The Wisdom Of Zeke
Isiah is a genius. First the Scores strategy to dominating the opposition, now the Knick President goes all Deborah Tannen with the word “bitch”:
Posted: September 18th, 2007 | Filed under: Followed By A Perplexed Stroke Of The ChinWhite men better not call a black woman “bitch” around Knicks coach Isiah Thomas, but if black men do it — well, that’s fair game.
“I’m sorry to say, I do make a distinction,” Thomas said in a videotaped admission viewed by a Manhattan federal jury yesterday.
“A white man calling a black female ‘bitch,’ that is wrong with me. I am not accepting that. That’s a problem for me,” he said.
But asked if he’d have a problem with a black man calling a black woman “bitch,” Thomas said, “Not as much.”
The videotaped deposition was played by lawyers for fired Knick executive Anucha Browne Sanders.
Sanders has accused Thomas of spewing profanity at her, calling her “bitch,” “f- – -ing bitch,” and “ho,” before suddenly changing tactics to profess his love.