The black is the better athlete, and he practices to be the better athlete, and he's bred to be the better athlete because this goes way back to the slave period. The slave owner would breed this big black with this big black woman so he could have a big black kid. That's where it all started.
I will have to be niggardly with this fund because it's not going to be a lot of money.
What happened was they [CBS management] got the willies, they got the Buckwheats.
The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn't deserve. The defense carried this team.
[Lynn Swann is the] rich white guy in the campaign.
So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention.
My heart wants to believe that the reason Gumbel hasn't been fired is that we are growing as Americans, and getting past hyper sensitivity to race, but my head tells me that there is another, less pleasent explanation, one that relies on good old fashioned hypocrisy.
It appears that there are two stories here, one centering on Gumbel, and his incredible remarks, and the other around the reaction (or lack thereof)of his colleagues and bosses.
If Gumbel keeps his job, that will be a clear demonstration that, as far as the MSM is concerned, there are different standards of behavior that apply to different people, depending on their political leanings.
That would be sad, but not too surprising.
Posted by Rich at February 19, 2006 6:18 AM | TrackBackI'm not coming on your blog to start anything, lord knows how many people just come on my blog to trash talk..I comment out of respect..
But I must say, I don't particularly see anything wrong with Gumbel's comments. I mean, the winter Olympics do suck, and since he was speaking from his personal perspective he has a right to say that as a black guy he can't relate.(Hell, I'm a black guy raised in an all white town, many white friends, prodominately white college, and I can't relate either.) Plus, a GOP convention is a place where you don't see a lot of black faces. But seriously, by saying what he said makes him racist??
Plus, he won't get fired because it was his show, he told the truth, and he did it in the confines of his commentary..
Posted by: HumanityCritic on February 20, 2006 12:16 AMIf that was what he said, that as a black man he can't relate, then I'd agree with you. But his comment was that the Winter Olympics could not represent the world's greatest athletes since there weren't many blacks participating. That is racial stereotyping equivalent to the comments made by Jimmy the Greek.
And as the other examples show, whether the comment is true or not, stated as opinion or not, or even actually racist or not made no difference; those who made the comments were all penalized.
Bryant Gumbel is being held to a different, lower standard than the other people on this list. The question is "Why?"
Posted by: rich on February 21, 2006 8:26 AM