Big flip deal... Do they run stories about sub par white players during basketball games?
2007-12-01 11:58:38 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Hockey
Not being racist ... Just makes no sence
2007-12-01 12:08:29 · update #1
i'm watching the game to and wonder the same thing
2007-12-01 12:00:51 · answer #1 · answered by LaRIssA 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, guys, Black History Month is in February. Not sure why it's in February though....
Anyways, they air those stories because hockey is the last professional sport (out of the big four) to break the colour barrier. And they did it with a lot of controversy too, stuff that would probably make some KKK members blush (Conn Smythe anyone?). Your analogy on white basketball players are so wrong. James Naismith (sp?) was white and basketball used to be a white-dominated sport. Hockey has been constantly a white-dominated sport, with the exception of the past 20-25 years. That's over 100 years of a game that was "whites-only." Yeah, you got your aboriginals and black leagues, but all that was overshadowed (still is) by what the English and, to a certain extent, the French has accomplished in hockey. In a way, it still is a white-dominated sport, but it's not really anyone's fault. Hockey is an expensive sport to get into, and even a lot of white families can't afford it. But that's economics and sociology, and we won't get into that.
So you are actually being racist.
Oh, and who's forcing you to watch those stories anyways? Too lazy to reach for the remote?
2007-12-01 12:32:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because they supposedly invented the game is the new line of thought or at least the writers of the new book claiming so would have you believe.
To be fair, I have seen stories about James Naismith, the white Canadian inventor of basketball before.
As for the story you are talking about, I did not see it so I have no opinion. Hopefully, you are not being racist.
2007-12-01 12:05:14 · answer #3 · answered by Bob Loblaw 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is Black History month, and Mario Lemieux is an ardent supporter of monirity athletes in the game of hockey.
Is it February? They were handing out pamphlets at Union Station in Toronto yesterday morning so I assumed it was December.
Either way, Lemieux is still a supporter!
2007-12-01 12:11:31 · answer #4 · answered by Like I'm Telling You Who I A 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
well, they do have Georges Laraque on their team (who is black and from Canada, not Afro-american), maybe that's why?
2007-12-01 12:19:35 · answer #5 · answered by wdaz 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋