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Fox News Commenters Respond to Whitney Houston’s Death With Deluge of Hatred and Racism

Click through to see the worst of the comments which feature prominently the N word, bizarre attacks on Obama, and statements that African-Americans are subhuman. Stay classy, Republicans.

Little Green Footballs - Fox News Commenters Respond to Whitney Houston's Death With Deluge of Hatred and Racism

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Watch This Right Now: A comedian in blackface asks Mormon students what they know about Black History Month

HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS. HOLY SHIT. Watch this. This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day - The Daily What

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Is football worth the injuries?

The Cost of Football Glory - NYTimes.com

Thirty-six years ago, Clark Booth, a young Boston journalist, went to Miami to cover Super Bowl X. Though primarily a television newsman, Booth was on assignment for The Real Paper, an alternative weekly long since closed, for which he often wrote. His plan was to interview the players about the potential consequences of the injuries they suffered playing football. . . . I remember being thunderstruck reading it. D.D. Lewis of the Dallas Cowboys talked about having nightmares and his fear of breaking his neck. Lee Roy Jordan, a veteran Cowboys linebacker, was asked by Booth why he kept playing with a sciatic nerve condition. “By the time I’m 55, I feel they’ll have learned enough to medically treat me,” he said. “If they can’t, I can accept that.” Booth asked sportswriters and ex-players about the worst injury they had ever seen. The stories he heard were almost too gruesome to read. He wrote about Alex Webster, a former great for the New York Giants who had “developed a radical mastoid problem from repeated thumps to the head.” Eventually, Webster required surgery that “involved cutting off his ears and then sewing them back on.” He then developed middle ear problems. “Why maim yourself?” said Irv Cross, the former player-turned-sportscaster. “I don’t know. You just do it.” Jean Fugett, a tight end for the Cowboys who made $21,000 that year, said, “Injuries are just like death to a lot of players ... death of a career ... death of all that a lot of them want in life. So you say, ‘I’m not gonna worry about dying. I’m gonna go ahead and live!’ ” . . .

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Errol Morris and El Wingador

This link is to a nine minute film by documentarian...

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Fox News Commenters Respond to Whitney Houston’s Death With Deluge of Hatred and Racism

February 08, 2012

Watch This Right Now: A comedian in blackface asks Mormon students what they know about Black History Month

February 04, 2012

Is football worth the injuries?

February 03, 2012

Errol Morris and El Wingador

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