Patrick Patterson Known as Out For ‘Bulldogs’ Feedback

Los Angeles Clippers ahead Patrick Patterson has drawn the ire of many individuals for utilizing the phrase “bulldog” in response to an Instagram person questioning Patterson selecting a White spouse. 

Patterson claims “bulldog” was a selected reference to the Instagram person’s spouse, who’s Black, and never a generalization of all Black girls. 

This all began over an image Patterson posted on his Instagram account along with his spouse, wishing her “Glad Anniversary.”

The IG  person said the one purpose Patterson has a White lady as a spouse is as a result of he’s an NBA participant. 

The implication after all being that White girls will solely marry a Black man if he’s wealthy, and that when Black males are wealthy they select White girls to marry.

Patterson responded and stated, “True, if I by no means made it to the nba I might have by no means met her whereas taking part in for Toronto. however why’s it matter. love is love on the finish of the day.”

If it ended there we wouldn’t be debating the deserves of Blackness, vis a vis interracial marriage. 

However right here we’re. 

The IG person then stated that if Patterson labored at Walmart he wouldn’t have an opportunity with the lady. Citing Patterson as one other “statistic.” A Black man who’s now wealthy and left his personal for somebody of one other race.

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The backwards and forwards continued within the feedback. 

Patterson wrote, “So I ought to accept a bulldog and act like I’m pleased with my life and preach ‘maintain it in your race’ to the world as if Dr. King didn’t combat/die for equality, acceptance, all cultures loving each other, and no hate? “No thanks,” continued the 30-year-old basketball participant. “That possibly your life however I don’t need that for mine or my household. Shade doesn’t matter. Get up.”

That is the place the outrage went on full tilt and everybody jumped into the feedback with an opinion. 

Patterson did put up an apology through his Instagram account. 

To be honest to Patterson, inferring that he known as all Black girls bulldogs is making a leap. We are able to debate how a lot of a leap, however a leap nonetheless. 

However the issue isn’t simply Patterson or the IG person, and even the individuals within the feedback. 

The issue is America and who we’re as a nation. 

A nation constructed on the backs of Black our bodies with an abhorrent, disgusting and insidious system designed to harm Black individuals.

And among the many total Black demographic, it may be argued that Black girls get harm probably the most. 

So, it’s simple to grasp and empathize with the sentiments of Black girls and people who really feel some kind of manner about Patterson’s feedback.

The world is a melting pot, and folks ought to be happy to like whomever they select. 

However in that alternative there isn’t any must disparage the alternatives of others, or degrade your individual as a method of justification.