Fan has mixed reactions to Mutombo

sjackson0 · Oct 30, 2006

wozudichter said:

i love the "I can't be a racist, my best friend is [insert race]" defense. So pitiful. The guy is a sleeze, i like the cage fight idea. Hamidzjflkdj is a loser. The only person allowed to be called ape-like is patrick ewing. jk.
sorry, that might be over the line, but honestly, he looks kind of funny?
but i'm not a racist, my best friend is black, so...
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LOL...classic

MemphisX · Oct 30, 2006

Calling a person of African descent "monkey" is not American racism.

From the Jerusalem Post interestingly enough...

I suppose Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer fans should be congratulated for their restraint; they didn't start making monkey sounds - chanting "hoo-hoo-hoo" as loud as they could - at the black players on the opposing team until one of them scored a goal.

It's quite a sensation to hear "hoo-hoo-hoo" every time a black player touches the ball when you're watching a soccer game in a big stadium in Tel Aviv. That was the scene at Bloomfield Stadium on the Saturday before last during the game between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Kfar Saba.

None of the chanters were sitting next to me and my two sons, although I could hear some of them a few rows back. In the next section, Section 10, where the hard-core Maccabi fans sit, the "hoo-hoo-hoo" made a tremendous din.

Observers in the stands for the New Israel Fund's "Kick Racism out of Football" project put the number of chanters at 2,000. It was probably more like a few hundred in the overall crowd of 2,000 in Section 10. But since none of the fans was seen or heard protesting, it did seem like all 2,000 of them were chanting "hoo-hoo-hoo" at Hapoel's black players and, in effect, they were.
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aaaccchhhooo · Oct 30, 2006

i think he just want his 15 minutes of fame

RocksMillenium · Oct 30, 2006

wnes said:

Being a minority doesn't mean he can't be a racist, moreover, it doesn't mean he can't be a xenophobe.
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Exactly. I'm a minority and I know PLENTY of minorities who are racist or ignorant.

wink3 · Oct 30, 2006

Mutombo is completely justified in his anger and i salute him for doing something about it.

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