tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post113078849439968954..comments2023-11-03T04:39:50.760-05:00Comments on Galley Slaves: Jonathan V. Lasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17426165197358366129noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-1130863225207718152005-11-01T11:40:00.000-05:002005-11-01T11:40:00.000-05:00DeBerry's comments are "racist", in the sense that...DeBerry's comments are "racist", in the sense that they denigrate and stereotype white athletes as "slow". Mr. Wilbon and Mr. Deberry would do well to speak to Baylor track coach Clyde Hart, who has long argued against stereotyping of all athletes.<BR/><BR/>"Since many black athletes come out of difficult economic situations, Hart said, they see sports as a way out — a way to succeed when other avenues are not open to them."<BR/><BR/>"A lot of the white athletes are privileged," he said. "They have their automobiles. They don't need to be trying to get a scholarship or making an international team to see the world."<BR/><BR/>http://ap.lancasteronline.com/4/oly_white_sprinters_run<BR/><BR/>I mean, just look at Wilbon. I don't see much that that dude could outrun.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-1130856228206576472005-11-01T09:43:00.000-05:002005-11-01T09:43:00.000-05:00Let me second the kudos to Wilbon. This whole sorr...Let me second the kudos to Wilbon. This whole sorry incident says much more about how totally crippling the burden of political correctness is in our society than it does about any alleged racism is pro sports. If something as mild and nondebateable as BeBerry's comments can be considered racist then we all are in serious trouble.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-1130803404741672832005-10-31T19:03:00.000-05:002005-10-31T19:03:00.000-05:00"How would it go down if somebody suggested two or..."How would it go down if somebody suggested two or three spots on every NBA team be reserved for a white player?"<BR/><BR/>You mean, there isn't? Then how did guys like Chris Dudley stick around for so long?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-1130795336981773772005-10-31T16:48:00.000-05:002005-10-31T16:48:00.000-05:00I'm a life-long Colt.45s/Astros fan and never even...I'm a life-long Colt.45s/Astros fan and never even thought about the current racial makeup of the team until someone brought it up. I suppose the Latin players don't count--or do they? I dont even know any of the 'Stros religion. I always liked Hammerin' Hank, but he's become a bitter old bore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-1130794960985052422005-10-31T16:42:00.000-05:002005-10-31T16:42:00.000-05:00I think what we really need to discuss is the disg...I think what we really need to discuss is the disgraceful lack of african americans in professional hockey.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-1130792730199213642005-10-31T16:05:00.000-05:002005-10-31T16:05:00.000-05:00Kudos to Wilbon. I'm still trying to figure out w...Kudos to Wilbon. I'm still trying to figure out what the "controversy" is - the essence of DeBerry's remarks is that his team was insufficiently ethnically diverse to be competitive, and for this he gets pilloried as a racist? The man has absorbed (properly, in this instance) one of the diversity watchdogs' most vociferously repeated arguments, and he gets criticized? I suppose in the future he should just take the University of Michigan approach and established minority quotas, preferences and set-asides for his team, talent be damned, and keep his mouth shut about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-1130791473281748862005-10-31T15:44:00.000-05:002005-10-31T15:44:00.000-05:00Good for Wilbon on this. I saw the way that ESPN ...Good for Wilbon on this. I saw the way that ESPN reported this "story" the other day and could not believe it. The reader talked in serious tones about the controversial comments from the coach. I then saw the tape of what was actually said and all I could think of was that it was something cooked up by guilty white guys who perceive any mention of race to be, ipso facto, racist.<BR/>Maybe the story here is that we can never ever get past race because we can never ever discuss race.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com