Posted on 11/23/2016 2:43:47 PM PST by jazusamo
This is a football story with both political and legal implications.
It was fourth down in a National Football League game, and the punting team came onto the field. The other team went into their formation to defend against the punt. Then somebody noticed that the man set to kick the punt was black.
"Fake!" one of the defenders cried out. That cry was immediately echoed by others, and the defending team changed their formation, to guard against the kicker either running with the ball or throwing it. But in fact he punted.
Why did anyone think he was not going to punt the ball? Because chances are no one on that field had ever seen a black football player kick a punt. As someone who has watched NFL games for half a century, I have never seen a black player either punt the ball, or kick a field goal or a point after touchdown.
I have seen hundreds of black players score touchdowns, but not one kick the point afterwards. I have seen a black President of the United States before I have seen a black kicker in the NFL.
Politicians, the intelligentsia and even the Supreme Court of the United States have been saying for decades that statistical disparities between racial groups indicate discrimination. If so, then the racial disparities among kickers in professional football exceed that in virtually any other job anywhere.
But is it discrimination? The very same people who employ blacks at every other position on a football team are the people who hire kickers. Why would they be willing to hire black players in other positions that pay a lot more money than most kickers get, but draw the line at hiring black kickers?
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Not knowing anything at all about the player except that he was a black punter from Nigeria, I'd be willing to bet just about everything I own that he was a soccer player in Nigeria. The funny thing IMO is that in his native country, they likely called it "football". I'd never thought about or noticed the racial disparity of punters (alas, a different thing entirely in Britain) but it can easily be explained because a lot of them probably used to play soccer. Not much of a "black" sport in this country. Not so overseas.
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Two points, if I may.
Jesus Christ: You can't impeach Him and He ain't gonna resign.
>> Politicians, the intelligentsia and even the Supreme Court of the United States have been saying for decades that statistical disparities between racial groups indicate discrimination. If so, then the racial disparities among kickers in professional football exceed that in virtually any other job anywhere.
Which is to say... the Left’s threshold of achievement is often dictated by the least acceptable performer.
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Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family, Jaz!
Thank you much, Gene! And a Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
A hundred years from now people will be unable to understand the brilliance of a Sowell... Why? Because he digs down to the universal to the truth devoid of momentary 'fashion'. In a hundred years people will say, 'of course - who doesn't know that?'...
Well, in "our" time people don't 'get it'... so please future people - see this from the eyes of our culture in our time. Sowell's amazing.
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