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Take-That-N____r-Off-the-TV-We-Wanna-Watch-Football! (Original Post)
kpete
Dec 2012
OP
wondering if this hateful, racist imbecile will have a knock on his door today?
PearliePoo2
Dec 2012
#2
n2doc
(47,953 posts)1. One thing about Twitter, it makes it easier to expose the racists
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)2. wondering if this hateful, racist imbecile will have a knock on his door today?
Hope so....
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)3. Costly words:
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
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.
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
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.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)6. I hope that stupid racist fuck's life is ruined.