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Originally Posted by brassmonkey
why did he even bring that up in the first place? reminds me of dan hicks and his nergo knuckle ball comment on cbs live golf game!  |
damn i was off as to when this happened, i thought i was really young when this happened - it happened in 1988.
Who was Jimmy ?The Greek? Snyder?
Jimmy ?The Greek? Snyder was a once a Las Vegas gambler who rose to national prominence as a commentator on the NFL Today show. But it was his comments to a reporter in a Washington D.C. restaurant that reopened an old wound. He was asked to ?prognosticate? the future of blacks in the NFL. Snyder commented that whites needed to maintain their presence in the sport?s coaching and management ranks since black athletes would eventually dominate every position on the field.
?Why?? Snyder was asked. His response set off a firestorm that led to his unceremonious benching by the network?s executives. ?The black is a better athlete to begin with because he?s been bred that way.? He continued, ?This goes all the way back to the Civil War when during slave trading, the owner ? the slave owner would breed his big black to his big woman so that he could have a big black kid.?
Synder was not fired for misrepresenting history (even though there are still historians that would have us believe that slave breeding never existed, and if it did exist it certainly did not happen on any conceivable scale). However, there is evidence that blacks were indeed bred. That evidence comes from the former slaves themselves.