Chicago Bulls’ Derrick Rose Responds to Photo Controversy

He is not now, nor has ever been a member of a gang. In fact he is a very good boy who suffers from arthritis.

I believe there was a similar incident last year involving Paul Pierce flashing a gang sign during a game. To be sure, even if these players aren’t affiliated with gang activity (which I believe they are), they certainly relish the opportunity to present themselves as thugs. In no other race do you find such a widespread and irrational desire to promote oneself as something so contrary to civilized society.

What nba player doesn’t come from a ghetto? and doesn’t have a nice story to shade the media? nfl same same.

Any person wasting one minute or one dollar on this freak show is mentally limited.

Take control of your life and go do something positive, stop living off “fools” and living vicariously through their idiocy.

“NBA rookie of the year “is not now nor has he ever been” affiliated with any gang.”

Professional sports is rife with black criminals. Any white who still watches any of it is a fool.

It might not literally be a gang sign, because the people to whom he is sending message are probably not real gang bangers. Are we to think that the GDs have a national headquarters and print membership cards and keep lists of members? There are a lot of gray areas when it comes to blacks and gang activity, and I think Rose is in the gray area.

Another black sports role model for black kids to emulate.

And blacks blame the media for perpetuating stereotypes. The media doesn’t have to. All they have to do is show blacks as they represent themselves.

Oh, I’ve made the same type of signs myself. Of course, I’m a white accountant and I was at a party and I was doing it with irony.

I don’t want to be insensitive but what strikes one when seeing Rose is his plug ugliness. I can hear the child asking, “Mommy why is the king naked, and why is that man so ugly?” This must be why modern art is purposely ugly. It is a conspiracy to get us normal people to think we don’t know beauty from ugliness.

Next they hope we won’t know black from white. It is all relative there is no absolute good / evil, beauty / ugliness, or white / black.

Today TV commercials are filled with unattractive white people. For those of you too young to remember, TV and movies of old were filled with attractive white men and women. If you place a normally attractive white person side by side with a normally attractive black person the difference is so stark it is obvious to all. So the Madison Avenue and Hollywood people place dumpy and nerdy whites next to normal blacks and other minorities.

As for gang signs, aren’t black millionaires big on buying drugs, and aren’t gangs the place to get them?

“I am not, nor have I ever been, affiliated with any gang, and I can’t speak loudly enough against gang violence and the things that gangs represent.”

I see foolish young whites aping these foul gang signs all the time online on the various picture hosting sites. Why whites find these imbecilic gestures to be so adorable (at least for pictures) I have no idea. On the other hand, if Mr. Rose really found gangs to be so abhorrent, would he think it cute to adopt such a pose? Also, note the tattoos.

“Professional sports is rife with black criminals. Any white who still watches any of it is a fool”-Posted by Ice.

This of course is the tragic and depressing flipside to an already depressing matter, as white people across the country, continue to waste precious time and millions of dollars each year viewing the various sports sideshows.

Why are a number of us whites so weak?

Gang memebers like this guy must be banned from the NBA.

Maybe, just maybe, this not unintelligent African-American, realizing that he had great potential in basketball, and that criminal activity would put him in jail not in college, did not join a local Afrogang. This behavior is quite possible. As to the rest: his being anti-gang, anti-drug and anti-violence. This attitude in a young healthy Black male would be very unusual.

The correct name of this gang is “Black Gangster Disciples”. How predictable that the media would leave the “Black” part out of the name. Sure wouldn’t want people to get the ‘wrong’ impression.

jdavis, I like the way you think.

Someone asked me who I was rooting for in the NBA championship. I looked at him and asked, “Why would anyone care?” He sulked away and looked for the next person he could talk to about this worthless time waster.

Here’s the dilemma of gang signs — to “put up” or “throw up” your “set” (make the gang hand gesture) you must be a member. Most gangs are notorious for exacting retribution on a non-member doing this and an “Inner city youth” like Rose knows this. In fact if he grew up in the ghetto it was imperitive to his safety to know these rules, ergo - to flash the sign is prima facia eveidence of member ship for someone of his backround and experience.

Last night on the Tonight Show, Kobe Bryant of the L.A. Lakers was the first guest, and the mostly white crowd gave him a big ovation. Did they forget, that a few years ago, he was charged with raping a young white woman in Colorado.(He was there with his black posse.)

I believe that whites in this country tend to be there own worst enemy.