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[QUOTE="KCJax03, post: 1361354, member: 356"]
Who decides intent?  The color of someone's skin is not a measure of intent.  It should've been considered that the white soccer player was dating a black man, who she probably heard say that word many, many times to the point she herself became so comfortable with it and used it in a purely reflexive manner no different than any other curse word we all mutter at times.

Quite frankly, I do not think what he said was all that horrible either, considering the circumstance, it was a momentarily lapse of good judgment by a young man who just lost a huge game.  I also do not think it was such a big deal when the girl said it either, she was made out to be the devil purely based on her skin color.   She was not given any benefit of the doubt nor does it appear that anyone associated with the program, the coaching staff in particular, was willing to vouch for her. Those who knew her true character beyond a single moment caught on video should have been willing to defend her.

We should be willing to look beyond the superficial into the deeper details regarding two instances where young people made mistakes in a very public manner.

This entire notion that the depth of pigmentation of someone's skin defines intent is PC garbage.
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