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paulsby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-14-10 08:54 PM
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35. no white or asian has ever broken 10 seconds in the 100 meter dash
this is clearly a racist conspiracy! :)

west african origin blacks (from numerous countries) have done it dozens of times!
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  -Gumbel: Lack of Blacks Makes Winter Olympics 'Look Like GOP Convention' The Northerner  Feb-14-10 06:00 PM   #0 
  - Sounds like an astute observation to me.  KonaKane   Feb-14-10 06:01 PM   #1 
  - Why?  Renew Deal   Feb-14-10 09:15 PM   #46 
  - Limbaugh: The lack of white faces makes the NBA finals look like an NAACP convention  depakid   Feb-14-10 06:04 PM   #2 
  - Indeed.  HuckleB   Feb-14-10 06:21 PM   #7 
  - I agree----God,can't we all just enjoy a sport and forget about color--please.  virgogal   Feb-14-10 06:30 PM   #15 
  - How long before he's forced to apologize due to a barrage of hate mail and corporate pressure?  bluestateguy   Feb-14-10 06:09 PM   #3 
  - I doubt he'll step down  The Northerner   Feb-14-10 06:11 PM   #4 
  - Because yeah, we don't have enough fresh controversies on DU  Berry Cool   Feb-14-10 07:29 PM   #30 
  - since he said it four years ago, I'm guessing it will be a while  fishwax   Feb-14-10 09:06 PM   #41 
  - That's why I'm rooting for the Ethiopians!  Number23   Feb-14-10 06:14 PM   #5 
  - more about Robel Teklemariam  mrs_p   Feb-14-10 09:16 PM   #47 
     - Thanks so much for that info!  Number23   Feb-15-10 12:30 AM   #61 
  - LOL is my thought.  Forkboy   Feb-14-10 06:17 PM   #6 
  - The Winter Olympics certainly contain plenty of sports  RZM   Feb-14-10 06:22 PM   #8 
  - Apparently, Gumbel is blind to the teams from China, Japan and South Korea...  SidDithers   Feb-14-10 06:26 PM   #9 
  - he didn't say that all the athletes were white  fishwax   Feb-14-10 09:26 PM   #51 
  - What lack of blacks?  HeresyLives   Feb-14-10 06:26 PM   #10 
  - Can't argue with the racial comparison but age wise there is a huge difference.  nevergiveup   Feb-14-10 06:27 PM   #11 
  - Sounds like something an idiot would say.  farmout rightarm   Feb-14-10 06:28 PM   #12 
  - And did.....  dems_rightnow   Feb-14-10 06:30 PM   #14 
     - GLURK...okay another keybbbbbbbbbboasrsrd bites the dussssssst  farmout rightarm   Feb-14-10 06:51 PM   #16 
  - Shani, Shani, Shani!!!  CBR   Feb-14-10 06:28 PM   #13 
  - Geez, I was oblivious to the fact that the USA does not let those of color  indepat   Feb-14-10 06:54 PM   #17 
  - Remember the Jamaican bobsled team?  Cleita   Feb-14-10 06:56 PM   #18 
  - Haven't watched TV for about 20 years...  hayu_lol   Feb-14-10 07:01 PM   #20 
  - Jamaican bobsled didn't qualify this time.  Berry Cool   Feb-14-10 07:32 PM   #31 
  - Winter sports have traditionally been "white" sports  SoCalDem   Feb-14-10 07:00 PM   #19 
  - Curling is expensive?  Fumesucker   Feb-14-10 07:03 PM   #21 
  - it's like chris rock said  paulsby   Feb-14-10 08:53 PM   #34 
  - Those small town Canadians have bags of money.  Swede   Feb-14-10 09:06 PM   #40 
  - You really need to do some research about hockey, especially in Canada  ProudToBeBlueInRhody   Feb-14-10 09:34 PM   #53 
  - You mean Apollo Ono & JR Celski are white??  WolverineDG   Feb-14-10 07:03 PM   #22 
  - Are Apollo Ono and JR Celski black?  fishwax   Feb-14-10 09:07 PM   #42 
     - Saying the Olympics look like a GOP convention =  WolverineDG   Feb-14-10 09:18 PM   #48 
        - no, the quote was "a paucity of blacks that makes the winter games look like a GOP convention"  fishwax   Feb-14-10 09:24 PM   #50 
  - I've always seen the Winter Olympics as sports for rich white people.  asdjrocky   Feb-14-10 07:04 PM   #23 
  - And yet you'll find many, many winter athletes who had to.....  ProudToBeBlueInRhody   Feb-14-10 09:29 PM   #52 
  - WIll he notice the larger number of black participants at the summer  Obamanaut   Feb-14-10 07:06 PM   #24 
  - how many blacksare on the swim teams? Rowing teams?  KittyWampus   Feb-14-10 07:16 PM   #27 
     - Probably not as many as the 100, 200, 400 meter, or the various  Obamanaut   Feb-14-10 08:58 PM   #36 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Feb-14-10 07:13 PM   #25 
  - Yeah,but the water is frozen in the Winter Olympics.  Swede   Feb-14-10 09:14 PM   #44 
  - Gumbel's remark made in 2006. Resurrected recently by wingers. nt  Garbo 2004   Feb-14-10 07:15 PM   #26 
  - My dad grew up in Waupaca,Wisconsin (rant)  w8liftinglady   Feb-14-10 07:16 PM   #28 
  - Gumbel is a tool  benld74   Feb-14-10 07:18 PM   #29 
  - Black people are too smart to be outside in the freezing cold!  AnnieBW   Feb-14-10 07:32 PM   #32 
  - no white or asian has ever broken 10 seconds in the 100 meter dash  paulsby   Feb-14-10 08:54 PM   #35 
  - Why do I keep hearing Paul Mooney and Wayne Brady laughing in my head?  JVS   Feb-14-10 07:33 PM   #33 
  - Well, my husband did say today to me, "Look at all those white Europeans skiing"  Jennicut   Feb-14-10 09:00 PM   #37 
  - I don't understand any racial hubbub about any activity unless certain races are excluded  cbdo2007   Feb-14-10 09:04 PM   #38 
  - this is several years old now  fishwax   Feb-14-10 09:05 PM   #39 
  - And thus was born NBA All Stars versus Winter Olympics All Stars.  TexasObserver   Feb-14-10 09:09 PM   #43 
  - I get his point, but I disagree.  Renew Deal   Feb-14-10 09:14 PM   #45 
  - delete  devilgrrl   Feb-14-10 09:20 PM   #49 
  - He was wrong then, and wrong now  ProudToBeBlueInRhody   Feb-14-10 09:35 PM   #54 
  - There was a black German guy figure skating tonight  AnnieBW   Feb-14-10 10:58 PM   #55 
  - Don't you all know that snow and ice are racist?  fujiyama   Feb-14-10 11:52 PM   #56 
  - "White people like Wayne Brady because ...."  TexasObserver   Feb-14-10 11:56 PM   #57 
     - "...he makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X"  Earth_First   Feb-15-10 12:01 AM   #58 
        - ^^^As said by comedian Paul Mooney on Dave Chappelle.  TexasObserver   Feb-15-10 12:10 AM   #59 
           - +1 n/t  Earth_First   Feb-15-10 12:11 AM   #60 
 

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