XxtraMannish said:
the portland police department IS notoriously racist. If Randolph was white I might take the police at their word.
I respect your opinion, I'm not from Portland, you are.
Only problem is we hear that kind of stuff so often that it's gotten to be like the boy who cries wolf, even if it is true nobody believes it. 9 out of 10 times the folks crying racism are eventually exposed as lowlifes who are full of shit. I know up here that's the way it is, I wouldn't expect it to be much different anywhere else.
And about Mr. Randolph, I've always been kind of intrigued by his "I'm not a Blazer I'm a gangsta" (somebody on here posted that he said that, I can't confirm a source so I'm not sure) mentality b/c he is from a small town in Indiana. That doesn't mean he had it any different than folks from the big cities, his hometown (Marion) actually was the site of the last traditional style lynching in the northern USA, and Indiana's a notoriously bad state for black people. But anyways, his background is definitely more country than it is ghetto, which is unusual in the NBA.