Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is under fire for alleged “racist” remarks he made at a business conference. Read the remarks and then tell me: were they racist?
From YahooNews.com:
Mavericks owner Cuban under fire for comments touching on race
by Lisa Maria Garza
Overcoming bigotry requires acknowledging internal prejudices, Cuban said in a video-recorded interview shown on Wednesday at the GrowCo convention hosted by Inc magazine.
“If I see a black kid in a hoodie and it’s late at night, I’m walking to the other side of the street. And if on that side of the street, there’s a guy that has tattoos all over his face – white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere – I’m walking back to the other side of the street,” he said in the interview that was posted on the Internet.
Cuban just happens to be correct, as he is no racist for simply having the temerity to rip a page from the journal of Captain Obvious.
But wait; it gets even better.
Cuban, who spoke the truth and made no racist statement, is now walking his remarks back according to the NYDailyNews.com:
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban offers apology to Trayvon Martin’s family after making ‘black kid in a hoodie’ remark
by Bernie Augustine
“The “black kid in a hoodie” remark led to comparisons to the Trayvon Martin slaying, something Cuban apologized for on Twitter later Thursday.
“In hindsight I should have used different examples. I didn’t consider the Trayvon Martin family, and I apologize to them for that. Beyond apologizing to the Martin family, I stand by the words and the substance of the interview,” Cuban wrote. “I think that helping people improve their lives, helping people engage with people they may fear or not understand, and helping people realize that while we all may have our prejudices and bigotries, we have to learn that it’s an issue that we have to control. that it’s part of my responsibility as an entrepreneur to try to solve it.”
In my opinion Trayvon Martin was a little thug. And the man who shot him was found not guilty. As with O.J. Simpson, get over it. The juries spoke.
That said, we can obviously have no national much less a brief and regional discussion of race in any form without someone getting their Race Panties in a bunch.
With, again, more GOWPs and others getting involved in an issue that won’t ever be solved until it can actually be addressed and people don’t automatically cut others off at the knee who wish to honestly address the topic.
Because Cuban is correct. Blacks and young thugs wear hoodies because it sends a message. It allows them to hide their faces and not be recognized for crimes. Hoodies and baggy sagging pants represent prison and jail culture. Gangbangers and thugs wear hoodies even in the summer because it sends a message. Gangbangers and thugs wear facial tattoos because it sends a message. No legitimate business would ever hire a piece-o-crap human whose face was tattooed. Because: it sends a message.
And if people are too stupid to realize that, they are apparently too stupid to walk and swing their arms simultaneously.
BZ
P.S.
I just recently tried to get into the Hugh Hewitt radio show regarding this very topic, and was unceremoniously hung-up on by a female screener when I revealed my opinion. Because it conflicted with Hugh’s assertion that Mark Cuban is in fact a racist for making his statement as documented above. Nice to know. You can either have an honest discussion about race or you can be a coward.
PCism strikes again… Don’t you DARE tell the truth… sigh
Hey man, not to worry, you ARE a racist, just for talking about this… I was told today that I am a racist, by a Black woman that recently ran for office here in Texas and got the snot beat out her, said that I am a racist because I told her that SHE is a racist…
You know? I’m rubber and you’re glue, THAT mentality…
Quite frankly, I am, to some degree, a racist, but I KNOW what I am… I don’t know how it is where you live but being raised in the South and working around Law Enforcement for so many year WILL give you a severely jaded opinion of things in general..
Cuba’s comments were honest and correct, and with sincerity and feeling.
All blacks will decry rayyyycistttt, because this is their mantra.
What about the poor tattooed white guy? No one thinks it was offensive to that subgroup of the culture? For shame. I am incensed, incensed I tell you, that he would consider someone like that a threat! That’s racist. Or something.
What was it that jesse jackson said oh so many years ago, actually 1993.
Oh, yes: “There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery — then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
And why are people in hoodies perceived this way? Is it because they are good citizens? No. It is because of what they are associated with. This idea that referencing a black man in a hoodie must not be done because it automatically leads to thoughts of trayvon martin is ludicrous. It was a valid example and if it leads to comparisons then so be it. It is what it is.
Cuban never should have walked back his remarks. Take a stand and stay there, Cuban, or else just go back to bed. Very few people these days stick to their guns and stand behind their remarks when confronted.
But *some do*… 😛
He’s right on the mark, of course, but you cannot speak the truth in this nation any longer. You can, but you will be labeled, ridiculed, and even fired from your job. It’s a shameful state of affairs.