<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">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.<div><br></div><div>SR Ballard<br><div><br>On Dec 29, 2018, at 1:47 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <<a href="mailto:stathisp@gmail.com">stathisp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 6:40 am, frank mcelligott <<a href="mailto:frankmac@ripco.com">frankmac@ripco.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Happy new year to us all in this new normal</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It’s not racism. It’s a reference to this:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo</a></div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;FONT-FAMILY:'Calibri';COLOR:#000000"><div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Stathis Papaioannou</div>
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