Comments on: No White Sports Journalist

By: steve

steve — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:03:27 +0000

I’m unsurprised that you thought I was not raised by two parents when you first meet me. Faced with outlandish loud personality for the first time many people erroneously conclude that I’m insecure fishing for attention. Ironically, its my confidence that is the cause of my outlandishness. I’m confident which enables me to behave more like I want in more situation then most.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:31:00 +0000

You asked two questions. My response was related to your first question. I’m unaware of studies showing more selfishness in children raised in single parents homes. However, I have found in general this to be true though certainly not absolutely.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:49:18 +0000

I asked how a player (raised by a single parent) is more destructive towards a team. Not a larger scale commentary on crime in this country. Whitlock is talking about players who are selfish. Not necessarily players who are in trouble with the law.

By: Bettina

Bettina — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:50:15 +0000

Interesting, very interesting, here was my hypothesis when I met YOU for the first time….: I was truly convinced (well, meanwhile I know better) that you were raised not by two parents, no, not by one parent, I believed that you were raised in a children’s home with NO contact to the outside world. As a matter of fact, I believed that you were raised by wolves….

Seriously - playing the game of touching the borders of political correctness, of racism in general, has proven to be a game with fire. I am a nice girl, and do not play these kinds of games, cause sooner or later, things start to smell funny.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:13:27 +0000

Not the best source but I ran across it while reading the article.

Is it simply voicing beliefs about differences among races? Am I a racist if I say that blacks have darker skin and frizzier hair? No, I suppose not. What about if I point out that blacks commit a disproportionate amount of crime and that 70 percent of black children are born out-of-wedlock, versus 27 percent for whites? Well, in our culture that is borderline. But why? On what basis should we determine what is “racist”?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:55:39 +0000

You have data for the second point (statistics do show more single parent families among AAs). Do you have data for the first point? A player behaving destructively towards a team is more likely to come from a single parent family?

By: steve

steve — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:25:21 +0000

My point here is rather simple. A player behaving destructively towards the team is more likely to come from a single parent family. Statistics show that more African Americans are raised in a single parent home than Caucasians.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:45:59 +0000

I’m unclear as to what your point is in this post, Steve. Are you saying that two-parent families are superior to one-parent families, that white families are disproportionately two-parent, or that the victimization status of a writer influences the standards of political correctness he/she is expected by his/her superiors to adhere to?