Started By
Message
Reggie Jackson said Bear Bryant once called him a "n..... boy"
Posted on 6/23/24 at 10:38 am
Posted on 6/23/24 at 10:38 am
quote:
“It was while I was in Birmingham that I met Bear Bryant. His son was the general manager of the ball club. Bryant told me I was ‘the kind of n..... boy’ they needed to show the people in his state that we would be good athletes and be good for his school. He said it as a compliment. He said it with his arm around me. Whenever he came to New York, he always made it a point to come see me, and I enjoyed visiting with him. He meant no harm. That’s the way it was.”
Make of this what you will, but Bear Bryant was invited to the cookout.
LINK
This post was edited on 6/23/24 at 10:40 am
35
Posted on 6/23/24 at 10:39 am to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
I doubt Bryant ever said that.
Posted on 6/23/24 at 10:40 am to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
Indictment of times, not man.
Posted on 6/23/24 at 10:46 am to Honest Tune
quote:
I doubt Bryant ever said that.
How old are you?
This is the 1968 electoral map. The weird colored states voted for a segregationist.
Reggie was playing minor league ball then.
This post was edited on 6/23/24 at 10:49 am
Posted on 6/23/24 at 10:50 am to koreandawg
42. Is there ever another single quote attributed to Bear where he said that word?
I’m not joking. Find one quote where Bear was said to have said that in public. I’m sure he used the N word in private, but there’s almost zero chance he said that to Reggie Jackson.
Bryant was obviously from the old guard south, but he was instrumental in bringing blacks into SEC football.
I’m not joking. Find one quote where Bear was said to have said that in public. I’m sure he used the N word in private, but there’s almost zero chance he said that to Reggie Jackson.
Bryant was obviously from the old guard south, but he was instrumental in bringing blacks into SEC football.
This post was edited on 6/23/24 at 10:53 am
Posted on 6/23/24 at 10:55 am to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
It just is what it is. As messed up and shocking as it sounds to us in today’s time, that was simply the vernacular of the day.
I hope I don’t come across as defending Bear here, but I honestly doubt from his POV that he could have even imagined that the Nword would in a decade or two become universally accepted as being the absolute worst and most dangerously offensive thing a non-black guy could ever call another black guy
I hope I don’t come across as defending Bear here, but I honestly doubt from his POV that he could have even imagined that the Nword would in a decade or two become universally accepted as being the absolute worst and most dangerously offensive thing a non-black guy could ever call another black guy
This post was edited on 6/23/24 at 10:58 am
Posted on 6/23/24 at 10:55 am to Honest Tune
quote:
I doubt Bryant ever said that.
Just speculating...
As today we have the hard offensive "ger" version of the word... and the "ga" version.
Back then you had the the -offensive to Blacks- "ger" version, the actual "gro" version which was considered proper in the 1960s... and many White southerners used a "gra" version of the word.
I imagine Reggie Jackson heard the first pronunciation of the word.... and Bryant likely used the third version.
I'd be shocked if in 1967 Bryant used the hard "r" version of the word.
Furthermore, calling football players of any color... "boys" was not uncommon during that era. If you listen to Chris Schenkel and Bud Wilkinson broadcasts... they were always calling the players "boys".
This post was edited on 6/23/24 at 11:08 am
Posted on 6/23/24 at 10:56 am to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
Reggie is missing the limelight
Posted on 6/23/24 at 10:57 am to koreandawg
In Birmingham they love the Governor…Watergate didn’t bother Alabama, they did all that they could do.
Same era
Same era
Posted on 6/23/24 at 10:58 am to Gunga Din
quote:
I'd be shocked if in 1967 Bryant used the hard "r" version of the word.
Same. Looks like the klan downvoted my post however. Stupid racists haha.
Posted on 6/23/24 at 10:58 am to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
So what? It was a different time. That word didn’t have the same connotation it does today. Bear Bryant also pushed to desegregate college football.
I hate people who go back in time and judge old timers because “they should’ve known better.” You’d all be acting the same way they did.
I hate people who go back in time and judge old timers because “they should’ve known better.” You’d all be acting the same way they did.
Posted on 6/23/24 at 11:06 am to Honest Tune
quote:
Find one quote where Bear was said to have said that in public. I’m sure he used the N word in private, but there’s almost zero chance he said that to Reggie Jackson.
This was a private quote
Posted on 6/23/24 at 11:10 am to Honest Tune
quote:
42. Is there ever another single quote attributed to Bear where he said that word?
I’m not joking. Find one quote where Bear was said to have said that in public. I’m sure he used the N word in private, but there’s almost zero chance he said that to Reggie Jackson.
Bryant was obviously from the old guard south, but he was instrumental in bringing blacks into SEC football.
White people said that word everywhere in the South, especially the rural South. It probably took 10 years or more after the Civil Rights movement to get them to stop saying in front of Blacks and it probably took another ten to stop saying it in front of each other when Blacks weren't around. I'm 51 and in white company, if anyone said that word no one blinked an eye when I was growing up in the eighties.
Dude, Lincoln freed the slaves, but that doesn't mean he considered them equals cause he didn't. LBJ was a big supporter for the Civil Rights Movement, but was very racist. Bear wanted to win and knew he wasn't gonna be able to do it much longer with an all white team.
I'm very much against trying to condemn people for holding the same views that were predominant in an area or region decades ago as if those people condemning them would've been different had they been from that same area and were of the same race. But I'm also honest enough to know that it's more likely Bear said that than he didn't.
This post was edited on 6/23/24 at 11:14 am
Posted on 6/23/24 at 11:12 am to Gunga Din
quote:
be shocked if in 1967 Bryant used the hard "r" version of the word.
In "The Junction Boys" he tells his team that "Reals ****s don't needs wata, muthafricka."
Posted on 6/23/24 at 11:13 am to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
Posted on 6/23/24 at 11:14 am to That LSU Guy
Posted on 6/23/24 at 11:25 am to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
Unless it's on film, it never happened. ...and if it was on film, I'm sure it would be a derp fake.
Btw, Jackson has always been a jackass.
Btw, Jackson has always been a jackass.
Posted on 6/23/24 at 11:26 am to koreandawg
quote:
White people said that word everywhere in the South, especially the rural South. It probably took 10 years or more after the Civil Rights movement to get them to stop saying in front of Blacks and it probably took another ten to stop saying it in front of each other when Blacks weren't around.
Which is why it’s unfortunate that it’s been revitalized, romanticized, and normalized in certain genres of music and everyday vernacular, in the group of people who’s parents and grandparents fought so hard to rid it from being used.
Posted on 6/23/24 at 11:33 am to Wellborn
quote:
Which is why it’s unfortunate that it’s been revitalized, romanticized, and normalized in certain genres of music and everyday vernacular, in the group of people who’s parents and grandparents fought so hard to rid it from being used.
That's just the CIA using culture to keep black people down. Move along.
Posted on 6/23/24 at 11:38 am to psk_Vol
The kkk was started in tennessee.
Page 1 of 6
Popular
Back to top
Follow SECRant for SEC Football News