NBA won't punish Carter or Stafford

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The NBA has decided that no action will be taken against either Vince Carter or referee Derrick Stafford following their heated confrontation on Wednesday.

However, the two will be required to talk in the near future to clear up any misunderstandings.

During the second quarter of the Nets' 83-75 road loss to the Pistons, Stafford whistled Carter for a pair of technical fouls and referred to him as "boy" - a term considered offensive to African-Americans.

Stafford, like Carter, is African-American.
Since when/why is boy offensive?
I know it can belittle someone, but why is the term "boy" offensive to a whole race?
 

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Slaves were called boy. You wouldn't want somebody at your job to address you as a boy. I felt this whole incident was overblown. Wasnt the ref black?
 

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Slaves were called boy. You wouldn't want somebody at your job to address you as a boy. I felt this whole incident was overblown. Wasnt the ref black?
Just cuz the term boy was used towards slaves people don't like it?
I can understand all the other words but "boy", thats soo lame.

And yes, they were both black.
 

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the funny part is that the ref is black
still though, i can understand VC's anger
 

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Before this gets any worse, Im closing it, if a Admin decides to re-open it, so be it. But its already off topic and this has happened a few times before.
 

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Before this gets any worse, Im closing it, if a Admin decides to re-open it, so be it. But its already off topic and this has happened a few times before.
I'll re-open but the minute it gets out of hand warnings will be issued.
 

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This is getting blown outta proportion IMO.
 

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I'll re-open but the minute it gets out of hand warnings will be issued.
It already got out of hand.

Edit my bad pugz i saw the post i was talking about was deleted.
 
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