Boise State RB threatened by racists !!!

[derkrieger]

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=ap-boisestate-johnson&prov=ap&type=lgns

Fiesta Bowl star Ian Johnson says he's hired wedding security because of racist threats

July 25, 2007

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The Boise State running back who scored the winning points in the Fiesta Bowl, then proposed to his cheerleader girlfriend on national television, says he has hired security for their wedding because of racial threats.

Ian Johnson, who is black, and Chrissy Popadics, who is white, are due to be married Saturday in Boise.

Since his Jan. 1 proposal, Johnson said, he has received phone calls, letters and some personal threats from people who object to their marriage plans.

"You take it for what it is -- the less educated, the less willing to change," Johnson, 21, of San Dimas, Calif., told the Idaho Statesman for its Tuesday editions. "But we're not acting like we're naive to all the stuff that's going on. We know what's been said. We're going to make sure we're safe at all times. It's an amazing day for us, and we'd hate to have it ruined by someone."

"It's really sad because a lot of people that are probably doing it are the same people who were cheering me on," Johnson said.

A Boise State football spokesman, Todd Miles, said Tuesday that Johnson hoped to put the matter behind him and did not want to discuss it further. Popadics' family said she was not available.

At the Fiesta Bowl, Johnson used a "Statue of Liberty" play to score the winning two-point conversion as underdog Boise State beat the Oklahoma Sooners 43-42 in overtime. The Broncos ended their season 13-0.

:::> OMG This is just sick. It is the 21. century dammit and the race issue is still a trouble for some sick bast**ds.

[Handplaner]

Ian Johnson, who is black, and Chrissy Popadics, who is white

Who cares about their color; I'm more worried about the marriage of two people with such absurdly fallic sur-names :D

[Breakfast in Vegas]

Ian Johnson, who is black, and Chrissy Popadics, who is white

Who cares about their color; I'm more worried about the marriage of two people with such absurdly fallic sur-names :D

LOL, the first thing I thought too was "is her name really Pop-a-dics?!?"

[shocker1]

Chrissy Popadics Johnson :cantbeli:

[Martial]

David Allen Coe had something to say about this sort of thing.

[Ludipipo]

Wrong
Chrissy Popadics Johnson

Right
Chrissy Popadic Johnson
Never forget your roots! :bash:

[Ludipipo]

http://www.brendanloy.com/blog/images/ian-crissy-1.jpg

[Durandal]

:::> OMG This is just sick. It is the 21. century dammit and the race issue is still a trouble for some sick bast**ds.

Reality check.

Most of the world is like that. Its not till you get to the U.S. and some Western(Modern) nations that its a whole lot less so.

In South Korea they would riot over $hit like this.

[ren0312]

http://www.brendanloy.com/blog/images/ian-crissy-1.jpg

Why is he called Black? I have seen countless Italians and Spaniards with much darker skin than he has, I think he is more of a Latino. Anyway I think their children will be unrecognizable as anything but White, based on the color of their skin, anyway, I really don't think people will be rioting over interracial marriages in South Korea, I think one of the players in their national basketball team is part White, they are a pretty advanced society after all, not some backwater province in China.

[ren0312]

Reality check.

Most of the world is like that. Its not till you get to the U.S. and some Western(Modern) nations that its a whole lot less so.

In South Korea they would riot over $hit like this.

As far as I know, Southeast Asia and Muslim countries really are quite open to interracial marriage, although the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are less so, but I think it has to so more with culture rather than race, China throughout its history has been incredibly isolationist in its worldview, the same goes for Korea and Japan, because of that they have a cultural bias agianst marrying foreigners, even from the same race, for example, a Japanese marrying a Korean.

[shocker1]

Wrong
Chrissy Popadics Johnson

Right
Chrissy Popadic Johnson
Never forget your roots! :bash:
When I see that name a melody gets locked in my head. You know **** Music

Even if you have never seen a **** movie in your lifetime, almost everyone in the world knows what the 'Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka' represents... Each person, upon hearing it, mentally interprets the 'Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka' in their own way, fueling a range of emotions from lust to disgust.
http://www.archive.org/details/csr049

Let's also reflect on the humor brought on by their Newspaper engagement announcement.

[Guilelmus]

Miscegenation must be made a crime again!

[DB-ERAUPilot]

Miscegenation must be made a crime again!


are you on crack!? I hope your joking :bash:

[Wilco]

Miscegenation must be made a crime again!

Man, you are an idiot.

[Guilelmus]

are you on crack!? I hope your joking :bash:
I am no liberal so I neither take drugs nor am I in favour of mongrelizing my race.



Man, you are an idiot.
Are you American by any chance?

[Firetxmi]

I am no liberal so I neither take drugs nor am I in favour of mongrelizing my race.


Are you American by any chance?

I see a swift banning in your future.

[Ludipipo]

Freedom of Expression® p-)

[Guilelmus]

I see a swift banning in your future.

For opposing ethnocide on my people?

[IraGlacialis]

I am no liberal so I neither take drugs nor am I in favour of mongrelizing my race.
Bite me.
I'm a part-German/English-American (majority German on my dad's side), part-Thai mongrel, and am proud of that.
:fork:

[shocker1]

For opposing ethnocide on my people?
Who the Idahoins?

[Flagg]

Miscegenation must be made a crime again!

Goodbye.....

[Euroamerican]

AND we don't care what their genetic backgrounds are. The VAST MAJORITY of us didn't even think of this controversy until some idiots mailed those letters. Again, we're disgusted that someone would cause this sort of discomfort for our star couple.

Unfortunately, there are a few idiots out there in the world who can't get used to the idea of interracial relationships. At least two of my friends who are BSU grads and are in "mixed marriages" commented to me in the past that people had made derogatory comments to them in public about the race of their partners. That was ten or fifteen years ago. Hopefully there are less of that sort around these days!

Anyway, This couple is truly the American Dream. Star football player and head cheerleader fall in love and get married. Their wedding tomorrow in Boise is the hottest ticket in town for perhaps the last twenty years.

Lots of people come to Boise State University from all over the USA and other parts of the world to go to college. Without football players from the Southland (who've been coming to school here for at least the last 30 years) the Broncos would not be where they are today.

Leave them in peace!

[deagle]

Why is he called Black? I have seen countless Italians and Spaniards with much darker skin than he has, I think he is more of a Latino. Anyway I think their children will be unrecognizable as anything but White, based on the color of their skin, anyway, I really don't think people will be rioting over interracial marriages in South Korea, I think one of the players in their national basketball team is part White, they are a pretty advanced society after all, not some backwater province in China.

i think lots of Asian countries are open to interracial marriage. race/ethnicity *might* be a factor for royalty or something, but obviously thats not as prevalent/important nowadays for the general population. in rural parts interracial marriages arent shunned, but just that chances are slim for 2 different races to even meet face to face (unless a tourist is WAAAAY lost).

going back to topic however, it just goes to show there are still some ignorant ppl out there.... yeah, they're good enough to cheer when they do good on the field, but not good enough for marriage.

[Durandal]

As far as I know, Southeast Asia and Muslim countries really are quite open to interracial marriage, although the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are less so, but I think it has to so more with culture rather than race, China throughout its history has been incredibly isolationist in its worldview, the same goes for Korea and Japan, because of that they have a cultural bias agianst marrying foreigners, even from the same race, for example, a Japanese marrying a Korean.

I think you are a funny guy.

Most people in this world are racist, either because its the societal norm (call it institutionalized or because they live in some po-dunk ass end back water village and either have not seen a different race or are simply backwards in their belief.

Hell, throw in, just because, as a third reason. The U.S. certainly has enough racist pricks. Look at those frat guys in "Borat". They aren't the only ones in this nation that want to be better just because they are white.

That all said, asian countries (meaning Pacific rim) are abound with racism of all sorts.

Maybe your definition and mine of what racism is, is two different things. I grew up in the 70s, in a time when I had great grandaparents and grand parents talking about "darkies" like they were not human (though certainly not animals :roll:) and whispering about the token jewish family that moved onto the block down the street.

No different there, even today, and even more so, to certain degrees than in the U.S.. China is horrible, Taiwan is just as bad (when I traveled there back in '89 I was introduced by my girlfriend at the time as "her friend" not "her boy friend", trust me, they would not have liked me dating their relative. Hell, her parents never even knew we were "dating" just that we were good friends in High School. You got South Korea, the only nation that I know that runs up the tabs they do on tear gas, keeping students in line who riot over 6 black South African students who doing some sort of exchange at University at Soul. Then you have the Japanese who, ini the dark ally ways of the business world still think Westerners are still a couple steps above the Chinese as a race and use cartoons of hitler to sell vacuum cleaners.

No, racism is alive and well in this world (muslim countries included), the fact that someone has deemed the this period in human history as "modern" means little. I'd say give it another Millennia or two and then we might see that sort of bias exist in VERY rare occasions.

[DB-ERAUPilot]

I still with stick with a quote from the movie Bulworth, back in the 90's:

All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep ****in' everybody 'til they're all the same color.

[IraGlacialis]

^^^^^
And end up like this. :grin:
http://static.flickr.com/39/84794196_1ffc979d41.jpg

[DB-ERAUPilot]

^^^^^^

rofl

[ren0312]

I think you are a funny guy.

Most people in this world are racist, either because its the societal norm (call it institutionalized or because they live in some po-dunk ass end back water village and either have not seen a different race or are simply backwards in their belief.

Hell, throw in, just because, as a third reason. The U.S. certainly has enough racist pricks. Look at those frat guys in "Borat". They aren't the only ones in this nation that want to be better just because they are white.

That all said, asian countries (meaning Pacific rim) are abound with racism of all sorts.

Maybe your definition and mine of what racism is, is two different things. I grew up in the 70s, in a time when I had great grandaparents and grand parents talking about "darkies" like they were not human (though certainly not animals :roll:) and whispering about the token jewish family that moved onto the block down the street.

No different there, even today, and even more so, to certain degrees than in the U.S.. China is horrible, Taiwan is just as bad (when I traveled there back in '89 I was introduced by my girlfriend at the time as "her friend" not "her boy friend", trust me, they would not have liked me dating their relative. Hell, her parents never even knew we were "dating" just that we were good friends in High School. You got South Korea, the only nation that I know that runs up the tabs they do on tear gas, keeping students in line who riot over 6 black South African students who doing some sort of exchange at University at Soul. Then you have the Japanese who, ini the dark ally ways of the business world still think Westerners are still a couple steps above the Chinese as a race and use cartoons of hitler to sell vacuum cleaners.

No, racism is alive and well in this world (muslim countries included), the fact that someone has deemed the this period in human history as "modern" means little. I'd say give it another Millennia or two and then we might see that sort of bias exist in VERY rare occasions.

People of my generation certainly are not racist, at the very least I can vouch for those Chinese who settled in the Philippines of my generation who have been here for more than two generations, I have been to Peking, Taipei, and Tokyo, and those places certainly seem to be friendly to Westerners, and I was unable to sense any overt hostility to Westerners, however towards Blacks I am not sure, at least from the perspective of a Chinese like me, and I am not so sure how racist Asians really are when you see the results of a Westlife concert or a David Beckham personal appearance, in say, Tokyo or Peking, people of my parent's generations may be more racist, however this type of racism is certainly less so than the degree of racism expressed by Whites towards Blacks in the South in the 1950's, certainly there is some degree of racism among East Asians, mostly from the older generations, but I really think it is much exagerrated by Westerners, several of my friends are not of pure Chinese descent, for example.

[Red]

I think you are a funny guy.

Most people in this world are racist, either because its the societal norm (call it institutionalized or because they live in some po-dunk ass end back water village and either have not seen a different race or are simply backwards in their belief.

Hell, throw in, just because, as a third reason. The U.S. certainly has enough racist pricks. Look at those frat guys in "Borat". They aren't the only ones in this nation that want to be better just because they are white.

That all said, asian countries (meaning Pacific rim) are abound with racism of all sorts.

Maybe your definition and mine of what racism is, is two different things. I grew up in the 70s, in a time when I had great grandaparents and grand parents talking about "darkies" like they were not human (though certainly not animals :roll:) and whispering about the token jewish family that moved onto the block down the street.

No different there, even today, and even more so, to certain degrees than in the U.S.. China is horrible, Taiwan is just as bad (when I traveled there back in '89 I was introduced by my girlfriend at the time as "her friend" not "her boy friend", trust me, they would not have liked me dating their relative. Hell, her parents never even knew we were "dating" just that we were good friends in High School. You got South Korea, the only nation that I know that runs up the tabs they do on tear gas, keeping students in line who riot over 6 black South African students who doing some sort of exchange at University at Soul. Then you have the Japanese who, ini the dark ally ways of the business world still think Westerners are still a couple steps above the Chinese as a race and use cartoons of hitler to sell vacuum cleaners.

No, racism is alive and well in this world (muslim countries included), the fact that someone has deemed the this period in human history as "modern" means little. I'd say give it another Millennia or two and then we might see that sort of bias exist in VERY rare occasions.

Durandal pretty much summed it up. Racism is a human condition and as such you will find it EVERYWHERE. It will never go away so the best way is to adapt. The thing that bugs me is that if you are a racist, that is fine. The problems start when they now want to extend their racist views to another person minding their own business. What you believe in your heart is your business just keep it that way and leave me alone. And for those who keep bashing America as racist, I believe that the US is one of the best places for a black person on earth. Even Black africans don't have it as good as black folks in the States.