hard on you if you had just lost the most important thing to you? Have a little heart and know that he is sorry and is already being punished without all of your rude remarks.
Why can blacks say that word but when another race says it, they are severely punished??
That is a good point that I have always wondered also.
fwiw, black people shouldn't use it either...
So anyway...Colt McCoy is pretty good, huh? I never thought of him as being as good of an athlete as he is.
eh, he's ok
And just because somebody does something wrong, doesn't mean you have to follow their lead
Ouch. A) Why would you? and B) to the Prez?
Lucky if we never hear of him again as that might entail a few federal charges...
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Even if he hadn't used an insulting slur against the President-elect, he was inciting murder. Using a telecommunications device. Which is probably a Federal offense.
Considering there were some other small-town dumbasses picked up for a more elaborate version of his Facebook status, you can see why this should be taken seriously.
Pretty stupid comment, but he must not be very good if he got booted from the team for it.
yea, colt mccoy doesn't get booted for saying/doing that
His apology reads as though it was dictated to him by a second grader. Ignorance is no excuse for idiocy.
he didn't use the N word....he used the C word.....as in racoon....something that is hunted and a racial term.......
(count 'em.....@#&@......only 4 digits)
What if he didn't imply that a violent act should take place? I don't think it's anyone's job to police what people think of others. I went to a predominantly black school and racist (derogatory to whites) remarks were always being made towards me. No one got in trouble. No one even cared. It was wrong to imply that the president elect should be harmed, but I fail to see how stupid comments should cost someone their future. Some players who get caught with drugs and busted for DUI's get second chances so why freak out over a facebook status?
no, he used the N word...at least thats what people told me via email
there are 4 digits with an -er at the end
stupid comment?
He "implied" that people gather to shoot the President Elect...
thats far from stupid, that's racist and illegal
as far as the school kicking him off the team, they can do whatever they want....he's on scholarship there, meaning, they are paying for his education. They can write whatever guidelines they want and if people break them, so be it.
Should kids who get caught with drugs and DUIs be treated the same...
absolutely
Your schollie is a privilege, not a right
This is stupid. Ever listen to what is said in rap music.
He is racist, who cares it is his personal choice. What ever happened to freedom of speech.
Fuck senator obama
Please dont be foolish people. The idiot knew what he wrote and wrote it deliberately. I think I am a bit tired of people writing rubbish and then apologizing.
He didn't do anything illegal (probably did in regards to school laws and team rules), but he made a stupid comment in jest, not make up an elaborate plot to assassinate someone. I seriously doubt he'll be getting a call from the FBI or anything. I would have kicked him off if I were the coach too, but I think we're all making a bigger deal out of this than it is. A second string lineman got kicked off for "violation of team rules," which is unfortunate for this gentleman, but probably appropriate. A lot of foul language can be heard in the locker room, and I'm sure worse things have been said after practice, but this was public domain and a certain level of maturity is expected from athletes representing a large program like Texas. I don't think Texas has a real history of problematic players like, so I wonder if he gets the same punishment at another school where problems aren't addressed until the law gets involved. He had to have known someone would get mad though.
What a dumbass. He should know that when you put something like that up on facebook, you're free for your sports team to do whatever they want to do.
It's why coaches tell you to be careful what you put on facebook. DURRRRR.
I can't believe people are actually defending this guy here. He, just like everyone else, is entitled to his own opinion, and is entitled to speak his mind. BUT, that does not make him immune from ridicule, or from being held accountable for his words.
If a person could post that kind of "words" on his facebook, it's very hard to believe he is a nice guy and not racist.
Freedom of Speech.
Unless, of course, you don't like it.
Wait...isn't racism over?
no it definitely read "coon" not the N word, because that is an animal and would fit the hunting part of the "joke"
Mack Brown had to get rid of Buck. If he kept Buck on the team it would destroy the Longhorn's ability to recruit black players in the future. No black recruits = no championships.
Like black people dont call white people crackers, and women hos and each other ****ers and some white people red necks billy bob or bumpkin. Ever consider maybe thats offensive for some people also? Fact is ****ers do exist but they dont have to be black - my definition of it is someone who calls other people the above names just because they are different.
Black people need to look in the mirror before they call ANYONE racist.
Slavery is over im very sorry it happened, but grow up and move on please. Nobody alive ever owned a slave in the USA.
Really? People can't understand why white people can't use that word, yet blacks can? Maybe it has something to do with the terribly negative connotations that go along with the word and it's a way for them to take back the power of the word.
And to say people need to just get over slavery, wow...
Just go ahead and tell Jewish people that the Holocaust is done with or Cambodians that Pol Pot isn't in power anymore so they need to just "get over it."
The ignorance of some people is astounding
How can anyone defend this guy. I'm sure anyone who read the comments will recognize it is a racist theme. And for him to post the comments suggest either 1) He's a racist or 2) He's a complete idiot. Its possible he may fall somewhere in-between of a little racist and a little stupid, but if he's stupid enough to post hateful messages like that, he deserves everything he gets.
this is for the question about why blacks can say that and nobody else. well its simple u cant be from another race or culture and tell someone that the words they use for each other offends you or you want to say it and its not fair you cant. well how can you be the judge and jury to someone elses culture because you cant dictate,control or even like what they say to each other and since you dont like or cant say it, now its not fair to you and it must be stopped and you get a few from their culture to agree with you and so that makes you right and justified to critisize what they are saying and to make them stop.all because they are using a word that was derogatory to them an dthey transformed it into something as a code so the oppressors would never know which specific "NIGGA" we were talking about in our private conversations away from prying racist and sneaky ears,now since everyone cant say it lets say its derogatory for them to use it since we cant.kind of like what we did to the indians and hawaiian's when we thought their languages were of savages and had to be tames so now both of their"OFFENSIVE LANGUAGES AND WORDS ARE DAMN NEAR LOST TO TIME"because we thought they were offensive and not fair "we couldnt understand it" or allowed to speak it we done away with it and them. i am not trying to be a smart $#@$ to you just letting you know what us negroes are thinking down here at the bottom of the social ladder. im in a mixed relationship so i know where you coming from by what you are asking, and just because we have a black president doesnt mean racism just up and walked away either,one day cant erase over 400 years kin folks(we all are one)i hope that gave you a little understanding, later gators.
Let's leave race out of this. Maybe he's "really a nice guy," maybe he's not. Maybe he's a racist, maybe he's not. Maybe he's just stupid. All those points are irrelevant.
We'll begin and end with a Texas player joking about murdering a president (elect).
I'm sure if a black player made a comment advocating rounding up and murdering Bush, he would've been kicked off the team, too.
It is illegal to threaten the life of the President, something people forget.
I AM A BLACK MAN 47 YEARS OLD AND,I DO NOT USE THE N WORD. I NEVER ALLOWED MY CHILDREN TO USE THE WORD. SO THERE , NOT ALL OF US USE THE WORD. MAYBE IT'S THE TYPE OF PEOPLE THAT YOU ARE AROUND. YES SLAVERY IS OVER BUT,THE MENTALITY OF IT IS NOT FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY.WE WILL NEVER REACH OUR FULL POTENTIAL UNTILL WE EMBRACE OUR DIFFERENCES.
He may be a nice guy, but in reality Buck is an adult that is in college. Buck attends one of the greatest schools in the country with a prestiges football program. He should know better then that.
The actual txt message that he and many others received read," All hunter grab you dog and biggest gun and head to DC ASAP. There is a coon in the whitehouse." Personally I think it is funny, am I racist? No.
He wasn't threatening the presidents life, therefore committing no crime.
Besides, I give Obama a year tops to live anyways
"His apology reads as though it was dictated to him by a second grader. Ignorance is no excuse for idiocy."
LOL, you honestly think that Ole Buck actually wrote the apology? Now, THAT's funny.
On the other note, better yet, who cares? I am quite sure he is the only person in America that has posted basically the same thing.
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Trust me, you're a racist
I don't mind the comments but try to keep them clean please
and try not to pump your websites
What an Idiot ! This kid is suppose to be a collegiate athlete? Enjoy your job at Walmart ,loser.
Not a good week for anti-semite cheerleaders and racist football players.
Facebook is no longer a place to hide your subtle hate.
I hate that Buck made a poor choice. This country has no room for this kind of thinking. I couldn't stand Bush but he was/is the president and I would never want harm to come to him. If it did I would lead the charge to find the person who did it. And I would never hate white people because of a difference of opinion. I don't care how"honest, sincere, caring, non-judgmental guy" he's supposed to be....he is a racist.I didn't judge him....he did that himself.
first, to the author: when referring to a person, use "who" not "that."
When symbolizing a bad word, use the same symbol when repeating a letter giving the reader a better understanding of what that word is.
About the football player: He has called upon hunters to violence against the president-elect. The Secret Sevice will be knocking on his door soon, if they haven't already. With his arrest, he won't have time for football.
Whoever sent him the text will be contacted by them as well and dealt with perhaps even more harshly.
For those who ignorantly think the Secret Service will not take any such threats or calls to arms seriously, good luck in court.
Freedom of speech is a wonderful thing. It makes it easy to identify the crazies, racists, and idiots.
In this world you are what you do. If you originate or foment racist speech, particularly violently racist speech, then that makes you a racist. What goes on in your mind may matter to you, but it is what you do that matters to the rest of us. In this case its also a felony. Have fun with job applications and airport security, buddy.
I'm a blk man and the word blks use towards each other is a different word... they have 2 totally different orgins thus making them 2 different words. I have NO problem with the word at all, no matter who uses it, how, nor why. I've seen people get beating over the "b-word" and never seen "n-word" violence.
1. Slavery is over, yet lone black people are getting dragged behind trucks or set on fire by racists. Innocent people are victimized all of the time over greed, jealousy and because folks are mentally ill, but I can't recall the last time any non-white "racist" burned a cross, hung nooses or spray-painted swastikas on someone's house or business. So while slavery is done the animosity is still there.
2. Hoodlums and thugs who commit crimes get the book thrown at them too, so spare me the "victim" BS because some rapper uses the N word and you want to use it too. Shaq got stripped of his rinky-dink sheriff job for something akin to running his mouth. The fact is anyone with any sense black or white wouldn't want to hear the word at all, not pitch a fit because they get flack for using a racist term, all that tell me is that you really want to use the term (I wonder why?). I know black people at work that never use the word and cringe when some uneducated moron on BET uses it, just as much when some rural moron does.
3. If this was an arab player who said "get your scimitars ready feydakin there is an infidel in the white house", you would all be up in arms and you know it. None of you would be talking about how nice a kid he is. Not agreeing with someone is no reason to make an implication about killing them...that is why no one sane thinks those sort of comments are funny. Some of you are just brainwashed to believe anything a person says or does is okay because they look like you and anything someone else does bears ultimate scrutiny just because they don't look like you.
My candidate didn't win, he didn't even make it past the primary election (Ron Paul, but you know what? Thats how the US government elections work. Being upset is one thing, advocating treason is another, but then again a lot of southerners are descended from traitors and proud of their revolt against the lawful government of the United States back in the 1800's so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
Finally to the "can we just get along people" forget it, some people aren't satisfied unless they can get things their own way all of the time, that's why the 2nd amendment, the police and the national guard are important, so that the mobs of "hunters" or "thugs" in certain parts of the country can't just gather up without consequences.
I am aware of the fact that whatever perspective you come from, the divisions in this country for some are irreversible and this is just another "symptom" of that terminal "illness" that exists amongst alot of US. We need these examples, which allow us to have dialogue to confront this ongoing "original sin" that is so alive and well. As someone said to me on yesterday, "you have to know hate to experience love", and all these "symptoms" are necessary when the illness goes unchecked. Mack Brown made the only decision he could in this case. Imagine that locker room when that comment got linked to that individual. Not alot of focus and teamwork could come from that locker room with those words looming. He at least saved Texas season. Maturity comes in the form of taking responsibility and we as a nation grew up alot this week, and we aren't trying to go backwards.
I know and work with many black people whom use the N word on a daily basis! Now that we as AMERICAN'S have elected the first 25% black man to office----RACISM is over!!!! I do not care to ever hear about slavery again, the americans I know had no part in that history, so someone please tell Hussain Obama that equal rights are out the window for good!!!!
I've always been more offended by personal insults (your mother is so...) than broad racist insults directed at me.
LOL @ the #$%&er taking the snap from him in his profile picture...wonder what he thinks
Maybe he was just "clinging to his guns and his religion."
I agree it was not smart or even appropriate, but how many things are said about whites being honkeys and such and we just roll over and take it!! Get over all the racism of blacks when whites are equally prejudiced against in many ways!!!! Even hear of the united caucasian anything????
I have a friend...sadly alcholic...who tends to rant about R. Perry. On Facebook, he stated that 'he would not be saddened if a bullet found Perry'. Now, he didn't even indicate that he would do it, just wouldn't be upset about it. Funny...FBI pounced on him and now out on $45K bail and waiting Federal trial. Similar comment from Buck, only his indicated that he was telling hunters to gather. So, yeah, it is serious because there are a lot of ignorant people out there that would listen to him and act. Quit defending this by saying that blacks also use racial epithets...it is the implied threat that is an issue.
I have to admit that I too have gotten a lot of the "Obama" text messages. I am not sure if anyone in America has yet to either see or hear about them, but I personally feel that it needs to stop. In a matter of days this man will be our president and if we continue to act childish about this, what does that say to the world about our country. I will admit I did not vote for Obama, but he is my president and I will support him because as a US citizen that is our duty.
i got a spam text message yesterday...
pretty disgusting
Make a racist statement = racist.
Think a racist thought = racist.
Absolutely!
Make a feminist statement = feminist
Think a feminist thought = feminist
I agree!
Think a sexist thought = pervert.
Buck is a very nice guy. When he came home for a football game, he signed autographs the ENTIRE time!!! He never told a kid no and didn't stop until after all the kids were finished getting his autograph. He is very respectful, as I spoke to him, very polite and I am saddened by his actions. I believe he acted immaturely, but I do not think he is racist. He may be prejudice against people, but he is not racist. I doubt if a black player said that about Bush he would be punished. Then the NAACP would be coming to UT, saying he was joking and he wouldn't be kicked off the team. Who is standing up for Buck? Nobody because our president-elect is barely black. Racism is not over, but not because slavery is over, but because the blacks won't allow it to be over. Blacks segregate themselves. Look at the NAACP. Think about it.
PEOPLE LISTEN I HAVE HEARD ALL KINDS OF THINGS SAID ABOUT HOW SOME AMERICANS ARE AFRAID OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW THAT OBAMA IS IN OFFICE FROM TERRIOST..WELL IF THERE ARE SOME AMERICAN PEOPLE WHO DO NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO RESPECT OBAMA FOR THE SIMPLE FACT THAT HE IS AND WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. THAN WHAT MAKES ANY OF YOU THINK THAT ANY TERRIOST WILL RESPECT HIM...THE THINGS THAT SOME OF YOU ARE STATING WILL NOT OVERTURN THE ELECTION HE IS THE NEXT PRESIDENT SO TRY AND KEEP THE NEGATIVE COMMENTS OFF THE NET AND AIR WAVES DONT GIVE OTHER COUNTRIES INSITE INTO HOW DIVIDED SOME OF YOU ARE AGAINST PRESIDENT (ELECT)OBAMA..THERE ARE (IN FORREST GUMPS LANGUAGE) A GOZILLION PEOPLE WHO BACKED OBAMA AND PUT HIM IN OFFICE LET US NOT HAVE TO READ OR HEAR FROM THE FEW OF YOU WHO WISH HIM HARM..FREEDOM OF SPEECH DOES NOT AND WILL NOT INCLUDE ANY COMMENT DIRECTED AT HARMING ANY MAN OR WOMAN ELECTED TO THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THIS LAND..I BELIEVE OBAMA WILL BE ONE OF THE GREATEST PRESIDENT OF ALL TIMES
It amazes me how blacks can say whatever they want about blacks or whites, but let a white say anything agaist a black,even if it is true, and they catch hell.
It also amazes me that one race of people can get away with a lot more than others. For example, if President Elect Obama had a teenagaged pregnant daughter, how would society depict his family? If Sarah Palin's husband is a member of a group that does not care to be associated with America and wants to see Alaska separated from the rest of the US, why hasn't that been brought to light? It seems to me that whenever the African American race does something wrong, we are all sterotyped with wrong doers, but when the Anglo race does something wrong, its a random incident and it goes away. We constantly have to prove ourselves or be 20 steps ahead of the Anglo race just because we are black! True? Absolutely! I get tired of people I work with questioning me about the car I drive. "How did you get that"? I respond simply, "I work and deserve it, just like you"!It seems like some Anglos think African Americans don't deserve to have firsts, instead we should get their leftovers! I recall my dad purchasing a luxury car that he work hard at a legitimate business, but he had to hide the car and couldn't let his White co-workers see it for fear of being sterotyped as a drug dealer or even losing his job!!! Now that's a damn shame isn't it? We need to grow up as a nation and quit all the sterotyping and hatred. I don't hate anyone but I do HATE the "n" word and I HATE to hear it in music or even being used in my race. We are all humans and none of us are of any pure race! But we have to stop all these generational curses and taught ignorance and get along... and remember our President Elect, did have a white mother. It was some idiots way back when that wrote a law "If there is one drop of black blood in you then you are black". That means all of our asses are black...So enjoy your black roots and everybody, quit hatin'! Peace!
People keep preaching freedom of speech....but one thing you are forgetting is there is such a thing called offensive and obsence speech which isnt tolerated.
Buck maybe a nice person, hell he may be the greatest person you ever want to meet, but the fact of the matter is he needs to be held accountable for his words. If he feels that way and is a racist more power to him, not saying that's right but he will get what's coming to him...but rule number one, NEVER leave a paper trail. Anyone and everyone can see a facebook page whether its friends or future employers...dont put things on facebook that could offend someone else or in his case get your ass kicked off a sports team. That was just hateful and careless!!!!! He knew what he was doing and now he is paying for it...A hard head makes a soft ass!
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How is anything he said racist. He called Obama a F--CKER. That is not a racist statment but a statment that he does not like the guy. There is a diffence between being racist and being predjuce. Everyone has had a predjuce thought once or twice in their life. Racism goes both way. There are just as many black people in this world that dont like white people as there are white people who do not like black people.
Because when Blacks use it its in terms of endearment. When Whites use it its in terms of hatred. Black people have always been known to use negative words used against them in history in a positive way. Whether its right or wrong is another story. Whites (including myself) do not have the right to use that term because of the history it carries in terms of how Whites use it. We can't sit here and wonder why one can use it and another can't when we know the history behind it. To me its rhetorical. And there is no justifying what that young man said. He was wrong and whether we like it or not. Barack Obama is the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Point, Blank, Period...
This will be the first of many incidences like this. However, you feel about Obama, race relations will not be improved by his being elected President. The media is going to put the historical siginificance of this event in the faces of the American people 24/7 and that is going to incite a certain segment of our population. Regardless of what you think about America it is still segregted to some degree. For example, I am a very active white male in business, schools, church, kids events, etc. I know many people but do not know very many people at all who I associate with on a regular basis who voted for Barrack Obama, and I will bet that no matter who you voted for most of us would say the same thing.
are you from the south?
would a black player have been kicked off the UT football team if McCain won and the black player's status said "gather up all the gangsters, theres a cracker in the white house"?? didnt think so.
I agree. If a black person did it, he wouldn't get in trouble. And whomever said blacks get in trouble for things they say more than whites, where in the hell have you been? What about Don Imus? And what happened to Naomi Campbell when she called white police officers "f***ing white honkeys"? Absolutely nothing.
honestly people need to just get over it. people act like they've spent their whole life as an angel and not done anything wrong.
so it was immature, so what. we all have our immature moments. what is sad is that the media, etc. won't let shit like this go.
our world is this f*cked up and people are going to get all riled up over one racist comment?
how about realizing when you say shit about someone else you're just as horrible. so many people on their high pedestal. he apologized, whether sincere or not, get over it.
he didnt call obama the n word, he called him a "coon"
For everyone supporting Buck's freedom of speech rights, please remember that no one has the right to threaten violence against another individual. He crossed the line in some many ways. And, his extremely poor judgement should bear repercussions. I am sure that Buck is happy that he was dismissed from the team. If he is as nice and Christian as you all say, then obviously he knows he must repent for his actions
yall crazy yea what he did was wrong but kicked him off the team no you dont do that its not even football related he was just writing a foward text thats dumb dont kick off get facts right an plus yall dont know the kid not even heard of him!
yall crazy yea what he did was wrong but kicked him off the team no you dont do that its not even football related he was just writing a foward text thats dumb dont kick off get facts right an plus yall dont know the kid not even heard of him!
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I recently heard about these comments from my 14 year old daughter today who learned of it from her teacher. Amazing.
Listen, many of us are truly on the right track. Who Obama is as a man and not his ethnic origin or race is the only relevance to what he will do for this country.
Whatever philosophy this young man Buck subscribes to, quite frankly is of no consequence to anyone else but Buck. If we spent half of our time paying attention to our own thoughts and actions and the other part of the time leaving everyone else's thoughts and actions alone. :CAVEAT unless actions are lawless.
We would ultimately find that the small #^%$ does not even matter.
I personally wish Buck well. I am glad he was honest, at least I now know him to be himself and true to his own belief system and convictions, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. It is those who hide behind pretenses, and fake smiles that are much more dangerous to the human race than Buck.
Now here is the real surprise, I am a Black Woman with Black sons, who will grow to be Black men, and I am sure they will experience the word N#$%@ at some point in thier respective lives, Of Course, but do I teach them to be defensive , NO! They have learned at an early age it is not what you are called it is what you answer to that counts.. Good Luck ALL.
He can say whatever he wants. He don't have to appologize to anyone. If the blacks can use the word, anyone can. If we're all "equal" then what's the big deal? The problem with them and all the other "minorities" is they have no interest in being equal, they want to be superior. Neither I, nor you owe anyone anything; no applogies, no reperations, nothing. The infectious disease that is Liberalism has emasculated us as a collective society. I won't be the first one I'm sure, but let me go on the record as saying, Richard from Pasadena said all you pinko-communists can kiss my lilly white butt. This is one White Christian that will die for what he believes in.
richard, thank you for your extremely delusional comment
..all the hunters gather up, Bon Jovi are recording new material...
The Freedom of Speech 'excuse' doesn't really pull any weight in this day and age. I think it's my right to believe in whatever I choose, and to stand and defend my beliefs and make my voice heard - but Freedom of Speech does not apply when it is to the detriment of others. (detriment~ something that causes damage, depreciation or loss -for all you small town rednecks) - did you see what I did there?
being a genuine 'nice guy' doesn't stop someone from (openly or not) disliking someone because of their race, creed or colour. People who STILL feel like that in this day and age are worthless idiots. Worse even, than those who kill in the name of whatever religion.
Case in point: if the people who feel sore about having a black president bothered to be a little less worthless and get off their hate-filled asses to vote, they wouldn't be trolling the web complaining that their president is black. Worthless idiots.
The only thing that bothers me about the man is the fact that every time I heard about him on the news the first few sentences invariably included the phrase "first black president" - personally I'm more concerned that he's capable of doing the job, and deserves the position on that merit alone - the colour of his skin should be the last thing on peoples minds. Not some misguided feelings of Positive Discrimination.
I wish him luck.
African American...?
How many generations of your family were born in America?
It's my belief that most African Americans are simply just Americans.
How can you expect the world to see each other as equals when we all go out of our way to single our selves out as different?
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.
For an American citizen to vote as a German-American, an Irish-American, or an English-American, is to be a traitor to American institutions; and those hyphenated Americans who terrorize American politicians by threats of the foreign vote are engaged in treason to the American Republic."
^^^ WHAT A LOAD OF SH*T ^^^
"Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul."
-So is terrorism you f*ckwit.
"Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance."
-Surely it's thoughts along these lines that inspired folk like Hitler?
That shit may have passed 93 years ago, and even then it was directed at German - However bad you think German-Americans, Irish-Americans, or African-Americans are, there's nothing on this Earth that is worse than a 'good ole' American-American.
Hitler? He said that it isn't good for American politics to vote as a "[foreign]-american" (taking into account [foreign] constituencies and interests), as opposed to voting simply as an "american" (taking into account what is best for the american nation, period). Now, I'm not saying he was right, or wrong, or that people shouldn't take pride in where they come from; however, I think there is virtue to the point that the american democratic/political system works best when it is working of, by, and for the people OF AMERICA, as opposed to subdivided groups. They is a place for everyone at the american table, but we should all be at ONE table, as opposed to a whole bunch of different, uniformly catergozied, homogenous tables trying to co-exist in the same room.
Dummy.
Indeed I am not a DUMMY.
I was wise enough to vote and smart enough to make the right vote.
"I think there is virtue to the point that the american democratic/political system works best when it is working of, by, and for the people OF AMERICA, as opposed to subdivided groups."
I agree, and I think the new President will do a far better job than his redneck predecessor who I think it's fair to say did a lot of work for subdivided groups. http://www.hermes-press.com/BushSaud.htm
In effect, it seems to me that you're saying Americans, whatever their birthplace, should be free to be proud of their origins, as long as they do it quietly at home and it doesn't interfere in any way with the hard-working, God-fearing American Way.
I don't agree with that, but I also don't agree with the blatant segregation of minorities in cities. Put all the black families in one neighbourhood, all the Mexicans in another - that doesn't sound like like there's a place for everyone at the American table at all. It sounds more like making all the ethnically-different sit at the kiddies table.
I personally don't believe in religion, but I belive in other peoples freedom to do so and would never dream of calling someone un-American because the colour of their skin or chosen religion wasn't that of the mass majority.
I agree with you that we should all support the same cause for the betterment of our country but it should never be at the expense that anyone should be to feel ashamed of their roots.
Buck Burnette as a leader of the Longhorns and his horrific quote is proof of the intelligence and maturity level of a University of Texas football player or fan. I knew not to use the "N" word as a 5-year old. In addition to getting booted off the team, he should have been booted out of school. What is he doing there anyway? Give him a banjo and rocking chair, so he can lead his UT in playing their new school fight song, "Dueling Banjos"...
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