Discussion for article #227639
If Ferry had just accused Deng of having “a little Wall Street” in him or “a little lawyer in him,” everything would have been OK. The reference would have been more accurate too.
What the scouting report claimed was that Deng is the kind of guy who will mouth off to the press about how bad the coach is then deny it to the coach’s face.
Maybe he should have said “Deng has a little politician in him.”
Maybe he should have. I’m familiar with politicians, lawyers, and financiers being two-faced. I’m not with Africans.
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I thought Ferry was quoting verbatim what scouts and other sources had said about Luol Deng, not his own words. I also thought that every other participant in the conference call understood that as well.
What the hell, man? Is it something in the air that’s bringing all the Klansmen, wife and child beaters out in sports like a torrent?
The racism thing is hard to keep bottled up apparently.
You never hear any of these dudes with the latent racist tendency just admit it and say that they have learned things about themselves and want to fix it.
You know, like an alcoholic, they have to admit it and decide all on their own that they want to heal or else, it’s all a headfake and wasted effort.
Question: can a racist be fixed or are they doomed?
on a related note, Mr Ferry will be pursuing racial sensitivity studies under the Lex Luther look a like scholarship program.
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Answer: George Wallace
This is an AP article, so there’s no point in ragging on TPM about it, but “indefinite leave of absence” is a tautology, much like “new innovation” or “adequate enough”. A leave of absence is, by definition, indefinite.
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That’s one.