It was a racist statement.
Seriously? Black unemployment causes hooliganism? Not only is that racist, that's old school,
justification for vagrancy laws racism.
It would be one thing to say "unemployment causes hooliganism." (
It'd also be wrong, but if you'd bothered to research your views then you probably wouldn't have them.) But no, you had to say that "Black unemployment" causes "hooliganism." And that's just ignorant as hell. I'm not giving you a pass on that.
no one outside this website is gonna look at my appearance, read what i said, and deem it racist, describing this as "hypersensitive" would be a understatement.
we're in a generation now where EVERYTHING thats remotely critical of da black demographic
is "race card" worthy "boo hoo im a victim, blame everything of da color of my skin instead of my actions"
and its tiring...and HEAVENS forbid a fellow minority is critical of their own people, he's villainized
Your "own people?" Please. You claim that when it's convenient, then you're the very first one to disassociate yourself when it suits you.
You're like a kid who grew up in Westchester, rocked Fubu in the '90s, and claimed Brooklyn. Ten years later at the country club, somebody mentions something unflattering about NYC (maybe your hated soda ban) and it's "Oh, I wouldn't know about that. I'm from White Plains."
i've never been suspended over political correctness...its almost hilarious how soft and sheltered people here are from da real world.
Sheltered from the real world? I'm sorry,
where do you live again? And what are your top priorities in life?
this is da type of mansy pansy over sensitive jock itch type of comments that has become da norm lately over here i see, and ya wonder why others barely posts....
See, the difference is that I work off of evidence. Community engagement is the highest it's been in many years. That's based on statistical analysis of forum participation, not armchair observation.
We want everyone to feel welcome on our forums. Rule number ONE makes it very clear that you're not allowed to post any defamatory comments about race, gender, or sexuality. That's an important part of what we do here. In fact, it's a large part of why NikeTalk exists in the first place. You wouldn't know this, because you weren't there, but back in the late 90's NikePark's message board was filled with White supremacist hate speech (among other things.) A group of us got sick of it and decided it was better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
We didn't start NikeTalk so people could do to our fellow members what people had been doing on NikePark. We started NikeTalk so NOBODY could do to our fellow members what people had been doing on NikePark. If you got it twisted, that's on you. It's not on me. Our rules have served us well for fourteen years now. We're doing just fine.
i stop posting purposely here and my presence is felt immediately
Because one thread was made? Sorry, but the world didn't stop spinning. We actually had better traffic the month you were gone than we did in the two previous months. I'm not saying your absence CAUSED an uptick in traffic. I'm saying that, statistically speaking, your "break" had no appreciable impact whatsoever.
You're not as big of a deal as you think you are and you're certainly not bigger than the rules. You have FIFTEEN violations on record. FIFTEEN. You insulted other users. You promoted fakes. (And please, spare us the hairsplitting rationalizations. You rock fakes and tell yourself they're "just as good" because they MAY have been made using scrap materials. Deal with it.)
I know it killed you that you didn't make the Complex "most influential NikeTalk members" list, but let's try to be real here. You're letting your perceived "e-fame" go to your head if you think
anything here revolves around you.
We made it into Kicks magazine and the Wall Street Journal without you.
We gained the attention of Michael Jeffrey Jordan without you.
We raised $5,000 for the Philippines without you. We just donated $35,000 to support education in South Africa without you.
We had five GREAT anniversaries without you (and you never even sent me a damn card.)
We didn't need you then, and we don't need you now.