Jimmy The Greek Gets Cancelled (1988)

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News report from January 1988. Before Twitter, JIMMY THE GREEK was one of the first public figures fired by a major corporation for making insensitive remarks regarding race. The debate goes on? Was Jimmy a bigot caught on camera or was he simply speaking the truth? Should public figures be expected to be knowledgeable on all topics?
James George Snyder Sr. (born Dimetrios Georgios Synodinos, September 9, 1918 - April 21, 1996), better known as Jimmy the Greek, was an American sports commentator and Las Vegas bookmaker.
On January 16, 1988, Snyder was fired by the CBS network (where he had been a regular on NFL Today since 1976) after making several questionable comments about African Americans during a lunchtime interview on January 15, 1988 with Ed Hotaling, a producer-reporter for NBC-owned WRC-TV, at Duke Zeibert's Washington, D.C. restaurant. Hotaling said that he had been doing interviews with various people in the restaurant for a program celebrating the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. and what they thought the next step in civil rights progress for African Americans should be. He put the question to Snyder. "It was all on the occasion of Martin Luther King's birthday," Hotaling said. "So I thought it was an appropriate, forward-looking question, and got a backward-looking answer." - Wikipedia
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@wtfsamusidk7574 5 лет назад

Truth doesn't need defending, it defends itself.

@cduone 10 месяцев назад

No lies were told.

@jamesleonard2042 10 месяцев назад

He was fired for being honest. Honest is something those in power dislike.

@quietriot2121 5 лет назад

The truth comes naked..the lie well dressed..

@MemoGrafix 5 лет назад

Love that statement

@quietriot2121 5 лет назад

@@MemoGrafix thanks..u know truth doesn't need validation..no matter who it comes from

@MemoGrafix 5 лет назад

@@quietriot2121 - That's right.

@maryshall89 2 года назад

Said it well

@blaxors 4 года назад

He was fired because a branch of the NAACP called for his dismissal. CBS obliged.

@jesuschristislord7754 2 года назад

Chosenberg Brainwashing Shucks

@243wayne1 Год назад

Thank you.

@maitres-chez-nous5609 Год назад

the NAACP, as relevant as the SPLC... 😭😭

@marksayre9012 Год назад

No one is more hated than He Who Speaks the Truth - Plato

@blockland30 Год назад

I'm black and I don't disagree entirely with what he said. Science has proven there are extremely minute differences between the races. It's the way he presented his argument. Extremely condescending.

@andrewa6786 Год назад

@@blockland30 i would not say the differences are minute, but he absolutely did present them wrong, and in a condescending way.

@maitres-chez-nous5609 Год назад

@@blockland30 the differences are significant, I don't know what science you follow but when considering the % of genetic differences between black and white, if used to analyze any other mamal like tigers or dogs, they would be concidered different sub-species of a main root specie. The conversation about race needs to receive a huge dose of realism and at the same time also be treated for hypersensitivity and political correctness. There is also a huge lack of contextualisation and accurate historical facts. To much is overlooked or "assumed". A good start about americas racial situation is Tomas Sowell. He has a ton of videos on YT. As a 96 year old black man who made himself into a highly recognized scolar, autor, teacher and much more. If you have never heard of him, look him up. He was dropping truth bombs in the 80s on TV. He very much always has a better and more rational explanation than the mainstream narative which he very often destroys. It's why he isn't as promoted as useless figure heads like Mulvanay

@JeanmarieRod Год назад

LBJ was a vile man.

@blockland30 Год назад

@@andrewa6786 I guess I meant intellectually the differences are small. When speaking in terms of physical attributes, the differences are big.

@kjkuta1 8 месяцев назад

Guy gets cancelled for racism? Meanwhile they call him the "Greek"?

@tomservo5007 2 года назад

my high school biology teacher said something similar to this, about why runners from a specific region of Africa kept winning NYC Marathons. Is there a genetic advantage or not ?

@lukelandmesser9331 2 года назад

Hey pal! I spent a few years on the East side of Africa and watched the marathoners in Ethiopia and Kenya train first-hand. I've also seen a few documentaries on the topic of their dominance in long-distance running. First off, in Kenya, running distances is part of the culture in rural areas where automotive transportation is scarce. I didn't personally witness a lot of recreational running in Ethiopia despite the lack of transit. Most people in these parts just didn't travel often. The most important thing to note is the altitude. The athletes are training a mile-high with low oxygen, which is incredibly harder to do. When they compete at sea-level, their performance is god-like because of the preferred conditions. You could also argue that maybe they want it more because they stand more to gain by being a world-class athlete in their country than the typical North American. I think the individuals drive and the ideal training conditions are most likely why Kenya and Ethiopia have frequent success in marathons. We also all have genetic advantages given to us from our parents and beyond. Sometimes running just comes naturally to some while throwing events is easier for others. I hope this helps!

@lagsalot3274 2 года назад

There is but white people didn't create it. And its only significant in the highest levels of sport.

@aconfusedmancx8323 2 года назад

probably because they spent generations running from tigers and chasing gazelles

@Che18335 2 года назад

West Africans do because running is a cultural thing integrated in their daily life. You know public transport is not developed enough and kids literally „run“ on a tough terrain to school. Just like in Jamaica. Plus the other factors just like health, experience and tradition added to the picture, they produce some fine athletes. If you took a child with a different background and put him in the same socio-cultural environment, than I am sure the chances are equally good that he will become an exceptional athlete too.

@theexpresidents 2 года назад

@@aconfusedmancx8323 You'd be canceled for that.

@cliftonharmon2403 Год назад

He was right, we were selectively bred and it has resulted in abnormally muscular and large black individuals more often than most other races throughout the world and football was becoming a black dominated sport. It really bothers me we can not speak freely in a free country. The Greek was just being honest. The modern day racist rarely shares their true beliefs, but they act upon them daily. Those are the ones who need be canceled. It was an awful way to produce some of the world's finest physical specimen, but somehow this injustice has become an advantage for many black athletes. It is nothing to hide or be ashamed of. These traits work well with the women too. I can't complain lol. No greater feeling than having the last laugh.

@em7dim9 10 месяцев назад

@@vnolan633 Exactly. This is all a silly racist fantasy. The men in West Africa are built like tanks.

@drdomonic 10 месяцев назад

Yeah but black ppl were already physically superior even more so before slavery

@agr8player 5 лет назад

He spoke the truth.💯

@manuginobilisbaldspot424 4 года назад

The truth? LMAO...that's ridiculous. You buying in to these pseudo-scientific falsehoods. Those are the same people who said blacks were dumber than whites because we had smaller brains too. You Muslim Hoteps are so misguided, it's not even funny. This shit wasn't remotely accurate and it does a gross disservice to all those black people who work hard from childhood to become elite athletes. Last I checked, the Kenyans that dominate distance running weren't enslaved...but they had the advantage of extremely high altitude helping them to run a faster pace than those closer to sea level. That bullshit about heels and thighs...man are you out of your non pork eating mind?

@davidlindsay9564 4 года назад

@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 Did you feel this way when Michael Johnson said the same thing?

@davidlindsay9564 4 года назад

@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 How many Kenyans are all around atheletes like Americans. That they were fastest, actually proves Jimmy's point. The "fast" gene was passed down.

@nobelhung 4 года назад

@@davidlindsay9564 Wrong Einstein just because Michael Johnson was a top grade athlete doesn't make him an authority on anthropology..The fact is Nothing was ever bred into us it always was and always will be.

@jenperdsmonlapin6953 3 года назад

@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 buuuulllshit

@josephgonzales8897 2 года назад

Archie Bunker said it before Jimmy the Greek and his show wasn't cancelled......

@trwent Год назад

Archie Bunker was PORTRAYED as a racist on All In The Family. That was the point.

@bmasters1981 Год назад

@@trwent The difference between fiction and real life.

@redafro7699 2 года назад

What did he say wrong? What lies were told?🤔

@cuivre2004 Год назад

1. He told the truth-that is considered "wrong" and 2. He didn't tell any lies. You think "canceling" someone is based on virtue and makes sense? That is where your logic is faulty.

@fahhhque2255 3 года назад

Chris Rock owes Jimmy royalties. Period.

@doloresbulock2467 2 года назад

,, ✅ ecvggbbn

@jesuschristislord7754 2 года назад

Yup. "Never Scared". He said this and worse.

@wrenchworth 2 года назад

How? Jimmy is no longer with us.

@CLYMA1.5CHAINZ 10 месяцев назад

😂😂😂😂😂😂

@jesuschristislord7754 3 года назад

Chris Rock said the same thing in "Never Scared" Double standards are muffaka

@calds6705 2 года назад

Chris rock is a comedian.

@reillybaker7866 2 года назад

@@calds6705 ^

@Kshinelawyer 2 года назад

is chis rock an owner ? has power to harm another race? dude tells jokes.. Did Rocks background own people? trade spaces with me .. lets see what u think after

@RustyShacklefordReal 2 года назад

@@Kshinelawyer cool it with the antisemitism.

@thomascrissman1124 2 года назад

@@Kshinelawyer did his background own people... that's hilarious. But the Greek was telling the truth.

@ConstantineKayafas Год назад

As a relative of Jimmy the Greek, I can say I was always proud and honored to call him my uncle. He was loving and generous to our family, church and his home town of Steubenville, Ohio. He was a pioneer and self made odds maker and definitely not a bigot. The NFL Today show was the pinnacle of his career and a testament to the school of hard knocks he went through to get there. An obscure local TV station barged into a local restaurant for a spontaneous interview and then sold it to the national networks. I can tell you that all the video clips you will find NEVER disclose the actual question he was asked. "Jimmy, why do you think the black athlete is superior ? " I think this question was a very hard one to answer. How would you answer that question ? I think he was just trying to do the best he could base on his background, education and state of mind a day before Martin Luther King day.

@davidschooley6467 Год назад

Did t know he was from there I have family that's lives in that tiny little town for the past 25 years. I love it there.

@cuivre2004 Год назад

That question was a trap, for sure. What would he have said otherwise- "Its all a coincidence?"

@mach6893 Год назад

Jimmy wasn't a bigot or a racist. He was certainly stupid though. No offense.

@josesmith-jr9gr Год назад

Always loved listening to him. Most ppl saw nothing wrong at all with his comments. It was his opinion and most of it if not all was very true...

@DuchessAnastasia Год назад

He was fired because he told the truth. Even today, 70% of football players are black & still all owners of teams except for 2 are white owned. It's just facts not racists.

@freedmanschannel4409 2 года назад

It’s crazy that we literally have gotten no where with virtue signaling.

@jakecle67 7 месяцев назад

Wow, all these years later, Jimmy was spot on... I miss the old days of Sports 💯💯💯👍👍👍👍❤️

@naitch16 5 месяцев назад

Spot on about what?

@KenDAKL4ever 5 лет назад

I never thought his comments were racist, but a bit off. We weren't breed to be better in sports, but to be better in the fields, and we kept that breeding for years to come

@CIF-pm7tk 3 года назад

Football is a field, baseball is a field, no matter if it were picking cotton or chasing down a rb, the physical ability was bred, for generations, unfortunately, this is one of the good things that cane from slavery. Should of never happened, it will be a stain on our nation, but the outcome has some positives. Same witj Eugenics, awful as it was, you cannot argue the results in Sweden !

@gregh5061 2 года назад

@@CIF-pm7tk Eugenics wasn't practiced in Sweden.

@CIF-pm7tk 2 года назад

@@gregh5061 it wasnt? are you aware that it was? just go back to bed. you are inept!

@gregh5061 2 года назад

@@CIF-pm7tk source?

@CIF-pm7tk 2 года назад

@@gregh5061 im not your teacher! LOOK IT UP, GOOGLE SWEDEN 🇸🇪 EUGENICS! wha fukn la! black and fukn white! educate yourself, im not uour daddy

@mrletsplayit 4 года назад

The truth was even a crime 32 years ago. It's so much worse today

@Gigantor60 11 месяцев назад

Fired for dropping knowledge about American history. Shameful

@escarlit 5 лет назад

this reminds me of a great Golden Girls joke: Rose: You’re dumping your own mother? Dorothy: Faster than CBS dumped Jimmy the Greek.

@bobbykiriakidis9753 Год назад

😂

@pauljames7438 9 месяцев назад

He told the truth.

@naitch16 5 месяцев назад

He was a racist and revealed himself.

@Blackphillipsupporter Год назад

CBS was already planning on letting Jimmy go prior to this. All Jimmy did was speed up the process

@b.deville3236 8 месяцев назад

Chris Rock said the exact same thing about slave breeding in one of his monologues and you didn't hear a peep about it. Seems like Jimmy said the right thing but was the wrong color.

@harshses33 4 года назад

It’s true I’m black and I’m not offended Jimmy’s keeping it real 💯 %

@cali85hassan67 4 года назад

willi jones he said the white man bred you the slave owner what kinda white man syndrome you got ya wack ass🤷🏾‍♂️👀

@davidlindsay9564 4 года назад

@@cali85hassan67 Is Willi 170 years old? He hasn't ever been a slave. STFU Duran Duran.

@davidlindsay9564 4 года назад

God Bless you Willi.

@maryshall89 2 года назад

Same

@lagsalot3274 2 года назад

Bro that's irrelevant. Instead of giving credit to the athlete's hard work and dedication he tried to attribute their success to slave owners and unfounded pseudoscience. We spent hundreds of thousands of years in Africa fighting lions with spears, but you telling me a couple hundred years in America made us athletes😭😭😭. This was the same argument they used to say that we have smaller brains and are inherently less intelligent. You just picking the part that sounds good. But by all means keep sucking up to this guy.

@OnCodeGaryGIC 5 лет назад

King Flex played this on a a broadcast some months back. He must of had him a "few" to have been this open speaking.

@OnCodeGaryGIC 3 года назад

@Brent Anderson I love how WS are cowards and trolls 🤷🏾

@Wridde23 2 года назад

Jimmy the Greek spelled the end of the original cast of the NFL Today.

@gterrymed 4 месяца назад

The sound man should've burned the audio portion of that tape on the ride back to the news station; any answer he gave would've been a wrong answer; those buzzards took ten years off his life. There's no right answer when a non-Black is ambushed to comment on Blacks in a news setting

@jkyles1000 3 года назад

Boys, I was present when Jimmy the Greek got his name. There was a small-time gambler named Jake the Greek, and Jimmy called me and said, "Joe, I'd like to be The Greek." And I said, "I'm sorry, Jimmy, but you're not Greek. And under New York State gambling laws it's forbidden." And he said, "I know, Joe, but my parents always wanted me to be called The Greek. You think you could arrange a lunch meeting with Jake?" I said, "Sure, but if he knows what it's for he won't show." And Jimmy said, "Try, Joe. It would mean a lot to me." And so, after some persuading, Jake the Greek gave over his name to Jimmy.

@sammyvh11 2 года назад

Was Superbowl 3 fixed at the top with Shula, Morall, and the field goal kicker Michaels, and did the Colts owner bet over a million on his own team to lose? Looking back on this the owners all made billions on the merger and Don Shula a year later ends up in Miami and was given 10% of the Dolphins for losing championships. I cant think of any other head coach who was given a % ownership in a franchise for just showing up not even Lombardi when he went to the Redskins.

@richiecintheplacetobe 5 месяцев назад

😂He sounded like Stan Lee for a second😂 trying to explain some powers and shit

@suckafreegangtelevision1504 3 года назад

Wow this dude was a genius

@cuivre2004 Год назад

Smart people always sound crazy to dumb people.

@thetimahawk1 6 месяцев назад

JTG was not a racist . He was trying to sound educated about something he knew nothing about. Genetics. It was a loaded question to begin with . " Why do you think the black athlete is superior ? " He should have told that reporter to take a hike . That pos reporter then ran and sold the tape to the networks. If that wasn't a set up , I don't know what is.

@carlpicillo1484 2 года назад

The problem is most people can't handle the truth

@kswinger 5 лет назад

I remember those skits on SNL where Phil Hartman parodied him.

@justintime1343 3 года назад

Phil did it really well, too.

@leroie 2 года назад

NO LIES DETECTED

@shaolinfantastic9989 4 года назад

This was in the 80s... its the truth.... back then people were not ready for someone to just come out and say it, but it was true....

@maestroofamore8948 3 года назад

Still not... "ready", that is.

@WISHBONEL7 9 месяцев назад

The danger with those type of comments would be the counterpunch .

@TOOTAKEMON 5 лет назад

Wanna know that topic at the dinner table? Ask Jimmy.

@bignose3639 Год назад

He spoke the truth.

@michaelssemidailyupdates Месяц назад

I wish he could have seen all of us say that he didn’t say anything wrong. He died broke and broken hearted that people misunderstood him. I wouldn’t necessarily say it out loud but there probably is some truth to it. The black athlete is just so incredible. Some whites have it to but then people say that white kid plays like a black guy lol. It is what it is and I just love sports and how it brings people together.

@anthonygilmore5969 5 месяцев назад

I remember when this went down. Black guy here at 54, it's still funny lol. Time flies!

@alyciacooper2 3 года назад

He got fired for getting drunk at lunch.

@243wayne1 Год назад

He wasn't drunk.

@alyciacooper2 Год назад

@@243wayne1 exactly. A bs excuse.

@mjp96 5 месяцев назад

Sounded 100% sober to me.

@LittleJacob208 3 года назад

Breed the Big black with his big women lmao

@WISHBONEL7 9 месяцев назад

*Precedent*

@laverdadescatolica5 8 месяцев назад

“Y’all got some big women down here” 😀

@heywoodjablowme1020 3 года назад

Offensive or not the truth is the truth. Facts don't care about your feelings.

@maryshall89 2 года назад

Unfortunately folks are too easily offended

@J0eBrian 5 месяцев назад

The problem was that he spoke like he was an expert in the matter when he was just a sportsbook expert.

@mustaffa1611 4 месяца назад

but he was totally correct so he is an expert.

@datsapaddlin 5 месяцев назад

I think it’s the fact he said that when they just asked about Martin Luther King and the progress on black people in society is what got him trouble 😂. Man started rambling.

@maximusprime3459 2 года назад

30 some years later Leslie Jones turns it into a comedy routine and it earns her place in the SNL cast. The rest is history.

@Scrimparmy 2 года назад

Who?

@memoryroom6388 11 месяцев назад

Except she can't do comedy. She is only there for fulfilling checkmarks...

@deborahgardner7862 8 месяцев назад

How do you fire someone for telling the truth, from 1988 to 2023 we are the better the athlete, we control, track and field, gymnastics, boxing, etc. and those are single competitor sports, basketball, football, (this is why more black QB’s) soccer etc. it is evident if you pay attention, he said nothing that wasn’t true, some people just don’t like hearing they’re second or third best.

@redpilled299 2 года назад

What about the fact that the commercial played right after the segment proves that what Jimmy said about heredity was accurate? Their jingle is literally: "Make your kids in to a picture of good health: help them grow up looking like you!"

@jiiig8667 Год назад

Was he wrong tho?.. How about for some reason the news hyped it...why? Cuz they're enlightened?..🤣🤣

@JerichoMile4 3 года назад

Jimmy The Greek Snyder may have caused the politically correct/cancel culture 😐

@dapper892 Год назад

Let’s a cancel a guy we refer to as “Jimmy the Greek” for a derogatory comment… oh the irony of that. What if they called Brian Gumbel….Brian the African? Would that be ok?

@eddierascalhaskell4954 3 месяца назад

"The black"😂

@WISHBONEL7 7 месяцев назад

Be prepared for the *counter punch* .

@toetaggerh4253 3 года назад

Bill Burr brought me here, and the quick twitch!

@brantley463 10 месяцев назад

Everything that jimmy said was true.I am a black man and I wasn’t a bit offended on what he said

@em7dim9 10 месяцев назад

If it's true then why are today's West African men built the same way as you? There was no white slaveowner breeding them.

@brose10 8 месяцев назад

Whole lotta “as a black guy” nonsense in here from “black guys” who never been in a room full of black people before lmao

@gaddyify 2 года назад

I'm black and felt for him after all the backlash, from him telling the truth. R.I.P Jimmy.

@Cton88 3 года назад

1:35 and you got cancelled next Brent lol .

@bretherenlee1404 5 месяцев назад

He said he was sorry then why not forgive?

@MIKECNW 5 месяцев назад

I think He was right about concerning himself about right players being outnumbered by blacks but about the slave owners. Even if he's possibly right about them breeding the slaves in such a way he's smiling about it and sounding like he was going out of his way to be nasty.

@Payton3434 10 месяцев назад

Doesn’t seem that bad compared to our new Trump world.

@357pghguero 2 года назад

This is too funny lmao!! He just said they were bred to be the better athlete because the thighs of a black man go up into his back!!Crying right now lol

@huckleberrylachow2202 2 года назад

lmaoo wait, you think he wasn’t telling the truth?

@WISHBONEL7 9 месяцев назад

It sounds like he is describing cattle , rather than people .

@biggriff5579 5 месяцев назад

That shit ain't happen we was the first humans on earth

@kylorenkardashian79 2 года назад

wasn't this the bases of the movie Mandingo?

@bushrodbrown8326 5 лет назад

He from my city Steubenville Ohio

@Logan-py8we Год назад

What did he say that was wrong? Was it not accurate?

@WISHBONEL7 9 месяцев назад

*Precedent*

@brooklynfreeman4507 5 месяцев назад

I’m black and I’m not offended by what he said, it’s actually the truth. He was fired for no reason. I don’t think he’s racist.

@lex6794 Год назад

I'm a dark skin minority. I don't think what he said was racist at all. It might even be a compliment.

@breaks3085 Год назад

At first I didn't think it was racist, but it is , cos they're disregarding our hard work we put it, an saying it's genetics as to why black people are better athletes.

@andrewa6786 Год назад

@@breaks3085 it's true though. blacks are better athletes.

@mach6893 Год назад

He wasn't being racist as much as he was being stupid.

@jamesvzfighter 2 года назад

He wasnt wrong, It just pointed out that they were going to put a cap on how many black coaches, quarterbacks and other top level executive things based on how well they have done in the industry so far.

@moeman17able Год назад

Today we have a big black making comic books about how ungrateful he is.

@Dermont1 5 лет назад

Black people are original and created by the creator. We are born to dominate when we have true knowledge of self and abilities. Breeding has little to do with it. Poor choice of words; jimmy.

@nobelhung 5 лет назад

Exactly

@deuceswild6350 4 года назад

Factz. Also why we lose cause we accept criminals into our own we turn the cheek while they infiltrate and fuck is up as a people. We need to stick and stay together and stop mix breeding.

@burrburr247 2 года назад

If we were the original where did we lose it all ??

@gmoney5947 4 года назад

Is not an accurate statement? Did slave owners not breed their slaves. Now we are “free” to choose. My wife is half Mexican I’m a WMA (but I’ve got roots in South America , Africa, Spain, as well as Northwest Europe ). I’m 5’11 my wife 5’7. More than likely my son will be shorter than me. But anything’s possible.

@maestroofamore8948 3 года назад

Why would you expect your son to be shorter than you? More frequently sons wind up a little taller.

@gmoney5947 3 года назад

Maestro of Amore I assume he’ll be shorter because my father in law is Mexican but youre correct on my wife’s mother’s side of the family the men are all tall 6’2 so I shouldn’t assume anything. Thank you.

@ellisonbrowne1406 5 месяцев назад

Back is Beautiful Resilient.❤

@243wayne1 Год назад

Truth.

@rabbit9360 6 месяцев назад

Is it “racist” when it’s factual?

@mustaffa1611 4 месяца назад

facts are racist

@stevemarce1988 2 года назад

FACTS! 💥❌💯❗️

@GeorgeEugeneBarrett 2 года назад

But did he lie? 🤷🏻‍♂️

@JeromeNeal1 3 года назад

AmeriKKKa wasn't ready for his comments, but Jimmy told the truth!!

@10INCHCRUSHER 3 года назад

I know right? This just popped up in my mind like 5 minutes ago. You know he was gonna spit some harder truth to explain himself and they got to him. I was watching The Cannonball run the other day and sorry man, none of those guys were racists.

@CIF-pm7tk 3 года назад

Jerome? 🤣 your mom must have hated you. I would say the same about your dad, but hes, well not around!