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re: How Far Has This Family Come?
Posted on 4/26/24 at 7:45 am to MsandLa
Posted on 4/26/24 at 7:45 am to MsandLa
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It's pretty offensive in a way. Why assume they have struggled to get to this point in life?
This is what happens when you try to focus on human interest stories rather than the subject at hand, football. Additionally, many of these reporters have never stepped out of their exceptionally sheltered bubble and seen how the average American lives.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 7:46 am to Swagga
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I don’t know the Thomas family circumstances,
American dream. Hard working husband and wife raising children and providing them opportunities to pursue happiness.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 9:37 am to MsandLa
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Momma is sweetest lady you would ever want to meet
That's exactly how she comes across. Parents seem like really good people.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 9:54 am to DVinBR
Kind of insulting question no?
Lol Rut though they were moving on up to the east side?
Lol Rut though they were moving on up to the east side?
Posted on 4/26/24 at 9:58 am to jaybirdlsu
I approve of her response. Dumb question. She answered the question that was asked.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 9:58 am to DVinBR
It’s a funny misunderstanding of the context but she gave a valid answer to the question asked
Posted on 4/26/24 at 10:04 am to Oilfieldbiology
BTJ Dad seems like a good Baw to have a beer with.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 10:05 am to DVinBR
That's actually very sweet. Good for them.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 10:14 am to Jim Hopper
He is...speaking from experience...
Posted on 4/26/24 at 10:18 am to 70706man
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You Jerk. You would be smooth huh? You have never accomplished anything or had a child that will to even compare it to, but you are on the floor laughing? Maybe some of us boys will come help you up in a painful way
shut up bitch
Posted on 4/26/24 at 10:32 am to Oilfieldbiology
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This is what happens when you try to focus on human interest stories rather than the subject at hand, football. Additionally, many of these reporters have never stepped out of their exceptionally sheltered bubble and seen how the average American lives.
Bingo.
The media is constantly trying to focus/create some emotional "rags to riches" story and just assumes many of the player picked fit the mold. Thomas's family seems like just a regular middle-class family. Not a single parent household that is going from the projects to the penthouse.
I get the context the reporter was asking the question, but Mrs. Thomas obviously didn't see it in that context because to her she didn't see the situation as some brokedick single mom going from the hood to millionaire beneficiary. She just saw it as a mother who has a son who was good enough to be selected to play for an NFL team. So why should she think they were asking her about seemingly "coming from nothing?" She just answered the direct question...directly. They came from Baton Rouge to Detroit
Posted on 4/26/24 at 10:48 am to ItSawGood
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What obstacles have you as a family overcome to get to the draft.
Wrong.. all the reporter said word for word was, “how far has this family come?” I could see how this was confusing. The interviewer added no context to the question.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 10:52 am to DVinBR
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came from Baton Rouge, LA.
I mean if you’re from Baton Rouge then that answer tells just as much as the answer the reporter was looking for
Posted on 4/26/24 at 10:56 am to DVinBR
Why didn’t she ask Drake Maye’s mom how far have their family come?
Posted on 4/26/24 at 10:57 am to Oilfieldbiology
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This is what happens when you try to focus on human interest stories rather than the subject at hand, football. Additionally, many of these reporters have never stepped out of their exceptionally sheltered bubble and seen how the average American lives.
Kinda reminds me of how ESPN said Najee Harris would sleep on the floor at his dorm at Bama because he was used to floors at the homeless shelter, which Najee denied and said he slept on his bed the whole time. They just make shite up to ham up drama and sob stories.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 10:58 am to DVinBR
That made me laugh. She should own that shite and just start talking like that.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 11:02 am to sunnydaze
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Why didn’t she ask Drake Maye’s mom how far have their family come?
Exactly. It's a racist question because it assumes they were poor. The same as it's racist to believe blacks can't get ID's, get jobs, support themselves without white women saving them, etc. And the only reason that's not pointed out and this shite stomped out is that they need people to believe that.
It's democrats doing democrat shite.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 11:18 am to DVinBR
Reporter is your typical white woman. The racism of low expectations. Meanwhile the kid made more money in college than she makes I am sure. This is so typical
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