The Prophet
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.
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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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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