Baseball Fan said:
What really pissed me off was when LoDuca said he wanted to cry when he was called a racist. At least say say you'll knock the guys teeth in geese.
I was on a local gov't board and one of the black members ripped into one of the white members for some tiny slight and then went into a race card rant calling the white guy racist, redneck, cracker, etc. The black guy should have been dismissed from the board for his remarks but the majority of the people on the board were white women so...well you know what happened with that.
Anyway the white guy was so torn up at being called a racist that he started to cry, he left the room went into the john and you could hear HUGE sobs coming from the guy, they echoed through the building! It was one of the most embarassing moments in my life. I wanted to turn my membership card for the white race in, right there and then.
So as the white guy contined to sob about being called a racist someone asked me as other the 'token white male' to say something to him. I went into the john and was livid, I ripped into the ******* and demanded that he suck it up and stop being such a pussy. He was embarassing everyone in the place. That just made him cry more. (I guess I was the wrong guy to send to comfort someone but oh well!)
I returned to the meeting and we tried to conduct business with the sounds of this guy sobbing in the background because he had been labeled with the horrible "R" word. It sent a message to every black and white person in the room. Who was weak and who was strong. Until whites change that message it will be how race relations are defined in this country.
