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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 11:40 AM
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Basketball league for white Americans targets Augusta
Edited on Wed Jan-20-10 11:40 AM by kpete
Source: Augusta Chronicle

Basketball league for white Americans targets Augusta
By Billy Byler| Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

A new professional basketball league boasting rosters made up exclusively of white Americans has its eyes set on Augusta, but the team isn't receiving a warm welcome.

The All-American Basketball Alliance announced in a news release Sunday evening that it intends to start its inaugural season in June and hopes Augusta will be one of 12 cities with a team.

"Only players that are natural born United States citizens with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league," the statement said.

Augusta Mayor Deke Copenhaver, who has publicly expressed his support for minor league teams in the past, said he would not do the same for this team.

Read more: http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/19/nba_563760.shtml
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OneTenthofOnePercent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 11:41 AM
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1. Wow, these teams are going to be terrible.
The real question is who is better... WNBA teams or AABA teams.
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WriteDown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 11:45 AM
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2. And which will have ANY dunks! nt
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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 11:47 AM
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4. or WAABA
Sarah Palin needs a project, doesn't she?
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 11:46 AM
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3. holy damn....i just knew this was from the onion...
how wrong i was...
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scytherius Donating Member (576 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 11:49 AM
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6. LOL!!!
I was gonna post the SAME thing! I thought, "this has GOTTA be an Onion article".
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shawcomm Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 11:47 AM
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5. This is not real, is it?
It can't be real. Why not just call it the GOPBA? RNBA?

What young person is so messed up that they would play for this "league?"
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alp227 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 11:54 AM
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7. Is it 1960 or 2010?
Sorry, it's 50 years too late. Or is it because...white men can't jump?
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nolabear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 11:56 AM
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8. What on earth would you name a team like that?
And how on earth would you know they were Caucasian? Oh, I see. The Augusta Blood Quantum.

This has got to be a joke.
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:19 PM
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39. Bigot I, Bigot II and Bigot III. If this were true and they actually are
televised I will disown any member of my family that watches them. My young grandson said some thing about white men the other day that I did not have time to argue with him about - next time I will remind him that he is not one of them. He has forgotten his own heritage.
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leftynyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 11:57 AM
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9. Awwww - poor widdle white boys can't compete
with the NBA so take their marbles and start their own league? How pathetic.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 12:44 PM
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leftynyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 12:58 PM
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24. Of course not
And what a stupid question. Tell me, which professional sport allows men and women to compete against eachother? You honestly think this is the same thing?
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matt819 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:03 PM
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26. You're right, that was a stupid question
But there is one sport where men and women compete on equal terms - equestrian sports.

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WriteDown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:05 PM
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28. Talking about the horses gender or the rider?
:P
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matt819 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:12 PM
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36. Riders, of course, but, come to think of it, horses also. (nt)
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leftynyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:09 PM
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32. Didn't know that
Thanks for the info.
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NoGOPZone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:14 PM
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37. Certain Olympic sailing events are also open to both genders
and no, I don't mean different boat genders.
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WriteDown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:04 PM
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27. Its only slightly different...
Look at the NBA and the percentages. Apparently some demographics really can't compete.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:01 PM
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25. Why. Am. I. Not. Surprised?
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WriteDown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:05 PM
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29. See post 27. nt
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:10 PM
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34. Same crap, recycled and rephrased. Am even less surprised than before.
To your great disappointment, this may be a hoax. See #17.
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WriteDown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:14 PM
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38. And yet you do nothing to address the argument.
I can be honest and say that you are very unlikely to ever see a Japanese American playing in the NBA.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:37 PM
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41. You are mistaken. I never had any intention to "address" any "argument" here.
Some things are beyond any argumentation. You just point at them and shake your head in disgust. Or laugh.

In this case, I went the "shake head" option. But I could just as well have chosen the other one.
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WriteDown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:40 PM
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44. Spoken like someone with a closed mind.
Ashame.

For the record, I am not for any type of segregation, but I can see how some people would have difficulty competing.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:42 PM
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45. Why, yes, there are some things towards which my mind IS indeed closed.
And I intend to keep it that way.

Hey, look, the mods didn't like your little defense of the poor oppressed white race. Maybe THEIR minds are closed too.
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WriteDown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:49 PM
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46. Too bad the issue can't be explored.
Prevents any progress or acceptance.
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MellowDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 05:35 PM
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48. I don't think it has anything to do with the NBA...
or competition. That must have flown WAY over your head.
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Rebubula Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 12:00 PM
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10. Team Names....
Augusta Supremacists
Atlanta Grand Kleagles
Huntsville Aryans


Every time I think that I have seen it all...some asshole comes along to prove me wrong.

What a sad, demented group of people that are trying to do this.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 12:11 PM
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12. .
KKKavaliers
Cross Blazers
Grand Wizards

Games will be held in back of the parking lot next to WalMart, next to the dumpsters.
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Sabriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 12:16 PM
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13. The Augusta Anti Miscegenationators
Yeah, it's hard to spell, but....
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 03:02 PM
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47. Don't forget the Palm Beach Rush
with his bucks, he can buy up all the top white native-born talent, like, um, er... is Keith Van Horn still playing? :shrug:
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tinrobot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 12:02 PM
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11. Don't we have laws against racial discrimination?
How is this even legal?
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Pab Sungenis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 12:42 PM
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19. Depends on how they couch it.
If they set it up as a private organization, which is what it looks like they're doing, then they can get away with it. As soon as the Supreme Court let the Boy Scouts exclude gays and atheists, they opened the door for this kind of shit.
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WriteDown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 12:44 PM
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22. Is the WNBA legal?
Wouldn't that fall under gender discrimination?
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:39 PM
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42. Yawn.
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dgibby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 12:19 PM
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14. Well,
if they're required to provide DNA, there are going to be a lot of racists surprised to find out there's no such thing as a "Caucasian". Human geneome project has pretty much debunked that myth.
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Gemini Cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 12:20 PM
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15. Sweet stupid on a basketball!
People that stupid shouldn't even be near a court much less have a ball in their shit stained hands!
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zonkers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 12:22 PM
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16. Cracker Ball. I love it.
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Justitia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 05:49 PM
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49. LOL!
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melm00se Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 12:38 PM
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17. I hate to point this out but...
other than a couple of news stories and blog postings, there is no record of this "AABA".

No website for this "entity" and all the other traffic about this all come back to the Augusta paper.

methinks this might be a publicity stunt.
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NOLALady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 12:40 PM
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18. I guess they plan to extensively
research the genealogy of each player to determine if both parents are 100% pure Caucasian.
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wilt the stilt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 12:43 PM
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20. I thought for sure this was an onion.
The truth of the matter is that white people in America have given up. The NBA has many white players including one Steve Nash who is great. Many Europeans compete and do very well. No one told them they couldn't compete.

Case in point. A friend of mine played college basketball and was invited to go out for maryland when he transferred in. He didn't make the squad but I played him and he was 6"3 and a very good guard. He ran me over on a fast break when we were playing in a YMCA`league. Of course, by this time I was 46 and really bad.

His son is 6'5' and he gave up basketball. He plays golf. He's a wimp. It would have been easier to get a scholarship as a basketball player than as a golfer. He has the genes and the size.

Now the high school he attends has 3 pro's coming out of it. This is high caliber ball.

He's too chickenshit to play.

That is the story of white players in America.
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CanonRay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 12:57 PM
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23. Am I really reading this in 2010 America?
So much for post-racial.
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krabigirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:05 PM
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30. Wow..this isn't from the Onion?!
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BunkerHill24 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:06 PM
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31. LOL....I"ll be forwarding this my buddy Chip
I know it's all joke, but he'll will enjoy it tremendously. Thanks for posting.
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matt819 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:10 PM
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33. Team Names?
Edited on Wed Jan-20-10 01:13 PM by matt819
Racists
Bigots
Aryans
Nazis
White Supremacists
Caucasians
Stormtroopers
Republicans

So we'd have, what, the August Racists? The Houston Bigots?

I'm sure that these towns would just jump at the chance to be associated with this new league

Would non-whites be permitted to buy tickets? What if they find out that one of the Bigots was gay. Jeez, what a problem that could pose for the league.

And what about uniforms? The only colors they would be allowed would be red, white, and blue.

This has to be a joke.
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:11 PM
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35. Professional? Who the hell will pay to support this?
I mean, any association with it brands you as a racist. So, no sponsors, and why the hell would anyone apart from an extreme racist pay to watch a bunch of racists play a game?
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Ishoutandscream2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:26 PM
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40. LOL! Probably no shot clock and the 4 corner offense
With final scores of 20 to 18 and 15 to 13. This thread is such a hoot!! LOL!!!
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muntrv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 01:40 PM
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43. Only US citizens? I guess that leaves off Dirk Nowitski and Steve Nash.
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AllTooEasy Donating Member (540 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 07:46 PM
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50. and %90 of the WhiteGuys in the NBA
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AllTooEasy Donating Member (540 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 07:47 PM
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51. Non-Caucasians are not American?!
The league's title is even more racist
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DebbieCDC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 07:47 PM
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52. What is this, the Nuremberg League?
The race and ancestry thing was perfected by the Nazis with the Nuremberg Laws -- who the hell is pushing this stupid idea?
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classysassy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 07:51 PM
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53. A proposed slogan / The dixie dunking dudes
in a hamlet near you soon.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-20-10 10:27 PM
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54. I thought we already had a Duke
What. will. Jim Nance.do.?
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