Whoa. Let's not be so socially irresponsible with labeling someone a racist. Unless you know this man personally and can attest to his racist tendencies or there is a *pattern* that would lead a REASONABLE person to construe racism, then it is intellectually dangerous to just flippantly tag someone with the worst label that can be applied in our society. How do you know race played any part of it? How do you know this guy didn't do the exact same thing to a white player, say, five games earlier? How do you know this guy just isn't a "jerk" to EVERYBODY? Oh, I see, you draw your conclusion because he's *white* and the player is *black*. Ahh, case closed. Well, let's use your logic for a second and extrapolate it a little: What if we were talking about, say, Chase Budinger (a white player who's a freshman at the University of Arizona this year) and this same situation occured last year while he's a highly recruited senior in high school. Except the ref was hispanic. Or black. Would your knee jerk reaction be "That damn racist referee just ejected Chase because he's a white player"? And let me quickly state that there really is no good answer to that question. If you say that *would* be your reaction, then you really need to adjust your reactionary bias to judge all things as "racist". If you say that *wouldn't* have been your reaction, then you are intellectually inconsistent. And the postscript that you, too, are "white" doesn't absolve you from social responsibility. Think a little more before dropping that incendiary, heinous tag on someone. Is he a flopper? Yes. But to immediately label him a racist is going way too far.
Wow, this is total bs. How the hell did he get suspended for this? 9th February, 2007 - 7:29 pm Los Angeles Times - O.J. Mayo will miss three games as punishment for being ejected and making contact with a referee in a Jan. 26 game. The two-week suspension, retroactive to Feb. 3, was agreed to by Mayo's attorney, the Secondary School Activities Commission and Huntington High School. Mayo said that the suspension fair. "I guess we have to serve whatever penalty we got, accept the consequences and move on," Mayo told reporters after a hearing
the ref and Mayo incidentally contactacted in the piece, Mayo looked to plead to the ref just as the ref looked towards the bench, Mayo DID NOT DESERVE THE 3 GAME SUSPENSION...
