Doyle Brunson: Racism Bad, Segregated Bathrooms Good

Poker icon Doyle Brunson recently found himself refuting suggestions that he might be racist based on comments made.  Gambling911.com's own Jagajeet Chiba emphatically states that Brunson is in no way a racist

Many Gambling911.com readers have followed my coverage of comments made by various poker pros, some of which can certainly be interpreted as racist.  It was just two weeks ago that I revealed how Victory Poker employed insensitive persons to its stable of poker pros while overlooking the pool of African Americans.  Team Victory player of Armenian decent, Dan Bilzarian, being among the most egregious offenders.   The blabbermouth Bilzarian was caught making racist jokes on his Twitter page. 

I am happy to expose what seems like an endless stream of ridiculous racial stereotypes coming from the poker community.  It repulses me.

Now Doyle Brunson, the Godfather of Poker, has come under fire for some comments he made.

I received this piece of email just the other day.

Dear Jagajeet,

Let me start off by saying what a wonderful and enlightening writer you are and how much I appreciate your masterworks.

That said, how can you ignore comments made by Gambling911 darling Doyle Brunson, who gleefully suggests that black poker player Phil Ivey should use a different public bathroom?

Seems you are turning the other cheek on this one to protect a paying advertiser.  Prove me wrong please.  I put you right up there with Geraldo Rivera. 

Signed, Ben 

Ben, glad to see you have good taste.  Sorry to hear you lack much commonsense.

There is a reason why Mr. Brunson made this very specific comment you reference and it has nothing to do with racism: 

"I've had black friends all my life. I even get along with Phil Ivey as long as we don't have to use the same bathroom," Brunson wrote on his blog, adding a smiley face at the end of his comment. 

Brunson has reasons for not wanting to share a bathroom with Mr. Ivey and it relates to the White man's inferiority complex when it comes to the Black man's endowment.  Does Doyle really want to pee beside anyone with Phil Ivey's girth?

Modern day scientific studies back up this perception.    

"It is generally said that the penis of the n**** is very large," so wrote German anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in 1795. We have edited the original term used to describe the Black man as not to offend anybody.  "And this assertion is so far borne out by the remarkable genitory apparatus of an Ethiopian which I have in my anatomical collection."

Louis Jacolliet, a 19th century French writer who spent three decades investigating penis size, had this to say: "In no branch of the human race are the male organs more developed than in the African N****.

"Certainly, the belief in the well-endowment of the African race has an extensive history."

So does Doyle Brunson have an inferiority complex when it comes to his genitalia?

Why would he?  He has produced a lovely daughter Pam via that sexual apparatus of his.  He also bore a son Todd with that thing.  But neither were conceived while Phil Ivey was in the room with Doyle and his wife Louise either.

And, so Ben, to answer your question, no, Doyle Brunson is not a racist.  His is more penis envy we can surmise. 

While we are on the subject of male endowment, I just wanted to throw out there that we currently have an ongoing government study in my native India commissioned with the goal of helping reduce the high condom failure rate there, a result of breakage.  I, Jagajeet Chiba, would have no problem sharing a bathroom with Phil Ivey.  And if Doyle wishes to be segregated from people like Phil Ivey and Myself when having to use a public bathroom, that is his God given right.  It doesn't make him a racist.  

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Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com