Veiled Bigotry in Sports

In the sports world, there are certain things you can't say. Just ask Jimmy the Greek or Rush Limbaugh (they are both snarling, drooling retards so I'm not attempting to defend them here). But for some reason there are more veiled ways to get your bigoted point across that are completely acceptable.

It's OK to call white athletes "gritty" and "tough as nails" but black athletes that suffer the same afflictions are "injury prone". Case in point Lenny Dykstra. He was a frail douche, but he was a cracker so people loved him. Darren Daulton too (I'm on a Dutch theme here). But look at Eric Davis. That dude hat CANCER and a motherfucking LACERATED KIDNEY and still managed to put up serious numbers. Anyway, they always talked about how he "never fulfilled his potential" and was "plagued by injury." (I remember the play that he did it too, still managed to throw the ball into the infield.)

I'm going to pause for a moment and ponder the lacerated kidney phenomenon and how un-awesome it must be.

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Oh my dear God.

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(dry heave)

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Ok. Any time you hear an announcer refer to a player as a "throwback" that means they are white. "Old School" means white as well. Brian Urlacher is old school. Kurt Schilling is a throwback. Mike Singletary and Dave Stewart would eviscerate those two pantloads in under a minute.

Also, white athletes never grew up under adverse circumstances. They were all raised by June and Ward Cleaver in vinyl-sided suburbs. Black athletes, on the other hand, always have a friend/brother who was a victim of gang violence. They can be "well spoken" but never the "All American Boy" because they are, well, black. And the all American boy is, well, white.

Black kids are "thugs" and white kids who talk the same shit on the court are "passionate." If a black kid thumps his chest on the bball court, he's "showboating" but the cracker-ass cracker who does the same thing is "really getting the crowd into it!" It's all very unseemly and that's why I usually watch sports with the sound turned off.