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Wrigley said:
There is a United Negro College Fund people can donate $$$ to a great fund dont get me wrong.

But Could you imagine if there was a United caucasian college fund what kind of protests there would be

That was my point too about how it is ok to have "All Black" schools in the south...can you imagine if there was an "All White" school?

Forget about it!
 
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That was my point too about how it is ok to have "All Black" schools in the south...can you imagine if there was an "All White" school?

Forget about it!

OH...that's a GOOD one...cheers!
 

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CHOPTALK said:
I did not notice that Houston had no black players until Joe Morgan pointed it out. I did not notice that last years NFC Championship game was the first that had 2 black QBs going head to head until someone pointed it out.

My point is I dont even look at race until someone like Joe Morgan forces me to look at it. The people that keeps crying about racicism seem to be the only ones that are being racist.

I can almost say with 100% honesty that if the Astros were 100% black I would not have noticed unless someone brought it up.

It seems that people like me are the only ones where race does not matter. The same cannot be said for Joe Morgan.

That's all well and good Choptalk, and the Astros not having black players really isn't a story. But I think the decline of black Players does hurt baseball. It hurts the fan base and it hurts losing these athletes to other sports.

I think Baseball investing in inner City's with fields, camps and such to help get back the youth's love for baseball would be a great thing all around.
 

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Are you kidding? With reverse discrimination these days it's impossible for a caucasion to get admitted to college before a black of equal or lesser credentials!

First off I think Most affirmitive action is a joke.

But if you're white and you want to go to college it is pretty easy to get it done. Blacks don't hurt our chances. That's just a cop out.
 

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koidog said:
But if you're white and you want to go to college it is pretty easy to get it done. Blacks don't hurt our chances. That's just a cop out.
Well if you don't call admitting minorities with lower SAT scores over white kids "hurting our chances" what do you call reverse racism?
 
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koidog said:
That's all well and good Choptalk, and the Astros not having black players really isn't a story. But I think the decline of black Players does hurt baseball. It hurts the fan base and it hurts losing these athletes to other sports.

I think Baseball investing in inner City's with fields, camps and such to help get back the youth's love for baseball would be a great thing all around.

Let's set up Hockey camps so we can revive the NHL and make it a betable sport!
 

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Jimmy Hoffa said:
Well if you don't call admitting minorities with lower SAT scores over white kids "hurting our chances" what do you call reverse racism?

I call it Nothing. You know a white person someone who wanted to go to college but couldn't because a black with lower SAT's got in?
 
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Jimmy Hoffa said:
Well if you don't call admitting minorities with lower SAT scores over white kids "hurting our chances" what do you call reverse racism?

Especially if they can run a 9.2 in the 100 meters!
 

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Millennium Sportsbook * said:
Let's set up Hockey camps so we can revive the NHL and make it a betable sport!

Hockey has never had the black fan or black athlete. Baseball did.
 

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How many white guys were on The Globetrotters last season or in their history
 

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Maybe baseball will get more black fans next season when Barry Bonds passes Babe Ruth's career home run total! :103631605
 
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koidog said:
Hockey has never had the black fan or black athlete. Baseball did.

OK...that was a joke. Let's talk about college football in the hotbead of the south where people live and breath the sport. Last week on Prime Time TV at UAB, where the stadium had less than 10,000 fans inside. Just maybe, maybe, those white southerners weren't interested in supporting a team that did not have ONE single white starter on the team, including the QB. Could it be possible? You could have walked in a minute before game time and sat at the 50 yard line. Yes, it's considered a small program compared to Alabama, Tennessee etc....but something has to be wrong to have a turnout (each game) like that.
 

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I really get tired of these people crying about race when it comes to coaching and Player rosters. Why is all the NBA rosters filled with Black Players. Why don't the Joe Morgans of the world say something about that. Why didn't anybody cause a uproar over John Thompsons Hoya Paranoya teams in the 80's and 90's No way that piece of shit would allow a white boy to play on his squad. Nobody questions these things
 

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Millennium Sportsbook * said:
OK...that was a joke. Let's talk about college football in the hotbead of the south where people live and breath the sport. Last week on Prime Time TV at UAB, where the stadium had less than 10,000 fans inside. Just maybe, maybe, those white southerners weren't interested in supporting a team that did not have ONE single white starter on the team, including the QB. Could it be possible? You could have walked in a minute before game time and sat at the 50 yard line. Yes, it's considered a small program compared to Alabama, Tennessee etc....but something has to be wrong to have a turnout (each game) like that.

I knew it was a joke, but just wanted to point out the difference.

College Football as a whole has plenty of white athletes. You are narrowing it down to one team. But if UAB is drawing that bad, and they only recruit blacks, I'd say that's a problem.
 

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RED EYE said:
I really get tired of these people crying about race when it comes to coaching and Player rosters. Why is all the NBA rosters filled with Black Players. Why don't the Joe Morgans of the world say something about that. Why didn't anybody cause a uproar over John Thompsons Hoya Paranoya teams in the 80's and 90's No way that piece of shit would allow a white boy to play on his squad. Nobody questions these things

Plenty of people questioned Thompson so that's just not accurate. As a matter of fact I recall reading a SI article on all the White Athletes right in his back yard that he didn't even try to recruit.

Rex Chapman is the only one I remember right now.

As far as questioning blacks in basketball, the best players make it so what's to question? The same is true for baseball.... so questioning as a racism isn't fair either. But I don't believe that is How it is being questioned.

It's simple if baseball wants the best game and best athletes it wouldn't hurt to piut moneyu int he inner city's.
 
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RED EYE said:
I really get tired of these people crying about race when it comes to coaching and Player rosters. Why is all the NBA rosters filled with Black Players. Why don't the Joe Morgans of the world say something about that. Why didn't anybody cause a uproar over John Thompsons Hoya Paranoya teams in the 80's and 90's No way that piece of shit would allow a white boy to play on his squad. Nobody questions these things

I agree 100% Blacks have had over 140 years of make up to them. I say let's all start on even ground, and let the best man win. I come from a descent where the Romans and Pharoahs told my people what to do as slaves for about a thousand years, and a guy named Hitler shoved some of my relatives into the oven alive...yet I ask only for health and peace on earth for all mankind alike!
 

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koidog said:
Plenty of people questioned Thompson so that's just not accurate. As a matter of fact I recall reading a SI article on all the White Athletes right in his back yard that he didn't even try to recruit.

Rex Chapman is the only one I remember right now.

As far as questioning blacks in basketball, the best players make it so what's to question? The same is true for baseball.... so questioning as a racism isn't fair either. But I don't believe that is How it is being questioned.

It's simple if baseball wants the best game and best athletes it wouldn't hurt to piut moneyu int he inner city's.
the point is he did get away with it. Can you imagine if that was the attitude at anothe rUniversity and the White coach wouldn't recruit Blacks. he would be crucified. As far as the Balck players in the NBA, I really don't have a problem with it either or if the roster is nearly full. They probably are better, but on the other foot, what is so wrong that the white coaches might be more qualified or ", damn shouldn't say this", that the white coach might be better. Whats the difference in the Blaak player being better then the white coach being better
 

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Reverse Discrimination Reversal:
It took several years, but Allan Bakke who was denied admittance to UC Davis medical School in the 60's, was eventualy admitted by court decision. Bakke with better grades and test scores than minorities who were accepted, contested the decision and eventually was granted admisssion.

Athletes in general are admitted with lesser scores (Sat, GPA, etc) because they bring "Special Talents"=$$$ to the University. Drama, Music etc receive the same benefits. Minorities are admitted with lesser scores as part of basic affirmative action. Unless a university is cutting off admisssion numbers per freshman class, (many do) it does not affect other applicants; irregardless of race or ethnicity.
 

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BoZZi said:
it's always been like that.....

a white man mentions race and all hell breaks loose....when a black person does it..its nothing

black people are more racist than white people.
BINGO!! Them Fuckers!! Calling each other my nigga, and calling white people crackers. If we say shit like that, then oh boy, we are sooooo wrong, but its ok for them. Damnit. Now Im pissed off about this shit again, it is a bunch of bullshit!
 

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