The Packers retired White's number yesterday for achievements on the football field. Fine and dandy. But don't hand me all this BS about him being a great humanitarian, dispensing pearls of wisdom to the masses. You'd think he was Gandhiand Mother Theresa rolled into one.
Truth is he wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. Over the years he's made some dumb statements.In giving a speech he'd start out fairly sane but eventually would go bonkers revealing his lack of intelligence. How'd you like to be a cop in Knoxville after Reggie'sprovocative speech?
http://www.jsonline.com/packer/sbxxxii/comm/speech321.html
From the Knoxville News-Sentinel March 21, 1997.
<H5>The following are Reggie White's comments to a student assembly at Austin-East High School on March 14. The school enrollment is 95-percent black and is located in Knoxville's inner-city. </H5>
Now in our community let me tell you something here, there's a lot of focus on you all. And a lot of that focus is on to put you in jail. That's why the police harass a bunch of you guys, because they want you to snap. that's why they want you in gangs. that's why they want you dealing drugs. that's why they want to catch you with a gun, so they can put your tail in jail. You know why? It costs $30,000 year to keep an inmate in jail. Somebody's making some money. $30,000 a year of our tax money to keep an inmate in. Somebody's making a whole lot of money. They've got to keep the prisons full.
Why do you think they're talking about building more prisons instead of creating opportunities for you? Because they want you in jail. They want you to be ignorant. As much as they say they want you to study, study, study, they don't want you to study. They just say that so they can stay in office. They want you ignorant.
Truth is he wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. Over the years he's made some dumb statements.In giving a speech he'd start out fairly sane but eventually would go bonkers revealing his lack of intelligence. How'd you like to be a cop in Knoxville after Reggie'sprovocative speech?
http://www.jsonline.com/packer/sbxxxii/comm/speech321.html
From the Knoxville News-Sentinel March 21, 1997.
<H5>The following are Reggie White's comments to a student assembly at Austin-East High School on March 14. The school enrollment is 95-percent black and is located in Knoxville's inner-city. </H5>
Now in our community let me tell you something here, there's a lot of focus on you all. And a lot of that focus is on to put you in jail. That's why the police harass a bunch of you guys, because they want you to snap. that's why they want you in gangs. that's why they want you dealing drugs. that's why they want to catch you with a gun, so they can put your tail in jail. You know why? It costs $30,000 year to keep an inmate in jail. Somebody's making some money. $30,000 a year of our tax money to keep an inmate in. Somebody's making a whole lot of money. They've got to keep the prisons full.
Why do you think they're talking about building more prisons instead of creating opportunities for you? Because they want you in jail. They want you to be ignorant. As much as they say they want you to study, study, study, they don't want you to study. They just say that so they can stay in office. They want you ignorant.
