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Old Sat Aug 12, 2006, 11:07pm
Mark Padgett Mark Padgett is offline
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Originally Posted by bellnier
We have morons south of the border too...Buffalo's new ABA team is the Silverbacks, the logo being a male silverback gorilla. Some local black leaders, never shy about playing the race card over any issue here in Buffalo, are accusing the team of being racially insensitive because (a) white racists have sometimes called African-Americans 'monkeys', 'apes', etc. and/or (b) the gorilla in the logo "looks like an angry black man" (this comment was actually from a black woman). Sheesh.
And yet the NFL still has a team called the "Redskins". Yeesh!
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