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Is /Was Viv Richards racist??

 
CITYBOY 2021-08-07 11:52:32 

A post going around about AB Villiers and I posed the question there..
as usual no one not touching ...
So did Richards not display the same kind of racist attitude that AB is supposedly guilty of??
AB did not supposedly want colored on his team...and Richards only wanted Blacks..
But as usual everyone will go hiding..
I will not....and Richards irrespective of his affair with an Indian saw it fit to be RACIST in his selection policy.

 
Emir 2021-08-07 12:25:16 

In reply to CITYBOY

You are a damn racist. I hope, I hope you don't pretend to be of the Muslim faith.

Folks, he is an example of what I tell you all about the "Indo Guyanese" racist movement.

 
bolls 2021-08-07 12:41:49 

In reply to Emir

What is Muslim Faith? To pissfully bomber the whole world?

TALK NAH SKUNT.

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velo 2021-08-07 12:47:04 

In reply to CITYBOYgive us proof of your claims

 
Onionman0 2021-08-07 15:42:35 

In reply to CITYBOY

Blacks are discriminated all over world.....be it India, England, South Africa , Australia,.....be it cricket, football, rugby,......most famous players are abused simply because colour......Richards was proud of his origin.... dominated world cricket, when England & Australia were considered epicenter..... Richards had affair with Indian....has a daughter.....his best friend Botham,an Englishman....he is simply proud black....

De Villiers.....not only wanted to drop Rabada but refused to allow Zondo to be selected in the playing XI .......

Please give an instance, where Richards, refused to select a player.....white or brown.....

 
Onionman0 2021-08-07 15:57:27 

In reply to CITYBOY

Cricket SA hearings: Ex-selector claims AB de Villiers fought Khaya Zondo's 2015 Proteas selection: 'He wasn't happy' | Sporthttps://www.news24.com/sport/cricket/proteas/cricket-sa-hearings-ex-selector-claims-ab-de-villiers-fought-khaya-zondos-2015-proteas-selection-he-wasnt-happy-20210805

 
problemjay 2021-08-07 16:48:53 

Be a man and not a mouse. Just tell is what you believe instead of asking us. And bring proof if you have any at all

 
camos 2021-08-07 16:58:15 

In reply to CITYBOY Bro! how do you equate a one statement by Viv to being racist?

 
CITYBOY 2021-08-07 17:21:29 

In reply to camos

Look I will not run from this topic ...so it’s just a one time thing so we must not pay it any mind....
This is as open as it gets. ... we need to recognize truth and untruth..
What about those on the team that did not say anything???
Look this whole calling out of people is inappropriate ...if you are guilty of the same..

 
CITYBOY 2021-08-07 17:23:09 

In reply to Emir

You are an old man. And I will not cast stones at you.

 
Narper 2021-08-07 17:25:35 

In reply to CITYBOY

You are an old man


And how do you know that CB?

Dont be gullible...that skunt is a fraud

 
CITYBOY 2021-08-07 18:42:01 

In reply to Narper

I playing with him. I really don’t want to get into any converse with Emir.
I ask a question and he blow up calling me a RACIST.. I am one man that stand up against bullyism because of my brown skin ..
In Antigua a bunch of guys came to me from all sides with disgusting remarks about Shiv and Sars and their brown skin as well as mine...
I laced into them and a lady from the tourist booth came
over to me and said “ boy you got a lot of guts” to which I replied””I don’t stand for crap.””

 
Emir 2021-08-07 18:52:38 

In reply to CITYBOY

You are a racist and that eediot fraud supporter of yours is dotish, he won't fool anyone abut driving a wagon. We know that wagon is full of hate!

You should be ashamed of yourself.

 
CITYBOY 2021-08-07 19:17:39 

In reply to Emir

Absolutely I am a racist because I like myself and browness...
If you are ashamed of who you are that’s not my problem..
I am however very ashamed and it’s demeaning to me to be on the same chatboard as you. ... oh well
I can view it as a charitable act.

 
Jumpstart 2021-08-07 20:02:48 

In reply to CITYBOY

There is a simple solution to this. CITY, tell us how many players of the ethnicity Richards' apparently did not like could replace greenidge, haynes, dujon, Marshall, Gomes, and anyone of the quicks? Keeping in mind Brian Lara, whose 2nd innings in first class cricket was almost a hundred in 1988 versus Marshall and Garner, could not make the team. If there is, name him/them

 
CITYBOY 2021-08-07 22:33:28 

In reply to Jumpstart

Jump don’t get excited. Richards made a statement and he owns it...the region was silent except for the brownies ...
Do you have any idea how non blacks were treated on the WI team???
Try asking around...
Richards never apologized ....
but what the heck.

 
Jumpstart 2021-08-07 22:58:41 

In reply to CITYBOY

Richards called the team his African team. I personally don't see any issue. The team was a team made of black people. Nobody said anything because nobody was offended by a statement of fact. Some politically opportunistic persons in Trinidad made a bruhaha and that has to be taken in the context that there was an election in TTO in 1991. These statements were made just before the Aussies tour of the WI in 1991. And for your information, the person who made the most noise, a former PM of Trinidad, received an apology from Viv. I wasn't even born then but its in newspapers and books. By the way, as we are on the subject of apologies, VS Naipaul ever apologize for any of the offensive, bordering on seditious statements he has made?

Link Text

A link to the report of Viv's apology

 
CITYBOY 2021-08-07 23:19:27 

In reply to Jumpstart

When did Naipaul play for WI??? Don’t change the discourse ..
But the question remains... now unto another loaded question

 
Jumpstart 2021-08-07 23:24:38 

In reply to CITYBOY

You give up because you are devolving into misinformed drivel that you have no way of substantiating but you heard from a relative or friend

 
Ewart 2021-08-08 02:07:32 

In reply to CITYBOY

...and Richards only wanted Blacks.



Disingenuous nonsense. I expected better from you.

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Rascalp 2021-08-08 09:07:14 

In reply to CITYBOY
Oh come on..drop this racist thing...its South Africa players...its...its Richards.WHY DONT WE LOOK AT THE THINLY DISGUISED RACISM IN OUR OWN RANKS...Somebody on this MB who should know better hates Jofra Archer and expressed the wish to see him get an injury that would end his career.Why because he plays for England.Such implied nasty racist overtones.STFU about the racism in other people.

 
Jumpstart 2021-08-08 10:58:40 

In reply to CITYBOY

I mention Naipaul because he is more well known than any west indian cricketer and has used his platform to make several racist and borderline seditious statements, which I suspect you agree with because you are trying to change the subject

 
JahJah 2021-08-08 15:58:26 

Rass, so CITYBOY isn't Narper's 2nd handle?

Cool.

 
doublecentury 2021-08-08 20:40:13 

I have no idea why anyone started this thread but it’s a disgraceful piece of libel. Viv is a proud black man and a proud Antiguan and a proud west Indian. Whoever cityboy is is ignorant and does not know sir Viv one little bit and has a hell of a nerve starting a thread like this…I rarely come on this site and now I remember why…I call bullshit on this.

 
Rascalp 2021-08-08 22:26:47 

Listen allyuh peeps.Racism is a topic best discussed in the Backroom.Didnt you read the rules?.Two points here.THE RUMSHOP IS TO DISCUSS CRICKET.Secondly DO NOT BE A JACKASS.Cant you buffoons read?..Quite apart from the fact that the rubbish posted by the original FOOL POSTER is absurd.
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