🏈 BAMA Student's Racist Rant and the Reply From BAMA Football

[BamaMD]

Each week there seems to be thread posted on players kneeling for the Nation Anthem, so I felt compelled to post this thread for discussion. If you are unaware, Harley Barber, a BAMA student and member of Alpha Phi Sorority, recently went on a rant about minorities and foreigners. These videos were upload to a Social Media outlet. I won't post any of the material here, but I have included a link to the responses from several current and former BAMA players. I have followed the opinions of those on this site as it relates to players kneeling during the anthem. Some of the response are rather shocking, but all are respected. I'm interested to know how members of this board feel about this incident, that has deeply affected members of the team that we all root and cheer for as our own.

Of note, I am of mixed ethnicity, thus a minority. I hold several advanced degrees from prominent academic institutions and work to serve the public. I was raised by my grandparents in a challenging environment riddled with crime and drugs, yet I've never had any trouble with the law other than a few speeding tickets. I currently mentor youths in both TN and AL. I mention this to say, for all the good that one person can do to make a difference in this world, we still face the challenges of a broken society. I have been called the n-word more times than I care to remember while trying to render medical care. I have treated neo-nazis tattooed with multiple swastika, professed members of the KKK, gang members, people of all religions and walks of life. Regardless of how I my feel about their views, lifestyles and actions, as a GOD-fearing Christian man I have treated them ALL with the respect, even though I felt their disdain towards me.

Honestly, it saddens me to hear such words; words echoed by the political tone of our country. A country built by men and women of all ethnicities. Thoughts and prayers.


Landon Collins Responds to Racist Videos from Alabama Student Harley Barber

 

[JoshB]

Not surprising at all. Glad she got exposed, though. People like this usually put up a good front in public and say horse shit like this when they think its "safe." If you're a scumbag, be a scumbag in the open.

 

[PhillyGirl]

Damien Harris retweeted one of her videos and his thoughts on it, and it gained a lot of traction. The university responded to his retweet later on. Guess he helped expose this racist idiot. These folks need to read a damn book.

 

[sean]

Landon Collins Responds to Racist Videos from Alabama Student Harley Barber

i guess they took it down. it just shows an error page for me.

edit: looks like it's working, now.

 

[RollllTide!]

Damien Harris retweeted one of her videos and his thoughts on it, and it gained a lot of traction. The university responded to his retweet later on. Guess he helped expose this racist idiot. These folks need to read a damn book.

Reading wouldn't help. Neutering should be the answer. Should be legal to do because it pains me to think they can procreate.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

As a person of color, does it also sadden you to hear it blared more times than this in a single rap song out of thousands just like it?

Don't get me wrong. I'm saying this word does not belong in ANYONE'S vocabulary... White, black, rapper, or anyone.

 

[EasyTider]

She was expelled from the University.

 

[ElephantStomp]

I’m glad the idiot was exposed. There is no room for this in our society from any race.

My current profession has been all over the news and is the reason many people started kneeling. Should see the looks my girlfriend and I get at times, a Black woman dating a five oh

 

[bamachine]

I'm suing Delta Airlines, they sold me a ticket to New Jersey, I went there and it sucks.

Sorry, Minkah and Anthony.

 

[UAgrad93]

She was expelled from the University.

Just about to post this! Glad to see UA sent her packing back to New Jersey!

 

[BamaMD]

As a person of color, does it also sadden you to hear it blared more times than this in a single rap song out of thousands just like it?

Don't get me wrong. I'm saying this word does not belong in ANYONE'S vocabulary... White, black, rapper, or anyone.

Absolutely! This whole hip hop generation has done more harm to society than any measure of good they can claim. I have a hard time respecting any of those individuals. Their words are just as vile and poisonous as Ms. Barber. Yet, they expect a double standard just because they are minority. I wholeheartedly reject that principle. They don't represent me, nor do they stand for the values that were taught to me. I do my best to teach the kids I mentor the difference between music and reality. Unfortunately, that particular industry has done a hell of a job marketing and selling its product as real life. A lot of kids buy into it and its ruining their lives before they even get started. Example, kids are rushing out getting a million tattoos and aiming to dress and look like lil wayne and others. I teach my guys that if you are covered in tattoos and dress with your pants hanging off your a$$, I can promise you that they will never be hold a professional job. That you are effectively limiting your options in life and presenting an image that society rejects as a whole.

And let me say, kanye west is the worst! Every song uses the n-word repeatedly! Couple that with his wife and her family and JESUS!!!! That combination alone has single handedly altered the course of a generation.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Absolutely! This whole hip hop generation has done more harm to society than any measure of good they can claim. I have a hard time respecting any of those individuals. Their words are just as vile and poisonous as Ms. Barber. Yet, they expect a double standard just because they are minority. I wholeheartedly reject that principle. They don't represent me, nor do they stand for the values that were taught to me.

Not sure how valid it is, but it DOES seem more than a coincidence. I read somewhere that the rise of gangster rap was a covert social engineering project by global power brokers in the record industry. Kinda makes sense, when you see the parallels of rising crime, teen fatherless pregnancy, poverty, and gang violence rates increase in the black community right after the initial surge of gangster rap in the late 80s. With the incarceration rates increasing right around that time as well, it makes one wonder suspiciously if those same global power brokers had financial interest in the privatization of prisons.

 

[Destiny's Child]

There are racists from all over the country including the Northeast. Racists come in every color as is it isn't just bad for white people. This girl is an idiot.

Be tolerant of one another and be kind.

 

[rick4bama]

I will say this we in the South get a lot of crap about being racist. But when I move up to NJ man I saw more then I every saw in the south.

 

[EasyTider]

Pretty sure she's related to JWoww and gave Paulie D crabs.

 

[BamaMD]

Not sure how valid it is, but it DOES seem more than a coincidence. I read somewhere that the rise of gangster rap was a covert social engineering project by global power brokers in the record industry. Kinda makes sense, when you see the parallels of rising crime, teen fatherless pregnancy, poverty, and gang violence rates increase in the black community right after the initial surge of gangster rap in the late 80s. With the incarceration rates increasing right around that time as well, it makes one wonder suspiciously if those same global power brokers had financial interest in the privatization of prisons.

The things that you mention were set in motion years before. Gansta Rap and the music that followed played a huge role in shaping the mind set of a people.

“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” "Doing so set the scene for decades of socially and economically disastrous policies." - John Ehrlichman, former Nixon Aide.

Nixon Aide Reportedly Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People

Now, let me be the first to say this is not an excuse. Just responding to your post SLO.

 

[RollllTide!]

The things that you mention were set in motion years before. Gansta Rap and the music that followed played a huge role in shaping the mind set of a people.

“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” "Doing so set the scene for decades of socially and economically disastrous policies." - John Ehrlichman, former Nixon Aide.

Nixon Aide Reportedly Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People

He resigned over Watergate.
There was a lot of groups that tried to stop black people and it was over 50 years ago for most of the time. 158 years ago was the civil war. It was started over States rights not slavery. Slavery was a byproduct. The point I am making is that no one in the US today has an excuse for discrimination. It is over except for the race baiters that keep stirring it up. Come on we are better people than that to listen to crap. Just be Crimson and live life. Don't be a fobe for anything.

 

[Bamabww]

There's no place in any society for that kind of behavior. It's sad that anyone believes / feels like Ms. Barber. I'm glad the University expelled her.

Slavery was a byproduct.

While I agree with you, the truth that is overlooked is slavery was and is wrong. The south is the only one who carried the blame for it.

 

[JoshB]

158 years ago was the civil war. It was started over States rights not slavery. Slavery was a byproduct. .

:rolf: You slept through 3rd grade history, huh?

 

[bamaledge]

I love y'all and I don't care what skin color you have! I only care what kind of person you are!