Mark Cuban admits being human – ESPN talks punishment LOGIC LETTER 5/23/14 By Lynn Woolley Dear Lojiks, I don’t follow the NBA, but I am intrigued by some of its owners such as the Los Angeles Clippers’ Donald Sterling who is in a brouhaha over remarks he made about race – and the Dallas Mavericks’ Mark Cuban who is in trouble by mentioning the word “hoodie.” Understand that when I see Cuban on TV, my usual impulse is to change the channel as I have the impression that he is a liberal and I don’t much care what he says. Oh, but this latest thing is too good to pass up. Liberals have a certain self-loathing. Being all supportive of animal rights and the environment and trees and all – they care little for human beings, as evidenced by their typical opposition to the death penalty and outright enthusiasm for killing the unborn child. So when Cuban made his comments on race – essentially, admitting what a bad person he thinks he is (you know, in his heart), I was not surprised. We are all racists now! Well, I’m not. I don’t give a care about skin color, but then I support babies in the womb and will cut down a tree if it gets in my way. And I laugh at climate change nuts. So what do I know? Here’s what Cuban said that caused an analyst on ESPN to talk about what type of punishment Cuban should face: “If I see a black kid in a hoodie and it’s late at night, I’m walking to the other side of the street.” Me too. I’m not hanging around that dark street in the liberal hope that this guy in the hoodie is a member of the Peace Corps or something. I’m assuming he is a mugger and that he has a knife or a gun – and I’m not going to tempt fate. If the guy has tattoos and baggy pants – I’m running. That is a normal reaction. Why? Because those three things – hoodies, tattoos, and baggy pants are associated with certain criminal elements – namely gangs. They are also associated with the famous Trayvon Martin case – and we are told that hoodies are a cultural thing. They are also a hoodlum thing. I noticed a sign recently on the entrance of a financial institution: No hoodies and no sunglasses. Apparently, the banking industry believes head coverings are a sign of an impending robbery. Is that profiling? Maybe, but it makes sense and it probably stops some people from considering a heist. But to a liberal, that’s bigotry. Remember what happened to commentator Juan Williams when he stated a rational fear of flying with men on board the plane that looked as if they might be Islamic hijackers? This is from Wikipedia: NPR terminated [Williams] contract on Wednesday, October 20, 2010, two days after he made remarks on The OReilly Factor. He had commented, Look, Bill, Im not a bigot. You know the kind of books Ive written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous. According to NPR, the remarks were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR. As to the reason for the termination of Williams contract, NPR’s President and CEO Vivian Schiller offered the following comment: News analysts may not take personal public positions on controversial issues; doing so undermines their credibility as analysts... On October 21, 2010, Schiller told an audience at the Atlanta Press Club that Williams feelings about Muslims should be between him and his psychiatrist or his publicist—take your pick. Schiller later apologized stating, I spoke hastily and I apologize to Juan and others for my thoughtless remark. But Williams is right to have a rational fear – just as he’d be right to avoid close contact with a rattlesnake based on his knowledge of what rattlesnakes are capable of. Liberals think differently. They have elevated racism to the worst of all possible sins – and so must avoid any taint of it – and the extremes they take this to have become outrageous. Whatever else he is, Mark Cuban is human and he had a rational thought. The NBA might want to think twice before criminalizing any speech that fails the test of political correctness. Take a stand. Logically, Lynn Woolley
Posted on: Fri, 23 May 2014 12:40:28 +0000
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