No problem, Greg. They are indeed related.
He did eventually succumb to a Great White Hope, Stephen, Jesse Willard. But that was no disgrace. He lost in the 26th round, I believe. But not before ruling the roost for so many years.
Comment is about THE GALVESTON GIANT AND THE GREAT WHITE HOPES (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I watched a documentary about this lad not so long back. Both fascinating & disturbing. I remember he married a white girl & she was vilified for it also.
They threw every 'white hope' at him, all of which had no hope. Good one John.
Comment is about THE GALVESTON GIANT AND THE GREAT WHITE HOPES (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
All I can say is, that wasn't the case at all at Woking v Grimsby yesterday, a crowd of 4,400. No boos, thunderous applause. Sorry, John, I didn't mean to hijack your excellent villanelle with my comments. But the two matters are related.
Comment is about THE GALVESTON GIANT AND THE GREAT WHITE HOPES (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thankyou Leon and Graham. My fear goes beyond yours, Graham, that the booing for taking the knee increases over time; not motivated by racism but by spectator frustration - a call to “Get on with it!” And that that will give succour to those there who are racist.
Comment is about THE GALVESTON GIANT AND THE GREAT WHITE HOPES (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
I think if you took a straw poll from the players, many of them would like to stop doing it but do not dare to be the first one to stop. A bit like applauding someone and never knowing when to stop. Sadly it has lost its impact now and football racism won't be curtailed by this one now outdated action.
Comment is about THE GALVESTON GIANT AND THE GREAT WHITE HOPES (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
<Deleted User> (30611)
Sun 10th Oct 2021 10:06
Good piece John.
On taking the knee, it has now become part of sporting events - an area where there has been overt racism and something had/has to be done to confront it. However, will it become such an automatic gesture that it will lose its impact over time?
Comment is about THE GALVESTON GIANT AND THE GREAT WHITE HOPES (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Thanks for your thoughts, Greg and Kevin, and for the Like Aisha.
Here is a fuller story,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LmiBASu41-A
The irony is that Johnson said he encountered little racism in his childhood. There were few blacks in Galveston and his playmates were other white kids. It was only once he’d threatened the superiority of the White Man by becoming (undisputed) world champion that the shit hit the fan.
The police stopped them filming the end of the Burns fight; it was considered too racially incendiary.
Comment is about THE GALVESTON GIANT AND THE GREAT WHITE HOPES (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Villanelles are a great way of getting the point across, especially when the repeated lines are so hard-hitting.
I think that I have worked out the bit that you have moderated, but personally I would have understood the point you were making if you had left it unchanged.
As for taking the knee , (I hate racism, and am not afraid of making myself unpopular when I pull people up on it, but) although I think it was the right thing to do at the time, I fear it is now becoming over used.
Comment is about THE GALVESTON GIANT AND THE GREAT WHITE HOPES (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A beautiful take on the 21 grams - thank you for sharing.
Comment is about Unit of Measure (blog)
Original item by Mike McPeek
Thank you for moderating your language on this one, John. The point you make and the technique you employ is respected and applauded.
I was at my local team's game today where the knee was taken, and it was roundly and heartily applauded. Did my heart good.
Comment is about THE GALVESTON GIANT AND THE GREAT WHITE HOPES (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Sun 10th Oct 2021 00:10
I do not appear to be alone in (rarely) placing material that is
somewhat removed from poetry
Whatever the above means I can only say that whatever the prose entered here on WOL, we expect it to be original and not lifted from elsewhere
Comment is about WHERE WAS THIS? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Actually, I think I did see those judge's remarks before you posted them here, MC, although I couldn't tell you where. But surely the point is, the police doing their job and catching the killer is not the most newsworthy element of this appalling story. I should stay off those websites if I were you - they rot your brain. Or, er, if you'd rather spend your time there, stay off this website ...
Comment is about WHERE WAS THIS? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Sounds like another police joke in there: The police have absolutely nothing to go on....
Comment is about A hardened criminal on the run ! (blog)
Original item by hugh
Maybe you are right and most of the world's scientists are wrong, MC - that sun spots and not human activity are to blame for climate change. But even if you are right, we can't gamble on that being the case, and throw away the chance of influencing the climate for the sake of saving a few quid here and there. We owe it to the planet, and to future generations.
Comment is about SUNNY? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thank you KJ. I take the view that human activity must be
carefully monitored and controlled to limit its effects on our
atmosphere at every opportunity, but I also wonder about the
absence of any references to the overwhelming influence of that huge "giver (and destroyer) of life" that signals our every day...
let alone anything about the considerable effects of pollution from world-wide volcanic activity above and below the sea.
Comment is about SUNNY? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Is anyone disputing the accuracy of the content? if so, let's have rebuttal.
As for comment about "lazy work", - does this refer to the
accuracy of the content or its place on WOL. If the latter, then
I do not appear to be alone in (rarely) placing material that is
somewhat removed from poetry but of contemporary interest.and in this case
is hardly removed from other posts about this tragic topic
and its wider ramifications.
Comment is about WHERE WAS THIS? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
We on this planet are no doubt going through a period of climate change.
And when you look at how humans are behaving, there is overwhelming evidence that we are contributing to that change.
But throughout history and prehistory the planet's temperature has constantly changed. Ice-ages followed by tropical periods.
Maybe we should look at solar activity and maybe... just maybe.. we are not totally to blame for the rises in temperature.
Comment is about SUNNY? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Definitely an unattributed cut and paste piece as the sentences have been chopped half-way through in each case a sure sign.
Whatever the sentiment MCN, I understood this to be a poetry website. This is lazy work.
Comment is about WHERE WAS THIS? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Sat 9th Oct 2021 02:54
the Armadillo has a tail. (not tale.) get it.?
It's skinny and scaley!
?
Comment is about Stephen Gospage (poet profile)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
This looks to me like a cut-and-paste job from some far-right conspiracy theory website, MC, with its references to "mainstream media". Always a bit of a giveaway. Say it isn't so. I'm baffled by your additional comment. Do you mean that the media contain within their ranks abductors and murderers? As far as the judge praising the police operation is concerned, I think we would all think that it is the least we should expect of them in the circumstances - ie, that they should do their job and catch the killer. Even if he was one of their own.
Comment is about WHERE WAS THIS? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Is it the same guy that blew a hole in the road the other day.
I believe the police are looking into it
With jokes like that Hugh I might have to block you ?
Comment is about A hardened criminal on the run ! (blog)
Original item by hugh
Thanks to Pete and Kelvin for the likes.
Comment is about Climate Change and us (Updated version of a poem posted on 24 September 2020) (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Thank you dear Stephen, dear Stephen!
Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it ...
Virginia Woolf
Comment is about To the crags, where eagles soar (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
Lovely rhythm, John.
Comment is about To the crags, where eagles soar (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
the sad truth about todays society .The little things that matter in love seem to defiled by lust
Comment is about Look but do not Touch (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
A complicated area, Keith, but the argument is very well put.
Comment is about Look but do not Touch (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
Thank you so much, Sophie. That's kind of you.
And thank you, John. Yes, this is an issue people have to keep protesting about. I am hopeful that governments are at last becoming aware of the seriousness of the situation and moving beyond rhetoric. They must.
Comment is about Climate Change and us (Updated version of a poem posted on 24 September 2020) (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
A haunting depiction of the contemplation of life's richness and the reality of its finality using the context of a favourite location in
wonderful style. The sort of writing that deservedly lingers in
the mind.
Comment is about Under The Old Whale Bones (blog)
Original item by Tom
P.S> Personally, I take the view that the MSM are like sinners
presuming to lead the way on the subject of morality!
Comment is about WHERE WAS THIS? (blog)
Original item by M.C. Newberry
Thanks for your likes
Keith
Holden
Stephen A
Stephen G
Pete
and
Aisha.
Comment is about The Walk (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
The puppet used to tell the story I think are one of those used in Liverpool when they had a huge parade , but this time this puppet tells a more emotional tale.
Thanks Keith
Comment is about The Walk (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
A poem of such profundity, that it merits reading several times
Thank you for this
Keith
Comment is about betrayed (blog)
Original item by JustKelvinMasilela
Kelvin,
Thank you for commenting on my poem. It is a fact of human existence that hope always breaks through at times when we are brought to our lowest ebb. I am sure that you have heard the saying that hope springs eternal in the human breast. I believe this to be true, but where does this hope come from?
Keith
Comment is about JustKelvinMasilela (poet profile)
Original item by JustKelvinMasilela
Wow, Stephen! I must have missed this first time around.
I hear the howls of outrage at the inconvenience caused by climate protesters. I say there is no convenience more important than the future of the world.
Comment is about Climate Change and us (Updated version of a poem posted on 24 September 2020) (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Fri 8th Oct 2021 00:29
Love this poem love the rhymes
Comment is about Climate Change and us (Updated version of a poem posted on 24 September 2020) (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
Too right, MC. We are all at the mercy of “experts”.
Comment is about SCAMS I HAVE KNOWN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Many thanks for the kind comment, Stephen. This is an issue I feel strongly about. And thank you for the likes, Tom, Robert, Rudyard and Holden.
Comment is about Climate Change and us (Updated version of a poem posted on 24 September 2020) (blog)
Original item by Stephen Gospage
I've often wondered how many cars are diagnosed with non-existent "faults" requiring work to be done when submitted
for their annual MoT test? Hard to dispute or contest - a
motoring "golden goose" that offers regular golden eggs to
those involved in the process!
Comment is about SCAMS I HAVE KNOWN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
When being aware means being wary. A sad situation indeed.
Comment is about Look but do not Touch (blog)
Original item by keith jeffries
It's Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy to boot
but it is the saviour of his country when the guns begin to shoot.
Discarded now but of inestimable value.
Thank you for this John
Keith
Comment is about The flowers of the forest (blog)
Original item by John E Marks
This poem well summarises the plight of those who are refugees in this sad world where so many are plunged into despair.
A good poem
Thanks
Keith
Comment is about The Walk (blog)
Original item by Nigel Astell
Ah, Whitby ...! The repetition in this poem feels like the waves, Tom. Constant and reassuring.
Comment is about Under The Old Whale Bones (blog)
Original item by Tom
Stephen Atkinson
Sun 10th Oct 2021 15:36
A Happy Birthday to her! Sounds like a bright girl with a bright future! ?
Comment is about As Morgan my granddaughter reaches the age of 20, a successful future lies ahead (blog)
Original item by hugh