Gilbert Arenas is trending for going Xenophobic on Team USA vs South Sudan

[Premeditated]

I use to like his Pod until I realized he wouldnt keep it real about Bronny and will not say ANYTHING to critique Lebron..kills the credibility of your show

Shad is the only one keeps it real and doesn't try to be on the fence because of current player politics

 

[Kenny West]

Corny and racist, I don't give a fukk what his background is. This nikka a clown

 

[SheWantTheD]

I’m African and it was funny but ignorant at the same time.

Funny cause he dating Melli Monaco and I think she like French African or something

 

[Phitz]

Gilbert Arenas is Cuban

The irony of it all.

 

[Phitz]

I’m African and it was funny but ignorant at the same time.

Funny cause he dating Melli Monaco and I think she like French African or something

She might be French Caribbean

 

[SheWantTheD]

She might be French Caribbean

Yeah idk she said she mixed with a lotta things

 

[MeachTheMonster]

About the comedian bit...

True but with respect to the craft of comedy - especially stand up - these type of jokes would be such low hanging fruit that it would come off extremely amateur.
Like the overused "Hey so I was on my tourist shyt walking through time square and...you know...you know what I noticed between black people and white people?" A decade ago, it could still sound fresh but nobody is moving up in stand up with that type of material.

I don't think we are disagreeing, by the way. I just wanted to expound on the comedian aspect because it was a good point to bring up.

agreed.

 

[Budda]

Yeah idk she said she mixed with a lotta things

She’s French Caribbean, probably Guadalupe.

Edit French Guyana

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

Gilbert has once invited a muderer to his show to settle their beef. Barely anyone called him out on that.

Gilbert is doing bunch of shyt for ratings.

For real? You got a link?

 

[Apprentice]

If he said this in a different context about Europeans or the Japanese national team the reaction would be different. When it's a black man dissing fellow black men the excuses pile up.

Same ones saying "he's just joking and trolling" don't understand when you joke in public you give others from different races/ethnicities the opportunity to move the bar of disrespect via "joking". He was so ignorant he had no idea Embid is from Cameroon a country completely different than South Sudan.

No he wasn’t ignorant he was clearly joking cuz they all African lmao

The coil just be on selective outrage shyt

 

[richbosszar]

whole lot of tethers in this thread...

 

[generic-username]

If we are being honest his views about Africa are commonly held amongst people in his community.

 

[Roger king]

There is no excuse for anti black racism of any type, arenas is an idiot

 

[big bun]

Don’t tell somebody else how serious to take shyt

Is that how you’d feel if Fox News made monkey sounds, or had folk speaking in mock ‘hood’ talk? Of course not. Yall would be on here crying your eyes out.

Representation matters. And the fact their representation doesn’t register to you as mattering, is your blind spot. It’s oddly enough the type of unawareness that’s attributed to a child. The things Gil is saying are literally things black Americans say to Africans in grade school

But ffwd when Africans are doing better in life than you then it’s ’they look down on us ‘.

Shut up nigguh.

 

[Voice of Reason]

Don’t tell somebody else how serious to take shyt

Is that how you’d feel if Fox News made monkey sounds, or had folk speaking in mock ‘hood’ talk? Of course not. Yall would be on here crying your eyes out.

Representation matters. And the fact their representation doesn’t register to you as mattering, is your blind spot. It’s oddly enough the type of unawareness that’s attributed to a child. The things Gil is saying are literally things black Americans say to Africans in grade school

But ffwd when Africans are doing better in life than you then it’s ’they look down on us ‘.

Gil is not FBA/ADOS stop pinning this shyt on us.