OT -- Dan Gilbert = Slave Master according to Jesse Jackson
I don't know if this breaks the rule of no politics on mgblog, but whatever.
"His feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality. He sees LeBron as a runaway slave. This is an owner employee relationship -- between business partners -- and LeBron honored his contract."
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5372266
I'll admit that Dan Gilbert has acted like a child (some would say like a little brother), but I would argue Jesse Jackson should take it easy and not talk for a little while.
Jesse Jackson is played out. He needs to pick and choose his battles.
I lost respect for him a couple of years back for his Obama inccident.
Jackson made the comments to a guest before an interview on Sunday's "Fox & Friends," whispering that Obama was "talking down to black people" and that Jackson wanted to "cut his nuts off."
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/11/entertainment/et-jackson11
Anyone who thouhgt my comments were naive go read Noam Chomsky. But i guess his work is is like a freshman student studying the humanities.
Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar and I don't see how that is relevant to this topic at all.
Chomsky has nothing to do with LeBron being a dick. Your comments were naive because you totally missed the point of why people hate LeBron now. It's not for leaving. It's for being as big of an egotistical cockhole as he could possibly be about it and pretending like he was doing something for charity.
Dan Gilbert personifies a slave master mentality? He sounds more like every jilted fan that has long suffered in a small-market city with no hope of ever having their loyalty rewarded. Cleveland's anger and frustration is understandable. Nobody wants to be reminded that their community comes up lacking in comparison to other parts of the country, especially a city like Cleveleand, which always seems to be a national punchline.
On a somewhat positive note, I guess it says a lot about the progress of diversity and tolerance in this society when comments like Jackson's are regarded by most people today less as an inconvenient truth and more as just out of touch.
What happened to the no politics rule?