[quote author=Judge Jules link=topic=48546.msg1476118#msg1476118 date=1328215500]
[quote author=themn link=topic=48546.msg1476112#msg1476112 date=1328215207]
In 1988 Smith caused considerable controversy
after making derogatory comments about black
people to author Dave Hill while being interviewed in
the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool for a book Hill was
writing about black Liverpool F.C player John
Barnes. Smith was uncomplimentary about Howard
Gayle, a black former Liverpool player with whom
Smith had been at the club in the 1970s while the
striker was a youth team player, saying that:
"Howard suffered from a black man's attitude
towards the white man. See, everybody thinks
whites have an attitude towards blacks. In reality
it's blacks who have a problem with the whites".
Smith later added that in order to gain his respect
and friendship, "coloured" people have to learn to
"think like the white man" and that he later grew
to like Gayle, remarking that "I used to call Howard
the 'White ****'. Now that is a compliment. It was
the only way I could find to describe that I thought
he was OK." Smith then went on to comment to Hill
that "I'm not prejudiced but if a coon moved in next
door, I'd move, like most white people would. If my
daughter came home with a ****, I'd go mad. But
I'm only being truthful and normal."
Naaah, I don't wish death on the prick.
Soz !
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It stinks. It's shameful. But wishing death on him for it is still OTT. Two wrongs, and all that.
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Have you not even bothered reading Dantes posts?
[quote author=themn link=topic=48546.msg1476112#msg1476112 date=1328215207]
In 1988 Smith caused considerable controversy
after making derogatory comments about black
people to author Dave Hill while being interviewed in
the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool for a book Hill was
writing about black Liverpool F.C player John
Barnes. Smith was uncomplimentary about Howard
Gayle, a black former Liverpool player with whom
Smith had been at the club in the 1970s while the
striker was a youth team player, saying that:
"Howard suffered from a black man's attitude
towards the white man. See, everybody thinks
whites have an attitude towards blacks. In reality
it's blacks who have a problem with the whites".
Smith later added that in order to gain his respect
and friendship, "coloured" people have to learn to
"think like the white man" and that he later grew
to like Gayle, remarking that "I used to call Howard
the 'White ****'. Now that is a compliment. It was
the only way I could find to describe that I thought
he was OK." Smith then went on to comment to Hill
that "I'm not prejudiced but if a coon moved in next
door, I'd move, like most white people would. If my
daughter came home with a ****, I'd go mad. But
I'm only being truthful and normal."
Naaah, I don't wish death on the prick.
Soz !
[/quote]
It stinks. It's shameful. But wishing death on him for it is still OTT. Two wrongs, and all that.
[/quote]
Have you not even bothered reading Dantes posts?
