Posted on 02/13/2014 12:36:17 PM PST by chessplayer
But for liberal sportswriters like the Washington Post's Mike Wise, well, all they can see is skin tone, and they won't let the games pass without moaning about it. Beating the daylights of his hobby horse, Wise began his Feb. 13 column -- mercifully buried on page D7 -- by highlighting perhaps the best-known African-American athlete in Sochi, speedskater Shani Davis and by making lame cracks about the whiteness of the Games:
SOCHI, Russia — COLUMN | Don’t listen to your friends back home saying the Winter Olympics are just for white people who like the cold and vacation in Aspen. This is the most inclusive Winter Games ever. Why, there are Caucasians here from almost 88 different nations.
But speaking from a purely egalitarian view, it would be nice to see a country like the United States have its Winter Olympic team someday more accurately represent the diversity of its population — if only because more people would care, watch, read and give someone such as Shani Davis the attention and love he and his sport deserve.
Otherwise, these Games are going to continue to resemble the inside of a giant snow globe, forever powdery white.
"But speaking from a purely egalitarian view, it would be nice to see a country like the United States have its Winter Olympic team someday more accurately represent the diversity of its population —"
And there is the liberal solution. Force blacks into sports they don't like in order to make the games "inclusive."
Where’s de Jamaican bobsled team mon?
And NBA games are blacker than a crack house. So what’s his point?
This dim bulb obviously doesn’t watch Downton Abbey, because they put in a black character (a jazz singer) who is having a torrid affair with a ditzy American niece.
Are all the homo’s that Obama sent there white?
Don’t those libs give us credit for them?
How does he describe the NBA?
I know folks that every time they see something on tv where there aren’t “people of color” —or very few, they comment. “Oh how white that crowd is!” I wonder how many white folks say “Oh how black that crowd is” — when the media shows a NAACP convention or an event that centers around American black folks?
I wonder how he feels about the Harlem Globetrotters.
Oay.... to be representative of the diversity of the population, there should only be about 3/5 of one black person per team on the NBA basketball court at any one time
Most black Americans are in urban centers (sidewlks, pavement, no yards) and the south (not much in the way of ice or snow, freak storms notwithstanding). How are tyhey gonna pick up ice hockey or snow boarding? Good grief.
That's sure what I was thinking when I watched a few minutes of the giant Beatles bash last night on CBS.
Once upon a time, I would never have thought it. Now, I can't prevent myself thinking it.
This explains all the good sportsmanship I’ve been seeing. The lack of trash talking and jungle dances are ruining the Winter Olympics.
Exactly. If a sports reporter said an event was “blacker than an Apollo Theater audience”, it would be headline nationwide news. Along with a forced apology and an inevitable firing.
Hey SOB columnist, did you watch any NFL games this past season? Did you see the Super Bowl? How about the NBA - when is the last time you watched an NBA game?
It must be discrimination. All those black athletes who trained for years were not allowed to compete.
Egalitarianism is a complete repudiation of and an assault on justice. For race obsessed libtards, egalitarianism supersedes justice.
Yes, and use a quota system in selecting the members of the U S Olympic team. So there are the appropriate demographic/ethnic proportions included in all sports. Be sure to include track and field and basketball, right?
Hehe... the first all black curling team - I’d watch that!
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