elispeedster
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I disagree, see my post number 18 on this thread!
Your post sounds contradicting, we are stereotyped, but Lin's success will open up sports to non-blacks, especially whites? Are you saying non-blacks will suddenly not be stereotyped anymore?
.....And what's with the Jesus worship comment?
...meaning coaches, scouts will maybe start looking at non black players - whether white, asian etc in sports which blacks seem to be more dominating, and not stereotyping whites or other non-blacks in sports that is assumed to be black 'specific'...basketball, football, track and field (sprinting primarily).
The jesus comment is more to do with the fact that some highly recruited athletes, mostly black, who have great success in high school are held in a god-like light. My point is this - Lin won a state championship, in California no less, and the big schools did not come, why? because asian guys are not Basketball players. White guys fall somewhere in between, where a black guy winning the state champ would be held like a 'jesus' figure and highly recruited.