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if a sports writer calls someone "the great white hope," is he/she a racist? isn't that phrase used a lot in boxing where over the last many years white boxers have not been as successful as Black and Latino fighters?

isn't pulling for an "underdog" ok? Or, if someone- for whatever reason- is called an "underdog," is that now considered politically incorrect? after all, a "dog" isn't exactly a compliment...

I thought black quarterbacks were underdogs in the sense that they were "under represented." I've always rooted for minorities when they were "under represented" at a position because I figured-- like Jackie Robinson-- they had a little more pressure on them.

anyway, I guess it isn't permissible to utter the phrase "great white hope" on tv at this point in time.