The Racial Caste System in Sports

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The Racial Caste System in Sports


The following article by J. B. Cash is appearing in the forthcoming issue of The Occidental Quarterly, website: www.theoccidentalquarterly.com.


(11/27/08) There seems to be no slaking Western man's thirst for spectator sports. The "bread and circuses" of the Roman Empire seem almost trivial by comparison. American culture is awash in worship of sports teams and professional athletes. Even those who excel in activities that feature very little "athleticism," like golf and motor sports, achieve the kind of fame and fortune once reserved for kings.

Every newspaper in the country devotes a large section to daily sporting events. Every local television newscast devotes a sizable chunk of valuable airtime to sports coverage. There are entire TV networks devoted wholly to sports: ESPN, ESPN 2, the Golf Channel, the NFL (National Football League) Network, the NHL (National Hockey League) Network, and the Tennis Channel. There are pay-per-view sports events on the major cable networks such as Home Box Office and Showtime. Fox has regional sports channels in many of its larger markets. Nearly every sizable radio market has one or two stations that feature 100 percent sports coverage. From the NFL to NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), from the NBA (National Basketball Association) to the PGA (Professional Golfers Asso-ciation), each and every sports niche is covered in minute detail.

The average citizen is likely to know the names, salaries, performance records, and even the personal lives of local and national sports celebrities, but not those of his local political representatives. Sports figures who have little bearing on the day-to-day existence of fans are followed closely, while the politicians who wield real power operate in relative obscurity.

The same is true in Europe and other parts of the Western world. The games may differ: there is soccer rather than football, cricket rather than baseball, Grand Prix racing rather than NASCAR. But the attitudes are the same.

In themselves, sports are not a bad thing. First and foremost, they are fun, and fun needs no justification. It is part of what makes life livable. Beyond that, playing sports can build up one's body, character, and community. Spectator sports can also build community and provide inspiring images of individual and collective excellence. A desire to be "on the winning team," or to cheer it on, is undoubtedly part of the human psyche, if not human DNA. In excess, of course, sports can become bad, but that is true of everything. Excess is a particular danger today, because of affluence and leisure in amounts un-heard of in past societies.

But the real problem with sports today is who controls them and what they are used for. The popularity of sports makes them an irresistible target of those who manipulate popular culture to shape society.

Professional and major college sports are controlled by the same people who control nearly all the levers of power in our society: the same people who control the nightly news, the daily newspaper, most internet sites, the schools, government, religion, the movies and television, and publishing. Nearly to a man, they think alike on matters of morality and public policy. It's no surprise of course, since they are all educated by the same system, a system that has formulated a rigid dogma and turned it into the ruling paradigm. They are either blissfully unaware or enthusiastically supportive of that particular way of thinking. Since they are handsomely rewarded for submission and severely punished if they stray from the program, cooperation is ensured and dissent squelched. Thus the sporting events and coverage produced by today's system are inevitably stamped with the same ideology as the rest of its products.

There are various names for the ideology of the elite. Some call it "political correctness." Others call it "Cultural Marxism." But the labels don't matter as long as one understands what is going on: the ruling elites are waging a cultural and racial war against Western values, Western civilization, and particularly Western man, i.e., the white man. In the name of the feel-good mantras of diversity and multiculturalism, all the values of traditional white civilization have been declared bad and everything opposed to them declared good. Every idea, attitude, and institution that protects the white race and promotes its continued existence is being destroyed, as a precondition for the physical destruction of the race itself. No arena of life is spared this agenda's icy grip. Every movie, television show, news story, book, and sermon must advance it, under the watchful eye of an army of censors and snitches demanding unyielding fidelity to the agenda. No argument or evidence is allowed to challenge it.

RACIAL INTEGRATION AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN SPORTS

How has the once proud world of athletics fared in this climate? Sports have been especially vulnerable to racial integration and affirmative action because, while not every race has evolved the mental faculties necessary to create modern technological civilizations, every race has evolved the physical qualities necessary to sustain life. Thus it stands to reason that sports can be devised in which every race is suited to excel.

For nearly fifty years, football and other sports have allowed universities to add non-whites to their student bodies. It is easier to find blacks who can excel on the basketball court or the football field than in the physics department or the Air Force Academy. Educators find it easier to motivate blacks to play games than to study engineering. Furthermore, although the laws of mathematics cannot be adjusted in order to improve black performance, the rules of games can. There are more potential black basketball players than classics majors, and there are reduced academic requirements for student athletes. Standardized testing and grade point averages can be bypassed in the name of improving the football team. But standards are not reduced solely for student athletes, because their disruptive and retarding presence in the classroom creates a downward drag on educational quality across the board.

Professional sports have also been racially integrated, and they provide an important ideological prop for racial integration and multiculturalism throughout society. The multiculturalist agenda demands successful non-whites, and professional sports and the entertainment industry are the only sectors of the economy that reliably provide them.

Affirmative action makes many whites skeptical of the qualifications of black doctors or lawyers, for under affirmative action, even highly talented non-whites are often promoted into positions above their level of competence. But the very same whites are not skeptical of the qualifications of black professional athletes. And when blacks are massively overrepresented on sports teams, whites are wont to think that, since professional sports is a meritocracy, blacks simply must be superior athletes. Even those Whites who believe in genetic determinism and racial differences, and thus reject racial egalitarianism and affirmative action, often embrace black athletic superiority because it affirms their underlying worldview and gives them an opportunity to sincerely praise non-whites.

Thus in America and much of the West, a rigid stereotype has taken hold: of white inferiority to non-whites (with the exception of Asians) in athletics. This stereotype has created a kind of "caste system" in sports, with blacks on top, whites next, and Asians last. But a careful examination of the facts leads to very different conclusions: the stereotype of white athletic inferiority is false, and black dominance of some college and professional sports is created by systematic discrimination against white athletes.

CASTE FOOTBALL

A website has been created to document discrimination against and negative stereotyping of white athletes. It's titled appropriately: Caste Football (www.castefootball.us). Owned and operated by Don Wassall, who is Editor of The Nationalist Times monthly newspaper and executive director of the American Nationalist Union, Caste Football has become a clearinghouse for information regarding anti-white bias in American football and the rest of the sports world.

The initial emphasis of Caste Football was on American professional and major collegiate football, but the same anti-white bias is seen in nearly all forms of athletics. And while some sports such as baseball remain doggedly white-dominated (despite Major League Baseball's infatuation with hispanics), football has become much more popular and long ago surpassed baseball as "America's pastime."

Football is more than just a multi-billion dollar industry. It has become a quasi-state religion, with millions of members worshipping every Sunday in state-built "temples" and spending the rest of the week in deep emotional involvement with the game. With high television ratings for games, super-sized ratings for the Super Bowl, and non-stop fawning print and electronic media coverage of every angle of the sport, the country is awash in football 24 hours a day, not only during the increasingly long seasons but year-round thanks to the rise of the NFL Network and other corporate media outlets devoted to promoting America's secular religion.

And the powers that be have made football a showcase for black athletic ability. They have changed the rules to favor things that blacks do well; they have ignored talented and deserving white players; and, like everything else in American public life that involves race, they refuse to discuss what is happening openly and honestly.

Consider this: in high school football, all-white or predominantly white suburban and rural teams regularly defeat their all-black and predominantly black urban opponents. This is a matter of record. Anyone involved with prep sports knows this to be true. When an all-white school meets an all-black school, the all-white school will usually win. They win with running backs that gain more yards, with receivers that catch more touchdowns, with cornerbacks that intercept more passes. When the statistics are totaled at the end of the year, the white running backs and receivers playing at the same level as the black ones do just as well. When the kids are timed and tested on their physical performance and attributes, the results are usually about the same. Thus white players win games, accumulate similar gaudy statistics, and test the same in standard drills.

Yet what happens when the big colleges start looking for players?

The colleges aggressively recruit black players and ignore white ones. No amount of success by a white running back in high school will get him a scholarship offer to play at a big Division I-A program, which feed the NFL nearly all of its players. The Caste Football website has chronicled many instances of white players who were told flat-out they were the wrong race to play a position in college, as such admissions sometimes make it through media censorship and into print. Such racial prejudices against blacks would, of course, result in media outrage and government intervention.

In an article from the Chicago Sun-Times, on December 17, 1999 by Taylor Bell titled "Questions continue to lurk under surface of recruiting," the author questioned the racial bias in college recruiting:

"I'm not saying the only reason the two best running backs in the Chicago area aren't being recruited by major colleges is because they are white. But you'd have a hard time convincing anyone who saw the Class 6A championship game that Naperville Central's Ryan Clifford hasn't got the moves, quickness, and toughness to play in Division I. Until Clifford took off like a rocket, scoring a state-record 51 touchdowns, most observers targeted Hinsdale Central's Mike Mangan as the leading ball-carrier in the state.

"Neither of them is drawing much interest from big-time recruiters. Both have been invited to visit Ball State. Maryland is considering Mangan. Illinois dropped Clifford from its shopping list, but Indiana made a last-minute call and invited him to visit this weekend.

"Are they too slow, too small, or too white? It is a taboo subject among college coaches. Even high school coaches don't want to talk about skin tones. It reminds of 20 to 25 years ago, when black quarterbacks were a controversial issue in college and pro-fessional football."

The same author broached the subject again in the Chicago Times March 5, 2006 issue in a story titled "Some gray in black-white issue":

"Several weeks ago, a college recruiter called Aurora Christian coach Don Beebe to inquire about running back Matt Russell.
'Is he black or white?' the recruiter asked.

"Russell is white. He is a 5-10, 184-pounder with 4.59-second speed in the 40-yard dash who has virtually no chance of scooting around a sizable barrier that saw only one white tailback starting in Division I and none in the NFL during the 2005 season.

"'I know how it feels,' said Beebe, a 1983 Kaneland [High School] graduate, who played in the NFL for nine seasons. 'I was a white kid from a small school, and I had to prove I could play with the big boys. I was a wide receiver who had to take a long route to the NFL. I had to prove myself.

"'We live in a society where black athletes definitely are going to get the better look. I tell scouts: Look at the numbers. Look at the 10- or 40-yard dash. Look at agility, vision in the open field. Look at the tape. Evaluate a kid not by the color of his skin but by his talent. That's what I said about Russell. What does color matter?'"

This is from a column by Bob West in the Sunday, February 11, 2007 Port Arthur News:

"If you're wondering why North Texas was the only school willing to sign Nederland's talented Micah Mosley as an offensive player, here's the fact you will never get anybody to admit. Most college coaches won't recruit a white running back, even one as good as Mosley."

Here is an excerpt from the Herald News of May 1, 2006, "Are white RBs [running backs] not given a fair shake or are they simply not good enough?" by Adam Zagoria:

"Wayne Hills running back Ray Van Peenen was named first-team All-State last winter after leading New Jersey in rushing touchdowns and total points scored. Displaying tremendous toughness and an ability to run over defenders, the 5-foot-10, 180-pound Van Peenen led the Patriots to the second of back-to-back North 1, Group 3 championships and is on pace to become the leading scorer in the program's storied history.

"'Ray's the best back in the state,' Patriots coach Chris Olsen said unequivocally. Yet as Van Peenen prepares to compete in today's Elite College Combine at the Indoor Sports Pavilion in Randolph, he has just one firm college scholarship offer: from Minnesota. Rutgers, Boston College, Louisville, Temple, Con-necticut, and others have also expressed interest.

"Why is that? Is it because he's too slow? Not tough enough? Not big enough? Or does it have something to do with the fact that Van Peenen is white?

"Some experts say yes.

"'I really believe that if this Van Peenen kid, for instance, was a different color, he would have 20 offers right now,' said Nick Lubischer of EliteRecruits.com, who has been working in the recruiting business for close to a decade and is white. 'I really believe that. And I don't blame anybody except the way things have happened over the years. If I was a Division I college coach, I would offer him a scholarship. I wouldn't have seen color, but I think a lot of these guys do.'

"This isn't news to Van Peenen, the 2005 Herald News Offensive Player of the Year. He's heard it before. 'I get it a lot, actually,' he said. 'It doesn't really bother me. I don't let that stuff bother me because I know how I can play. If they don't recruit me be-cause of that I guess it would be hurting them.'"

Since whites at most positions in football are intentionally ignored and not recruited to play for the major college programs, there is virtually no chance for them to play professionally. Thus the bigotry against whites expressed during college football recruiting season is extended to the professional level (the NFL), where there are not enough white candidates to compete for the skill/ball-handling positions.

Even when the few whites who are allowed to play excel, they are often ignored. In 2001 white running back Luke Staley of Brigham Young University won the Doak Walker Award, given annually to the player considered the best college running back in the country. But when he entered the NFL Draft he wasn't selected until the final round, a throwaway pick. He was given little chance to play and was quickly out of the league. Every black player who has won the Doak Walker Award has been drafted in the first two rounds by the NFL and gone on to sign multi-million dollar contracts.

In 2005 Mike Hass of Oregon State won the Biletnikoff Award, given to the best wide receiver in the country. As with running back Staley, Hass was drafted very late and has yet to be given a chance to play in the NFL. Every black wide receiver who has won the Biletnikoff Award over the past dozen years was drafted in either the first or second round and given years and years of opportunity to develop. The disgraceful treatment of Staley and Hass is a microcosm of the institutionalized discrimination that prevents nearly all white football players from receiving the same opportunities as black players.

This egregious double standard is a fixture in the NFL and in college football, which has long shunned white players as anything but quarterbacks and offensive linemen. Almost as rare as the white running back and white receiver is the white defensive player, as it is more and more common for college and professional teams to fill all eleven starting positions on defense with blacks. Even when whites excel as wide receivers or on defense, little consideration is given to finding more whites who can play.

WHITE-DOMINATED SPORTS

Given this sort of systematic discrimination, it is little wonder that the perception that white men are poor athletes has become ingrained in the public mind. A closer look shows that this is not true. Whites dominate the Winter and Summer Olympics and dominate the vast majority of popular and not-so-popular sports.

In boxing for example, most of the top fighters are white. Whites currently hold 12 championship belts out of a total of 20 from the middleweight division up. The heavyweight division especially is dominated by white fighters from Eastern Europe. You will never hear the mainstream press report on the white domination of boxing. Wladimir Klitschko, the heavyweight champion from Ukraine, routinely destroys one American "Great Black Hope" after another, which the corporate media greets with a collective yawn. The only discussion of the domination of white boxers focuses on how "bad" the heavyweight division is (because no American blacks are able to compete).

The Olympic decathlon winner is generally considered the best all-round athlete in the world. That person is nearly always white. Frequently all the top decathletes are white. Yet this fact never seems to seep into the consciousness of a society shaped by movies like White Men Can't Jump.

Even in sports like basketball, where blacks are the majority in the United States, white players are among the best. Steve Nash has won multiple Most Valuable Player awards. Dirk Nowitzki is one of the best players in the NBA. In international play in recent years, the usually all-black USA team is routinely beaten by Italian and Argentinean basketball teams made up almost entirely of white players. In America tens of thousands of white kids are enthusiastic high school and college basketball players. If the best black basketball players in the NBA are being regularly beaten by white teams in international competition, then why is the NBA 80 percent black year after year?

There are also many sports where only whites succeed. Hockey is perhaps the best-known example, but swimming, gymnastics, power-lifting, and wrestling, to name a few, are virtually all-white endeavors, even though every urban area has ice rinks, swimming pools, and gyms. Even in an area where blacks are said to have genetic advantages such as short sprinting, whites compete, and some white runners, such as Jeremy Wariner in the 400-meters, are the world's best.

During the 1960s and 1970s whites and blacks competed on a relatively equal basis in football. There were plenty of good white running backs and good black ones, good white receivers and good black ones. There were Russians who won the 100-meter sprint and black Americans who won. However, since the take-over of public discourse by the virulent anti-white agenda that dominates U.S. society, much of the American sports world has been turned over to non-whites.

ATHLETES AS IDOLS

White athletes are not the only victims of the racial Caste System in sports. All whites are victims. This is because athletes are widely idolized and seen as role models. The dispossession of white athletes by non-white athletes therefore reinforces white dispossession throughout society.

White boys are particularly hard-hit. Sports play a large role in the lives of most boys. Thus sports figures often serve as models of masculinity and achievement. There is nothing wrong with this, in a healthy white society. Sports have deep roots in the Western tradition. The ancient Greeks introduced the pentathlon at Olympia in 708 BC, and the Olympic games continued every fourth year for almost eleven centuries. The traditional meaning of athletic competition was to train youth not just in physical achievement, but also in the values of honor, achievement, sportsmanship, team play, rule-following, and the ability to win and lose gracefully. Sports were also seen as a training ground for war and statesmanship, famously expressed by the claim that the British victory at Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.

But the idolization of athletes is quite a different matter in a multi-racial society ruled by the agenda of white dispossession. A generation of white children has now grown up hearing at every opportunity that their race is weak and physically inferior. For role models, white children have been provided an endless stream of black men.

And look at the quality! It was one thing to grow up admiring Willie Mays and Joe Louis: their public image was identical to that of their white counterparts like Joe DiMaggio and Rocky Marciano, because white athletes still set the standards of behavior.

But the black athlete of today? Black athletes now set the standards of behavior in many sports. In the game, there is trash talking, preening and showboating, and poor sportsmanship. Outside the game, there is profligacy, degeneracy, misogyny, and crime. Many black athletes are also openly disdainful of white culture and values, and of whites themselves. White boys now have "role models" who hate the kind of men their fathers are, the kind of men they will grow up to be. Should we then be surprised by white self-hatred?

Even at the height of segregation and anti-black discrimination in America there was never a white athlete with a public image of virulent anti-black sentiment. And if there were one, the black community would not have rewarded him with honors, awards, millions of dollars, and uncritical acclaim. No one would have expected the parents of young black boys to enthusiastically cheer him on. They would not have been expected to assist their children in idolizing him by buying posters, cards, and memorabilia, so as to implant in their children's minds that this person's opinion about their race was correct.

But that is exactly what is expected today of whites. They fawn over an endless parade of thuggish, anti-social black athletes and teach their children to do the same.

Ultimately, the racial Caste System in sports cannot be solved without addressing the racial caste system in society as a whole. Western civilization needs new pro-white values and new pro-white leaders, and a top-to-bottom transformation of all of our institutions, including sports. Hopefully the courage to do this still remains among the people who conquered and civilized much of the world. If it does not, the future will be grim, not only for white people but for people of all races.

But what to do in the meantime? It is never too late or too early for individuals to make a difference. We can change the anti-white direction taken by so many major sports, starting today.

The first step is to wake up to the fact that the problem exists. The white race, which has built civilization out of the wilderness on every continent, is not weak. The people who have gone from the depths of the oceans to the surface of the moon are not weak. In fact there is no greater people in matters of physical ability. The notion that whites are poor athletes is a ridiculous slur, a slur that needs to be refuted along with all the others. That is the purpose of Caste Football. Like The Occidental Quarterly, it is an oasis of truth in the desert of political correctness, bringing truth and reason to a world short on both.

But knowledge is not enough. Men and women of courage have to take action. You have to insist on fairness in recruiting and player selection. You have to insist that sports maintain white standards of behavior, even for non-white athletes. Better yet, racially conscious whites, especially you who have children, need to switch off sports dominated by non-whites and cultivate an interest in sports still dominated by whites. You need to vocally oppose calls for racial integration and affirmative action in white-dominated sports like NASCAR.

But perhaps the most subversive thing you as an individual or a family can do is switch off the tube altogether, get off the couch, and actually have fun while building body, character, and community.

A revolution in society begins with a revolution in the heart. Average people need to understand that race is important, and they need to understand it in terms of the things that matter most to them today. One of those things is sports. That is why our enemies have taken them over, and that is why we need to take them back.

J. B. Cash is the pen name of a freelance writer on sports and race featured at the Caste Football web site, www.castefootball.us, a project he has worked with closely since its inception. His writings have also appeared in The Nationalist Times magazine (www.anu.org) and on the American Renaissance website, www.amren.com.




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Great article J.B.!
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Outstanding analysis!
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I've passed it along to some fellow White (conservative leaning) friends in hope they get more on board with the CF/WN agenda.
 

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Another in a long list of quality articles. He nailed it again. Thanks for your hard work JB.
 

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Thought I would draw attention to the article. It explains things well.
 

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Thought I would draw attention to the article. It explains things well.



Right Extra Point. I want to do the same. I would encourage all here to read and tell others about this article as much as possible.

I think this article/thread should be moved to the top of the of the page or just above the NFL thread.

What do you think Don?
 

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Imagine a team drafts a receiver early in the second round of the 2019 NFL Draft. For all intents and purposes this pick was Arizona's compensation for trading 2018's first round pick Josh Rosen to Miami.

That in itself should spark much interest and discussion. But proving the trade was a good one, Andy Isabella has averaged 29 yards per target. That is unfathomably good, possibly an NFL record, something that if it had occurred previously must have happened back in the bad old days when NFL teams were just as likely to feature a White running back as a black one and had a plethora of White cornerbacks and safeties. And back then obvious White supremacists like Lance Alworth were far and away the best at their position.

But somehow Andy Isabella remains a backup and there are no public questions raised about this absurdity. But don't worry, there is no Caste System, the NFL actually greatly desires to see White running backs and wide receivers get the same opportunities to ensure fairness that black quarterbacks receive.
 
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Remember also that Ryan Nall lead the nfl in rushing yards in the preseason yet still got demoted to the practice squad two years in a row! This would never happen to anyone other than a white running back!
 
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Imagine a team drafts a receiver early in the second round of the 2019 NFL Draft. For all intents and purposes this pick was Arizona's compensation for trading 2018's first round pick Josh Rosen to Miami.

That in itself should spark much interest and discussion. But proving the trade was a good one, Andy Isabella has averaged 29 yards per target. That is unfathomably good, possibly an NFL record, something that if it had occurred previously must have happened back in the bad old days when NFL teams were just as likely to feature a White running back as a black one and had a plethora of White cornerbacks and safeties. And back then obvious White supremacists like Lance Alworth were far and away the best at their position.

But somehow Andy Isabella remains a backup and there are no public questions raised about this absurdity. But don't worry, there is no Caste System, the NFL actually greatly desires to see White running backs and wide receivers get the same opportunities to ensure fairness that black quarterbacks receive.

Yes, in the 1960's Lance Alworth was far and away the best WR in pro football.
 

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First time I've seen this essay. Everything he says is truth. When I was a kid in the 1950s and 60s so many of the greatest baseball and football players were white. There were many great blacks also, including Willie Mays and Hank Aaron in baseball, and Jim Brown and Lenny Moore in football.

As a 7-year-old I bought a pack of baseball cards which included Hank Aaron. I noticed his excellent batting stats on the card's back. When neighborhood kids my age got together to bat a baseball around, they began shouting, as boys would do, "I'm Mickey Mantle," or "I'm Ted Williams," so I yelled, "I'm Hank Aaron." Suddenly everyone got quiet and eyed me, and one boy said, "Go ahead and be him, but you're not playing with us." I got the message real fast. We policed ourselves in those days, even as young kids. So seeking higher guidance I asked my dad what player I should choose for my favorite. He said, "I think a good one would be Stan Musial." I learned he followed Ted Williams. Thus without him overtly saying anything about race, I quickly inferred the athletes that I should follow. This was further suggested when I found his favorite football player was Johnny Unitas. Mine soon became Jim Taylor. I fear this kind of example-setting is done no more, or maybe rarely. The breakup of the family and a radical feminist agenda has undermined fathers for the last 45 years so that fewer boys grow up with the kind of strong influence my father gave me in the 1950s. This has been its own catastrophe.

I was shocked and disappointed years ago when I visited my sister's home many miles away and saw in my 15-year-old nephew's bedroom a huge floor-to-ceiling poster of Michael Jordan, as well as that of two other black basketball players. I considered speaking to my sister about it but she would only have argued and it would have turned into a giant family blow up. I have nothing personal against black athletes, but it seems to me that we should celebrate our own instead. That's what black kids do. Sadly, they have more racial pride than we do.

Further supporting Mr. Cash's comments about high school football, I recall that Mobile Public Schools in the mid-1960s tried to prepare the city for school integration by scheduling a football game between Murphy High School, the largest white school in the city, and Williamson High School, the champion team of the black schools. Those white Murphy boys defeated Williamson 45-0. This further supported our suspicions that white boys were superior to black boys in football. Same thing happened in baseball when the UMS white school easily beat the top black baseball school in the spring.

I fear we have lost this fight and that it is now unwinnable except on an individual family basis, as Mr. Cash suggests. But we are beaten in the public sphere because of many cowardly whites who refused to stand up and stop this thing back in the 1950s when it still might have been won. The forces of multiculturalism, postmodernism, aggressive atheism, radical feminism, identity politics, and cancel culture keep winning at every turn, and the best we are able to do is fight a losing rearguard retreat. My time will be up in a decade or so at most, but I fear for how much worse this thing will get because just when you think things cannot get worse, they do.
 

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First time I've seen this essay. Everything he says is truth. When I was a kid in the 1950s and 60s so many of the greatest baseball and football players were white. There were many great blacks also, including Willie Mays and Hank Aaron in baseball, and Jim Brown and Lenny Moore in football.

As a 7-year-old I bought a pack of baseball cards which included Hank Aaron. I noticed his excellent batting stats on the card's back. When neighborhood kids my age got together to bat a baseball around, they began shouting, as boys would do, "I'm Mickey Mantle," or "I'm Ted Williams," so I yelled, "I'm Hank Aaron." Suddenly everyone got quiet and eyed me, and one boy said, "Go ahead and be him, but you're not playing with us." I got the message real fast. We policed ourselves in those days, even as young kids. So seeking higher guidance I asked my dad what player I should choose for my favorite. He said, "I think a good one would be Stan Musial." I learned he followed Ted Williams. Thus without him overtly saying anything about race, I quickly inferred the athletes that I should follow. This was further suggested when I found his favorite football player was Johnny Unitas. Mine soon became Jim Taylor. I fear this kind of example-setting is done no more, or maybe rarely. The breakup of the family and a radical feminist agenda has undermined fathers for the last 45 years so that fewer boys grow up with the kind of strong influence my father gave me in the 1950s. This has been its own catastrophe.

I was shocked and disappointed years ago when I visited my sister's home many miles away and saw in my 15-year-old nephew's bedroom a huge floor-to-ceiling poster of Michael Jordan, as well as that of two other black basketball players. I considered speaking to my sister about it but she would only have argued and it would have turned into a giant family blow up. I have nothing personal against black athletes, but it seems to me that we should celebrate our own instead. That's what black kids do. Sadly, they have more racial pride than we do.

Further supporting Mr. Cash's comments about high school football, I recall that Mobile Public Schools in the mid-1960s tried to prepare the city for school integration by scheduling a football game between Murphy High School, the largest white school in the city, and Williamson High School, the champion team of the black schools. Those white Murphy boys defeated Williamson 45-0. This further supported our suspicions that white boys were superior to black boys in football. Same thing happened in baseball when the UMS white school easily beat the top black baseball school in the spring.

I fear we have lost this fight and that it is now unwinnable except on an individual family basis, as Mr. Cash suggests. But we are beaten in the public sphere because of many cowardly whites who refused to stand up and stop this thing back in the 1950s when it still might have been won. The forces of multiculturalism, postmodernism, aggressive atheism, radical feminism, identity politics, and cancel culture keep winning at every turn, and the best we are able to do is fight a losing rearguard retreat. My time will be up in a decade or so at most, but I fear for how much worse this thing will get because just when you think things cannot get worse, they do.

Great post, and I think that's an excellent and eloquent explanation for newbies and lurkers as to why we root for White players. Some blacks may be great athletes, but it's simply not logical for white kids to identify with them because they're not our people. Let the black kids root for the black athletes, and we'll root for our own just like they do with their own.
 

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Great post, and I think that's an excellent and eloquent explanation for newbies and lurkers as to why we root for White players. Some blacks may be great athletes, but it's simply not logical for white kids to identify with them because they're not our people. Let the black kids root for the black athletes, and we'll root for our own just like they do with their own.

So true, Jerry. It bothers me to see white kids fawn over black athletes, while black kids save all their admiration for their own. I confess I don't get it, but I was born in 1949 and grew up seeing all-white football teams from Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas win 7 national championships in 10 years, something that can never be allowed to happen again. A few years ago (about 2010), I saw my own school, the U of South Alabama (an almost totally black team) play Cal Poly in football. Cal Poly was an all-white team, the only all-white team I've seen since 1970, and they ran the Wishbone offense. They stomped all over South Alabama that night. I left in the 3rd quarter with the score Cal Poly 42, South Ala 7, or something like that. Since blood is thicker than alumni membership, it did my heart good.

I believe, in spite of the computer's domination of white society today that we still have a few white boys that want to play ball. It's a shame they don't get a fair shot. And I hate to hear white kids, even so many adults today, assume that whites can't play ball as well as blacks. But for those who came of age in the 1980s and after, that's most of what they've seen, so they don't know any better. Thus the whole myth becomes self-perpetuating. The worst fallout from that myth is that white boys aren't as manly as black boys, and that's a devastating conclusion for our young men and for all of white America.
 

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So true, Jerry. It bothers me to see white kids fawn over black athletes, while black kids save all their admiration for their own. I confess I don't get it, but I was born in 1949 and grew up seeing all-white football teams from Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas win 7 national championships in 10 years, something that can never be allowed to happen again. A few years ago (about 2010), I saw my own school, the U of South Alabama (an almost totally black team) play Cal Poly in football. Cal Poly was an all-white team, the only all-white team I've seen since 1970, and they ran the Wishbone offense. They stomped all over South Alabama that night. I left in the 3rd quarter with the score Cal Poly 42, South Ala 7, or something like that. Since blood is thicker than alumni membership, it did my heart good.

I believe, in spite of the computer's domination of white society today that we still have a few white boys that want to play ball. It's a shame they don't get a fair shot. And I hate to hear white kids, even so many adults today, assume that whites can't play ball as well as blacks. But for those who came of age in the 1980s and after, that's most of what they've seen, so they don't know any better. Thus the whole myth becomes self-perpetuating. The worst fallout from that myth is that white boys aren't as manly as black boys, and that's a devastating conclusion for our young men and for all of white America.

It self-perpetuates in part because so many White men who came of age in the 1980s and earlier have bought into the myth, including a lot of coaches. Or if they don't buy into it they pretend they do in order to go along with the crowd. And so many others aren't capable of thinking on their own sufficiently to make simple comparisons in their head between now and then and ask themselves any questions about why things changed so much. Way too many Americans think reality is the very narrow slice of choices the media tells them it is instead of thinking of far broader horizons and possibilities. It's the old adage about lies both big and small being repeated over and over enough times without contradiction that they eventually become accepted as the truth.

I disagree about White boys not being as manly as Black boys. There are undeniably more sissies and emasculated White boys and "soy boy" men than ever before, especially with the relentless and sickening pushing of homosexual and "trans" ideology, but that's true in the Black community also. I've heard more than a few Black men lament the lack of toughness in their young these days, and it shows up even on the football field for example in the oft-seen unwillingness to tackle and the almost routine "gator arming" of passes by receivers in order to avoid being hit. There's still a lot of young White men who play football and love it, more than enough to dominate again if treated fairly which of course they rarely are.
 

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In my experience with high school football the battle is lost. With women now running most families their over protective nature has turned the football team into a blacks only ghetto. It’s an example ironically of the less intensive parenting styles of black mothers.

Heck schools have a hard time fielding teams. Budget cuts in sports and the ridiculousness of Title IX have a lot of schools shutting down their football teams.

My sons experience was that black players are so clique-ish that the environment on mixed teams discourages all but the most motivated white kids. It’s why the only schools that can produce good white football players are the all white schools.

So you have:
-over glorification of black athletes
-reluctant white mothers
-black racial solidarity
-lessening opportunities

It’s a wonder there are any white players in the NFL at all.
 

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There's still immense interest in high school football where I live, and in all of Pennsylvania for that matter. The big suburban high schools around the country alone provide plenty of White talent to eventually filter to a non-Caste System NFL. To the extent there's been a decline in the White talent pool, the same holds true for the Black talent pool, as is obvious when watching major college football and the NFL and is something that's been discussed here for a number of years now. The "recruiting experts" and the rest of the Caste System's enablers need to engage in ever-more contortions and distortions to keep the NFL at 75% or so Black.
 

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There's still immense interest in high school football where I live, and in all of Pennsylvania for that matter. The big suburban high schools around the country alone provide plenty of White talent to eventually filter to a non-Caste System NFL. To the extent there's been a decline in the White talent pool, the same holds true for the Black talent pool, as is obvious when watching major college football and the NFL and is something that's been discussed here for a number of years now. The "recruiting experts" and the rest of the Caste System's enablers need to engage in ever-more contortions and distortions to keep the NFL at 75% or so Black.

Don, I also disagree about white boys not being as manly as black boys. What I fear is the myth itself and the fallout from that myth as noted above, a myth that becomes self-perpetuating. It's the myth rather than reality that is so dangerous, because so many white Americans today (probably a majority) have long since bought into that myth. I see it regularly displayed on the Quora website, questions frequently appearing like these:

"Why are blacks better athletes than whites?"

"Why are blacks tougher than whites?"

"Why are blacks better boxers than whites?" (And this one being asked in the face of the heavyweight champion of the world being white, as well as the most recognized faces of the sport being white - Fury, Lomachenko, Canelo, Usyk).

Thus though it is indeed a myth, it's an extremely destructive one, one that is so often presumed even in the face of contrary evidence.
 

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Sorry, I misconstrued your point on that, Shamrock. And yes belief in the myth is still held no matter how much evidence exists in the way of White athletic achievement. Most White football fans still believe Whites are slow even when fast ones excel, and likewise regard all Blacks as fast when the NFL has no shortage of small defensive backs -- including cornerbacks -- who couldn't even break 4.6 at the Combine or their pro days and have only gotten slower in the NFL. When they see genuine speedsters like Tyreek Hill blow past defensive backfields, they are incapable of realizing that Hill is doing that because there are so many d-backs who aren't speedsters. They are so well programmed they can't digest contrary evidence even when it's staring them in the face, which is scary, a warped testament I guess, to how successfully technology has been wedded to long-standing and continually honed techniques of persuasion and indoctrination.
 
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