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

[Dan TheBookMan]

Same here. I thought I’d missed something. ;) It might come as a lesson that before condemning people, one do a cursory research or even lower oneself to asking them — you know, just to be sure. ;) 

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> On Dec 29, 2018, at 12:45 PM, SR Ballard <sen.otaku at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 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.
>>>  
>>> Happy new year to us all  in this new normal
>> 
>> It’s not racism. It’s a reference to this:
>> 
>> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
>> 
>> -- 
>> Stathis Papaioannou
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