Quite an interesting (and provoking) comment from The Root...
There was a time in Mid-Twentieth Century America when Jewish, Northeastern men were considered the best athletes. A few decades before that, they were the most efficient organized crime group. Well what do you know, they start going to Harvard, Yale and Cornell, they flooded the City University of New York system in droves, and subsequently the graduate schools up and down the East Coast, and now are not only the intellectual heavyweights of the United States, but either own, manage or run the sports venues for which they no longer compete in as athletes. Funny what massive change in culture will do for a particular group.
That change was the opening, en mass, of the colleges and universities that universally excluded Jews. Culture is formed by the opportunities and obstructions around us. Are blacks excluded from going to college and pursuing education as an option? No. But black boys are. How? YOU PICK EM. Whites, blacks; broken families, law breaking; nature, nurture; sex, early sex; policy, habit........The Dominican Republic's love of baseball isn't just because of an aesthetic attachment, but also the socioeconomic realities of a poor country, chosen by Major League as it's backwater, unregistered and unregulated minors system. They play because they can; and quite beautifully I might add.
The same holds true for black boys versus that of white boys. White children's access to any and all options afforded in this country removes any cultural imperative to escape their station through sports. Black boys are inundated with a continuous and never stream of non-substantive bull crap. They're protected neither by the state nor the community, and through this nebulous, instead of handing him a book, someone tosses them a ball.
Six million black boys competing for 390 NBA slots / 1590 NFL roster spots. Depending on who you ask, there are anywhere from 600,000 to 814,000 doctors in the United States and, you guessed it, most of them are not black. Now whose odds are the better of the two?
The clowns on that website aren't complaining about race really. They are complaining about their own failed lives and pantywaist existence. They can't become MDs or DBs, but there is no audience for bashing doctors who are not blocking white boys from medical. Being angry at the NBA for having so many blacks (the only venue where merit really exist), that's the ticket. It must be hard going home every night and having to look at that Chad Ochocinco poster; he's so black, strong. But I'm more than willing to change roles.
Do whites really want to live under this paradigm? Be my F-ing guess! We could use to break.Edited by: j41181
