News report from January 1988. Before Twitter, JIMMY THE GREEK was one of the first public figures fired by a major corporation for making insensitive remarks regarding race. The debate goes on? Was Jimmy a bigot caught on camera or was he simply speaking the truth? Should public figures be expected to be knowledgeable on all topics?
James George Snyder Sr. (born Dimetrios Georgios Synodinos, September 9, 1918 – April 21, 1996), better known as Jimmy the Greek, was an American sports commentator and Las Vegas bookmaker.
On January 16, 1988, Snyder was fired by the CBS network (where he had been a regular on NFL Today since 1976) after making several questionable comments about African Americans during a lunchtime interview on January 15, 1988 with Ed Hotaling, a producer-reporter for NBC-owned WRC-TV, at Duke Zeibert’s Washington, D.C. restaurant. Hotaling said that he had been doing interviews with various people in the restaurant for a program celebrating the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. and what they thought the next step in civil rights progress for African Americans should be. He put the question to Snyder. “It was all on the occasion of Martin Luther King’s birthday,” Hotaling said. “So I thought it was an appropriate, forward-looking question, and got a backward-looking answer.” – Wikipedia
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No lies were told.
Doesn’t seem that bad compared to our new Trump world.
He was fired for being honest. Honest is something those in power dislike.
Everything that jimmy said was true.I am a black man and I wasn’t a bit offended on what he said
Fired for dropping knowledge about American history. Shameful
And then the end of reasonableness began… And here we are with BLM/LGBTQ nonsense.
Blacks in America are super athletes.
I don't consider Jimmy a bigot, but his answer is the answer of an idiot.
He’s not wrong. First of all, the slave traders chose the fittest looking people to kidnap and take to the Americas as slaves. Secondly, only the fittest of those survived the arduous voyage on those cramped ships. What don’t people understand about this very simple equation? It was primitive genetic engineering.
Today we have a big black making comic books about how ungrateful he is.
There are facts of the slave days that are unaddressed. The difference of having a lineage in Africa compared to having a lineage in America. There’s a reason why the American and Canadian Indians were genetically different and it’s because of the way they lived, where they lived and how they bred. Why would Africans be any different especially when they were forced into the conditions of slavery. We don’t know the impact on their bodies and minds. But we can make a fair guess as we know their complete history. There history is fact not guesswork not racist.
As a relative of Jimmy the Greek, I can say I was always proud and honored to call him my uncle. He was loving and generous to our family, church and his home town of Steubenville, Ohio. He was a pioneer and self made odds maker and definitely not a bigot. The NFL Today show was the pinnacle of his career and a testament to the school of hard knocks he went through to get there.
An obscure local TV station barged into a local restaurant for a spontaneous interview and then sold it to the national networks. I can tell you that all the video clips you will find NEVER disclose the actual question he was asked. "Jimmy, why do you think the black athlete is superior ? " I think this question was a very hard one to answer. How would you answer that question ? I think he was just trying to do the best he could base on his background, education and state of mind a day before Martin Luther King day.
The irony that he had to apologize to Jesse Jackson.
It’s the truth guys!
Let’s a cancel a guy we refer to as “Jimmy the Greek” for a derogatory comment… oh the irony of that. What if they called Brian Gumbel….Brian the African? Would that be ok?
Was he wrong tho?..
How about for some reason the news hyped it…why? Cuz they're enlightened?..🤣🤣
RACIST WHITE HATE FILLED INSURRECTIONIST TERRORISTS AMERIKKKA….ENEMIES OF THE HUMAN FAMILY..
He was right, we were selectively bred and it has resulted in abnormally muscular and large black individuals more often than most other races throughout the world and football was becoming a black dominated sport. It really bothers me we can not speak freely in a free country. The Greek was just being honest. The modern day racist rarely shares their true beliefs, but they act upon them daily. Those are the ones who need be canceled. It was an awful way to produce some of the world's finest physical specimen, but somehow this injustice has become an advantage for many black athletes. It is nothing to hide or be ashamed of. These traits work well with the women too. I can't complain lol. No greater feeling than having the last laugh.
Truth.
I'm a dark skin minority. I don't think what he said was racist at all. It might even be a compliment.
No one is more hated than
He Who Speaks the Truth – Plato
He spoke the truth.
What did he say that was wrong?
Was it not accurate?
Thanks to ROBERT SEPHRE the TRUTH finally out there
CBS was already planning on letting Jimmy go prior to this. All Jimmy did was speed up the process
He spoke the truth. There were breeding farms in which this practice accrued.
He wasn’t wrong
Could be true
Truth hurts.
Just one man's opinion. I don't agree with the Greek's analysis. Everyone knows the best athletes are the Irish.
Pure ignorance in full display.
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