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Sunday, September 06, 2009

Possibly the dumbest question I have ever heard/seen since…

By , 03:12 PM

some reporter supposedly asked Doug Williams, “How long have you been a black quarterback?” (I think the story is a myth - I think the reporter said something else and was mis-heard or mis-understood.)

Anyway, Richard Justice, the Astros blogger/reporter said that he asked Drayton McLane, the owner of the Astros, “If race would play a role in Cooper keeping or losing his job.”

If I were McLane, I would have responded, “Yes Richard, I am going to fire him because he is black. If he were white, I would keep him of course.  You moron!”

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