Dale Brown's faux pas

Look backward, young man. To the dark days when a young black man growing up in the 50's or 60's routinely was called a monkey by bigots and racists. There are quite a few of these people still alive who remember the pain of these comparisons. It's easy for a young white man to dismiss this issue as overblown but to many it still stings. I'm sure if you would consult with Dale Brown today he would admit that his choice of words was in poor taste. I am sure that he didn't plan to say those words. His mouth engaged a little faster than his brain did.

 

I am green and rather tall so therefore I am holding out for SF to blow it with a reference to leprechauns. Nootch came close but he is short so he gets a pass. So I kind of get what you are trying to say.

 

Or, perhaps we're just phucquin' with Randy. Of course I knew what he was referring to.

 

everyone knew exactly where the OP was going with this.

Of course, everyone on the planet knew what Dale was talking about also.

He was not calling Shaq a monkey/gorrila/ape/whatever in the context that the OP was trying to insinuate.

Saying "King Kong" is a lot easier/quicker that "really big, strong, unstoppable male human being that strikes fear in any other human being that should happen to oppose him".

 

gotcha. tough to tell w/so many responses.

 

so no black person has ever offended any white person ever.

 

That's cool. I was just trying to help a brother out

 

all you guys are misunderstanding him, let me explain for ya randy....

Dale Brown called him King Kong, which makes people think of Donkey Kong when then makes people thing of the Nintendo. So in essense, Dale Brown called Shaq -- Old and 2-Dimensional.