JDO74,
You echo my sentiments exactly. The psychological impact of what happened on "Black Thursday" (perfect description) is enormous. The memory of Redick getting stuffed, and missing almost all his shots, while being smothered by a no-name black defender, will be ingrained into the minds of many, many youngsters of all races. Likewise the pathetic image of Morrison down on his knees, in tears, while the victorious blacks whoop it up all around him. I love Morrison-he is a truly inspirational kid-but can you imagine any black star athlete ever crying like that in defeat? Of course, maybe they would, but the system seems to somehow always ensure that those black stars win. Needless to say, such images are not going to make the already soft white youngsters any more confident, or the already absurdly proud and arrogant young blacks any less confident. Like you, I knew this would happen, but watched it all nonetheless. The question we have to ask is; WHY does this always happen? As I said in another post, either these games are all fixed or white players simply do choke in the clutch. When the nation's top college player can be completely shut down by a mediocre no-name, something is either wrong with that star player or the game itself is scripted that way. Until yesterday, I was actually starting to think that things were turning around in basketball, at least. So many teams in this tournament had white-friendly rosters. They are all gone. The teams that are left are practically white-free. This makes us all here at Caste Football very sad. However, what is more significant is that, in Don King's America, it makes almost all the fans, and every sports "journalist," very happy.