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10-26-2006, 10:22 PM
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Mutombo confronts fan over alleged racial slurs/Heckler banned for season
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Houston Rockets center Dikembe Mutombo got into it with a fan who allegedly yelled racist slurs at him in the third quarter of the Rockets' preseason loss to the Orlando Magic on Thursday night.
Mutombo yelled at the man and gestured back. The fan was ejected. No action was taken against Mutombo.
"I am not going to take that. He was insulting my race, my family, my integrity. For him to call me a monkey ... that should not happen today," Mutombo said.
"If I get fined, I will go straight into the stands the next time."
Magic spokesman Joel Glass said the matter was turned over to NBA security.
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This is a very serious matter. I know everybody is on Deke's side, but we really have to think about this topic in our society today.
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10-26-2006, 10:27 PM
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Re: Mutombo confronts fan over alleged racial slurs
I saw this. Deke looked like he really wanted to go after that guy. You could tell he was really angry as well as he should be. And the guy looked like a real jerk with his silky/satiny colorful shirt. And then he has the audacity to try to hype the crowd as he's being escorted out by the guards.
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10-27-2006, 04:05 AM
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Re: Mutombo confronts fan over alleged racial slurs
Unless you experience them yourself, its extremely difficult to understand the helpless and frustration when attacked with the slurs.
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10-27-2006, 04:11 AM
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Re: Mutombo confronts fan over alleged racial slurs
While it would have been wrong for Mutombo to pursue the loser, one can only hope that the *** gets jumped and suitably... educated... so as to not say such things again. That guy should have had the crap beaten out of him by his fellow fans...
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10-27-2006, 04:59 AM
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Re: Mutombo confronts fan over alleged racial slurs
it's a very serious matter! i hope it would not happen again!
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10-27-2006, 05:34 AM
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Re: Mutombo confronts fan over alleged racial slurs
I wondered why that man was leaving with the secruity, I didnt see it but yes this is a serious matter.
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10-27-2006, 05:47 AM
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Re: Mutombo confronts fan over alleged racial slurs
Good that this is so rare that it's shocking when it occurs. This sort of thing happens all the time at European soccer matches. And not just one guy. More like half the stadium.
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10-27-2006, 06:47 AM
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Re: Mutombo confronts fan over alleged racial slurs
That makes me sick. I'm sure the guy was probably drunk, but I want to know who raises their child to be able to say that even if they are inebriated!
It's a shame that people have to do that... my theory, is they aren't intelligent enough to come up with something clever to yell so they backtrack to being neanderthals... me good, you bad.
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10-27-2006, 06:55 AM
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Re: Mutombo confronts fan over alleged racial slurs
The guy who supposedly did this apparently posts on realgm and bbb.net as Hairy Midget....
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10-27-2006, 07:08 AM
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Re: Mutombo confronts fan over alleged racial slurs
funny... if that's true his screen name says a lot about his intelligence.
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10-27-2006, 08:48 AM
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Re: Mutombo confronts fan over alleged racial slurs
WOW! It takes alot for a guy like Deke to go off like that. He is such a humanitarian. Agree will all posters; nobody should've done anything to the guy while he was in the building with all those cameras. Off camera out in the parking lot a beat down should've taken place. Excuse me, a lesson on racial tolerance should've HAMMERED into this idiot.
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10-27-2006, 04:22 PM
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Re: Mutombo confronts fan over alleged racial slurs
Isn't assuming that "you look like a monkey" is racist, inherently racist?
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10-27-2006, 04:30 PM
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Re: Mutombo confronts fan over alleged racial slurs
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Isn't assuming that "you look like a monkey" is racist, inherently racist?
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monkey has been used as a racist term for a long time so there is nothing wrong with assuming calling a black person a monkey is racist.
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10-27-2006, 04:34 PM
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Re: Mutombo confronts fan over alleged racial slurs
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Isn't assuming that "you look like a monkey" is racist, inherently racist?
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Not that what the guy said was right and not that Mutumbo responded irrationally... but whats to keep a guy from yelling the "N" word to Dikembe if he was meaning to berate with racial slurs? For fear that African-Americans around him will react to the "N" word slur and not to a "Monkey" slur?
I dunno. I call Marion a monkey all the time because of the way he plays rather than what he looks and I think Sherwin brings up a pretty perceptive point. One could argue that Mutombo plays like a monkey.
At any rate, I agree with all the posters assuming that the alleged racial slurs were meant to be racial slurs.
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Mutombo confronts fan over alleged racial slurs/Heckler banned for season
