Episode 170: How Do You Define Racism?

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Grant Napear

Football, Sports, Basketball

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode I explore the definition of racism and who determines what is racist and what's not. I explore athletes using the "race card" to defend themselves from criticism. Last week Josh Donaldson of the Yankees called Tim Anderson of the White Sox "Jackie". Anderson thought is was a racist comment. So did MLB who suspended Donaldson for one game. I read a column from Phil Mushnick of the NY Post who makes some great points about this. I also talk about an incident at Arco Arena in 2016 as the Kings were celebrating the Lunar New Year. The bottom line is we need to do better in this country and stop calling people we don't like racist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now Grand Nation. Hope you enjoy
0:19.0	enjoy the long weekend.
0:21.2	Can you believe this is the last day of May? Tomorrow, June 1st, and you know what that means, right?
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0:57.6	That's N-E-W-R-X plumbing.com. You know a week ago today I put out a podcast and talked about
1:06.8	the racial divide in this country and I had a couple of people reach out and they
1:11.1	wanted me to expand on the situation that occurred with the Yankees and the
1:15.7	White Sox, Josh Donaldson, calling Tim Anderson Jackie.
1:19.9	And I spent a minute on it.
1:21.4	I didn't spend that much time on it, but I was thinking about this after reading a article in the New York Post.
1:30.0	And first and foremost, I don't even know how to define racism in America anymore,
1:36.4	because I think it's defined differently based on your ethnicity.
1:40.3	And I mean that if I want to criticize an athlete of color as a white person,
1:47.0	they can go to the race card if they want.
1:49.0	We saw it two weeks ago with Raymond Green and Christopher Meddog Russo on E-S-P-N's first take.
1:55.0	And then it's really up to Chris to almost have to defend himself.
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