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I hope we get a parade here to replace the ones we lost now that the Blackhawks suck again

Oh so very thank you lol!

This time it's The Clipboard. I think the time he called the timeout, threw the clipboard down and it bounced and hit one of his players is going to be a great new Screech meme. It might already be breaking the internet as we speak.

TIME OUT SCREECH!!!

Yeah I've noticed more than one person in the thread does not see anything even at all questionable about the Mike Davis black-out that day. 10,000 Indiana Hoosier fans may even agree with you. That is how many Hoosier fans took part in the black-out. I have the right to be saddened and sickened by that, and to share my experience here in this forum. I feel very strongly it is my duty to share that experience. I am confident that even young children could be capable of making the connection between the first black-out at IU and the significance of the fact it was directed at the first black basketball coach at Indiana University, yet you have full grown adults in this forum claiming to be incapable of grasping that concept.

Sister Jean was old when Loyola hung their banner in 1963.

I am not conducting an investigation. Nobody is going to admit to race being a part of their decision to take part in a black-out except to people they feel comfortable making sideways comments to. You and I both know that is how that works. We have both heard many racist remarks in our lives, enough to at least consider whether a black-out statement is the right movement to get behind if you want to tell the world you want the basketball program's first black coach removed immediately.

No. I am saying that everybody who wore a black shirt that day should have considered the possibility of racial undertones and not gone along with the black-out at the very least. There is no rule that says we all have to follow the crowd when it meanders into questionable territory, even when the crowd is led there by people we look up to in the university club.

If that is all there was to that, and nobody got a "chuckle" at the expense of Mike Davis' blackness in the process, then it would still have been in poor taste to initiate a black-out. But I think we both know that is not the case.

Are you being genuine or obtuse? I am going to let you struggle through the questions you have on your own.

The students mostly did not wear black. The adults were the ones doing that, mostly really old adults. Mostly the student section did not want to touch the black-out statement with a ten foot pole.

Yeah, not going to either. If you fail to see poor judgement by the mob that day, then OK. I am not trying to convert you to a new religion. The black-out expression was in extremely poor taste that day.

I do not think it is at all a terrible argument to say that 10,000 IU fans made a really bad choice if they chose to go along with a black-out the day they wanted to tell Mike Davis he was no longer welcome in Bloomington.

Like I said, if you do not want to take my account at face value, don't. You were not there. I was, and I was not the only one offended.

I am telling you what I observed. I am not arguing whether it happened or not. You are arguing that. I am not interested in proving it. If it is difficult for you to come to grips with what happened, and you prefer to simply say it never happened, then so be it. You are a free man.

Oh ok so now you are simply saying I made up a lie.

Yeah. At least half the crowd in Assembly Hall dressed in black. Bizarre. Much to their credit, the student section did not seem to jump on the bandwagon. The surviving internet reports on google support that. Probably many more internet accounts of the black-out available using duckduckgo. Google is really turning to sh@t as far as paid search is concerned. They control too much of the market share, and have become way too greedy. That is why almost no search results come up anymore when internet searches used to generate hundreds of thousands of results per search. Now on google we are lucky to get 100, and those are probably nearly all paid.

You seem to feel very strongly about defending the behavior, and the mob's decision to discount the possible racist undertones failing to even consider the insensitivity altogether. I do not comprehend the thought process that goes into ignoring that insensitivity, and then to so forcefully argue in favor of the behavior. Your argument in favor sounds like a bunch of excuses and rationalizations and talking in circles.

It was a very poor decision if only one person made the decision to call for a black-out, and impossible to believe 10,000 people did not consider the possible connection. Impossible and sickening. People often make poor choices when under the influence of the mob mentality.

I think you are being disingenuous if you are saying you cannot fathom a connection.

The "issue" for lack of a better word of Mike Davis' race was discussed to such an extent at that time that the Board of Trustees chose Davis' successor based largely on his minority status. I just don't see how race could not have occurred to anybody in the black-out decision making department at that time. One person did not make that decision. That was a group decision.

What happened to Cody?

Did nobody really ask if anybody else thought that might be construed as a racist statement? The answer to that question is not yes.

Extremely poor judgement guided the decision to give a blackout the green light that day. Just curious, not that this would make the Mike Davis blackout OK, but can you tell me about any Crean and/or Sampson and/or Dakich and/or Knight blackouts that ever took place in Assembly Hall?

Yes. It is everybody's job to judge such things. I am certain I am not the only person in Assembly Hall that day who questioned the double entendre. IU is a university.