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trumad

(41,692 posts)
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 11:29 AM Dec 2012

Anti-Obama Tweet During Sunday Night Football Gets Division II Football Player Kicked Off Team

Bradley Patterson will likely regret the anti-Obama tweet he sent in anger after the president’s speech pre-empted part of Sunday Night Football.

President Obama’s made remarks Sunday night at the memorial for victims of Friday’s school shooting in Connecticut, but this drew the ire of many football fans on Twitter when Sunday Night Football was pre-empted.

As Deadspin noted, Obama’s speech at the Sandy Hook shooting memorial took over the airways, causing NFL fans to miss the first quarter of the game between the New England Patriots and the San Francisco 49ers. This brought a hate-filled and often racist backlash on Twitter as several angry fans demanded that Obama be taken off their screens and football brought back.

The report found a number of tweets bashing the president personally, often using racist and vaguely threatening language.

One of the tweets appears to be very costly. A twitter user who goes by the name Bradley Patterson made the remark: “Take that n****r off the tv, we wanna watch football.”

Bradley Patterson is a walk-on long snapper for the Division II University of North Alabama football team, Al.com reported. Immediately after Patterson’s racist anti-Obama tweet, those who read the Deadspin article forwarded it to the school’s athletic department.

UNA responded quickly to Bradley Patterson’s anti-Obama tweet. Athletic Director Mark Linder sent a tweet of his own, writing:



http://www.inquisitr.com/441841/bradley-patterson-anti-obama-tweet-during-sunday-night-football-gets-division-ii-football-player-kicked-off-team/

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Anti-Obama Tweet During Sunday Night Football Gets Division II Football Player Kicked Off Team (Original Post) trumad Dec 2012 OP
Excellent. Young Einstein can now embark on his new career DisgustipatedinCA Dec 2012 #1
And this idiot ... 1StrongBlackMan Dec 2012 #2
I think he should take advice from another certain black (gasp!) man: alp227 Dec 2012 #4
Daily Kos has several other tweets (one from a woman) young_at_heart Dec 2012 #3
 

DisgustipatedinCA

(12,530 posts)
1. Excellent. Young Einstein can now embark on his new career
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 11:32 AM
Dec 2012

...as a busboy, if he's lucky. And no, the busboy position doesn't come with a Corvette or a cheerleader.

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
2. And this idiot ...
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 12:44 PM
Dec 2012

will spend the rest of his days blaming the university, President Obama and no doubt, Black folks, in general, for ruining his life; while failing to make the conduct/consequence connection.

alp227

(32,025 posts)
4. I think he should take advice from another certain black (gasp!) man:
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 11:11 PM
Dec 2012

"If you don't have a job, BLAME YOURSELF!"

(Oh wait never mind, Herman Cain aims that only towards those Occupy Wall Street leechers who want everything handed to them. Not good ol' boys like Bradley Patterson.)

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