It’s Attitude, Not Color: When Did “Prima Donna WR” Become a Racist Term?

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Published: August 5, 2009

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... comic who thinks that if he repeats the same crappy joke 12 times, it'll magically become funny the 13th time. And then listening to a lot of the sounds of silence in between.

With that said, I still make a focused effort to try and catch his ESPN TV show in the afternoon, for reasons I think I'll discuss in a future post.

On this particular afternoon, I heard an argument that was, to borrow a phrase, pants-on-head stupid. Not from Rome, as might be expected, but from one of his Forum guests.

In a discussion about whether or not Terrell Owens fit into Buffalo, Buffalo native Vincent Thomas of SLAM Magazine had an interesting theory. For one thing, Thomas essentially put his hometown on blast for being racist, or at least "a place where there's still an undercurrent of racial tension."

Okay, fair enough. But he didn't stop there.

Thomas then proceeded to shoot on the entire NFL-covering media and fan base for the very same ...

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