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Where does racism and not understanding (or being empathetic at the absolute least) homosexuality and coming out and what that entails come in to that bullshit numerology?
The whole Bobby VS Stewart/Jahmal is stupid, but at least there can be some sort of debate there. Many skateboarders have found a spot, gotten to if first, and had someone else do that trick or one up you. It’s here where the path forks - either accept it as part of life / grow from it and try to reclaim your place by trying to one up them or become a bitter asshole behind an Instagram screen, resorting to outright racism when your hypocrisy is called out, and alienating the last few fans you had.
Like what I said in the Jeremy Wray thread, I could find a bunch of people to skate with tomorrow (or let’s say, this week. No one I know can actually skate tomorrow) if I wanted to. And I live about 40 minutes outside of Detroit - not NYC. The difference is, I haven’t continually - and infamously, mind you - kooked myself out of the scene via several ways, including public forums.
Bobby, unlike Jeremy, is relegated to skating a slope to angle ironed box behind an auto parts store because he’a literally alienated everyone in the city that would/could skate/film with him. I’d almost say it’s sad, but it’s not. It’s poetic justice.
I need to get off of Slap again.
I don't get it. Tf is wrong with skating a bank to box in a random location? What is he supposed to be skating? ("behind an auto parts store" - heavens to Betsy!)
My point is Bob’s a skateboarding pariah because nobody can stand to be around him. I believe his actions on Social Media show this - and that’s the shit he chooses to put out there. That’s his good side. You can look up the Vivien Feil story for one of the many documented instances of his bad side.
Dudes a kook and there’s a reason all the people that used to back him - on a personal level or as a fan - no longer do.
It may not be your intention but I feel you and some others in these Bibby/Bobby threads are rewriting history citing whatever you can (always the Vivien shit, who tf is that dude really anyway, in the grand scheme?) Bob isn't your industry pariah like other cases because it's his intention. He wouldn't ride for 99 percent of the companies cause he'd hate them and you know this. We don't know what people can stand him or not and there's plenty of companies that would have given him a model at least up until 3or4 years ago. Still companies now that would, admittedly less, but he is older.
Oh so you’re saying a skateboarding pariah because nobody can stand to be around him because he wants it that way
He keeps it pure and that's not a path of the least resistance for sure. I'd say your being overly conclusive (having no personal perspective on his life) with the "nobody can stand to be around him" stuff tho. That's kinda high schoolly imo. But maybe that's the effect of the net.
You’ve got a point there. Ive never met the guy, and all of what I said is just gossipy assumptions. But c’mon man, this is Slap.
That said, I was generally a fan of Bobby’s for the whole ‘keeping it pure’ thing. I’m not a fan of telling Pep Kim to go back to Korea, or claiming someone came out of the closet for monetary benefit. Because coming out of the closet in 2018, with Trump as president and seeing how awful so many people around us really are deep down, is an easy cash grab.
Those things are inexcusable.