John Amaechi Slams CJ Leslie And NC State's Graduation Rate
by Akula Wolf on May 10, 2011 11:00 PM EDT
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PrintEarlier this afternoon, CJ Leslie decided to tweet about how he feels about homosexuals in the locker room. Leslie realized his mistake quickly and deleted those tweets within a half hour, but by then it was too late. When you have as many followers as Leslie does--many of whom are members of the media--you're not going to be able to bury anything on Twitter. Within minutes his comments were retweeted by several people just in my timeline alone, and there's absolutely nothing Leslie could do about those. If you missed his comments, here they are, via the Technician article I linked earlier:
"I'm no anti gay But I would rather not have a gay n the locker room."
"John amaechi is to big to be gay…….#imjusssayin"
"I'm not saying I hate gays but that's sumthing that I would not wnt n my locker room….."
Outsports.com found out about the tweets and reached out to John Amaechi for a reaction. Amaechi's angry and condescending response wasn't exactly constructive (via Tyler Dukes):
However, I would suggest that as the incidence of these damaging and obtuse perspectives is ever increasing, we should remind those that can’t resist spewing bigotry in 140 characters, that their right to speak exposes them to of [SIC] right of balanced and educated people to rip their puny logic and hypocritical perspectives to pieces and call them out as ignorant.
Did you know NC State has a 45% graduation rate for its basketball players? You would think that would be a larger concern for their players – the vast majority of whom will never join me in pulling on an NBA jersey.
Way to take the high road, John.
In the Technician article, Annabelle Myers indicated that this would be handled internally, and I'm guessing we can expect a public apology from CJ at some point.
Wednesday afternoon update: CJL apologized via Twitter:
Wanna apologize for hurting or offending any 1 with my tweets yesterday.Was watching espn show about it and didn't think before I tweeted. Meant no disrespect to any 1
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I can certainly understand CJ's point of view...
My brother has the same point of view – and it’s a logical extrapolation. What CJ doesn’t know, of course, is that he’s most likely already shared a locker room with a gay person… and he didn’t even know it!
Gee, give the kid a break. I’ll bet he’s never known anyone that’s gay – or rather, that he is aware is gay. Believe it or not, they aren’t that easy to tell apart sometimes.
As stupid as CJ's comments were
Amaechi’s were just as dumb. I mean you are going to go after the kid and then NC State’s graduation rate? Really? You are a grown * man. By stooping down to that level, Amaechi really comes off looking worse than Leslie because he should know better.
BTW Hodge took Amaechi to task on Twitter last night. I heart Hodge, but you know, not in that way…since we were on the topic.
So maybe NC State DOESN'T...
… have the tight policies and controls regarding social networking that we claimed to have in the post-Marvin Austin era.
Or maybe it’s just a 19-year-old kid who wasn’t thinking.
And Travelwolf – I agree to an extent – but you’re proving the point. He has shared a locker room with a gay person already… 10% of the population is gay, and yes, they play sports, too. His viewpoint is simply ignorant of the real world… and it’s unfortunate that he had to announce it to the world.
(Mark down reason #12,639 why I hate Twitter and will never use it…)
(Mark down reason #12,639 why I hate Twitter and will never use it…)
Booooooo.
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CJ comes off looking ignorant
and Amaechi comes off looking petty in his response.
I wonder what made CJ all of a sudden tweet about that subject?
Also
is the grad rate even correct? I thought one thing the Lowe era did well was graduate players.
Be a man
Seriously, John you’re responding to a kid’s tweet. Agree with Hodge, man up, you’re a man, you’re 40 to paraphrase from one of my favorite press conference of all time.
I guess 19 year olds are supposed to be learned and worldly nowadays
Geez – I was pretty stupid at that age too…probably still am today.
big deal
Not everyone has to embrace homosexuality or any other subset of the population, and cater to their sensitivities. Leslie’s only mistake was deleting the tweets and insinuating wrongdoing rather than standing his ground on his position, which he is perfectly entitled to. If any apologies are warranted in this matter, they should come from Amaechi.
#NCStateShit
Also, I’m not sure that Hodge’s spirited defense of CJL on twitter last night helped matters any.
Much Ado About Nothing
Instant information is great until there’s a vacuum and it is filled with something as meaningless as this.
I’ve had it with this school, Skinner. Low test scores, class after class of ugly, ugly children…
—John Amaechi
by georgetown wolf on May 11, 2011 4:42 PM EDT reply actions
you and i both know these children have no future!
Prove me wrong, kids. Prove me wrong.
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