{"id":101023,"date":"2016-07-12T07:05:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T15:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=101023"},"modified":"2016-07-12T09:31:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T17:31:23","slug":"miko-grimes-uses-anti-semitic-language-to-blast-dolphins-brass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=101023","title":{"rendered":"ESPN: Miko Grimes uses anti-Semitic language to blast Dolphins&#8217; brass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see nothing remotely anti-Semitic in this woman&#8217;s tweets. How is &#8220;jew buddies&#8221; anti-Semitic? If she wrote, &#8220;fraternity buddies,&#8221; what thought crime would that be? How about &#8220;white buddies&#8221;? &#8220;Black buddies&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/07\/11\/nfl-wife-terror-miko-grimes-is-back-and-worse-than-ever\/\">I hate to see a proud black woman taken down yet again by the Jew media<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/newyork\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/16989041\/brent-grimes-wife-uses-anti-semitic-language-blast-miami-dolphins-brass\">ESPN<\/a>: Miko Grimes, the wife of former Miami Dolphins and current Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Brent Grimes, blasted Miami brass on Monday, using anti-Semitic language that she later tried to clarify.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet referencing Dolphins owner Stephen Ross and executive vice president of football operations Mike Tannenbaum, Miko Grimes tweeted:<\/p>\n<p>Gotta respect ross for keeping his jew buddies employed but did he not see how tannenbaum put the jets in the dumpster w\/that sanchez deal??<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Miko Grimes (@iHeartMiko) July 11, 2016<br \/>\nThe family of her husband&#8217;s current team &#8212; the late Buccaneers owner Malcolm Glazer &#8212; Bryan, Edward and Joel Glazer and Darcie Glazer-Kassewitz &#8212; are the descendants of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and lost family members in the Holocaust. Malcolm Glazer also contributed to the construction of the Palm Beach Synagogue before his death.<\/p>\n<p>Miko Grimes later clarified on Twitter that her intent was not to offend Jewish people, tweeting: &#8220;Think I&#8217;m gonna tweet racist remarks in an attempt to offend TWO PEOPLE? Lmao!! Why would I? Why would I want to offend &#8216;Jewish&#8217; ppl?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She went further in a statement to ESPN:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I wrote &#8216;jew buddies&#8217; I was speaking about how a lot of communities (Jewish, Christian, gay, sometimes fraternities and sororities) will hire their &#8216;own people&#8217; for jobs before others. That&#8217;s a fact! Why people find facts offensive is strange to me. And now im a racist? Lmao! How?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added: &#8220;If what I said is racist or anti-Semitic, why isn&#8217;t it also racist to only hire their own? America is just an easily offended, fake reacting, bunch of cry baby a&#8211; p&#8212;&#8212;! Anyone that thinks I&#8217;m a racist needs to build a f&#8212;&#8212; bridge and get over it. I&#8217;m not a racist, I&#8217;m a realist.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see nothing remotely anti-Semitic in this woman&#8217;s tweets. How is &#8220;jew buddies&#8221; anti-Semitic? If she wrote, &#8220;fraternity buddies,&#8221; what thought crime would that be? How about &#8220;white buddies&#8221;? &#8220;Black buddies&#8221;? I hate to see a proud black woman taken &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=101023\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[605,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-semitism","category-blacks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101023"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101053,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101023\/revisions\/101053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}