If you hear a giant sucking noise emanating from the Northwest United States sometime between June and August, don’t be alarmed. It’s just the NBA tearing the Sonics from Seattle’s bosom and dropping it in the heartland—Oklahoma City, to be exact. And while some people in the Emerald City are trying their hardest to keep the Sonics there, on the the OKC side there seems to be a general sense of meh about the team relocating to their fair city. OK, switch “meh” with “racism” and you’ve got a better picture of what’s going on. Hasn’t Obama taught us all to love each other yet, y’all?

“[T]he criticism sailed foul when some argued that the NBA’s presence would increase Oklahoma City’s crime rate and drag down the city. Too many examples were heard from callers of talk radio shows and seen on reader comments around the Internet. Suggestions for possible team nicknames included “Posse,” “Thugs” and “Hoodlums.”

Bill from Tulsa took it a step further in his response to a March 4 column by The Oklahoman’s Berry Tramel.

“The answer is no,” Bill wrote on NewsOK.com. “We don’t want the NBA, with its image problems, fatherless children, egomaniacs and shootings. No thanks.”

“We already got enough of that,” is the obvious next sentence in that quote, right?

Calling foul on those who said the NBA would increase crime [NewsOK.com, via SLAM]
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