Outsports has a great series of posts on some tweets from North Carolina State University basketball player CJ Leslie.
First, about the tweets themselves (which Leslie has since removed, but which can be seen in the screen cap left).
Then, about Gay Games Ambassador John Amaechi's reaction. Here's an extract:
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 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.
Also, “too big to be gay”? Sounds like he’s put a lot of thought into that conclusion…
And now, on the University's silent treatment. Apparently while Leslie has time to tweet, he doesn't have time to explain his tweets.
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
More Twitter BS, this time from college basketball player
Libellés :
ambassadors,
basketball,
homophobia,
john amaechi,
youth
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