Friday, May 23, 2014

Mark Cuban Comments; Highly disputed

Mark Cuban once again became the face of Sports Center when he came out Thursday by saying that he is a prejudice, just like the rest of us. He also said "I'm bigoted in a lot of different ways", and the line that stuck with us most which was " If I was walking down the street and I saw a young black kid in a hoodie, I'm walking to the other side. And if on the other side of the street there is a skinhead white guys full of tattoos, I'm walking right back to the other side." Now this is a prime example of how hypocritical we are as a society. His whole message was that all of us; black, white, yellow, orange, pink, green, or blue, we all have prejudice. The difference between what we do and what he did was he came out and admitted it. Yes, it may have not been the best time too say the specific examples as he used, but what he said is very true, and we all think that. You cannot punish someone for their fears, especially if the fears go along with stats. Now a lot of people say they are not prejudice and don't discriminate, but put yourself as a parent. You have a 8 year old kid, would you be scared if he was by himself in the front yard and a black man in a sweatshirt or a skinhead white man with tattoos was about to walk right past him? would you want your kid to go up to that person and say hi? Or would you have a talk and say" don't talk to those type of people"? What if the circumstances were the same, but the man was a 25 year old man dressed up in a suit on the phone. Would you care if your son went up and said hi? So ask yourself this, am I really prejudice? I think it's time to finally admit the truth and stop living in a lie.

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