Rio Ferdinand

Whatever he wants to do, a bit long in the tooth to start boxing, but he's reasonably fit and will have a big height and reach advantage over most opponents, he could make an OK journeyman. He wants to channel his anger and aggression somewhere, I guess losing his wife to cancer hit him quite hard and he wants to lash out at somebody for it, what better person to lash out at than a boxer in a ring?

 

Wow, trying to prove how "hard" you are on the internet, how very mature of you...

 

You wouldn't show up. You've got history for that.

 

You only just come across Kustard?

As for Rio, would love for him to get sparked.

 

Just proves the point that fame and money will get you anywhere..even if you dont belong there.

With that in mind i hope he does not succeed. If he is using it as a means to channel his aggression then why the hoo ha about it? get to your local gym and start boxing. He was approached by Betfred(i think) initially to consider it...says it all.

 

A money ploy IMO , any " Celeb " can make a bundle these days it seems in the ring .

 

Will be like another Flintoff moment. Will just fight some chump in a horrendous fight.

 

His first fight will be Choc Ice Cole, homeboy be catchin zeds inside 30 seconds.

 

I hate the term "choc ice" (and similar term "Oreo" in the US) with a passion.

It's an expression that is simulatneously racist against blacks and whites. It's expressing that people of one race are supposed to act in only one way, and infers people of the other race are beneath them.

You have to be a real thick ****, like Rio, to call someone a "choc ice". (I mean that with no implied disrespect to vaginas)

With that said... It still makes me laugh (in a what the hell were they thinking way) that they created an Oreo Barbie as a commercial tie-in and made the doll black. What idiots.

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With a passion though? Seems rather insignificant to get that wound up about it imo.

 

I thinks it worse than most of the more common racial slurs because it is harmful. It tries to belittle people in to thinking they have to act a certain way or be a certain way. Call someone a N- and you just sound like an idiot. Call someone a choc ice and you're trying to belittle them and coerce them into acting in a racially stereotyped manner.

It's that type of thinking (blacks should keep to themselves and act one way, and whites should keep to themselves and act another) that causes a lot of the racial divides. How about people act in whatever cultural way they want without being browbeaten into keeping groups separated. People shouldn't be forced to act in one stereotyped manner because of their skin.

If a white man wants dreds or a black man wants to drink Starbucks... Why the **** not?

 

I don't know what choc ice means.

Rio is being a little silly here, his kids have lost their mother young and he's climbing into a boxing ring to get smacked around the head. Fighting chumps or not, it only takes one dig and injuries happen.

 

I've never looked at it as anything other than a derogatory insult to be honest, not one that offends me either way.

I've only ever heard it used by Rio to describe Cole mind. Cole is an utter tool so can't really bring myself to be bothered on his behalf.

 

I live in a city that's over 50% black so I hear it periodically... "Oreo" is more common.

They're racist terms to refer to people who are black on the outside but white on the inside. In other words.... Someone with dark skin that acts "too white".

I heard it a lot in High School when I first came over here. The black kids who got good grades were often called Oreos because a lot of black kids thought it was "un-black" to do well. They felt like if you do well you're conforming to whitey.

As a result a lot of kids are scared to do well in school because their friends will think them not black enough. Which stinks because a lot of blacks live in poverty in large part because of a lack of opportunity in education.

If a black kid has white friends often his black friends will call him a choc ice or Oreo to try and belittle him into not associating with white people.

There are certain stores some blacks will not go in thinking they're too culturally white. Starbucks is the stereotypical example. There used to be a clothing store called the gap. That was another. You're an Oreo if you go there.

It's really stupid, and harmful to society. It's not just blacks. White people sometimes use the term to make fun of black people too... As in a "he wants to be white like us, but he's only black" type way.

 

Went to high school where 90% were black ...... I got a lot of " White Trash " like many of the white students . Majority rules I guess .

 

My first day of high school in the US... I was fairly early. First one in. Sat down at a desk... Little later people started coming in. One black girl sits in front of me, turns to look at me a scowl on her face.

"This is OUR side of the room.".

Noticed then that room when full had blacks on one side and whites on the other. This girl was angry I was on their side.

That was pretty atypical. Most of my classes weren't like that and most people I met of both races arnt actually that racist. At least not overtly.

Still kind of sad, I grew up in an all white village, the first thing a black person says to me in school is something angry based on race.

 

We were bused from a navy base into a Black Community in Nova Scotia , Canada outside Dartmouth where the " Underground Railway " blacks were brought and settled during the Civil war .Had a lot of black friends but there was no being friends with some . I'm sure it would be the same for a minority of blacks going to a majority white high school .

 

I suspect so. I certainly know some pretty racist white people who wouldnt be friends with blacks.

It's interesting though. People I meet at work are all so nice. Never had a bad black coworker (I guess because they're educated). My black neighbours though are about as racist as you get... definitely a class divide there.

 

What kind of ****ing teacher was letting that **** go on?
If that were my class i'd draw up a new seating plan and mix everyone together.