Brutal,
I have dealt with this issue on a personal level, as a long-time youth
basketball coach (and, to a lesser degree, as a soccer coach). I can
tell you, without question, that black kids as young as 8 or 9 years
old, both boys and girls, are favored over white kids with similar
abilities by most all white youth coaches. This is undoubtedly a
subconscious thing, one of the many byproducts of decades of intense
pro-black propaganda. I will give only 3 recent examples of this.
A few years ago, my daugther's basketball team was playing against a
team that had a stereotypical black player. She was wildly aggressive,
bumping into the other girls constantly (had fouls been fairly called
on her, even allowing for the age, she would have fouled out early in
the game), and on offense hogging the ball, taking all the shots, never
passing, etc. Curiously, she missed every one of the countless shots
she heaved up, and had she been my player, she would have counsled
severely for not talking good shots and including her teammates in the
game. Her coach never said a discouraging word to her. At one point,
she was awarded 2 foul shots. On the first, she violated the line by
jumping several inches forward over the line. She missed the shot,
anyway, but the ref kindly warned her. On the 2nd free throw, she did
the exact same thing, but made the shot. When the ref said nothing, I
yelled out to him about the violation. He ignored me, so I yelled
again. He stopped play, came over to me, and warned me to stop. When I
demanded an explanation, he said, "Look, I'm not going to take her
heart away." I submit that this ref, who was white, would not have said
those words about any non-black kid in the league. More recently, a
totally mediocre black kid who was on my son's team two years back made
his High School freshman basketball team. He made more mental errors in
that one season than all the other kids I have coached have combined
over the past ten years. In one game, he went 1 for 22 from the field,
and every shot he took was a layup. You would have had to coach this
kid to understand how absurd it is for him to have made any school
basketball team. There is no way he would have made it had he been
white. Period. Finally, the goalie on my daughter's soccer team this
season is black. She has cost us several games with her laziness and
penchant for allowing at least one horrible goal every outing. However,
she does like to make diving stops once she has given up a bad goal or
two (she never even moves on those) and we are behind.
Inexplicably, the all-star coach picked her for the tournament team. I
actually tried to talk to her about this, because she would be one of
the last girls on my team that I would nominate for all-stars, but the
coach seemed to think she was great. Wonder what the coach-who was
white-saw that was so special in her?
Anyhow, these are just a few examples, from my own first-hand
experience. I could provide many others. Considering that these occur
at the absolute bottom rung of competitive youth sports, one can only
imagine what happens further up the ladder. If you don't think coaches
favor black players, then you are really clueless.
