The Alarming Rise of Jeremy Lin's Black Antagonists

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by asanwal • 14 years ago

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Bud• 14 years ago

What he said was offensive, but I can't say that I'm alarmed that Floyd Mayweather said something stupid. He gets hit in the head for a living.

jeremylinfan111• 14 years ago

This is pathetic. The guy is making a mountain out of a molehill. I doubt Lin cares the slightest about Carmelo's seemingly "obscene" gesture. I doubt anybody should. That the author mentioned the bow three times over the course of his article shows that he was grasping at straws. Who the f'ck cares about race, anyway, except the people who purport that racism is the single biggest degradation of American life, as the author seems to be saying?

Terrible article.

rsanchez1• 14 years ago

I wonder if the author was just as alarmed at the rise of Tim Tebow's atheist antagonists, especially in major media outlets. Maybe it's because there isn't a word for discrimination based on religious beliefs like there is for discrimination based on race, or because blacks are a protected minority where Christians are becoming increasingly marginalized.

Discrimination of all kinds is wrong, and the rise of Lin and Tebow show how bigotry is still alarmingly accepted in American society.

GiraffeNecktie• 14 years ago

Christians? Marginalized in the U.S.? Discriminated against because of their religion? Surely you jest. Ok, yeah, they do get mocked sometimes when they wave the Jesus flag in people's faces, but marginalized? Wow. Remember this is a country where they think nothing of replacing modern science with 1st century Christian dogma.

islon• 14 years ago

Christians antagonists in U.S? It's the same as muslims antagonists in Afghanistan...

ajays• 14 years ago

If these guys are saying this stuff in public, imagine the stuff Lin has heard in the privacy of the locker room or on the streetside court. But he still got to where he is today. So I wouldn't worry too much about the barbs he's facing. In fact, I would speculate that he (Lin) gets fired up because of these barbs and takes his game to the next level.

snoozer2• 14 years ago

The link goes to the mobile version of the article, which (at least on my desktop Safari) doesn't show two elements, an image and a video, which are really needed for the text to make sense.

If it's possible to edit the link, I recommend replacing it with the non-mobile version:

http://www.good.is/post/the-alarming-rise-of-jeremy-lin-s-bl...

kevinpacheco• 14 years ago

GOOD's mobile site needs work. Even though the article has a large number of social media shares and is decently positioned on the non-mobile home page, you won't find it anywhere at http://m.good.is no matter how many times you click or tap "load more stories."

snoozer2• 14 years ago

>in the grand scheme of racist gestures, Anthony's falls low on the totem pole

I don't think it was a racist gesture. I think it was an attempt to respect Lin's race that may have been slightly misguided.

The Alarming Rise of Jeremy Lin's Black Antagonists

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