All-American Basketball League call for all-white, American-born teams sparks backlash

N.Y Daily News ^ | January 20, 2010, | NEIL NAGRAJ

[MeshugeMikey]

Coach Sterling behind this was he? ....

[Dilbert San Diego]

Charles Barkley said the NBA IS A BLACK LEAGUE.

Is this proposed white league a reaction to what he said?

[MeshugeMikey]

I dont know,.but it doesnt seem to have gotten off the starting line. ..for some reason.

[dfwgator]

Only players that are natural-born United States citizens with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league,"

They'll be lucky to field more than two teams with the number of players who would actually be qualified.

[CGASMIA68]

May be a reaction to what ever A-hole recommended an all black league.

Little bit of rasist hypocrisy,AGAIN?

[Blood of Tyrants]

I would bet that this was put out there specifically to draw the howls of protests from the very same people who thought an all-black league was a good idea.

[shove_it]

[ryan71]

Maybe it would be fun to purposely flood the media with ridiculous ideas like this then sit back and watch the leftists explode? Sort of a Cloward-Piven race fest.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Is this even a real league?

[MeshugeMikey]

It never happened.

reading this paragraph leads me to believe that it was more or less a joke

Lewis told the paper he defines "fundamental basketball" as different from the "street-ball" played by "people of color," and claimed recent scandals in professional basketball -- such as the gun charges dogging the Wizards' Gilbert Arenas -- have made the creation of all-white teams a necessity.

[C. Edmund Wright]

That’s what I figured…..this is non story.

Meanwhile, what Larry Johnson said, is a real story, and he’s still highly paid exec of the Knicks….

[MeshugeMikey]

Johnson...should resign ...and join jesse Jackson...over at the Rainbow Putsch Coalition

[Dilbert San Diego]

This Sterling incident may well be a teachable moment, but not a teachable moment in the way liberals like to portray things. It could well shows us the rank hypocrisy of the liberals when it comes to these racial issues. We’re seeing it’s okay with liberals for someone to call the NBA a black league, or to propose that there be a separate black basketball league, but not okay to have a white league. Maybe all of this will provoke discussion of other related matters.

Such as in our politics, in which black Republicans are lambasted because they aren’t loyal liberal Democrats.

Maybe more people will start to think about why minorities are supposed to be liberal, per liberal criteria. When liberals preach tolerance and openness and all that, in our politics, the liberals enforce totalitarian standards.

[fr_freak]

Maybe it would be fun to purposely flood the media with ridiculous ideas like this then sit back and watch the leftists explode? Sort of a Cloward-Piven race fest.

When I was a new college student, I had to take a class called "Human Sexuality" (it was pretty much what you'd expect). The firsts day, the wonderfully progressive teacher had us all get in groups and write down every slang word we could think of for penis and vagina, then we had to read them out loud. She said it was for the purpose of "desensitization", where we would no longer be embarrassed or bashful about using crude sexual language in class.

I think regulinternet, aar Americans should go full racism, sexism, fag-bashing, just to "desensitize" the country so that we no longer walk around on tip-toes every day, afraid to say one wrong word. Keep flooding the airwaves, radio waves, and word on the street until nobody bats an eye when they hear that fags and little ladies shouldn't be in the military, and other such unpleasant truths.

[grania]

It does sound like very excellent satire, doesn’t it? I have no idea how they’d fill the ranks without 7 foot tall Lithuanians and Croatians.

[VAFreedom]

i took that same class at VCU, the professor also bragged about being involved at planned parenthood... for some reason that class is alwas full of people, and was held in the biggest classroom in that building. i didnt learn anything new...

[MeshugeMikey]

Im bettig on the “proponents” of such a concept engaging in satirical “bahavior”......likely to be OUTLAWED..in the near future

[Retired Chemist]

I could care less about basketball. I never watch it.

[nascarnation]

flood the media with ridiculous ideas like this then sit back and watch the leftists explode?

Love your idea. I think I'll write up a press release for a new stock car racing circuit with all black drivers in Cadillacs.

[Ouderkirk]

This whole racist thing is really staring to tax my patience. Everyday, everywhere, every minute, of everything is about race/sex/homo-islam (they are one in the same)

I am now in “I don’t care” mode. I simply don’t care about racism, sexism, homoism, etc.

Everybody is out there trying to raise “awarness”. Well, I’m fully aware, and I don’t give a damned anymore. I don’t want to hear it.