Racism among College Football Coaches

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Next time you hear someone say that racism no longer exists in America, just direct them to these benighted comments made by two prominent college football coaches:
"The black athlete has made a big difference. They have changed the whole tempo of the game. Black athletes have just done a great job as athletes and as people in turning the game around." Joe Paterno, Penn State Coachhttp://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2213130
Then there is this beauty:
"Texas Christian University had a lot more Afro-American players than we did and they ran a lot faster than we did. Afro-American kids can run very well. That doesn't mean that Caucasian kids and other descents can't run, but it's very obvious to me that they run extremely well." Fisher DeBerry, Air Force Head Coach, (after loss TCU)
You would hope that these comments were made in 1955 instead of 2005, but they weren't. And you would hope that they were made by socially irrelevant persons instead of high profile, supposedly father figure types for parents to send their 18 year old sons to learn from, but they weren't.

These comments illuminate the broader notion that the college game is anything but the romanticized image often portrayed in film and by those who have financial stakes in seeing players not enter pro leagues. There is racism at the highest of levels. There is a glaring absence of positive social norms. In other words, 18 year olds who seek the NBA or NFL may not be doing so merely for monetary reasons. Maybe their parents don't want them to play for coaches who talk about "the black athlete." And maybe their parents don't want them to watch juniors and seniors on the team break the law and suffer no consequence.
 

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Wish I could live another 50 years so we would be out of this what is "politically correct" BS.
 

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not sure what tree your trying to bark up. Paternos statement is nothing but complimentary and DeBerrys statement isnt offensive, its just a truth.

how many white track team members does the USA send to the Olympics? I cant recall the last time I saw a white USA Olympic runner, male or female. SO it seems to me to say that black kids run better than white kids, you can back that up. not sure why saying that is offensive anyway.

some people are far too PC for their own good and seem to always be just looking for a reason to start throwing stones.
 

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Mr. Smith said:
not sure what tree your trying to bark up. Paternos statement is nothing but complimentary and DeBerrys statement isnt offensive, its just a truth.

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Nuff said
 

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nothing wrong with what they said....if it's fact, it's fact.....

men get in more car accidents then women...is that being sexist?
 

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1 of 2 great articles recently written on civil rights


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Nov 2, 2005




While giving my office at home an overdue cleaning up -- "operation Augean stable," as my wife and I call it -- I uncovered in the paper jungle a 2005 calendar. Since there was not a lot of 2005 left, I was about to throw it out when I read its title: "2005 Republican Civil Rights Calendar."

Sent by the National Black Republican Association in Washington, this calendar listed for each month various things that Republicans had done for civil rights over the years.

No doubt there was a need for something to counter the impression built up over time that Democrats were pro-civil rights and Republicans anti-civil rights, when in fact a higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

So far, so good.

But the calendar featured a long list of minority and female individuals appointed to high office by Republicans or elected to office as Republicans. While it was good to see that the Republicans had finally woken up to a need to articulate their case on civil rights -- as they need to articulate their case on a whole range of other issues -- there was still something disquieting about this approach.

Civil rights cannot include everything that is done by government which benefits particular groups, individually or collectively. The whole case for civil rights is that every American is entitled to them. Civil rights are not about doing special things for special groups.
Even when there is a persuasive case for providing special benefits to particular groups -- military veterans, for example -- there is no need to call those things civil rights.

While blacks have had a long struggle to achieve the civil rights that many other Americans took for granted, not everything that has advanced blacks in the past or that can advance blacks in the future, is a civil right. In fact, the most dramatic economic advancements of blacks, in both incomes and occupations, occurred in the years immediately before the civil rights legislation of the 1960s.

The effect of government policies on blacks cannot be judged by whether these policies were conceived or carried out with blacks in mind.

It has long been axiomatic, for example, among those who study the American economy, that "A rising tide lifts all boats." When the economy has been booming, there have been years when black incomes rose at a higher rate than white incomes.

No one has a greater stake in various school-choice plans, including vouchers, than blacks have, even though school choice is not specifically racial. Social Security is not a racial policy either, but economists who have studied it have long described it as a system that transfers money from black men to white women, given the different life expectancies of these two groups.

Minimum wage laws have long had an adverse effect on the employment of blacks, especially young blacks, who are more likely to be looking for entry-level jobs. These are the kinds of jobs most often reduced or eliminated when the minimum wage set by the government exceeds what those jobs are worth to an employer.

This is a pattern found in countries around the world, so it is not even peculiar to the United States, much less to black Americans. But its impact on black Americans is especially harsh.

Few policies have had more devastating local impacts on blacks than severe restrictions on the building of housing under "open space" laws, which lead to skyrocketing prices for homes and apartment rents that take up half the incomes of low-income households in many California communities.

Almost invariably, such communities are controlled by liberal Democrats -- and blacks have been forced out by high housing costs. The black population of San Francisco, for example, declined by 18,000 between the 1990 census and the 2000 census, even though the city's total population rose by more than 50,000 people.

The time is long overdue for both blacks and Republicans who are trying to appeal to blacks to focus on policies in terms of their actual effects on blacks -- and to stop calling things "civil rights" when they are not.

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by Walter E. Williams ( bio | archive | contact )

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When I think of the behavior of today's civil rights organizations, I often think of the March of Dimes. In 1938, President Roosevelt helped found the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to fight polio, an epidemic that crippled thousands of Americans. The name March of Dimes was coined by Eddie Cantor in his fundraising effort asking every American to contribute a dime.

Since 1970, polio has been eradicated in the U.S., but the March of Dimes lives on, and they're asking for more than dimes. When they accomplish their mission, most organizations don't fold the tent; they simply change their agenda. The March of Dimes now raises money to fight against birth defects, premature birth and other infant health problems. We'd probably deem them stupid if they continued their battle against polio in America. Why? Because polio has been eradicated.

What about civil rights organizations? Last week, Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, the National Urban League, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference organized a march in Atlanta to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The Bush administration and House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner have already said they intend to support full reauthorization of its provisions set to expire in 2007.

Speakers at the march used some of the most vile rhetoric in their criticism of black conservatives and the Bush administration. Harry Belafonte explained to reporter Marc Morano, of Cybercast News Service, in obvious reference to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Secretary of State Colin Powell, "[If] a black is a tyrant, he is first and foremost a tyrant, then he incidentally is black. Bush is a tyrant and if he gathers around him black tyrants, they all have to be treated as they are being treated," adding, "Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value."

Comedian Dick Gregory opined, "They [black conservatives] have a right to exist, but why would I want to walk around with a swastika on my shirt after the way Hitler done messed it [the swastika symbol] up?" Moreover, Gregory explained, "So why would I want to call myself a conservative after the way them white racists thugs have used that word to hide behind? They call themselves new Republicans." Complementing Gregory's remarks, Jesse Jackson rhymed, "Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town."

There were less intemperate speakers at the march, such as House of Representatives members Nancy Pelosi, Charles Rangel, John Conyers, Barbara Lee and Maxine Waters. Their remarks consisted of attacks on the president and vice president, accusing them of stealing the 2000 and 2004 elections, wrongly invading Iraq and a poor civil rights record.

Like the March of Dimes' victory against polio in the U.S., civil rights organizations can claim victory as well. At one time, black Americans did not enjoy the same constitutional guarantees as other Americans. Now we do. Because the civil rights struggle is over and won doesn't mean that all problems have vanished within the black community. A 70 percent illegitimacy rate, 65 percent of black children raised in female-headed households, high crime rates and fraudulent education are devastating problems, but they're not civil rights problems. Furthermore, their solutions do not lie in civil rights strategies.

Civil rights organizations' expenditure of resources and continued focus on racial discrimination is just as intelligent as it would be for the March of Dimes to continue to expend resources fighting polio in the U.S. Like the March of Dimes, civil rights organizations should revise their agenda and take on the big, non-civil rights problems that make socioeconomic progress impossible for a large segment of the black community.

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Micheal Wilbon(right) gathered much respect from me when he defended the comment made above by Air Force coach Fisher Deberry.


 

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The jury is still out on all of this stuff anyway.

These coaches are jerks and that will be proven at the next Olympics when a Norwegian, Swede and Lithuanian stand on the podium after the 100 meter.
 

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Mr. Jones said:
The jury is still out on all of this stuff anyway.

These coaches are jerks and that will be proven at the next Olympics when a Norwegian, Swede and Lithuanian stand on the podium after the 100 meter.
Yeah, and they'll all be of African descent! LOL! The whole Jimmy the Greek thing scares the heck out of people, therefore, it pretty much gets left alone. People are afraid that if one physiology statement about athleticism is accepted that then conversely people can say that one race is superior or inferior in other areas. P.S. How come black athletes dominate in the NBA? NFL?
 

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Meogi think oriental athlete best. Look Ming for Houston basketball. Greatest athlete in world. And hot dog eater. Beat big black people easy eat hot dog!!!

Go sand floor.

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"The black athlete has made a big difference. They have changed the whole tempo of the game. Black athletes have just done a great job as athletes and as people in turning the game around." Joe Paterno, Penn State Coach





where is the racism in this quote? anyone who thinks this quote is racist is living in a fantasy world.

the black athlete did change the game...there is absolutely no question about it. how many white cornerbacks are there in the nfl? how many in college?

jopa is just speaking the truth.

i love when people say things like "if you weren't a racist, you wouldn't even bring up race...you wouldn't even notice it. it'd just be athletes...not black athletes". i'd like to say to them, "why do you think the nba is 75% black"? would they respond..."it is? i had no idea"?


 

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When is the politically correct BS going to end? Chris Collinsworth of "Inside the NFL" said it best, I cannot comment on this subject(black athlete), it will get me fired.
 

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You guys are killing me.. If coaches were racist, they would line up an all white secondary, all white backfield, etc.... But they put the best players where they need to be, period. If it is a black backfield, do they care? Not if they value their job, lol.. But if there is a white corner in college, I give him my props:lolBIG:
 

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If those comments are racist then what about Spike Lee naming a movie "White Men Can't Jump?" That is way over the top if you think the coaches comments are bad. Personally I don't think they are. They are complimentary.
 

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royalfan said:
If those comments are racist then what about Spike Lee naming a movie "White Men Can't Jump?" That is way over the top if you think the coaches comments are bad. Personally I don't think they are. They are complimentary.

you can say whatever you want about white people:

can't jump
no rythum
can't dance
rednecks

people just laugh it off.
 

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i was laughing in my car a week ago when talk radio was taking all these calls about charlie weis getting a 5 year extension on his contract. black callers were saying that notre dame is racist because they didn't offer willingham the same thing when he started off great. notre dame hired ty willingham and they are calling the university racist? if they never hired willingham in the first place, they would not be getting this label...that is the world we live in.
 

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Just because you think black athletes are faster than white ones doesn't make you a racist, it makes you minimally perceptive.
 

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