Taylor's 2005 Season Likely Unaffected by Charges

[jacobyfan]

Originally Posted by jamf

Now if ST takes the case to trial, he will not be concerned about football. there is not a black man on this earth that wants his life in the hands of a jury in south. i hate to play the race card, but realisticly, sean will be worried about the jury, not football.

Racism is not ok, but bigoted ignorant remarks about southerners are, apparently.

[e16bball]

Originally Posted by jacobyfan

Racism is not ok, but bigoted ignorant remarks about southerners are, apparently.

And particularly inaccurate remarks about "southerners."

A little research led me to discover this little fact:

Of the 2,253,362 citizens of Miami-Dade county, 1,291,737 are Hispanic/Latino, and 457,214 are black. For those without a calculator handy, that means that 1,748,951 are non-Caucasian, or 77.6%, and that doesn't even count Asians or other ethnicities. So, luckily for Mr. Taylor, less than 1/4 of the jury pool will be made up of these damn racist white southerners you mentioned.

I really do hate to pile on, especially when I know others will follow on top of me, but you honestly should think carefully before "playing the race card," or making other highly incendiary comments, for that matter. Miami is a city. Demographics are certainly not Sean Taylor's enemy in this situation. It's one thing to bring up race as a divisive factor when you are correct, it's completely another when you are totally incorrect about it in addition to possibly insulting people.