Floyd Mayweather in another racial controversy

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He's black. wadaya gonna do.. pure ignorance.. SMH

btw, name one black NBA player who graduated from Harvard... better yet, name one black player who graduated from a real University without some fake basketball scholarship.. lol ok then...

This is way worse than what Floyd said. You think Jeremy Lin got into Harvard because he's a great student? The guy graduated with a 3.1 GPA. I went to an Ivy League undergrad. You have to try to fail to get a 3.1 GPA. Or you have to be way less qualified than everyone else there. But sure, use this as a jumping point to trash black people.

Those of you claiming that his hype has "nothing" to do with the fact that he's Asian are full of it. I'm not saying it's the only reason -- of course not. But to deny that it's part of the story is absurd.

Since you're such a massive Floyd fan maybe you can answer why is he trashing another athlete that's completely from a different sport? He's also accused Jeremy Lin of using steroids also.

People like the Jeremy Lin story is because it's mainly an underdog story. In '99 the Kurt warner story was much bigger, way bigger. So was it because Warner was white or because it's the ultimate Cinderella story?

I'm not a massive Floyd fan and said nothing that should lead you to that conclusion. I said "Floyd's a jackass."

Your Kurt Warner argument is retarded. At the time he came up, nearly every quarterback in the NFL was white, so there was nothing special or interesting about that part of the story. You better believe that if he were a devout Muslim from the Emirates that would have been a big part of the story, along with the normal "cinderella" point.

Yes, it would be great on some level for everyone to be completely color-blind and not notice race. But you know very well that that's not the world we live in. I mean, we have Finito spouting off with racist bullshit in this very thread.

It's true--we live in a racial society. However, just because we live in a racial society doesn't mean we should perpetuate the bad behavior of our past. To the contrary, we should celebrate and encourage diversity. Certainly, pointing out that Lin's Asian heritage has something to do with his new fame by itself is not wrong. Indeed, applauding Lin's success as a minority in the NBA may actually be good.

What is different about Floyd's statements (now and in the past) is that Floyd uses racial identity to separate people. He points out race to disparage people or to boost his own racial group. It's divisive rather than inclusive; it's negative, not positive; it builds barriers between races rather than bridge them (this can be seen in some of the reactions on this thread that you pointed out). I would be surprised if you expected a positive response to Floyd's comments--I didn't.

Are you aware of Floyd's history of racist comments (see calling Emmanual Steward an "Uncle Tom" and referring to Pacquiao as a sushi-making yellow man)?

I don't disagree with anything you're saying. As I said in my first post on this thread, Floyd is a jackass. Had I expanded on that, I would have said something along the lines of your middle paragraph.

I don't know why I seem to be getting tagged as a Mayweather apologist here. I love his boxing; I think he's despicable as a person.