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Racism fandom is alive and well in America
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Topic Started: Aug 12 2013, 11:41 AM (566 Views)
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Joe Bobs Fine Foods
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Aug 13 2013, 01:04 PM
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- jays712
- Aug 13 2013, 06:11 AM
The guy has owned up to throwing the banana. He said he took it from a vendor cart and tossed it just because he was upset that his team was losing. He feels terrible about it and didn't realize how it came off until he saw it later.
I've been to plenty of baseball games over the years and I've NEVER seen a vendor selling bananas at a stadium. Then again it was in uppity San Fran so maybe they sell them at the games there. Its all cheese steaks, hot dogs, and various other heart attack causing food here at Citizens Bank Park in Philly. Perhaps if you featured more fruit you too could have won two of the past three world series, and not been bitch-slapped by the Giants along the way. 
Next year ATT will be opening a sustainable organic farm in center field that will provide food for the concessions. No joke.
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East German Gooner
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Aug 13 2013, 01:19 PM
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- dsch15
- Aug 12 2013, 03:53 PM
Alive, yes. Well? Certainly not.
Racist acts are explicitly illegal in the U.S. and racist speech here is a ticket to the unemployment line for any high profile individual. Racism - at least of the overt variety which is the most important to measure (pace Dr. Reade) - is in decline, if probably too slowly for our liking. Like a deadly disease, there will probably always be pockets of it that resist treatment, but as an organizing principle or even as a generally accepted behavior, its day has passed.
In a country of 320 million or more, there will always be some banana-throwing idiots. There's a reason they're going to forfeit their privileges to attend games. There will always be cowards hiding behind aliases on the internet. There's a reason they're hiding. Even from the relatively short perspective of my own lifetime, we have seen a lot of progress, and though we have far yet to go racism is not healthy in this country in any sense of the word. Exactly DSCH!
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jays712
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Aug 13 2013, 05:01 PM
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- Joe Bobs Fine Foods
- Aug 13 2013, 01:04 PM
- jays712
- Aug 13 2013, 06:11 AM
The guy has owned up to throwing the banana. He said he took it from a vendor cart and tossed it just because he was upset that his team was losing. He feels terrible about it and didn't realize how it came off until he saw it later.
I've been to plenty of baseball games over the years and I've NEVER seen a vendor selling bananas at a stadium. Then again it was in uppity San Fran so maybe they sell them at the games there. Its all cheese steaks, hot dogs, and various other heart attack causing food here at Citizens Bank Park in Philly.
Perhaps if you featured more fruit you too could have won two of the past three world series, and not been bitch-slapped by the Giants along the way.  Next year ATT will be opening a sustainable organic farm in center field that will provide food for the concessions. No joke. Cody Fucking Ross still gets booed like crazy when he plays against us and he's been on a couple different teams already since he left the Giants. Nobody here has forgotten what he did in that series in 2010. LOL
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Gooner0893
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Aug 16 2013, 04:00 AM
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-rodeo-clown-incident-illustrates-nations-continued-racial-divide/2013/08/15/8da23cf0-05b8-11e3-88d6-d5795fab4637_story.html?tid=pm_pop
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anelka_henry
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Aug 16 2013, 08:38 PM
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- Gooner0893
- Aug 16 2013, 04:00 AM
I see the clown is coming (ok, has been invited) to Texas!
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