Volsfaninva917
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So what about white players? Are they not slaves to the game either? Is the NBA racist? It is a per-dominantly black sport which has a per-dominantly black fan base.
NBA: Have Black Athletes Killed The White All-Star?
Simply put. Theyre gone. According to research done by ESPNs Outside the Lines back in 2009, 71.9% of NBA players are African American, 18.3% are international and 9.9% are White Americansmeaning there is an average of one per teamwith Memphis, Detroit, Los Angeles (Clippers) and Washington having zero. Of those other 26 teams, the Los Angeles Lakers, Milwaukee Bucks and Minnesota Timberwolves are the only franchises that carry more than two White American players on their current roster. Aside from Kevin Love and David Lee, that crop of players that makes up that nearly 10 percent is hardly considered to be at the elite level. Consider this: until Kevin Love came in the league there hadnt been a White American NBA All-Star since Brad Miller in 2004. Youd have to go all the way back to John Stockton in 1997 to find a starter.
I'm not going to sit here and say racism doesn't still exist because it does. And I'm not going to sit here and say there weren't racist comments made to Cuonzo Martin because I'm sure there were, that was a small percentage of the fan base and those people are ignorant. But we all know why Cuonzo Martin left and he is using racism as the scape goat. The funny thing about that article is it was supposed to be about Cuonzo Martins toughness and all it ended up doing was painting the University of Tennessee as a bunch of racist rednecks. The intentions of Coach Martin and Mr. Medcalf were to do as much damage as possible by using a small percentage of the fan base WHICH EVERY SCHOOL IN AMERICA HAS to try to drag Tennessee through the mud. This is not Mr. Medcalfs first run in with these types of articles, it is fact that when he attended college he wrote a column under the name of Black Angry Myron Medcalf, lets look at one of those articles now.
The Associated Press MANKATO, Minn. When Myron Medcalf wrote a column in his college newspaper questioning whether white students somehow felt entitled to riot during homecoming, he expected a response. He said he didn't expect the racial insults left on his answering machine.
"I wasn't stunned by the feedback. I'm used to feedback," said Medcalf, editor of Minnesota State University's student newspaper, The Reporter. "I didn't think it would get to the point of using racial slurs."
Medcalf, who is black, wrote in the Oct. 9 edition of the newspaper that some of the more destructive students in the overnight riot that started Oct. 4 near campus felt entitled to do it because of "white male privilege."
"I watched hundreds of white males destroy property, damage cars and set multiple trash bins on fire just because they could Saturday night.
"Those same white males believed that Monks Avenue and CampusView parking lots were theirs and no one could tell them otherwise. Columbus and many European explorers and settlers after him, believed the world was theirs and for that reason, minorities experienced injustices due to their race for hundreds of years," he wrote.
Medcalf's column runs under the title B.A.M.M., which stands for Black Angry Myron Medcalf.
Again, I'm not saying it didn't happen to Cuonzo Martin. I think Cuonzo Martin is a good person at heart but I don't think he's a good basketball coach. I think the Myron Medcalf's intentions were not good, this article was meant to do harm and cause tensions and that's exactly what it has done on this board.
