So I was reading to my roommate a comment that a friend of mine left on a thread. The thread is going on between the guys on my rowing crew team, and what it was meant for was for the team to post up their practice times and workout strategies for the winter break training sessions we have to do. Instead, we use this as an opportunity to talk shit to each other, and it is damn fun.
At a certain point we began to accuse one of our teammates for cheating on his tally sheet (we are supposed to reach a certain score throughout the break, I won't bore you with the details) because he did a very difficult workout that demands 100% exertion to be done properly, but did it two times in a row so that he can get a multiplier of 1.2, essentially taking care of a quarter of his winter break workout. So we had at him, jokes flying left and right about being bitches and what have you, and by the point he started saying that he was the greatest, I responded with:
You black athletes are so arrogant
to which he responded:
Go take your racist shit back to Texas and leave it there.
Now obviously we were just having fun with each other, and when I decided to read it off to my roommate, he started to go off on me saying that I was the arrogant one. He was telling me that it is highly unintelligent to just assume that all black athletes are arrogant, and that I was arrogant for talking to him about my crew team because I (according to him) assume that he cares about my team. Two things:
Being in college athletics demands full participation in the sport and the team, meaning that the crew team has been my life since the year began, so obviously it would be a topic of choice.
I was making a generalization that in my experience has been true all my life. Whether it be in tennis, football, soccer, baseball, basketball, etc. there has been a high volume of arrogant dudes I had to deal with. This spanned all colors and creeds, but I just said black in this case because thats what my friend is, and the name T.O. popped in my head.
So I looked at my roommate and almost told him to go fuck himself for being a wet blanket, but I decided against it because I feared that all the pent up anger I have for that lard-ass would consume me. What do you guys think?
At a certain point we began to accuse one of our teammates for cheating on his tally sheet (we are supposed to reach a certain score throughout the break, I won't bore you with the details) because he did a very difficult workout that demands 100% exertion to be done properly, but did it two times in a row so that he can get a multiplier of 1.2, essentially taking care of a quarter of his winter break workout. So we had at him, jokes flying left and right about being bitches and what have you, and by the point he started saying that he was the greatest, I responded with:
You black athletes are so arrogant
to which he responded:
Go take your racist shit back to Texas and leave it there.
Now obviously we were just having fun with each other, and when I decided to read it off to my roommate, he started to go off on me saying that I was the arrogant one. He was telling me that it is highly unintelligent to just assume that all black athletes are arrogant, and that I was arrogant for talking to him about my crew team because I (according to him) assume that he cares about my team. Two things:
Being in college athletics demands full participation in the sport and the team, meaning that the crew team has been my life since the year began, so obviously it would be a topic of choice.
I was making a generalization that in my experience has been true all my life. Whether it be in tennis, football, soccer, baseball, basketball, etc. there has been a high volume of arrogant dudes I had to deal with. This spanned all colors and creeds, but I just said black in this case because thats what my friend is, and the name T.O. popped in my head.
So I looked at my roommate and almost told him to go fuck himself for being a wet blanket, but I decided against it because I feared that all the pent up anger I have for that lard-ass would consume me. What do you guys think?
