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Re: Just to elaborate a little......

Posted: 1/28/2013 7:39 PM

Re: Just to elaborate a little...... 



Do you even know your own guy? He was run from Utah, the tamest place on the planet. That was before his felony drug arrest. Facts are facts.
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--- NJReb wrote:

on the race thing, I think one of the issues might be that Marshall is such a non-conformist, which generally does not go over well in white, Southern culture.  If you noticed who was taunting him in that film clip, it was a bunch of "clean-cut", preppy, conservative, frat boy types in polo shirts, every single one of whom was white....and I think it is Henderson's scruffiness and hip-hop-inspired, break-all-the-rules style, as much as anything, that drives their hostility.  They are all about conformity and he is, in a way, a threat to their entire code of behavior.  They might accept that behavior in a black guy who is not part of their social world to begin with, but seeing it in a white guy drives them crazy.

A lot of these frat boys listen to rap music, which, I think, reflects a sort of pent-up frustration with the conformist culture they inhabit and a fantasy about escaping it.....and when they see a guy like Henderson living out that fantasy, it could be that it just pushes all their buttons at once.

I don't want to go too far with this, but I do think these factors probably play into the phenomenon we are witnessing.

I doubt Marshall would create as much of a stir if he were playing in the Northeast as he has playing in the South.

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