Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: Barack Obama (HBO)

[88MrMan]

Press 1 and youll know what to do to this comment ;) bitcheeeeees

[coolwafferman]

I have to comment again. This is a good interview, but I just can't get over Bryant Gumbel's facial expression at 0:34. He don't play. There are some journalist today that just seem to play around, not him.

[MCalixte89]

Obama can ball!! After Bill Clinton I didn't think we would have such a cool president again

[Rbizzle15]

at 0.35 he has that "WTF" look on his face. lol

[coolwafferman]

I'm black, and don't care much for basketball, but love Jazz. I also think President Obama is doing a great job, and Bryant Gumbel is a good interviewer.

[ItsStillThereBitch]

"Improvisation within a discipline."

That was EXETREMELY well said.

[everett26]

OBAMA is a WAR CRIMINAL... Wake up america... Research: THE NEW WORLD ORDER and JOHN PERKINS....

[someguyyt]

Just ask Yuri Besmenov what's going on with the soccer balls in India.

[CurblineHighway]

He loves his white woman, he forgot his black wife.

[wallstreetyoung]

who?

[BluIceGirl1920]

That is NOT true. He loves ONLY his wife!

[mikejones9473]

u sure is a dumbass

[soulchild2008]

Really? And we should care about color because.......

[vrj40]

It always amazes me that when there are well mannered and well educated black men who are not dressed in gangster attire, you have some people who want to characterize them as "acting white." Amazing (rolling my eyes)....

[CircusofPython]

Ha. I always get called "white" by white people who only have 1 black friend (me). No black guy or girl has ever said I "act white", even though I fit your description (educated, non-gangsta). It gets annoying at times.

[Kunjaku]

Damn ya'll he's just reflecting on his perceptions of racial identity and basketball growing up. He isn't making literal claims of black superiority or an inherent affinity for improvisation. And honestly, why can't Barack's cultural experience factor into why he enjoys basketball without some stupid fuck contorting it to label him racist? Hell I'm saying this as a black man who loves the game for similar reasons. Needless to say, this is all pretty irrelevant to the duties of the presidency.

[streethistory]

It's interesting that people are trying to make this about race when clearly it's not. People are so black & white, white & black. Step into the area where everything is judged where race isn't even thought of.

[bug127212]

Just because you are black doesnt make you the "dominate" of basketball...im not trying to insult all the black people out there...being white doesnt make you "dominate" either...

[chunkgizzle7]

@bug127212 MJ

[crazy87jim]

i gotta admit, i have always associated basket ball with african american culture. who doesnt

[TXPRiNCEZZ09]

obama freakin rox!!!!!!

[lemigod]

Go OBAMA GO!!!!!!!!

[CrimeReport]

Could the media elites be anymore behind a candidate as they are with this one?

All the more proof that he is a Manchurian Candidate.

[mandy26lez]

why in the hell was obama on real sports was he a professional athlete no! cuz he is black and so is gumbel maybe.

[10acernie]

I don't know who act's more white....Obama or Gumbel. The typical white person would run scared if they ever saw these two walking down a dark alley!!!

[juustlooking]

You say that to suggest what? First, Obama mother and grandparents that raised him were white. Everyone that taught him how to be a man, the first people to show him love in this world were white but yet you've drawn the conclusion that some how despite all of this he is racist?

Then you go on to use this as a premise not to vote for him...How many presidents have we had, do you think that were racist? How many of then sat through slavery or jim crow? C'mon fella have a better talking point

[worldtraveler4]

they should have showed him dunking...lol....if he did that, he would be the coolest prez ever

[PedroGunzalez]

I'd swat the shit out of Obama just so I could say " I swatted the shit out of Obama!"

[venicechik]

Nice behind the back pass President Obama!

[monsterdongg]

obama cant get away from the Black thing - everything he does and says is tinged by the fact he is black - even his perspective of himself. Listen to even this dialogue 'OUR culture' 'Us' etc. He's nice guy, but the best thing for america is for it to judge people on who they are - and Obama is an inexperienced, racist, intelligent guy - not presidential material.

[ClickMe2c]

the overwhelmingly white states such as Iowa, Wyoming, Colorado thinks he is presidential material. If Obama is racist; are you suggesting he hates his black father or white mother? Either way it's laughable.

[cedarbeam]

This coming form someone who calls himself monsterdongg. Just kidding - but I do beg to differ with your characterization of him.

[MadamXenobia]

Do you think at all about what you're going to say b4 you say it? This post is a bevy of contradictions:

1. He was ASKED about being black- his answer SHOULD concern his blackness.

2. "He's a nice guy" at the beginning of one sentence and "racist" yet also "intelligent" (now THAT'S an achievement in itself) at the end.

2a. The man is half white, half black, raised by the white half of the family. Who exactly are you accusing him of being racist against?

You voted 2x for GW didn't u?

[Jimmybangkok]

bush is a racist unintelligent guy, so how could Obama be worse?

[jalabi99]

You have no proof of the "racist" nature of Barack Obama, monster. I'm just glad you aren't repeating the lie that he's a secret Muslim or something.

[Striiing]

err...George Bush!

[Prodigies]

Dumbest shit I've ever heard. He wouldn't have brought up race if Gumbel hadn't asked the question.

"There's an aspect of improvisation within a discipline that I find very, very powerful.

--Barack Obama

[sinnigam]

first of all, "inexperienced, racist, intelligent" describes almost every president we've ever

[tylerdurden246]

What a racist. Yeah, let's elect a racist as our president.