Samuel L. Jackson blames racism on Artest suspension

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/266306p-227925c.html

Samuel L. Jackson is stirring up as much courtside trouble as his new
character, "Coach Carter."
The Oscar-nominee says racism contributed to Indiana Pacer Ron Artest's
season-long NBA suspension, following the infamous player-fan brawl of Nov.
19.

"I knew immediately that he was going to be blamed for it," Jackson told us.

"It all becomes a very strange kind of race issue. As black players were
going into the stands, it looked like it was black players fighting white
fans. But, there were some black fans fighting, too . and you also won't
hear a lot about the white kids who ran out on the court, where they
shouldn't have been," griped Jackson, while doing press rounds for his
January film, in which he plays a controversial basketball coach.

The NFL's not off the hook, either.

"The same way with the Monday Night Football opening. If [white player]
Peyton Manning would have been standing there, and Nicolette Sheridan would
have dropped her towel, it would have been like, 'What a cute opening!
'Desperate Housewives'! Yeah!'" he fumed.

"It changes when it's [black player] Terrell Owens. The more we advance, the
more we go backwards."

On 29 Dec 2004 10:54:42 EST, "s_knight8" <s_knight8nospam.RemoveThis@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/266306p-227925c.html
>
>Samuel L. Jackson is stirring up as much courtside trouble as his new
>character, "Coach Carter."
>The Oscar-nominee says racism contributed to Indiana Pacer Ron Artest's
>season-long NBA suspension, following the infamous player-fan brawl of Nov.
>19.
>
>"I knew immediately that he was going to be blamed for it," Jackson told us.
>
>"It all becomes a very strange kind of race issue. As black players were
>going into the stands, it looked like it was black players fighting white
>fans. But, there were some black fans fighting, too . and you also won't
>hear a lot about the white kids who ran out on the court, where they
>shouldn't have been," griped Jackson, while doing press rounds for his
>January film, in which he plays a controversial basketball coach.
>
>The NFL's not off the hook, either.
>
>"The same way with the Monday Night Football opening. If [white player]
>Peyton Manning would have been standing there, and Nicolette Sheridan would
>have dropped her towel, it would have been like, 'What a cute opening!
>'Desperate Housewives'! Yeah!'" he fumed.
>
>"It changes when it's [black player] Terrell Owens. The more we advance, the
>more we go backwards."
>
I wonder how long it will be until people like Samuel L. Jackson will
be able to accept that a black man may have made a mistake and done
the wrong thing?

Swyck