That is not what I said and your analogy is absurd. I am saying that people say and do things during their youth that they are not necessarily proud of later in life. Without personally knowing Rahim Alem I will reserve my judgement of him based upon something that he said when he was 19-22 years old.
I do not know Rahim nor any of his personal points of view. I also will accept the quotes attributed to him in this thread are true. With that said, even if they are I have never sat down with him and heard his opinion on the matter at length in a conversation where I can inquire further and afford him the opportunity to fully express himself. More than a few quotes a writer plucks and puts in an article. Context matters as does the explanation behind certain statements or inflection of voice in dialogue that give broader meaning than mere printed words on paper often read.. Judging Rahim Alem based on such a small sampling of quotes compared to what is quite possibly a more comprehensive and thoughtful explanation is no different than AlabamaFan who called Tyrann Mathieu a thug for his hit on Dre Kirkpatrick. One thought or play taken out of context and considered solely in a vacuum can suddenly and greatly alter reality.
Guess it depends on where he wants to teach. Maybe they will have ample visual aids thus he wont have to spell it, maybe it will be in Cincy and he will be able to assume most can spell it........maybe it will be somewhere where no one in class knows where Ohio is let alone what cities are there!!!
Rahim Alem was very, very serious about racial matters. He protested the LSU rebel flags, compared football to slavery, and many other things. I don't blame him for those things. He's entitled to his opinion. But I don't like him, nor do I respect him. He was a TERROR at 'initiating' freshmen football players, and I won't go into any details, but he messed some white boys up pretty bad at the rec center.
It never made it to the papers... but supposedly some white boys called a black guy the N word at the rec center, so the black guy called Rahim, who showed up with a metal pipe, and you can guess the rest.
This is hear-say. Anytime you lead a story off with the word supposedly it always alerts me to the fact that there is no factual basis for this story. Also, if an LSU football player showed up with a deadly weopen and started beating people with it in the LSU rec center, it would have made it's way into the news. Not defending the guy because I do not know him personally, but like I said before I tend to give kids a pass on the things they say, however stupid they might sound.
