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DeAndre Hopkins: "It feels like I'm a slave again." after McNair's 'inmate' comment
Posted on 9/4/19 at 4:20 pm
Posted on 9/4/19 at 4:20 pm
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Texans wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins said in an interview with GQ that his initial plan was to skip the game after late owner Bob McNair’s “inmates running the prison” remarks in 2017.
“I really didn’t want to play in that game, dog,” Hopkins said, via Greg Rajan of the Houston Chronicle. “I was like, “[Expletive], this is bigger than a game, man.” I’ve got to stand for something [for my children]. If their daddy don’t stand up, then what the hell am I going to tell them?
“It feels like I’m a slave again. Getting ran over. Listen to the master, go to work. But I took into consideration that he was older — RIP, his soul. He was a good man, but some people they don’t really . . .When you grow up certain places, you talk a certain way.”
This post was edited on 9/4/19 at 4:22 pm
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Posted on 9/4/19 at 4:21 pm to HeLeakin
Posted on 9/4/19 at 4:21 pm to HeLeakin
Man. That’s gotta be rough. Poor guy.
Posted on 9/4/19 at 4:22 pm to HeLeakin
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again
Such a rough childhood
Posted on 9/4/19 at 4:23 pm to HeLeakin
Why is everybody ignoring the fact that McNair was using a commonly used expression that was applicable to the situation he was describing?
Posted on 9/4/19 at 4:26 pm to SD Tider
Deandre Hopkins, the slave who has earned $44.1 million from his master to date and has another $52 million left on his contract.
Posted on 9/4/19 at 4:27 pm to HeLeakin
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“It feels like I’m a slave again.
He makes tens of millions of dollars to voluntarily play a sport that he can walk away from at any moment without anyone stopping him.
I really wish millionaire athletes would stop comparing anything in their lives to slavery. It is pretty disgusting.
Posted on 9/4/19 at 4:27 pm to HeLeakin
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This post was edited on 4/13/23 at 11:32 pm
Posted on 9/4/19 at 4:28 pm to SD Tider
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Why is everybody ignoring the fact that McNair was using a commonly used expression that was applicable to the situation he was describing?
This too.
Common idiom that isn't racially charged. My mom used to say that shite about me and my siblings.
Posted on 9/4/19 at 4:28 pm to HeLeakin
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“I really didn’t want to play in that game, dog,”
I assume he'll be apologizing any minute for calling a grown man a dog.
Posted on 9/4/19 at 4:29 pm to HeLeakin
I'd consider being an actual slave for what he makes in a year.
Posted on 9/4/19 at 4:29 pm to HeLeakin
How old is Hopkins? Thought slavery went away in 1861
Posted on 9/4/19 at 4:30 pm to HeLeakin
Here we go. Another dumbass diva wide receiver
Posted on 9/4/19 at 4:31 pm to TheCaterpillar
To be fair, and anyone who was offended by those comments is an idiot, McNair did frick up the saying. It’s ‘inmates running the asylum’.
So, crazy people/ideas, running the place. By saying prison, he did leave room for people to think he associated black people with prisoners.
So, crazy people/ideas, running the place. By saying prison, he did leave room for people to think he associated black people with prisoners.
Posted on 9/4/19 at 4:34 pm to HeLeakin
Posted on 9/4/19 at 4:34 pm to HeLeakin
Gotta be tough to be so naive, that you have either never heard of that saying before, or you don't get what he was trying to say.
Posted on 9/4/19 at 4:34 pm to SD Tider
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Why is everybody ignoring the fact that McNair was using a commonly used expression that was applicable to the situation he was describing?
fricking this.
this is a very common phrase used all the time.
frick ppl are dumb
Posted on 9/4/19 at 4:42 pm to Xenophon
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By saying prison, he did leave room for people to think he associated black people with prisoners.
What
nah. Theres no room for that interpretation whatsoever "Theres too many blacks running the league"
Now that leaves some room
Posted on 9/4/19 at 4:42 pm to HeLeakin
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I’ve got to stand for something [for my children]. If their daddy don’t stand up, then what the hell am I going to tell them?
This is why we kneel.
Posted on 9/4/19 at 4:44 pm to HeLeakin
Best paid slave in the world.
And he can quit at anytime.
And he can quit at anytime.
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