[ExI] this day an age(gorilla and basketball)

[SR Ballard]

I’m literally laughing so hard right now. The gorilla/basketball experience is so standard when talking about selective attention that I didn’t realize people hadn’t heard of it. I was so confused when I read about the racism.

SR Ballard

> On Dec 29, 2018, at 1:47 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 6:40 am, frank mcelligott <frankmac at ripco.com> wrote:
>> This discussion must be read by a group of people over  the age of 40 and do not see the racist tone to your posts.  Howard Cosell once called a running back a little monkey at a football game and had that little remark on his tombstone .  try this statement in the NBA at a game last night I saw a lot of gorilla’s but never saw the white guy.
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>> Happy new year to us all  in this new normal
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> It’s not racism. It’s a reference to this:
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> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
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> Stathis Papaioannou
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