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lol. This is where we are at.
thank god he got out of a toxic situation in Georgia and found his nirvana in the state of Mississippi...wait...what?
2 pumps to afghanistan. Marine infantry. Total of 15 months. Sorry to burst your bubble but this country has gone to hell and i regret giving up my body and my youth for this. There are a lot of other countries, none are any better. This country can **** along with the others ya know. Im tired of what i see from our citizens. Complete hate and disgust from anyone who doesnt agree on everything. I blame social media.
Does anyone know if it's a general policy by Smart/UGA not to agree to immediate eligibility requests for in conference transfers? Thought I'd heard that in past but could be incorrect.
Your thoughts do not represent everyone. The scholly and degree is life changing for a lot of guys. Cycles are broken.
College graduates set themselves up for success for the rest of their lives.
Some of the posts on this thread seem shortsighted, guys.
I feel that everything Otis said mirrors what is happening in our country. Some stuff needs to change. This isn't an Athens problem, not a UGA problem. It's everywhere.
But is he now using it to try to get eligible, and does that seem icky? I will let everyone else make that call.
Racism sucks. To use racism as an excuse to get what you want seems manipulative and cheapens the plight of a lot of people suffering real discrimination. No idea if that is what has been done - it just smells funny.
As a recent black graduate from Uga, I can attest this is very common. I know of several AA friends who have had instances where they were followed and interrogated for no reason. In fact, officers commonly asked for student ids instead of real ids(not sure what sense that makes.). I highly doubt he is lying.
You mean play a game while earning a free education instead of being used 50-60 hours a week? Yeah sign me up!
call me gullible but I don’t believe for a second a play would lose his scholarship or PT over going to a coach about racial issues.
I think most everyone believes that part of it, I also believe ACC PD are ***holes.
Who transfers to ole miss if you are concerned with racism 😂
Even though I know it is true, its just hard to hear. The world isn't perfect, and never will be, but stuff like this should not be happening today. I am truly sorry if this happened to you.
I have no doubt that Reese experienced the racism he described. I also believe he left b/c of lack of playing time. Both things can be true.
I was pulled over and harassed all of the time when I was a teenager and in my early twenties. If I was black, I would probably assume that the cops were racist. Somehow I survived with just one speeding ticket and one trip to juvenile court (for rolling a friend's yard in the middle of the night). I wasn't a bad kid by any means, just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Luckily, it just stopped happening as I got older, got a nicer car, and got out of my old neighborhood.
The fact that he headed to Mississippi to get AWAY from racism and that Lane Kiffin looks to be involved in crafting this narrative is enough to amp up the skepticism meter, IMO.
I don't doubt some of his story. It's the kind of thing that unfortunately happens all over the country, on every campus, probably every day. However, it's the manner in which some of these experiences now seem to be useful/used to gain a desired outcome which I find distasteful to put it mildly.
At some point in our culture, we've turned the status of "victim" on its head, such that it's now a position of power. People's original sincere and rightful sympathies and compassion towards genuine victims have now been taken advantage of so that manipulators now frequently seek out the victim role to gain an advantage. This shift has the dual negative consequences of (1) encouraging embellishment and/or impact of those experiences (or completely fabricating them in the case of J. Smollet) for personal gain and (2) creating public doubt and reducing compassion, sympathy, and understanding with respect to those true victims.
James Williams says hello
Lawyer: Otis is your race card up to date?
Otis: Yes it is.
Lawyer: Play it.