We blinked when we saw this picture in the Courier-Journal after the Cards-Cats basketball game. Odd shot, but nothing to get worked up over.
Now it’s become a national story, thanks to a bunch of smart-asses who are using it as a reason to pull out their staple of bad Kentucky gay/black guy jokes. Not funny.
It’s like Jim Rome reading the disgusting e-mails from his “clones” on radio, spotlighting the worst qualities of people with nothing better to do. The worst of it is at the national gossip blog Gawker, where everyone’s a comedian. I’m happy that the newspaper isn’t apologizing for publishing the shot, which is simply two players celebrating a good moment. That’s it. Really. Quit with the analysis.
3 responses so far ↓
1 ms. p // Jan 15, 2008 at 4:25 pm
I’m confused. It doesn’t even look like… anything. Man, people must be bored, which I don’t understand given how much is going on right now.
2 ms. p // Jan 15, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Okay, I just read some of the Gawker stuff and while I think that site is full of smarty pants types, I will say every time I’ve gone to a movie here where there’s any type of lesbian or gay kissing I always hear “EUW!” type sounds from the audience. It’s maddening. And embarrassing.
3 wblo // Jan 18, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Given the backlash the C-J got for running the photo (which I feel was bad simply because it was poorly composed and didn’t tell much) Louisville and Kentucky deserves to get mocked by the national media. Rampant ignorance and intolerance should be brought out into the light and ridiculed openly for what it is.
Like it or not there are a lot of very stupid people in this area, and it really damages my arguments to friends from out of town that “Louisville isn’t really the south.”
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