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Do the New England Patriots Prefer White Players?
TruthLamp ^ | 11/17/2014

Posted on 02/07/2015 6:41:11 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

Does the front office of the New England Patriots prefer to have white players on its roster? There is circumstantial evidence that may be the case.

While the racial makeup of an NFL team in any given year has its share of random fluctuations, the New England Patriots have seemingly had a suspiciously large amount of white players on its teams during the Robert Kraft-Bill Belichick era.

Wes Welker, Danny Amendola, Danny Woodhead, Julian Edelman, Rob Gronkowski, and Tom Brady — all have been some of the more prominent “faces” of the franchise in recent years, and they all happen to be white.

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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: blackplayers; boston; newenglandpatriots; nfl; patriots; whiteplayers
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To: jjotto

IIRC, Phillies were the last baseball team to integrate.


41 posted on 02/07/2015 7:08:04 PM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Pox

Once all the players are black you
will be able to pay them less.


42 posted on 02/07/2015 7:08:42 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Not deniable = Not falsifiable = Not science.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

May be more teams could be using this strategy.


43 posted on 02/07/2015 7:09:10 PM PST by sagar
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The article gives an unintended slap in the face to black athletes. The Patriots have a lot of white players, therefore the Patriots won the Super Bowl. Other teams have a lot of black players, therefore other teams didn’t win the Super Bowl. The article portrays black athletes as inferior. I think the writer didn’t think this through.


44 posted on 02/07/2015 7:09:52 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise

45 posted on 02/07/2015 7:10:34 PM PST by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: doorgunner69

He could not be considered white.


46 posted on 02/07/2015 7:11:11 PM PST by Perdogg (I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush - stay outta da Bushes)
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To: MinorityRepublican

What about those southern teams where the stands are full of white descendants of slave owners watching the disproportionately Black teams made up of descendants of slaves entertain them. When you ban white players, you need to ban black players, as well. Let’s import all of the football players from China; it’s for the children, you know. And we would be doing something about global warming at the same time.


47 posted on 02/07/2015 7:11:33 PM PST by PAR35
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To: MinorityRepublican

When I was young the negro players were the exceptionally good ones because they had to overcome a lot to get there.
Now it’s the Caucasians.
Bellichek likes the exceptional players.
And why shouldn’t he if he wants to win?

You can tell a lot about a team by the racial character of their sidelines.
If a member makes a good play and is only congratulated by people of his own race- and I see that happen- it’s a loser team.


48 posted on 02/07/2015 7:11:56 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: Enterprise
The article gives an unintended slap in the face to black athletes.

The article is a big piece of Liberalism. Liberals are enormous racists. They have no respect for blacks at all. They think blacks are dumb and lazy and cannot succeed unless superior white people bend the rules to allow sub-standard people rise up.

It's disgusting.

49 posted on 02/07/2015 7:12:03 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (The dog days are over /The dog days are done/Can you hear the horses? /'Cause here they come)
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To: icwhatudo

Seems like white folk being cheated


50 posted on 02/07/2015 7:12:34 PM PST by big'ol_freeper ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: NTHockey

The Minnesota Twins have been accused of preferring white players, at least in the past.


51 posted on 02/07/2015 7:14:56 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Dr. Sivana

Oh good grief.


52 posted on 02/07/2015 7:15:39 PM PST by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: MinorityRepublican

1. What is % of whites in new england?
2. What is the % of whites on Patriots?

I think whites are being discriminaTed against


53 posted on 02/07/2015 7:15:56 PM PST by bestintxas (Every time a RINO is defeated a founding father gets his wings.)
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To: big'ol_freeper
Willie is very much alive, and I believe he has some type of position with the NHL.
54 posted on 02/07/2015 7:16:58 PM PST by Major Matt Mason ("Journalism is dead. All news is suspect." - Noamie)
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To: MinorityRepublican

is the nba racist for having a massive over-representation of black players?


55 posted on 02/07/2015 7:17:31 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
At least 12 percent of the Patriot players are black so I believe they've met their quota.
56 posted on 02/07/2015 7:17:53 PM PST by suijuris
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To: skeeter

yup, both nba and nfl.


57 posted on 02/07/2015 7:18:01 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: big'ol_freeper

My father played High School basketball with John Havlicek at Bridgeport HS. I never personally met Hondo, but my father relayed many fond memories of this special athlete, and pointed him out to me once when they met in passing at an airport during a chance encounter in the early 80’s, and I was impressed that Mr. Havlicek actually remembered him and acknowledged him at the time.


58 posted on 02/07/2015 7:18:12 PM PST by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: jocon307

“Instead you see white trash people doing stuff that in any other northeast city would be not white. “


Sounds like you’ve been hanging around the wrong neighborhoods.

.


59 posted on 02/07/2015 7:18:44 PM PST by Mears (there wasn't much conversation about it.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Well, now we know where Russell Wilson will next play.


60 posted on 02/07/2015 7:24:43 PM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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