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HeStoleMyBalloons OP t1_j66y340 wrote

> ``One thing I do know about Billy ... is that he is not a racist,″ Thompson said.

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Pobert-Raulson t1_j6747qp wrote

His response seemed reasonable, ‘tough monkey’ isn’t an uncommon description either. Got anything else for those of us who don’t know, or is that it?

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Pobert-Raulson t1_j67c7w6 wrote

Hmm okay he made a sexist comment 20 years ago. Let’s cancel him, erase him from history and claim he’s ‘definitely a racist’.

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ChampedPogs t1_j67nof3 wrote

Did you even read? There's more than one thing he said just in that list.

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orangutanoz t1_j66xg8c wrote

That’s some Jimmy The Greek and Howard Cosell type shit, and it pretty much ruined them.

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knowtoriusMAC t1_j670bik wrote

>Basketball commentator Billy Packer says he meant no racial overtones in his use of the term ``tough monkey″ to describe Allen Iverson.
In today’s editions of The Washington Post, Packer said he ``was not apologizing for what I said, because what I said has no implications in my mind whatsoever to do with Allen Iverson’s race.″

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Good riddance

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