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NSAC Head Keith Kizer Weighs in on King Mo’s Accusations of Racism | | Cagepotato

Remember two days ago when Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal went before the Nevada State Athletic Commission for a hearing on his for a positive drug test, got asked if he understood and could read English, was suspended and fined and then went on twitter to call the commissioner who asked about his literacy a racist? Well, her boss seems to disagree with that assessment.

We wrote NSAC Executive Director Keith Kizer to ask him if he felt that Commissioner Pat Lundvall’s line of questioning was offensive, racially or otherwise, or if her questions represented standard procedure in Nevada’s ongoing quest to emphasize fighters taking personal responsibility. Kizer was direct and concise in his response:

“The questioning was foundational in nature, very common and quite appropriate,” Kizer wrote us back.

During Lawal’s hearing on Tuesday, the accuracy of his pre-fight questionnaire — which asks, among other things, about medications that a fighter may be taking as well as recent and ongoing injuries that he or she may have — was called into question. Discrepancies seemed to arise between what was put down on those forms (and who even filled the forms out) and Lawal’s subsequent claims. During questioning, Lundvall asked Lawal if he understood English, could read English, and a few other condescending questions.

Lawal has since said that he felt insulted for being asked that, considering that he had been speaking to the commission in English for some time at that point and attended college in these United States. The Southern-born wrestler said Lundvall’s line of questioning reminded him of discrimination from his past.

Listen to some audio of Lawal’s hearing below (you can fast forward to around the 6:50 mark to hear Lundvall ask Lawal about understanding English, owning a PC, having an email address and other deadpan gold). There isn’t any particular reason to believe that Commissioner Lundvall’s questioning of Lawal was racially motivated, but it was certainly a dressing-down.

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Dang, I just asked if we knew exactly what was asked of King Mo in another thread and here it is apparently and I can't play anything from youtube here at work! Oh the humanities!

[rough-n-tumble]

Asking if he can read and write English establishes that he understood the form that someone else filled out for him when he signed it.

So whats the product? Alot of double talk and avoidance to questions.

[carbondioxide830]

i HIGHLY doubt they ask floyd mayweather if he understands english...just sayin.

[Y2JUBAE]

There wasn't anything racist said. Not even a jab or tiny implication. Mo just tried that last resort shit thinking if he threw out the race card everyone would duck and run. Backfire lol.

[Leucoethiops]

Originally Posted by carbondioxide830

i HIGHLY doubt they ask floyd mayweather if he understands english...just sayin.

Well no, because it's a given that he does not.

[VimyRidge]

Isn't King Mo's guilty finding what Al Sharpton and everyone is marching about in Florida?

You can't blame King Mo. When the people who are suppose to be your political and spiritual leaders think everything is racism, this is bound to ingrain this paranoia in the general population.

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Calling racism on something such as this makes you a very very little man. Mo just demeaned all those who have actually suffered racial discrimination.

Send Mo back in time to live in apartheid in South Africa. Or go witness the Israelis slaughtering the Palistinians.

[joeodd2]

I'll be honest if she had said that to me, I'd feel the same way. It's just something that Black Men have to deal with, like a black kid being complimented on how Intelligently he can speak. It may be a heartfelt compliment, but it's also a backhanded insult to his race. I'd never understood why that compliment made me feel so uneasy as a kid, but it did. Because none of the white kids ever received that compliment, not to my knowledge. At any rate perception is a powerful thing, clearly this woman did not care how Lawal took it, because she believed that he just had to take it and shut up. Who's to say what her motivation was behind using that language?

[optimusjoel]

Originally Posted by joeodd2

I'll be honest if she had said that to me, I'd feel the same way. It's just something that Black Men have to deal with, like a black kid being complimented on how Intelligently he can speak. It may be a heartfelt compliment, but it's also a backhanded insult to his race. I'd never understood why that compliment made me feel so uneasy as a kid, but it did. Because none of the white kids ever received that compliment, not to my knowledge. At any rate perception is a powerful thing, clearly this woman did not care how Lawal took it, because she believed that he just had to take it and shut up. Who's to say what her motivation was behind using that language?

That just shows how ignorant you are, people tell my son that all the time and I've received those compliments also. And yes we are white.