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Old 02-16-2007, 04:25 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn View Post
What I don't like about this is the double standard. Michael Richards uses ethnic slurs in public addressing a black man and he is seen as the devil. Which he should be. But a black man comes out and says straight up that he hates gay people. I havn't seen the media back lash yet. I don't see the differance between what Richards said and what Hardaway said. They are both hatefull and ignorant.
Shows you how far the black movement has gone and how much farther the gay movement has to go.

I believe in the media it still stems from the argument that you cannot choose to be black but can choose to be gay.
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