{"id":2769,"date":"2007-09-18T07:21:56","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T15:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/09\/the_wisdom_of_zeke.html"},"modified":"2007-09-18T07:21:56","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T15:21:56","slug":"the_wisdom_of_z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/the_wisdom_of_z.html","title":{"rendered":"The Wisdom Of Zeke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isiah is a genius. First the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/if_you_cant_bea_1.html\">Scores strategy to dominating the opposition<\/a>, now the Knick President goes all Deborah Tannen with the word <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/09182007\/news\/regionalnews\/double_dribble.htm\">&#8220;bitch&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>White men better not call a black woman &#8220;bitch&#8221; around Knicks coach Isiah Thomas, but if black men do it &#8212; well, that&#8217;s fair game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry to say, I do make a distinction,&#8221; Thomas said in a videotaped admission viewed by a Manhattan federal jury yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A white man calling a black female &#8216;bitch,&#8217; that is wrong with me. I am not accepting that. That&#8217;s a problem for me,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>But asked if he&#8217;d have a problem with a black man calling a black woman &#8220;bitch,&#8221; Thomas said, &#8220;Not as much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The videotaped deposition was played by lawyers for fired Knick executive Anucha Browne Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders has accused Thomas of spewing profanity at her, calling her &#8220;bitch,&#8221; &#8220;f- &#8211; -ing bitch,&#8221; and &#8220;ho,&#8221; before suddenly changing tactics to profess his love.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isiah is a genius. First the Scores strategy to dominating the opposition, now the Knick President goes all Deborah Tannen with the word &#8220;bitch&#8221;: White men better not call a black woman &#8220;bitch&#8221; around Knicks coach Isiah Thomas, but if black men do it &#8212; well, that&#8217;s fair game. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry to say, I do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}