This was pretty entertaining. First off the airhead "Sir Charles" said that Lance Armstrong was not an athlete (just "in good shape") because he only rides a bike. Then he went on to say that runners (implying long distance runners) are also just "in good shape". Then when Costas said, well about how sprinters like Carl Lewis and Jackie Joyner Kersey? Oh, well they're athletes. Of course the implication is that the lowly white male on a bike is not an athlete but the fast black sprinters are.
Later, when they were discussing the NCAA forbidding Native American mascots, Costas made the point that Barkley, as a black man, has much more freedom to speak his mind than we do (referring to himself, Al Leiter and Jon Stewart, although he should've left out Stewart for obvious reasons.) He said it in passing and Barkley didn't respond. Barkley, like every black, believes in the opposite: that everything that black athletes say is scrutinized and criticized more so than others. He doesn't know how lucky he is.
I'd love to see more exchanges like this. It'd be so easy to tear down these idiots if the white people in the media had the guts to do so.
Later, when they were discussing the NCAA forbidding Native American mascots, Costas made the point that Barkley, as a black man, has much more freedom to speak his mind than we do (referring to himself, Al Leiter and Jon Stewart, although he should've left out Stewart for obvious reasons.) He said it in passing and Barkley didn't respond. Barkley, like every black, believes in the opposite: that everything that black athletes say is scrutinized and criticized more so than others. He doesn't know how lucky he is.
I'd love to see more exchanges like this. It'd be so easy to tear down these idiots if the white people in the media had the guts to do so.
