The great white hope

I'm betting every non white person sees it as a racist statement along with many white people like me.
 
OMG OMG OMG OMG...how dare she.....

here we go again, picking at racism where none exist..
 
I got called the Great White Hope as a freshman in high school by my black teammates because I made the JV team. Of course my black friends/teammates were probably just saying it because it was institutional racism that they didn't know better.
 
if it is meant to evoke the situation that prompted the phrase's first use - and I believe it is, it certainly is racist.

in 1910, racist white america was desperate to have a white man beat Jack Johnson, the black heavyweight champion. Promoters convinced James Jeffries, a retired former champ to come out of retirement and challenge Jackson. They referred to him as the "Great White Hope". Jeffries said, "I am going into this fight for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is better than a Negro."

Jeffries got his ass kicked.
 
I got called the Great White Hope as a freshman in high school by my black teammates because I made the JV team. Of course my black friends/teammates were probably just saying it because it was institutional racism that they didn't know better.

They knew it was racsist and used it as a joke dude.

they were black and you were white and they used the phrase on a white boy.

I think that pretty much confirms it is racist
 
They knew it was racsist and used it as a joke dude.

they were black and you were white and they used the phrase on a white boy.

I think that pretty much confirms it is racist

Thank you for stating the obvious Desh but I was under no delusions that I was Larry Bird or would be a white Michael Jordan.
 
They knew it was racsist and used it as a joke dude.

they were black and you were white and they used the phrase on a white boy.

I think that pretty much confirms it is racist

And because my boys were having fun and f*cking with me it confirms its racist?
 
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Rep. Lynn Jenkins: GOP looking for 'great white hope' to thwart Obama
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Text Size: tool nameclose tool goes here TOPEKA, Kan. -- U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins told a recent gathering in northeast Kansas that the Republican Party is looking for a "great white hope" to help stop President Barack Obama's political agenda.

Videotape shows Jenkins, a Republican, making the comment at an Aug. 19 forum. She was discussing the GOP's future after Democrats took control of the House and Senate and the presidency went to Obama, the nation's first black president. Jenkins is white.
 
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Rep. Lynn Jenkins: GOP looking for 'great white hope' to thwart Obama
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Text Size: tool nameclose tool goes here TOPEKA, Kan. -- U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins told a recent gathering in northeast Kansas that the Republican Party is looking for a "great white hope" to help stop President Barack Obama's political agenda.

Videotape shows Jenkins, a Republican, making the comment at an Aug. 19 forum. She was discussing the GOP's future after Democrats took control of the House and Senate and the presidency went to Obama, the nation's first black president. Jenkins is white.

I was waiting for you to post something because there was obviously a reason you brought this subject up. You just weren't honest enough to post it at the begining.

That was a stupid comment by that lady. Kansas is kind of cracker central, not too many brothers running around there. But no justification for making the comment as she did. I understand looking for somebody to step up to 'stop' Obama but the race of the person doesn't matter.
 
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