Combating imaginary racism with actual racism??

[B-Man]

 

A SPORTS TALE FOR OUR TIMES

 

DeMatha Catholic High School is the dominant basketball power in the Washington, D.C. area. It is one of the top basketball programs in the country.

 

Mike Jones, a Black, has coached DeMatha’s basketball team for the past 19 years. In May, he abruptly announced he was leaving to become an assistant coach at Virginia Tech.

 

Two days later, DeMatha named Pete Strickland as its interim basketball coach. He will be in charge next season.

 

Strickland is White. He is also the obvious choice to fill in.

 

Strickland played at DeMatha and was an assistant coach at the school under the legendary Morgan Wooten. He then played point guard for Pitt.

 

Strickland’s college coaching career includes more than half a decade as head coach at Coastal Carolina. He also coached Ireland’s national basketball team from 2016 to 2018. Most recently, he served as athletic director at St. John’s Catholic Prep in Maryland.

 

Strickland’s DeMatha roots are so deep that he recruited Mike Jones, the departing coach, to play at the school. Then, as an assistant coach at Old Dominion University, he recruited and coached Jones again.

 

Strickland’s choice also made sense because he is qualified to teach high school English. DeMatha requires its coaches to teach. There was an opening in the school’s English department. Strickland will fill it. (His wife also teaches at DeMatha.)

 

It may also be worth noting that, in a prior stint as an English teacher at DeMatha, Strickland assigned a star basketball player who later played in the NBA to read James Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time” as a makeup lesson for missing an assignment. The former player says this was the first time he had read a book by an African American author and it had a profound effect on him.

 

Yet, the selection of Strickland as interim coach triggered a racial firestorm. The Washington Post reports that some former DeMatha basketball players and some parents of current ones are enraged that DeMatha bypassed several current Black assistant coaches and instead “hired a 64 year-old White man who hasn’t coached [in] three years.”

 

One parent complained:

 

It’s nobody on this earth that can tell me that if there were five White [assistant] coaches there that they would go find a 70-year-old Black coach to coach them without even talking to the white boys that were there. That’s not happening in America.

 

Notice how, in addition to getting Strickland’s age wrong, this parent strips out everything except race from consideration. Strickland’s obvious qualifications and close ties to DeMatha are irrelevant to the discussion (if one can call it that).

 

The selection of Strickland comes on the heels of DeMatha’s decision to bring back Bill McGregor, another White in his 60s, to coach the football team. He succeeds Elijah Brooks, a Black, who left to become an assistant coach at the University of Maryland.

 

McGregor is perhaps the most successful high school football coach in the history of the D.C. area. Only an out-and-out racist could have a problem with his hire.

 

Some of the people who complained to the Post said they feared that DeMatha is doing a “reset” to appease White donors and change the image of a school located in a largely Black area. One former player called this a move to “Make DeMatha Great Again.”

 

But this claim can’t be reconciled with DeMatha’s recent selection of a Black to be its dean of students.

 

{snip}

 

That’s why I view this story as a tale for our times. It’s all about “equity,” defined as stripping everything except race from decisions about who gets what in America today.

 

More at the link: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/06/a-sports-tale-for-our-times.php

 

 

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[B-Man]

On 6/11/2021 at 5:52 PM, BillStime said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[BillStime]

1 minute ago, B-Man said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank god the Federalist opined on this issue

[B-Man]

Just now, BillStime said:

Thank god the Federalist opined on this issue

 

 

How would you know what they 'opined' ?

 

You certainly didn't read the article.

 

So shallow.  

 

You complain when I don't answer you, you ignore when I show you that your original post was wrong.

 

You have no standards at all..........😆

 

 

 

[Doc]

No surprise it's the New York Lies.

[JaCrispy]

 

[Orlando Buffalo]

On 6/16/2021 at 12:14 PM, B-Man said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The line in the federalist article is the defining comment for our media now- if they were trying to create racial division how would they act differently? The media no longer reports the news, they try to create it in their image.

[B-Man]

 

 

[B-Man]

 

[Wacka]

1 hour ago, B-Man said:

 

He is part owner, not just a member.

[Doc]

But it's OK.  He's got a D next to his name.  He's allowed to be openly racist and get away with it.

[B-Man]

Washington Post is condemned for video urging Americans to set up 'white accountability groups' and force themselves into 'a period of deep shame' over their skin color

by Peter Belfiore

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9711437/Washington-Post-condemned-video-urging-Americans-set-white-accountability-groups.html

 

 

 

[Over 29 years of fanhood]

On 6/21/2021 at 1:19 PM, B-Man said:

 

 

I’m not agreeing with the whole Jim Crow assessment, but why is the media giving THIS politician a pass for being in an all white club? 

Edited June 22, 2021 by Over 29 years of fanhood

[B-Man]

On 6/7/2021 at 11:59 AM, JaCrispy said:

Not surprising...white Progressives have always had a history of thinking blacks to be inferior- from Woodrow Wilson to Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood), and LBJ to Joe Biden...

 

 

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

Media’s treatment of Sheldon Whitehouse’s all-white club memberships really boosts the ‘it’s not really about racism’ theory

 

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2021/06/25/medias-treatment-of-sheldon-whitehouses-all-white-club-memberships-really-boosts-the-its-not-really-about-racism-theory/

 

 

 

[B-Man]

[B-Man]

 

 

'White Rage' Is All the Rage as CNN Host Shows the Memo Has Gone Out

 

Apparently, the new rage with the liberal media is “white rage.”

 

I touched upon it earlier in my piece on Greg Gutfeld’s monologue and his takedown of Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Mark Milley’s usage of the term and CRT. Milley said he wanted to understand the term, indeed understand it in the context of the Capitol Riot which he was clearly attributing to “white rage,” despite no evidence that the rioting had anything to do with race.

 

This is our Chairman of the Joint Chiefs saying this and that should concern us all. Because there’s a demonizing going on here, not just on the basis of politics, but race as well. And it’s disturbing that there’s clearly an effort to insert both race and politics into the military in a way that could be very harmful and hurt our readiness to deal with military threats.

 

But this isn’t just Milley pushing this term. It’s a term that suddenly seems to be taking off in usage in liberal media, in part, as I said, to put a further demonization on those who rioted at the Capitol but to also attack in general people on the right.

 

Listen as CNN’s Brianna Keilar tries to get Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) to affirm the term, asking wouldn’t he call what happened at the Capitol “white rage?”

 

 

No, I would call that ascribing a racist term to the actions. That’s racist. Not to mention there were folks there who weren’t white, like John Sullivan who was charged. What did many of the people being white have to do with anything?

 

This is troubling stuff when you get “journalists” doing racist things like this. She’s also just a small step from demonizing the military there as well in her comments. We’ve already seen that leading to rooting out “extremist” (by whose definition) thought in the military. Waltz doesn’t fall for it and doesn’t go there, while still condemning the actions.

 

But Keilar shows that the memo has gone out.

 

 

At what point did it become acceptable to demonize people based on race? Isn’t that what we’re supposed to be fighting against?

 

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/06/25/white-rage-is-all-the-rage-as-cnn-host-shows-the-memo-has-gone-out-n402239

 

 

 

 

[Doc]

So last summer was black rage?  Is that how they want to play this?

[B-Man]

 

 

 

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