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2015-06-05 Science & Technology

Black Athletes Stereotyped Negatively in Media Compared to White Athletes

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-06-05 08:20|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Do we have to put up the statistics on crime again? Or has the Left decided that 'facts' are inherently racist. /rhet question See - Baltimore, Detroit, et al

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-06-05 10:04|| 2015-06-05 10:04|| Front Page Top

#2 No mention if the white athletes are even involved in crime. If not, I would think the stories would tend to avoid talking about it.

This is such vapid nonsense it must have been generated by a university professor.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-06-05 10:30|| 2015-06-05 10:30|| Front Page Top

#3 It's getting increasingly difficult to find white players in pro football or basketball. Colleges are going that way too. Soon there won't be any white guys to compare with black players.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-06-05 10:47|| 2015-06-05 10:47|| Front Page Top

#4 A good percentage of pro athletes are black, so one would expect a higher appearance of law breaking - drug use, DUI, other naughty behavior.

Part of the problem of this projection is that the various player associations so such a fine job of covering up naughty behavior the normal public doesn't hear about it until so-and-so is caught for the x time for drug abuse or whatnot.

I would say a lot of times the media goes out of its way to cover for the real heinous crimes. Jovan Belcher - long time bully, drug and alcohol abuse, horrible family man, given freebees by the law, but its that gun's fault.

Derrick Thomas - other than the eight ball a day, he tried to be a father and do right by the community but he died trying to do the right thing other than being stoned out of his mind driving a sports car in a blizzard.

Magic Johnson - not so much an AIDS carrying womanizer, but just a good guy to be around.

Michael Vick - dog fighting is not about raising war dogs bred only to fight to the death for entertainment, its a cultural thing you don't understand.

It is important to note how many pro athletes do not get noticed - they are the ones who are doing right. But you ask for the limelight, you get the limelight, and we don't hear about Mao Ming or Dirk Novitzski knocking out their woman in an elevator.

And as for the showboating - I get it. I get that pro sports is shifting from athletics to entertainment, the meterballization of American/Canadian sports. I was not exceptional is sports, but I loved playing, I get starting the lawnmower after making a great play. Its when a pro basketball player gets knocked 5 yards downcourt by somebody half his size I go boo.

IMO the worst PR comes from behavior during the game, and in that case meterball has my scorn, and meterball, as a viewer in the USA, is most definately not a black dominated sport. What it highlights is not playing against the other team, but playing for the refs, playing for special consideration.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-06-05 11:19|| 2015-06-05 11:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Behavior during the game... Like Hockey where fights are expected and everyone is a thug yet I don't read about them committing crimes off the ice. Perhaps its a big cover-up.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-06-05 14:25|| 2015-06-05 14:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Young, rich, a-type pro athletes...sure there is trouble getting into out there.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-06-05 17:06|| 2015-06-05 17:06|| Front Page Top

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