“I’ve seen this guy almost seriously injure multiple people including children.”
The pretty little beach town of Jupiter in Palm Beach, Florida, is a tinderbox tonight after the apparent lynching of a black surfer’s board in an act of “racially motivated vandalism”.
Story is: Andrew Sherlock, a goofy footer with a wide stance reminiscent of Waimea Bay superhero Eddie Aikau, runs into a little heat in the surf. Crackers steal board and nail it to a damn tree as if it were 1925 and the three-million strong Klan were still hunting blacks, flamboyant homosexuals, Jews, Asians, Catholics, abortionists and so on.
“White supremacy is a sickness, a vile thing that rears its head in so many ways,” posted @black.surfers. “@sherlockdown is a Black surfer, father, and husband, and was subjected to racially motivated vandalism and a symbolic lynching of his board. You heard that right. White surfers in Jupiter, Florida, took his board and nailed it to this tree and said it was a message. @sherlockdown says it was someone from the Jupiter surf crew. For those in that area, that may know who did this, who do not want the actions of a few to stain the perception of their community, please come forward so we may demand an apology and acknowledgement of the pain they have caused. In Andrew’s words:
“This is how real the racism and hate is in Jupiter, Florida. They can’t stand to see a Black man in their waters. I was told I’m not welcome. Stole my board when I turned my back and they did this. Said it was a message. They nailed it to the tree like a lynching.
I took the board down, stayed and surfed the whole day with a small board to show face. A few locals that were there were apologizing and agreed it was wrong. They did said, after what happened, I’m welcome to surf their waters freely and no one will bother me. I’m just going to leave it in God’s hands”
Wild yeah?
“Racially motivated incidents in the world of surfing are part of a long history of prejudice associated with the sport,” wrote Cooper Gregan.
But the recent history of fake race hate crimes in the US should stir a little scepticism, no? Jussie Smollet? Bubba Wallace? Bells ringing?
What’s the other side of the supposed hate crime?
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“This is completely out of context. Surfers in Jupiter are far from racist. Get your facts straight before you post this shit and accuse people with these false accusations,” writes @bmurray561, a surfer followed by Florida superstar Evan Geiselman. “If someone is dangerous in a line up I don’t care if they are white, black, purple, or blue something will be said. As a local here I’ve seen this guy almost seriously injure multiple people including children. He’s very misleading…Acts nice and calm on camera. But, in the water it’s a different story. Instead of apologizing he’s tried to fight multiple people saying “you don’t want this smoke” all when he was in the wrong. We have been nothing but nice and inviting to him. It’s terrible this page has to flip the script and pull the racial card before knowing the facts. That being said we will like to see him out there enjoying the same sport as we all do…Just needs to get his surfing etiquette cleaned up some.”
And, from a Robert Powell,
“Heinous is trying to assault kids. Heinous is not showing respect to locals, heinous is screaming and cussing and trying to act tough to kids, heinous is playing the race card when this was a kind act juxtaposed to what the clown deserved. Anyone that has surfed a local spot knows that a beat down for trying to hurt people, acting tough, assaulting kids, running your mouth and being an overall ass clown is what’s normal. This was grace nailing the board to a tree. Only an actual racist would link this to a effing lynching. But hey racists see racism everywhere, when you’re a hammer everything looks like a nail. Freaking enabling scum.”
And, from the handful of comments on The Inertia’s story.
“A quick summation from someone who was out in the water that day, guy was burning everyone and when someone would say something to him he would immediately call them racist. He ended up colliding with a local on a wave that was clearly his fault. They told him to go in or down the beach where he couldn’t hurt anyone. He proceeded to try and fight them. He went in and put his board in his car then went back to the board walk to talk to the kid he collided with, there were about 15 other people around. They ended up talking it out, the guy apologized and they fist bumped each other (there’s a video of this). He went back to his car and his board was gone. The kid he collided with and a few locals helped him look for the board. Not condoning anyone in this situations behavior, just wanted to give an accurate account of what went down.”
Two things: getting excited over two-foot waves in Florida displays a terrible inelegance and maybe doing the board in a tree thing ain’t the best optics?
Or straight-up racism, hate crime etc?
Where do you fall?
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“I don’t judge Negs”
Okkk.
I’m the 14 year old boy in question. Referring to the limited mental capacity of my forming brain at the time. As for soggy biscuit, google it. I guess its never too late to try if you like the sound of it.
Shoulda just beat his ass
My thoughts exactly..his board reps Jesus more that any kkk doings
https://www.salon.com/2023/…
So which empires do you want to condem? Just the European, or?
From 1420 or so to 1519, the mighty Mexica culture had come to dominate most of central Mexico. One by one, the Mexica had conquered and subjugated dozens of neighboring cultures and city-states, turning them into strategic allies or resentful vassals. By 1519, only a few isolated holdouts remained. Chief among them were the fiercely independent Tlaxcalans, whose territory was located to the east of Tenochtitlan. The area controlled by the Tlaxcalans comprised some 200 semi-autonomous villages united by their hatred of the Mexica. The people were from three main ethnic groups: the Pinomes, Otomí, and Tlaxcalans, who were descended from warlike Chichimecs who had relocated to the region centuries before. The Aztecs tried repeatedly to conquer and subjugate them but always failed. Emperor Montezuma II himself had most recently tried to defeat them in 1515. The Tlaxcalans’ hatred of the Mexica ran very deep.
Rough crowd this week.
Gullible
Thank you – “Additionally, the rate of fatal police shootings among Black Americans was much higher than that for any other ethnicity, standing at 5.8 fatal shootings per million of the population per year between 2015 and May 2023.”
Not anymore.
Oh, man, I have never heard that… I’m speechless but somehow not surprised. 🙁
Talking about 14 year old Boys. Better than playing soggy biscuit.
In my best mark twain….”well the young man was acting a nigger a there was a response to those acts” so yeah possibly racist
Translation – “he was acting like a n—–, so we had to punish him for those acts…” And hence the stereotype and the racist behavior and the justification for raping and murdering, torturing, selling, and dehumanizing millions of people for hundreds of years. The USA super economy was initially built upon free slave labor, which gave it a massive advantage over countries that treated its workforce, to some degree, at least, like people and not machinery. We owe our African American descendants a great deal – not for slavery, per se, but for the 150 years of oppression and injustice that has happened since. If your grandfather were lynched for no reason, if your dad never had the chance to go to a decent school or get a fair mortgage rate, if your mom was denied prenatal healthcare, and, if to this day voting was made as difficult as possible—and if every cop considered you a criminal, how different do you think your life would be today? Would you have joined a gang to protect yourself? Turned out like a cool surfer boy? Maybe not.
Sounds like your libtard professors did a great job..
You better dust off your pussy hat and blm t shirt, protesting season just around the corner. The party depends on you. You’re a good person.
You’re not a good person. You’re a racist fuck.
Don’t get mad cupcake, save that energy for the protests.
I think you meant peanuts, but yes, very true – common to the white southern breed.
Strange fruit, indeed.
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This song was banned from airplay, just like the right is banning CRT from being taught… But the racists? They’re alive and well in the USA.
Question for all the racism experts on here. Would the traditional short punches, half drowning be considered racist if performed on a SOC?
This should come of no surprise. People in the south are bad. In California where people are good, it is traditional to paddle in and let a SOC have the lineup to themselves.
That’s messed up. It reminds me of those old black and white photos of black people hanging from palm trees. Bad optics on the locals’ part.
Connecting the surfboard on his lawn to the KKK’s burning crosses is reasonable even if not intended.
Dude could be claiming rules/etiquette/safety are white supremacy so when you try to be normal and talk to him about it you don’t get anywhere. Or he could just be getting judged harsher for an etiquette mistake(s) because he looks different. Maybe somewhere in between.