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Hi, my name is jeff and i am a new forum member. Not new to the site however as i have been following it for several months. I thought i was the only one who felt this way or noticed the disrespect and so-called decline of the white athlete. Never connected it with any institutionalized caste system though. But i see your point. Many thoughts here; but i want to talk about the subject matter"loss of innoncence in sports". When i was growing up in dallas in the late 70's,80's i was a tremendous sports fan who did not see or care about black or white athletes. they were all just my heroes, roger staubach, tony dorsett, drew pearson, randy white etc...after i turned 18 and joined the army and started watching basketball games with my black friends,i started to notice who they rooted for and who they disliked. they mostly hated the celtics in particular;they disliked bird and mchale and hated ainge with a passion. for no seemingly discernable reason other than they were white. it bothered me because sports is not supposed to be about that in a ideal society where everything is equal. but i over the years started to notice the stereotype's about the slow white athlete and their disappearance from certain skill positions in sports. that bothered me for a long time and even though i think there is a certain genetic disadvantage in ( Some sports) it is clearly overblown and used to justify almost blatant discrimination in our high school football programs by coaches who i guess do not know any better who automatically make turn their fast white player into safeties rather than cornerbacks, fullbacks rather than tailbacks, tight ends rrather than recievers with no lugit. chance to at least show that he might be better than the black athlete who gets those positions. look at what they are doing to matt jones. i thought randy moss was the greatest athlete in terms of speed and size in the nfl. matt jones is just as fast, jumps higher and has 30 pounds on him and they may stick him at tight end. oh please. wake up sports fans! i long for the innocence of my youth when sports was truly fun and the great leveling ground where anybody could play. will write more in the future. jesus saves