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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. He'll complete his 4th year on campus in May. It isn't like he's been on campus 5 or 6 years something.
  2. I was wondering what happened to that Dawson Garcia kid and why he hasnt played for the Tarheels. He was a former recruit of ours at UT transferred to UNC from Marquette, but it looks like his family is having medical issues thus he's been out since January. He seems like a pretty big missing piece for them. I wonder if he'll return to UNC next year.
  3. I'd post more of the thread but I can't embed more tweets for some reason. Plus this last tweet has an article that pretty much summarizes the study. https://twitter.com/dbroockman/status/1510607436532510722?t=1d8Y2DjotUMH_mtxqMIiPg&s=19
  4. Not really specific to Fox but interesting thread discussing a study on the effects of partisan media.
  5. Dolphins got a 3rd rounder for 29 year old, no pro bowls Devonta Parker, Cowboys got a 5th for 27 year old 4 time pro bowler Amari Cooper.
  6. We need this kid and Tre Johnson in the 2024 class.
  7. I thought Ramey was great for us last year too. He shot like freaking 41% from 3 last year (on surprisingly fewer 3s than he shot this year) and 83% from the FT line which are all substantially better than he shot this year However, he did improve his 2pt FG% significantly this year.
  8. Especially with the one leg up while doing it. This show is so much fun. Larry Wilmore was on Bill Simmons' podcast and told a few stories from growing up around that time in L.A.. His childhood friend is Bill Duffy ( an NBA agent) and Duffy, who was apparently a stud high school bball player himself, attended a 5 star camp with Magic in high school and came home regaling them with all these Paul Bunyan stories of a 6'9" point guard named Magic doing full court wrap around passes. It reminded me of what it was like back then, before YouTube and the internet, where the feats of some cross the way high school legend seemed beyond belief.
  9. You cut off some additional context to the post of mine that you quoted I'm referring to 2 specific people. Both of whom have 1 black grand parent, yet because of the difference in their socialization they identify as 2 different races.
  10. This makes 2 McDonald's All-Americans that Arkansas took out of Texas.
  11. This is what I don't get about this entire rationale. Never in the history of ever has anyone been asked about the risk of getting HIV or herpes or anything after unprotected sex and uttered the words "Nah I'm going to let my natural immunity take hold or I've been eating right and exercising" in response to questions about the risk of getting a mutherfucking viral infection.
  12. Havent read it all yet. Just skimmed through it.
  13. Yeah but you forget all the preprogramming in American society. You can literally go back over 400 years of propaganda libeling "black behavior". Whether it's the docile and servile nature of black people that America was fed for the 1st 200 years of its existence. Or the violent and raping propaganda that has been fed to America over it's post slavery existence. All of that nonsense plays into American views on black people, not just a reflexive reaction to the dysfunction sustained poverty induces within people.
  14. I think what you're saying is a part of it, but people don't distill information or reason in a nuanced manner like that. They make assumptions prior to any supporting evidence being put forth. They attach what they see to what they already believe. So while classist reaction to poverty may be a core component to anti-blackness, people aren't exactly asking for W2s before they react and discriminate as evidenced by the article you linked, by Wells Fargo handing out rejection mortgage rejection letters like they're Dikembe Mutumbo, or by any of the myriad of examples we see in American society where black skin causes a negative reaction from everyone else (including black people).
  15. This is true for probably the next 10 to 15 years. But what happens with future conservative leaning jurist who have just come out of adolescence during the the past 5 to 10 years? What norms have been totally throttled that we all took for granted up until 10 years ago? I'm not a big history buff so I have no context for past instances of an entire side of the political spectrum effectively saying to "hell with it" in pursuing representative democracy or evidenced based conclusions. What do the future jurist who came of age with this prevailing mindset look like?
  16. First I want to say I agree with everything that you're saying here about Troy Aikman vs his contemporaries. However I have a minor quibble with the bolded part While league rule changes definitely affected the prolific scoring in the respective sports, there has been a lot of skill refinement that has taken place on the lower levels that also contributes to the increased proficiency we see in today's athletes. Freaking 4th graders get QB coaching and shot refinement today. Yes the rule changes are a huge part of it, but the athletes are also much more skilled today than they were back then.
  17. Yeah I agree our race is homo sapiens. I'm just talking about the made up races that we're all familiar with. Ethnicity is based on culture, language, food, and things like that.
  18. Ethnicity is more akin to what we mean when we say tribes ie the difference between Irish and English, or Punjabi and Bengali, or Han and Uyghurs, or Yoruba and Igbo. Race is a bigger umbrella than that. And race, at least in America is often nebulous and arbitrary. The Irish, Italians, and Polish weren't white until they were. In our lifetimes we'll probably see hispanics and even Asians become "white". Arabs and Persians used to be considered white until they somehow lost that designation. For all intents and purposes, whiteness in America in some ways can arguably be defined up as "not black".
  19. And using that lone phenotype to mark difference is absolute nonsense. Take the new coach of the Miami Dolphins, Mike McDaniel and someone like say Malcom Gladwell. The idea that one would view himself as white or biracial and the other would view himself as black as if they are 2 distinct species of human is just a ridiculous and obviously socially constructed distinction. Or take someone from Eritrea or Ethiopia and someone from Nigeria or the Cameroon. Most people would base their skin color as the most important connecting factor between these people from East and West Africa. Whereas genetic inquiry would probably result in the Ethiopian having closer kinship with someone from Italy and the Nigerian having closer kinship with someone from Puerto Rico like Jennifer Lopez than they would with each other despite their skin color.
  20. All I'm saying is that the specific otherism of race didn't become a unifying in and out group thing until it was it was invented. The notion that people would think of themselves as white or black or asian didn't begin to occur to people until about 500 or 600 years ago.
  21. Imagine thinking that someone who clearly believes he's superior to black people isn't racist just because he doesn't hate black people or use the N-word. You have a cartoonish definition of what racism is my friend.
  22. Tribalism is human nature but racism is something that is really only about 500 to 600 years old. Racial groups didn't view themselves as a collective until the concept of race was invented. Even when different racial groups initially began to come into contact with one another it didn't suddenly cause them to disregard their tribal differences with tribes or ethnicities of their same race and suddenly have affinity for one another.
  23. Hot damn!! I didn't know the Iraqi Dinar was still a thing?!?!? That's some good ole, pre-Twitter, email forward, unadulterated conspiracy stuff right there. I mean you had to scroll down to the very bottom of the wall of Fw: to get that pure, bottom of the barrell, transfer your entire 401K for this money making goodness. I hadn't heard reference to the Iraqi Dinar in ages.
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