[jocon307]

That’s just the Left’s word for “Negro”.

I saw this black Canadian hockey player interviewed on tv once and the guy kept asking him things like: how does it feel to be an African-American hockey player, etc. And the poor interviewee kept saying: I’m a CANADIAN!

[Major Matt Mason]

I saw this black Canadian hockey player interviewed on tv once and the guy kept asking him things like: how does it feel to be an African-American hockey player, etc. And the poor interviewee kept saying: I’m a CANADIAN!

I have occasion to interview hockey players and mingle with some of the media that cover the sport. On two occasions, one writer who is an otherwise OK guy (but obviously liberal) interviewed non-white players and pursued that line of questioning. Both times, the players were at first befuddled by the questions, then became slightly annoyed as the writer kept asking those types of questions. They obviously pound this meme into j-school types, and it is in fact becoming a problem in sports reporting.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

And the poor interviewee kept saying: I’m a CANADIAN!

Canadians are Americans.

[Bubba_Leroy]

I saw this black Canadian hockey player interviewed on tv once and the guy kept asking him things like: how does it feel to be an African-American hockey player, etc. And the poor interviewee kept saying: I’m a CANADIAN!

Back in the 1990s they came out with a Star Trek spin off series called Voyager and cast a black actor to play a Vulcan. That is a space alien from the planet Vulcan for any non-Trekies out there.

The press repeatedly referred to him as "the first African-American Vulcan." Not the first African-American actor to play a Vulcan (which he actually wasn't), but "the first African-American Vulcan."

The character wasn't African. He wasn't American. He was a Vulcan.