Boise State star hires security for wedding
A few days ago, I wrote about how the wedding of Boise State running back Ian Johnson and cheerleader Chrissy Popadics was being complicated by NCAA rules on gift giving and accepting services.
Apparently, that’s not the only complication. Johnson told the Idaho Statesman that he’s had to hire security for the wedding due to racial threats.
As you can see from the picture, Johnson is black and Popadics is white.
That’s pretty sad, that a college kid has to hire security for his own wedding because he’s got the nerve to fall in love with someone who’s not the same color as he is. Love is blind, but hate is not.
One blog has been bombarded with comments from a white supremacist site after posting a story on the couple.
It’s always nice to know that there are people who have time to spew their hate and discontent around the blogosphere. I mean, have your freedom of expression and all that, but can’t you express it in a place where people actually want to read your stink?
There are some people who are still stuck in the dark ages and insist on making the rest of us uncomfortable with their extreme views on race and interracial relationships. I usually ignore them, but by doing that, am I only making the problem worse instead of better? There is no way to answer that question in a way that will have any real meaning.
All I know is that if two people truly love each other, the outside package doesn’t matter as much as what’s on the inside.
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July 30th, 2007 at 7:31 am
The racism is actually based on inferiority / superiority feelings and those who make racist remarks have a big need to feel superior.
Why? Because they feel something is wrong with THEM so they need to convince themselves that it isn’t true. So they blind themselves with racist remarks instead of digging deep and finding the true cause of their feelings.
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:32 pm
That was unbelieveable and sad that he was being threatened like that. Just goes to show you how far we still need to go as a society when it comes to the issue of racism.