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Take-That-N____r-Off-the-TV-We-Wanna-Watch-Football! (Original Post) kpete Dec 2012 OP
One thing about Twitter, it makes it easier to expose the racists n2doc Dec 2012 #1
wondering if this hateful, racist imbecile will have a knock on his door today? PearliePoo2 Dec 2012 #2
Costly words: PearliePoo2 Dec 2012 #3
FWIW, U North Alabama just kicked Patterson off their football team zazen Dec 2012 #4
they kicked him off the team for that comment. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2012 #5
I hope that stupid racist fuck's life is ruined. TwilightGardener Dec 2012 #6

n2doc

(47,953 posts)
1. One thing about Twitter, it makes it easier to expose the racists
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 10:47 AM
Dec 2012

As the article noted, they were complaining about seeing one black man prevent their watching a whole bunch more black men (and other races) play.

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
3. Costly words:
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 11:04 AM
Dec 2012

Update:
The first Tweet in this post is by Bradley Patterson, who was a football player for the University of North Alabama. Note the past tense. Due to his Tweet, he has been kicked off the team, a move we should celebrate:

zazen

(2,978 posts)
4. FWIW, U North Alabama just kicked Patterson off their football team
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 11:05 AM
Dec 2012

According to the tweets/comments from the Daily Kos site. Apparently, Patterson was a current member of the team--a bunch of people reported it to UNA athletics, and they kicked him off. There's a little sanity in this world.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
5. they kicked him off the team for that comment.
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 11:21 AM
Dec 2012

Lovely thing about Twitter....tweeted complaints went instantly to the University, which said:


Update:

The first Tweet in this post is by Bradley Patterson, who was a football player for the University of North Alabama. Note the past tense. Due to his Tweet, he has been kicked off the team, a move we should celebrate:

Thx 2 everyone who brought the inappropriate tweet to our attention. @unaathletics does not condone. He is no longer a member of the team.
— Mark Linder (@UNAAthletics) December 17, 2012


FWIW...the University ( a Northern branch of the famous "Crimson Tide U of Ala) is a stone's throw from the Tenn border ,
up there in farming country and not too far from Huntsvillle.
AND
is just across the river from the Muscle Shoals famous recording studio, which, ironically, got a massive number of now famous black and white muscians off to a roaring start.



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