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Kentucky loses everyone to draft

Let's not get into a big stupid race discussion here. I thought the "race relations" quip was odd, so I commented, wasn't trying to make a big stupid thing about it.
 
I thought the race relations quip was just a joke. Odd, maybe, but a joke. mDmh, I was just responding to your question. You weren't who I was referring to. I didn't see anything you posted that resembles what I was referring to.
 
deacvision7 said:
But you keep doing you, TobaccoRoad, and you keep thinking that it is other people that are the problem and not your own prejudices. It's working out fantastic for you so far, so stick with it! Never change.
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I think the only prejudice I have displayed in this discussion was towards the YWGs. Sorry you are feeling so oppressed.
 
vadimivich said:
Most of the YWG's grew up in (at least somewhat) desegregated schools and neighborhoods - there's a huge gap, especially in the south, in terms of people born in the 50s/60s and those born in the 80s/90s when it comes to race relations and familiarity/understanding of other races.
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You are painting with a pretty broad brush there.
 
simosfrostyone said:
You are painting with a pretty broad brush there.
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Yeah. Most overt racism has disappeared, but there are still strong racist undertones among young southern people, it's just that now the racism is expressed as political classism.
 
Lohengrin said:
About the fans' love of the program, all I can say is that it's very easy to love a dominant winning program. I wonder how those fans would love a [much] less successful one. Probably about as much as UNC fans loved Doh.
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In 1988-89, Kentucky was 13-19 and finished second in the nation in average home attendance. In 1989-90, Kentucky was 14-14 and finished second in the nation in average home attendance. I would say their fans support them pretty well no matter what the record is.

By the way, both years, Syracuse, who plays in the Carrier Dome, led the nation in attendance. No one can match Syracuse when its fans choose to show up as the Dome seats about 33,000. By comparison, Rupp Arena, which is the largest basketball-only venue in college basketball, seats 23,500.
 
under [Redacted] wake forest finished first in the most people IN THE COUNTRY attending games at lawrence joel colleseum 4 years in a row. just ask ron.
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
Yeah. Most overt racism has disappeared, but there are still strong racist undertones among young southern people, it's just that now the racism is expressed as political classism.
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Can we just establish that dam yankees old and young are just as racist?
 
GaDeac said:
In 1988-89, Kentucky was 13-19 and finished second in the nation in average home attendance. In 1989-90, Kentucky was 14-14 and finished second in the nation in average home attendance. I would say their fans support them pretty well no matter what the record is.

By the way, both years, Syracuse, who plays in the Carrier Dome, led the nation in attendance. No one can match Syracuse when its fans choose to show up as the Dome seats about 33,000. By comparison, Rupee Arena, which is the largest basketball-only venue in college basketball, seats 23,500.
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Was that the year Dwayne Casey fedex'd the cash to Chris Mills and Suttons kid took ACT tests for incoming recruits?
 
DV7, I am curious. What exactly have you invested in empowering the powerless and less privileged among races and cultures different than your own.
 
Tobacco Road said:
DV7, I am curious. What exactly have you invested in empowering the powerless and less privileged among races and cultures different than your own.
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I'm not going to give you my life story, but I do drive lower income people (of all races) to the polls every 2 Novembers. That would be one example.


BiffTannen said:
He advocated for Danny Welbeck being sold.
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LIAR!
 
Good for you. That sounds like a great service, and exactly the type of thing I was asking about.
My investment is a bit more. Based on a path that began volunteering to provide medical services to local migrant workers I saw a bigger need. A decade ago I put my life here on hold and moved to Central America for a year. I worked with a non-profit that was primarily providing medical and public health resources to Nicaraguan populations where resources and access were very limited. This also included working with Nicaraguan settlements in Costa Rica where those that had become Costa Rican citizens would still have difficulty receiving the basic medical care to which they were entitled through the socialized medical system. I would come to find out that sometimes they would not be given appropriate therapy for very basic and treatable medical issues because the local Costa Rican doctors didn’t think they were smart or reliable enough to follow directions. That is a level of prejudice many of us do not witness very often in this country. In addition to directly treating patients, we also helped provide education and resources to improve the quality/safety of their drinking water and other measures like building chimneys for their wood-burning stoves. The smoke in the home causes chronic lung and eye issues.
This led to (volunteer) leadership roles with 2 additional international non-profits in Central America. In the decade since, I have continued this commitment returning to volunteer 10-30 days every year in these underserved communities in Central America. None of this is very glamorous and typically involves very humble living conditions. It has been quite a rewarding experience and I have gotten a lot more out of it than I could ever put in. I look forward to raising my kids with the opportunity to spend parts of their childhoods in these communities to help shape their world view and appreciation for other cultures (and hopefully plant a seed of service in them). So, I am not who you would like to frame me as being. My life and actions tell quite a different story. An intolerant person whose decisions are driven by their prejudice doesn’t offer up as much as I have to live and work within another culture like I have. He would not value the immersion in another culture like I have. And I have given more than time and labor. Financially, I am well in to 6 figures. Other than my honeymoon, I haven’t taken a vacation in a several years so that I can dedicate my time away from my paying job to these projects. We have made dramatic impacts on local communities and a couple orphanages. We have even built a fully functional hospital run by local doctors and nurses, where before there was only a small outpost for a rotating doctor to come every couple weeks.
So, to have a little twit like you, whose actions are so quiet relative to his verbal accusations and arrogance, say that my prejudice is “the problem” is laughable.
Don’t be too down on yourself. We do need loud voices making it clear that it is no longer acceptable in our society to discriminate against or marginalize people for the color of their skin, their gender or even their sexual orientation. But let’s be clear, that is what your primary contribution is….talk.
If you weren’t so quick to expect your ethical supremacy over everyone else you might notice a lot more people doing good things. It might even open up opportunities for you to join in and get off your ass more than one day every other year. So, yes, I will keep “doing me”. At least doing me is actually DOING something. Based on our tangible accomplishments, I think it is working out fantastic. You keep talking and convincing yourself the rest of us are the problem.
 
#killshot R.I.P. dv7 Thoughts and prayers to the family. Damn.
 
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Hilarious turn of events. Mad respect for the volunteering. Though to stand up for the millenials and assuming you are a doctor, did you begin your volunteering at a point in your life in which you were relatively financially secure? That doesn't take anything away from you if you were as there are tons of doctors that do not do anything close to what you have done, but in my cynical experience I've noticed that of the people in my age cohort (late 20s) who are traveling the world volunteering or in the peace corps. or working in sustainability for NGOs-- a lot of them come from family money and it is interesting how that can give someone the freedom to follow their urge to help others.
 
Tobacco Road said:
Good for you. That sounds like a great service, and exactly the type of thing I was asking about.
My investment is a bit more. Based on a path that began volunteering to provide medical services to local migrant workers I saw a bigger need. A decade ago I put my life here on hold and moved to Central America for a year. I worked with a non-profit that was primarily providing medical and public health resources to Nicaraguan populations where resources and access were very limited. This also included working with Nicaraguan settlements in Costa Rica where those that had become Costa Rican citizens would still have difficulty receiving the basic medical care to which they were entitled through the socialized medical system. I would come to find out that sometimes they would not be given appropriate therapy for very basic and treatable medical issues because the local Costa Rican doctors didn’t think they were smart or reliable enough to follow directions. That is a level of prejudice many of us do not witness very often in this country. In addition to directly treating patients, we also helped provide education and resources to improve the quality/safety of their drinking water and other measures like building chimneys for their wood-burning stoves. The smoke in the home causes chronic lung and eye issues.
This led to (volunteer) leadership roles with 2 additional international non-profits in Central America. In the decade since, I have continued this commitment returning to volunteer 10-30 days every year in these underserved communities in Central America. None of this is very glamorous and typically involves very humble living conditions. It has been quite a rewarding experience and I have gotten a lot more out of it than I could ever put in. I look forward to raising my kids with the opportunity to spend parts of their childhoods in these communities to help shape their world view and appreciation for other cultures (and hopefully plant a seed of service in them). So, I am not who you would like to frame me as being. My life and actions tell quite a different story. An intolerant person whose decisions are driven by their prejudice doesn’t offer up as much as I have to live and work within another culture like I have. He would not value the immersion in another culture like I have. And I have given more than time and labor. Financially, I am well in to 6 figures. Other than my honeymoon, I haven’t taken a vacation in a several years so that I can dedicate my time away from my paying job to these projects. We have made dramatic impacts on local communities and a couple orphanages. We have even built a fully functional hospital run by local doctors and nurses, where before there was only a small outpost for a rotating doctor to come every couple weeks.
So, to have a little twit like you, whose actions are so quiet relative to his verbal accusations and arrogance, say that my prejudice is “the problem” is laughable.
Don’t be too down on yourself. We do need loud voices making it clear that it is no longer acceptable in our society to discriminate against or marginalize people for the color of their skin, their gender or even their sexual orientation. But let’s be clear, that is what your primary contribution is….talk.
If you weren’t so quick to expect your ethical supremacy over everyone else you might notice a lot more people doing good things. It might even open up opportunities for you to join in and get off your ass more than one day every other year. So, yes, I will keep “doing me”. At least doing me is actually DOING something. Based on our tangible accomplishments, I think it is working out fantastic. You keep talking and convincing yourself the rest of us are the problem.
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This thread is a serious waste of a perfectly good opportunity to gratuitously bash Calipari, his program and the morally bankrupt fan base that is BBN.
 
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