A 'gem of a turd' seen on Mind of Mencia:

Study suggests racial bias in calls by NBA referees

"An academic study of NBA officiating found that white referees called fouls at a greater rate against black players than against white players, the New York Times reported in Wednesday's editions."


One reaction:

"I'm absolutely giggling.

I'm no NBA expert, but I do follow the game. Of the relatively few white players left in the NBA, I can't really think of a single one that has a reputation as a "banger"- one of those players who mixes it up close to the basket regularly, where most fouls are called. The white players that I can think of are almost exclusively "finesse" players- pure shooters or passers, who play on the outside perimeter mainly, and are rarely in the "paint" where most contact occurrs.

Any fool who's ever played in a pickup match in the 'Hood can tell you that it's one helluva different game than they play in Wayzata. No blood, no foul is the general rule on streetball- where most black players learned the game- and that carries over into a much more physical game all the way around and at every level.

But perhaps Spike Lee said it best. White men can't jump. So why bother playing defense?"

It is really ridiculous to formulate conclusions on an entire racial group of basketball players based on one black player who learned the game in the 'Hood. In fact I think it would be unsound to formulate such conclusions based on 200 black basketball players (though slightly more sound than basing it on one black basketball player).

Accepting that blacks can be called on fouls more often than whites is two or three steps away from saying, 'Oh they are of no inherent/less inherent worth. Therefore we are justified at spitting at them/enslaving them/sending them to death camps." Those who try to jutify this discrimination will be castigated by any right-minded person for their faux-intellectual justification of racism.


Another:

"Kobe Bryant says he's never noticed evidence of racial bias when it comes to NBA officiating.

"I think I've gotten more techs from black refs than white refs," the Los Angeles Lakers star said Wednesday.

LeBron James put it this way: "It's stupid."

Chicago Bulls veteran forward P.J. Brown said: "Somebody's got too much time on their hands.""


It's such a pity that the prevailing hegemony has deceived these players into not only ignoring but accepting - hell, defending their marginalisation by the racist NBA. They have internalised, consciously or subconsciously, the prejudicial ‘broadcasts’ of society as transmitted through everyday interactions, resulting in pernicious and intractable self-marginalisation.

Discriminating against black players is just white supremacy by another name. This phenomenon of social exclusion and persecution of blacks by whites cannot continue!