Jimmy the Greek 20 years ago today

The Prophet

EOG Dedicated
Re: Jimmy the Greek 20 years ago today

Just saw this on PTI...so I looked up the quote...so why is this racially insensitive?

[FONT=Courier, Times New Roman]"The black is the better athlete," The Greek said. "And he practices to be the better athlete, and he's bred to be the better athlete because this goes way back to the slave period. The slave owner would breed this big black with this big black woman so he could have a big black kid. That's where it all started." [/FONT]



JIMMY "THE GREEK" SYNDER, "THE BLACK IS THE BETTER ATHLETE...DUE TO GENERATIONS OF SELECTIVE BREEDING"

CHANGE THE WORD "BLACK" TO "WHITE" AND THE OPINION COULD HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH SOMETHING HITLER ONCE SAID.

JIMMY AND HIS "BETTER ETHNIC ANYTHING" OPINION IS JUST THAT...AN OPINION...AN OPINION SYNDER BASED UPON A PARTICULAR (BLACK) ETHNIC GROUPS HISTORICAL BREEDING PRACTICES RATHER THAN FACT. AN OPINION STEREOTYPING ONE PARTICULAR ETHNIC GROUP AS BEING A BETTER ATHLETE THAN ALL OTHERS DUE TO HISTORICAL INNER-RACIAL BREEDING PRACTICES ASSOCIATED WITH SLAVE-LABOR. :+whipping

THE MAN WAS AN IGNORANT FOOL AND AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THOSE WHO ASSOCIATED WITH HIM.







Jimmy was wagging his tongue after a few drinks when he made his comments,I'll bet he often made stupid remarks like a lot of people do when under the influence.
Now that doesn't excuse him from responsiblity for his actions,but could there be a reason that this incident was so built up?
Like Al Campanis,Imus,and others maybe someone wanted to push a Jimmy the Greek out of his CBS spot,but they couldn't just fire the guy without a good reason,so a reason was created,and the media destroyed him in the process.
Let's be honest a lot of people from all groups will say things in private that are not said in public,what happened to Jimmy could happen to anyone if certain things were made well known.



Farewell Jimmy the Greek: The Wizard of Odds (Hardcover)


Jimmy was a broken man, who felt that he had lost his self-respect, after he was fired by CBS. Jimmy was a sacrificial lamb in an early poltical correct world. Jimmy ultimately filed lawsuits for wrongful termination against CBS, but most were past the statute of limitations. He died in Las Vegas. His daughter and a friend that he met late in his life were his best friends in his last years. Reading between the lines Jimmy must have had a strained relationship with his wife. The book talks of his fight with Brent Musberger and how he hated Phyllis George's then husband John Y. Brown, even though Jimmy was the catalyst in them meeting. Jimmy had sued John Y. over money that Brown had owed him from a business deal, then withdrew the lawsuit because he felt it would hurt his on-air relationship with George. Again reading between the lines, it is interesting that neither Musberger, George, Irv Cross, or any CBS executives attended his funeral. Although Jimmy had three children who were buried in Las Vegas, he chose to be buried in his hometown of Steubenville, OH.

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pioneer

EOG Dedicated
Re: Jimmy the Greek 20 years ago today

JIMMY "THE GREEK" SYNDER, "THE BLACK IS THE BETTER ATHLETE...DUE TO GENERATIONS OF SELECTIVE BREEDING"

CHANGE THE WORD "BLACK" TO "WHITE" AND THE OPINION COULD HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH SOMETHING HITLER ONCE SAID.

JIMMY AND HIS "BETTER ETHNIC ANYTHING" OPINION IS JUST THAT...AN OPINION...AN OPINION SYNDER BASED UPON A PARTICULAR (BLACK) ETHNIC GROUPS HISTORICAL BREEDING PRACTICES RATHER THAN FACT. AN OPINION STEREOTYPING ONE PARTICULAR ETHNIC GROUP AS BEING A BETTER ATHLETE THAN ALL OTHERS DUE TO HISTORICAL INNER-RACIAL BREEDING PRACTICES ASSOCIATED WITH SLAVE-LABOR. :+whipping

THE MAN WAS AN IGNORANT FOOL AND AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THOSE WHO ASSOCIATED WITH HIM.

Well of course that was Jimmy the Greek's opinion, but what exactly was not factual about his opinion? I agree that he was foolish to express the truth on TV in this PC society of ours, but unless you can identify what exactly was not factually the truth in what he said, (and the quote is available in this thread, not what you think he said), then it appears you are the ignorant one here.
 

O'Royken

EOG Dedicated
Re: Jimmy the Greek 20 years ago today

Politically incorrect wasn't in our vocabulary 20 years ago so it would have been properly classified as such instead of the "R" word.
 

pioneer

EOG Dedicated
Re: Jimmy the Greek 20 years ago today

Politically incorrect wasn't in our vocabulary 20 years ago so it would have been properly classified as such instead of the "R" word.

Speak for yourself...

<CENTER>Political Correctness
by Philip Atkinson</CENTER><SUP>What Is Political Correctness? </SUP>
Political Correctness (PC) is the communal tyranny that erupted in the 1980s. It was a spontaneous declaration that particular ideas, expressions and behaviour, which were then legal, should be forbidden by law, and people who transgressed should be punished. (see Newspeak) It started with a few voices but grew in popularity until it became unwritten and written law within the community. With those who were publicly declared as being not politically correct becoming the object of persecution by the mob, if not prosecution by the state.
 

O'Royken

EOG Dedicated
Re: Jimmy the Greek 20 years ago today

Speak for yourself...


<CENTER>Political Correctness
by Philip Atkinson</CENTER><SUP>What Is Political Correctness? </SUP>
Political Correctness (PC) is the communal tyranny that erupted in the 1980s. It was a spontaneous declaration that particular ideas, expressions and behaviour, which were then legal, should be forbidden by law, and people who transgressed should be punished. (see Newspeak) It started with a few voices but grew in popularity until it became unwritten and written law within the community. With those who were publicly declared as being not politically correct becoming the object of persecution by the mob, if not prosecution by the state.


The term was not in the mainstream circles when all this took place.
 

pioneer

EOG Dedicated
Re: Jimmy the Greek 20 years ago today

The term was not in the mainstream circles when all this took place.

HUH? All this took place on Jan 16th, 1988(which was the reason for the thread title) and as documented by googling PC, it erupted in the 1980's, which includes the year 1988.
Perhaps you are not in the mainstream circles(whatever the hell those are, your term, not mine), or your vocabulary is lacking.
 

ZZ CREAM

EOG Master
Re: Jimmy the Greek 20 years ago today

The term was not in the mainstream circles when all this took place.
I agree with you Roy! Irregardless of what Google says, I do not remember 'political correctness' being spoken of until well into the 90's. If Google told you that the 'whole world loved each other and there was no hate in 1968', would you believe that too Pioneer?
 
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