TheOne said:
If you recall JAM I sent u a PM the first time you started with all this racist crap. I kinda liked you and felt bad calling u a racist then because I rarely name call on this forum (despite like many other "pro" players being personally bashed often) and I wanted to give u the benefit of the doubt. It wasn't easy but I apologised to you, u didnt reply of course and instead u went on time and again spewing the same (and worse) racist diatribe.
Believe me it's much much easier to turn a blind eye to it the way u react when I call u out for it but somebody needs to take a stand. Whatever u may think of me I can assure you my disgust for racism is infinately greater. Maybe its from being married to a different race for so long, maybe its from travelling the world, maybe it's from growing up in a racist town (of which half don't consider themselves racist either!), whatever it is, I just don't like it.
As u recall the last thread was kinda unique, u blame me but I was stunned by the number of people that (rightly) lambasted you for you remarks in that thread. If I was surprised at that I was even more surprised to have people coming upto me in vegas recently specifically to mention that thread and totally distance themselves from your views. Many of your friends and the most respected members of this forum (non of my friends or cousins!) have pm'd me distancing themselves from your comments, too scared to say it publicaly because of the way u react.
Ironically I aslo had a few pro players advise me to stop bothering with the forum in jacksonville, basically because of the few non playing trolls that just get off on bashing pro players and spoil it for everybody else. Its a shame because if it wasn't for comments like yours many more of the pro players would post here. I may not be a pro in your eyes but either way I don't mind it as I get a lot from this forum and I'm more thick skinned than most I guess. Or just a gluten for punishment!
You make it a habit of stating that many nameless people come to you about my posts, distancing themselves from me because they are "scared." It is strange that I have never encountered anyone come to me with this.
Who gives a damn if you have an interracial marriage? It sounds like you are hung up on this racism thing more so than others, and maybe you need therapy to learn how to deal with it. Just because I am a patriotic American who desires to see Americans win in events on American soil, you think this is racism. I can't help it if I do not like the European style of play, which is like emotionless robotic Buckingham Guards, but it doesn't mean I am a racist.
Many times when you disagree with a poster, you go on all-out attack on that person repeatedly, like you have done to me. I have seen it before with other posters, not only myself. Have you driven them away, Craig, like you are trying to do to me?
I remember that avatar you had where you changed the IPT logo and put a woman on all fours on a pool table with a man standing behind her with a pool stick. As a woman, I found that very degrading. As an IPT enthusiast, it was also tasteless. Gee, you may not be a racist, Craig, but are you a woman hater and have no respect for them? That avatar was in very poor taste.
You are right that pro players take a beating on this forum. My household has had a taste of it, and as such, I am the only one that still posts here on AzBilliards, at least for the time being. I cannot put in words on this forum what I think of you today, but I hope I am given the opportunity to see you in person in the future, so that I can express how I really feel about your constant need to argue, so much so that you have labeled me a racist. My good friends in D.C. who know me and my family would find this humorous, believe me. Again, you know nothing of my background, but if you did, you'd realize how outrageous this is for me personally. I mean really outrageous.
I could reprint and keep mentioning all the PMs I have received about your posts, Craig, but for what purpose? Does this contribution to the forum make it a better place for other readers? No, it doesn't. It helps feed a spoiled child's desire to be right at all costs, even if it is driving veteran posters away from this forum like myself.
I resent you stating that my posts keep pro players from this forum, especially when it is me who is the one who is being driven away. If anything, I used to very much enjoy adding content to this forum, and when I am on the road, I try to keep this forum informed as well as share my personal photographs. How dare you attack me in this manner. I better end this post now before I get myself banned.
JAM
