Laugh of the day. Looks like we have it back asswards here at CF. Just shows again that the more blacks are pandered to the more filled with racial resentmentmany become:
Media bias favors whites in NFL, college football
In the world of professional and college sports, there is a huge difference in the way black players and white players are treated by the media and those who regulate sports. It appears that when dealing with and reporting on athletes, black players are treated in a more negative way than white players. Here are a few examples.
In August, Tom Cable - the white coach of the Oakland Raiders - allegedly punched assistant coach Randy Hanson and broke Hanson's jaw. This happened more than two months ago, and you barely hear mention of it on the daily sports shows. The Oakland Raiders organization will not speak to the issue, calling it an internal matter. The NFL will have no comment despite the fact it has been two months since the alleged attack by Cable.
About a month ago, Oregon tailback LeGarrette Blount - who is black - was suspended for the entire season for punching a white Boise State player. The same day this happened, sports reporters and pundits already were saying that Blount should be suspended for the entire season and that his stock as an NFL player, the prospects of such almost a year into the future, had dropped so low he might not be drafted. Two days later, the regulating authority for Oregon did just that and officially suspended Blount for the entire season.
Matt Jones, a white wide receiver for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the NFL was caught and arrested in July 2008 for possession of cocaine, a charge that carried a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Not only did you not hear anything on the weekly NFL pre-game shows about Jones, the felony charge was later reduced and the case sent to drug court. The NFL did nothing on this case until October 2008, allowing Jones to continue to play football almost the entire season, except for the last three games, when the Jaguars had already been eliminated from any playoff hopes. Can you imagine what would have happened if this had been Terrell Owens or Pac Man Jones?
It is astonishing how differently the media report cases involving black players and white players by overly emphasizing the negative when reporting on black players, overlooking the negative on white players and constantly portraying white players as the blond, blue-eyed all-American type.
When have you heard a black player, or any black person on TV for that matter, described as all-American? Look at the way they hounded Owens and Jones. Even when it was thought Owens might have tried to commit suicide, a time when all reporters should have shown restraint, black reporters and white reporters continued to report negatively on him.
I know I will get a lot of negative comments on this one, but just what has Pac Man Jones been convicted of? This young man was no angel, but he was only 21 years of age when his troubles began. I contend the media helped create an image of Jones that turned everyone against him. The media's reports were full of unsubstantiated reports and sometimes downright falsehoods.
The NFL is about 70 percent black, but you would not know this if you went by the interviews conducted during the pre-game shows. And during the game, listen to how the announcers drool over the white quarterback, and when the quarterback is not having a good game, they tend to blame others, particularly the wide receivers, for dropping balls.
The most famous case, to me, was our own Peyton Manning when he played at Tennessee. Manning could never beat Florida. The whole time he played, Tennessee was in contention for the National Championship until we ran into Florida.
If you could go back and watch those games, you would hear how the announcers blamed the wide receivers for the poor showing Manning had, accusing the receivers of dropping passes.
Yet Tee Martin came in the year after Manning left to win a national championship. Martin and Tennessee also beat Florida that year. But even today, the Media speak of how awesome Manning was at Tennessee, and you never hear mention of Martin, who is black.
Finally, why is it you never hear announcers making comments about the fights among players in hockey, which is 99 percent white players? Whenever there is a fight in football or basketball, you hear the criticism for days on the sports shows. Some commentators even go so far as to call some players in football and basketball "hoodlums" and "thugs." If the players in hockey were 99 percent black and they fought the way they do now, it would have been stopped years ago.
Yes, Barrack Obama may have been elected president, but in the everyday lives of the sports world, bias and racism still exist.
Donald Wilkes lives in Jackson an works in administration at Lane College. Readers can contact him at
dwilkes@lanecollege.edu.
http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20091025/OPINION/910250302