from the avatar archives,

Wonder if Danny will share is MMA knowledge with us again. He pounded Rousey and the UFC, saying they created a myth with her, by not fighting anyone good. Then the girl that beats her, loses in her first title defense, in which Rousey has already beat twice. I'm guessing this is never brought up, unless they hear a Jim Rome sports minute

I wrote the title because you people expect it of me.

Nevertheless, Bernstein has often said the down state crackers, specifically Champaign crackers, hate Chicago because their tax dollars go to "Black people" in Chicago. So, now those crackers have Lovie. The obvious question: Will the Champaign crackers kill Lovie?

Lovie Smith:

Beardown: Yeah, buddy. No joke. Should have talked to Bernstein before you took the job. He knows all about this stuff from growing up in Deerfield and from currently living in his gated white community on the North side. You better win. Only way to stay alive. Even if you do it's only 50/50.

Lovie Smith:

Beardown: Don't believe me, ask Doc.

Doc: Wait...what?

Beardown:

I wrote the title because you people expect it of me.

Nevertheless, Bernstein has often said the down state crackers, specifically Champaign crackers, hate Chicago because their tax dollars go to "Black people" in Chicago. So, now those crackers have Lovie. The obvious question: Will the Champaign crackers kill Lovie?

Lovie Smith:

Beardown: Yeah, buddy. No joke. Should have talked to Bernstein before you took the job. He knows all about this stuff from growing up in Deerfield and from currently living in his gated white community on the North side. You better win. Only way to stay alive. Even if you do it's only 50/50.

Lovie Smith:

Beardown: Don't believe me, ask Doc.

Doc: Wait...what?

Beardown:

By Dan Bernstein–
CBSChicago.com senior columnist

(CBS) We can debate whether or not Lovie Smith can coach, whether or not somebody two decades removed from the college ranks is ready to recruit or if he can be salesman enough to renew and sustain belief in the University of Illinois football program of which he’s now in charge.

What we can’t argue is that Smith is the first black head coach for football or men’s basketball in the history of either sport at the school and that it matters both internally and externally. Football has been played there since 1890 and basketball since 1905, so that’s 237 total years of white leadership of the most important programs, even as both teams became increasingly populated by African-American players.

It has been the subject of open discussion and disagreement at the trustee level as recently as 2012, when the approval of Tim Beckman’s hiring as football coach was voted against in symbolic protest by two board members, who cited the “sad irony” of the university’s efforts at diversity contrasting with its coaching history.

This isn’t to say that new athletic director Josh Whitman moved as an activist or did anything other than hire who he thought was the best man for the job, but only to recognize the significance at a place that’s still riven by a deep and serious cultural divide.

Managing the ongoing conflict between rural downstate Illinois and the city of Chicago has long been a difficult task for the university in general and major athletic programs in particular. The games take place surrounded by a demographic that’s deep red and rock-ribbed, people often openly resentful of city dwellers to the north who are seen as unworthy of any funds from state tax dollars. The racial subtext to this bitterness is barely hidden, if at all.

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Yet these are many of the people who actually attend games, the locals otherwise unaffiliated with the college. They matter in their use of discretionary income, so the school can’t turn its back on their interests.

Meanwhile, the school’s leadership and financing are largely Chicago-based. The money fueling football and basketball comes mostly through well-heeled alums in and around the city, and the area remains the primary source of athletic talent, much of which is African-American.

This uncomfortable dynamic can be seen in how the endless dispute has played out over the school’s brazenly racist mascot, Chief Illiniwek, a cheesy caricature of a native American. It’s not official anymore – technically discontinued for obvious reasons – but independent incarnations are still tolerated due to the weakness of the university’s stance. Officials hid behind the NCAA when they ended the insulting spectacle of a frat-boy in Sioux-style garb mincing around pretending to honor the Peoria tribe, essentially saying they got rid of it because they had to, not because they wanted to.

The down-staters who cling to the Chief do so not due to any real love for the minstrel show itself but for what it represents – something of theirs taken from them by progressive influences that represent a changing world in which they are increasingly uncomfortable. The controversy continues to shine a light on the peculiar makeup of a university community separated by many geographical miles and often different values.

It’s clearly meaningful, then, that Smith got this job at this time, and all the better because of how it’s happening. The fact that he’s the first black head coach at Illinois isn’t the first headline, and that’s just fine: It’s good that the football discussion is instead immediately top of mind. Smith brings an unlikely – perhaps even ideal – combination of assets to a program in need of them, with his experience in both college and the NFL, understanding of Chicago and calm demeanor befitting a leader of young men.

The black man with the east Texas drawl just happens to be the right guy for Illinois football, and that’s no small thing.

Well that article is exactly what Beardown predicted.

By Dan Bernstein–
CBSChicago.com senior columnist

The games take place surrounded by a demographic that’s deep red and rock-ribbed, people often openly resentful of city dwellers to the north who are seen as unworthy of any funds from state tax dollars. The racial subtext to this bitterness is barely hidden, if at all.

This uncomfortable dynamic can be seen in how the endless dispute has played out over the school’s brazenly racist mascot, Chief Illiniwek, a cheesy caricature of a native American.

a native [sic] American

Well that article is exactly what Beardown predicted.

BTW, talking to Boers at Stoney Point over the week end,
he and his peeps knew this was coming since the day Lovie
Let go by Tampa.

has played out over the school’s brazenly racist mascot, Chief Illiniwek, a cheesy caricature of a native American.

the insulting spectacle of a frat-boy in Sioux-style garb mincing around pretending to honor the Peoria tribe,

The down-staters who cling to the Chief do so not due to any real love for the minstrel show itself but for what it represents – something of theirs taken from them by progressive influences that represent a changing world in which they are increasingly uncomfortable.

And what, exactly, is wrong with that? Enjoying something for a long time, and then not liking when changing viewpoints outside of your control or input dictate that what you enjoyed, and which hasn't changed in decades, is now wrong, and bad, and you are a bad person for ever having enjoyed it?

Did Dan & Terry ever apologize for making homosexuals the butt of endless jokes over the years?

Continuing to enjoy something that you admit is racist is what is wrong about it.

Not exactly a hard concept given the content of your own post.

[, the largest collection of GDI's on campus outside of the engineering quad.?