Benefits are directly a part of any compensation package. Time off means per hour I'm compensated pretty well actually. So yeah, it isn't bad. I think one of us being a smartass is a tell here.
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Benefits are directly a part of any compensation package. Time off means per hour I'm compensated pretty well actually. So yeah, it isn't bad. I think one of us being a smartass is a tell here.
one of the more annoying aspects of modern discourse is extreme exaggeration. everything on twitter is the greatest or worst or most unjust thing anyone has ever seen. trump is hitler. college sports are slavery. it's obviously illogical to compare the experience of a basketball player at duke, in 2018, to slaves from 1840. but reasoned analysis of system that clearly needs adjustment just isn't sexy enough. there are people who think the world is more unfair today than ever before. these people are so divorced from reality they're beyond help. the unfortunate part is social media and the 24 hour news cycle subject us to this nonsense in a never ending loop of stupidity.
Duckboy is pretty far left, especially on race issues, and even he can pump the brakes on this comparison.
Like I said, brace yourselves folks. Dattier has his ice coffee and is ready to make heads roll tonight.
Well, half aware, anyway.
Getting a free college education isn't a problem facing black Americans?
Are you black? That would be the only way this isn't an all out dickhead thing to say. If you are, it's just a halfway dickhead thing to say.
Hear, hear!
lol I see what you did there. Good one! I totally fell for it!
Absolutely. But perspective doesn’t alter logic.
But you have the same amount of experience as she does with being a slave. You should be able to comment on it.
What? Weren't you among the people pointing out President Obama was only half-black and therefore Ben Carson was the authoritative voice of black people everywhere?
You mean tell her how she isn't allowed to feel some way unless I approve it? Man! It sure is good to be a white man!
I don't know. Don't you and I have the exact same experience President Obama ever did with being all black?
Correct, which is why her statement was demonstrably false, independent of her perspective.
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I'm amazed you can get out of bed with the demons you carry. I won't even guess how you move around dragging your anchor around with you. It's sad and I mean that.
Sooooooooo, you're saying it's no different than any other night?
Hating myself as much as Datt hates himself would make life pretty miserable.
True, but tonight he is flailing. You’ve gotta wonder what happened tonight in his life that made him so angry. This is the worst meltdown we’ve had here in awhile.
I didn't say that, at all. Of course there is still racism but that doesn't mean EVERYTHING is because of racism.
Let me ask you this, what's in the news more, A black cop shooting a black man because he thought the man had a gun or a white cop shooting a black man because the thought the man had a gun?
It's such a false narrative. The media, "famous" people on twitter, etc take the white cop scenario and blow it out of proportion to where it's on the front page headlines whereas the other scenario is never heard about.
Twitter is a huge, HUGE, problem because so many "famous" people, as in people with a verified, blue check-mark account, tweet stuff that is partially or even completely false and BECAUSE they have a CHECK-MARK beside their name, it blows up and goes viral even though they may have the story completely wrong or failed to mention several key aspects to the story, just to fit the "racism" narrative.
Sounds like you've seen my penis. I'm guessing... Deer Creek, '92?
Exactly! It still exists, but we have no examples. It's like Bigfoot or something.
Yeah, I hear even though black people make up just 13% of the population, they make up 50% of police forces. What about black-on-police-force crime?
It's always about white people. How about the 2 dead black guys who didn't have guns?
Are we watching the beginning of Wendell Carter's mom becoming the female version of Lavar Ball?
No, a problem is something bad. A free college education is a gift. I was lucky enough to play D2 baseball. I only received a partial scholarship, my parents paid the rest for me. I was thankful for that opportunity & experience, I never viewed it as slavery.
You’re right, I’m only half black & I’m very light skinned. If you don’t think racism exist for me, then you’re as dumb as Mrs. Carter. Ive felt the looks from people walking around with a white girl. Even today, I get looks from people walking around with my wife.
They're only half looks though.
This. Friend of mine father was from Ecuador and mother is white from NC. He was born in Ecuador and lived there first 5 years of his life , but moved back to NC with his family when he was 6. Lived in NC until he was 9 went back to Ecuador for 2 years then back to NC for good. So he has dual ctizenship. When he is in the states he is hispanic/latin but when he goes back to Ecuador he is "Blanquito". It doesn't bother him anymore but I know it did when he was younger. Those different stigmas from both sides of his nationalities.
When my father (black) married my mom (white), his grandfather didnt speak to him for years. He was so mad that his grandson didn’t marry a black woman.
First off, it isn't "free" room and board. They pay for it with their services.
Second, it isn't costing the school a thing; the money comes from the tuitions of other students.
Third, I don't think a paid-for-by-other-students yearly tuition is necessarily an equal exchange for the billions of dollars involved in college athletics.
Not sure WHAT the solution is, but the vast majority of people involved in college sports seem to think there should be SOME sort of compensation beyond what is offered now.
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