I am happy for Lin's success, primarily because it is infuriating a lot of blacks, who think they are exclusively entitled to all of ESPN's attention. However, there is no question that a white player would be treated differently in this situation. He certainly wouldn't be given a nickname like "Linsanity" after only a few games.
The white jock sniffers, the so-called "journalists," are the ones who are making a big deal out of Lin. The blacks, as always, minimize the accomplishments of any non-black athlete. So, in a way, I guess it does challenge the Caste System, but it almost certainly won't result in any more white players in the NBA.
When Europeans started entering the NBA, an almost exact proportionate number of white American players were eliminated from league rosters. There is an exact quota of white players permitted to play in the NBA, and it's been virtually constant for a few decades at least. If Lin's success leads to more asian players, you can be certain that black players won't pay the price- it will be whites again who are left off NBA rosters.
Fredette not playing again- how absurd does this have to get before even the drunkest white fans see it? What black #1 picks are treated the way Adam Morrison and Joe Alexander were? What black player picked as high as Jimmer was, the leading scorer in the entire NCAA, has ever seen as few minutes, and as many healthy DNPs, as he has?
What really astounds me, on the rare occasions I watch any NBA at all, are the number of black players, in crucial roles on their teams, that I've never heard of. I watch March Madness each year, so I have a pretty good knowledge of college players, and I simply can't believe that many unheralded blacks can come in and be handed plum spots on NBA rosters, while the BEST white players in recent memory, leading college scorers like Morrison, Alexander and Fredette, are barely able to hang on for a few years of limited play, even after being drafted high and given big money.
Morrison, Alexander, Mike Gancy, the guy from Purdue who was a star a few years ago (and I've already forgotten his name), among many others, are better than 80% of the players on current NBA rosters. The brand of Affirmative Action the NBA employs is more vicious than any found elsewhere in business or government. Unequivocally, the very best players of one racial group, who dominate play at the level where all NBA players are drawn from, are simply not permitted to compete fairly in the pros. And yet, if you said this to most Americans, they would not only violently disagree, they would usually claim that any discrimination that exists is against black players!
Fredette, like Morrison, Alexander and J.J. Reddick, is not being allowed to do what he does best- shoot. These white players were all big scorers, but to be a big scorer, you have to take a lot of shots. No white player-even the best like Dirk strictly limit their shots-heaves the ball up like Iverson did, or Vince Carter, the half-white wonder Stephen Curry, or scores of other blacks who can't shoot and thus aren't scorers. Blacks control the action on the court, because of their dominance in sheer numbers. Thus, even a white star playing with them is subject to their "rules." Since street ball is the only thing most of these blacks know, the game long ago "evolved" to permit them to appear dominant, when in fact most of them are sorely lacking in basic, fundamental skills.
I really don't know how any thinking white American can watch today's NBA. It's awful basketball, played by overpaid, overhyped, arrogant clowns, who are decidedly unimpressive at what they do. Their lame explanation for why so many high profile whites "fail" in the NBA revolves around the mantra, "he can't play defense," or the new, popular expression, "he can't create his own shot." What does that even mean? How can Morrison, Alexander, Fredette or anyone else "create" shots when they aren't allowed to shoot more than a handful of times per game? The whole situation mirrors the mess we face overall in this quickly collapsing country.
