
Originally Posted by
Daxx Kahn

Originally Posted by
Bilbo
It seems like people can't differentiate between a true racist act and a stupid comment.
Real racism involves the subjection of one group of people by another, treatment of brutality, of slavery, of intimidation and hostility. It involves the taking away the rights of one race by another.
Hopkins remark was a comment plain and simple.
For a boxer like Hopkins to say that regarding a fellow fighter he's trying to make a fight with is no more racism than a disgruntled employee telling a coworker that the boss is a c*** is an incitement to rebellion and mutiny within the workplace.

Hopkins may not be a racist but in truth comments like that do not come out unless somewhere inside you have a small hint of those feelings...There may hve been a part of it for hype but you know what resorting to such things to sell a fight makes it even lower in my book......You have F'IN Millions of dollars your nor your family is starving now or will they ever inb the future....And iof you feel the need to make comments like that to help cash another paycheck then that brings you down even another rung in the ladder
But even if he does harbour feelings against white people why is it racist? He's a black youth who grew up with no prospects, running gangs and living a life of crime. White's are the polar opposite, affluent, middle class, the have's versus the have not's.
I don't see it any different than staff on a lower rung in a big company having grievances against their supervisors etc.
It's not a racial thing, it's a behavioural thing.
I really don't see anything wrong with the comment at all in the context. He's a fighter trying to create a rivalry and hype a possible showdown with Calzaghe.
To say he'll never lose to a white man just ups the ante.
The grudges are being laid down and the rivalry is being created.
Isn't that what we as fight fans want at the end of the day? We want them to needle each other, show each other contempt and get in each other's faces. It's what makes a good fight.
To want them to pound the S*** out of each other all the time cheering on the fighter of your choice but at the same time showing disdain for a comment one of them made to rile up the other is just completely incongrous to me.
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