Reply #17: Yes

[Tomee450]

The white pundits and sports announcers are so outraged. You rarely see this level of outrage when its whites who are misbehaving as in the many hockey incidents we've seen. No such outrage when fans overturn goal posts and do all kinds of damage after football games. It's when blacks are involved that we see such anger and dismay and we hear the words "animals" and "thugs" used. The man who reportedly threw the cup has a record with the police but that's not being widely reported. He was not even supposed to be drinking alchohol. I don't like what Artest did but a lot has been going on behind the scene that goes unreported. I heard a black commentator say today that black players are continuously taunted with racial slurs while they are playing. He said he has been in the stadiums and has heard the slurs. It takes great self-control not to respond when you are being called the N word or some other derogatory term but the black players usually ignore the name calling. It seems that both fans and pundits seem to believe that millionaire black players should be willing to accept any kind of abuse. What good is having money when you can't enjoy it if you've been rendered disabled with a serious injury as the result of the actions of fans?It was interesting to hear both Larry King and Bill Mahr say they would have responded exactly as Artest did.