Midnight Rider said:
A few points here:
1. I didn't pay a lot of attention to cinque, because his/her opinions were so predictable. Sort of like the left's answer to Doc Holiday.
2. He/she did, however, give a smidgen of balance to this board, which is now sorely lacking.
3. Was cinque a he or a she? It was never revealed to my knowledge. I got the impression that cinque was referred as a she by those who were trying to lodge a lame insult.
4. If cinque was the most racist individual you have ever communicated with, you have lived a sheltered life.
Cinque identified himself several times as male. I share your impression that the references to being a female were made by made by posters who never advanced beyond a junior high level of maturity or wit.
It seemed to me that most of what he posted here were just links to news stories that otherwise would not have been posted here because they were inconvenient to the dominant right-wing narrative here. He didn't add a whole lot of his own commentary.
Simply posting those kinds of stories was a trigger for a lot of the posters here. I think he knew that and was purposefully trolling them. But going way back on Baylor Fans, I don't remember him always being a troll. My recollection is that he didn't post all that much when I first joined BF. He identified himself as black and a Democrat and got attacked for both. Then it seemed like he retaliated by trolling.
Besides cinque, there are two other regular posters here who are identified as African American. I've seen all of them subjected to comments that by any reasonable standard would be called racist. One of them usually deflects this stuff with humor while making his point. Another is a bit more forthright. Cinque's response was to troll with news stories. But I rarely saw him resort to name calling.
I'm curious to know what he wrote that got him banned. Several posters claim to have seen the offending post and say that it was egregiously racist. But to my knowledge no one has even offered a sanitized summary of what he said.
This site in general may be the most poorly moderated board I've ever seen. The owners' claim that they don't come here because they don't care about politics is pretty pathetic. Hard for me to muster much respect for them. If you're going to host an R&P forum on your site, then it's yours, and you have a responsibility to moderate it. If you don't want the responsibility, then kill the R&P forum and stick to sports.