Frankly, I don't get it.
What part of what he said was, you know, WRONG?
I mean wrong in terms of "accuracy", not "acceptable speech".
Does anyone NOT think that you can drive white suburbanites away if the arena is filled with young black males and loud rap music is playing? Does anyone NOT think that you could sell more tickets at higher prices if the arena was filled with a much higher percentage of white fans?
The man did nothing more than openly describe the fan base that ALL of the other NBA franchises have ALREADY targeted.
Re-read his comments about the predominantly white crowds at the games in Washington DC, where there are plenty of affluent blacks but even more affluent whites. NBA franchise are businesses. They are chasing the money. That is what they are supposed to do.
The Hawks can only fill about 30% of their seats apparently. The owner thinks he could sell a lot more seats for higher prices if the crowd wasn't 70% black and the bars in the arena weren't 90% black.
That 70% vs. 90% discrepancy indicates to me that the whites who DO come to the Atlanta games leave without going into the bars. They are probably the suburban families he wants more of or, more likely, are corporate fans. They are fans of the game, but as soon as it is over, they clear out and avoid the bars.
And contrary to what this guy said, this has nothing to do with "southern whites". Take a look at the crowds at Knicks games, Celtic games, Laker games, etc. They are overwhelmingly white.
That has been the NBAs plan all along.
Originally Posted by ExNYer
The underlying theory is that racism has gone underground....(those kinds of puns are what makes me beloved by millions)...anyway, because whites are racist motherfuckers, and want to retain their unjustly given power, privilege and prestige, they are now very subtle in their racism, and it manifests itself mostly through much more subtle shit than the old days, when twenty blacks per hour were hung from trees is certain counties in the South. It becomes necessary to become more and more vigilant to detect sophisticated racial bias these days. You have to have an intuitive feel for it.
As an example, let's say you are black, you get to a crowded restaurant, and you wait patiently for a good table, and also wait your turn. They make take you in the order you came in, so as not to have appear biased, but your table may not be as well located because you are black. Also, they will fawn all over the white motherfuckers while ignoring you, because they believe blacks don't tip well. Unfortunately, you cannot complain, because then the racist motherfuckers will say you are too sensitive, shake their heads among themselves, say, "you can't please those people" and maintain their horrible, racist, ignorant and self serving untruths about life. So, you have to wait until they subtlety betray their true thoughts, then you pounce on the SOB's like PT Barnum on a sucker.
That is what is happening here, everyone is staking out their usual positions, and the ignorant owner is too much of a pussy to defend these statements, which as you say, actually make sense.
