Posted on 03/01/2006 12:16:46 PM PST by Dr.Syn
Not Enough Buckwheat In The Pancakes! March 2, 2006 Im surprised that this years Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race didnt remind HBOs Bryant Gumbel of a GOP convention. You know those sled dog teams...there simply were not enough black Labs...err...I mean...chocolate Labs...I meant...just plain old Labrador retrievers. Well...he still has time to take a shot at the complexion of the mushers. When Gumbel belittled the XX Olympic Winter Games, was he really postulating that Blacks are a breed apart from the rest of humanity? Was he comparing humanity to the canine world where there are admitted genetic and behavioral differences between a Schnauzer and a Pekingese? When Jesse Owens won 4 Gold medals and broke 11 Olympic records at the 1936 Berlin Games Gumbel would have played right into the hands of the Nazi propaganda machine. Apparently Gumbel, who sees no problem with his membership in the male-only Burning Tree Golf Club, was upset by the paucity of blacks who participated in the 2006 Olympics. In fact, Gumbel tried to discredit the validity of the Winter Olympics, in toto, when he cautioned the public to try not to be incredulous when someone attempts to link these Games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of skating or skiing. Hey Bryant...do you really think that Africans celebrated Kwanzaa before it was invented in 1966 by a black radical FBI stooge? If Gumbel wants to play the games of the ancient Greeks, other than a viewing of Brokeback Mountain, he should bear in mind that participation in the original Games was limited to male athletes and the athletes competed naked. And, sadly, unlike the ancient Games, today there are no chariot races or third day sacrifice to Zeus. And...what dementia was Gumbel suffering from when he defamed the entire figure skating world as a bunch of pseudo-athlete(s)? Why does this bring to mind the vision of Giant Bryant in a Texas Cage Match squaring-off against Tanya Harding? Perhaps Gumbel only understands athletic competition on the level of Harding, Mike Tyson and OJ. Although much has already been written in response to Gumbels vacuous diatribe, nobody has had the guts to ask him what he was really saying. To contrast his comments with the percentage of Whites in the NBA only compounds Gumbels wrong-headedness. To ask what would happen to John Madden if he made a quid pro quo observation about the pervasive darkness of the NFL is frivolous. Unlike the ancient Greek Games, the contemporary Olympic Games are open to anybody who is athletically qualified. And unlike affirmative action, skin color is of no consequence. The Olympics are not social re-engineering. They are a Darwinian competition where the best athletes in a sport, based on a competitive hierarchy, come together and slug it out for supremacy. Thats the beauty of the Olympic Games; its a matter of personal best. The only barrier to entry is the skill of the athlete. Its a world where the cream rises to the top and loud mouths flop to the bottom. In the end it comes down to excellence and this is where Gumbel is lacking. There are black skates and white skates but there are no Black skaters. Neither are there any White skaters. There are just skaters. Color is a fashion statement...not an identity. And those who preach otherwise are using color as a crutch or a soap box. Its fine to posit that a quarter horse is the best choice to run a race, but people arent horses. The mere fact that Gumbel could utter such nonsense more than suggests the nature of his racism. Is he saying that there is a difference between humans based on color? If he is, I wish he would have the intellectual honesty to put the concept out in the public domain for a thorough vetting. But dont count on Gumbel for intellectual honesty...or for that matter, intellect. There is no doubt that, in the past, racism was a deleterious syndrome in sectors of the American society. Today, the industry of race is a harmful and divisive profit center. It serves as a permanent crutch for those who do not wish to compete in the game of life and it simultaneously serves as a soap box for those who profit from it. If the fires of racial injustice werent unceasingly stoked by its profiteers, the Jessie Jacksons of the world would be as anachronous as the American Cancer Society in a post-cure world. To further reduce Gumbels argument to the premise that Blacks cant compete in the Winter Games because economic constraints create a prohibitively high barrier to enter these sports is ludicrous. Why not say that Floridians have prohibitively high entry barriers to the world of competitive skiing while for Idahoans, its a no-brainer. Sometimes the cookie just crumbles. The entire premise of segmenting Americans by race or ethnicity is getting a little tired. There is a single species in this country and its called a human being. If this is not the case, please let the Gumbels inform us otherwise. Those who seek to divide this country, rather than unite it, are self-serving idiots...and more than a bit tiring. What is their endgame? Would they like to Balkanize America into a conflicted aggregation of city-states. Are they seeking to subvert the Republic into tribal warfare? Are they that enchanted with the recent history of Rwanda? Or, are they just self-serving chauvinists trying to maintain their profit-centers? Labels dont discriminate...they disrespect both Blacks and Whites. I dont want to be color classified...I just want to be an American. And the only color I want to think about while watching the Olympic Games is American Gold. Racial segmentation has no place in a melting-pot society. The mere mention of race is a connotation for breed. And that is disgusting. If Gumbel wants to hear his own voice...let him bitch about the buckwheat content in his pancakes. Im sick of Gumbel and the rest of those racial panderers trying to tell me that every time I see a human...I should see a color. I really just want to see golf-boy slap on a pair of skates and laugh at his pseudo-athleticism when hes flat on his butt. |
And there you have it.
There weren't enough Mexicans at the Olympics, either........because they're all here......at our Wal-Mart.......
And shopping with your tax dollars!
Well, at least someone's getting some use out of them.........
Good question.
As others have pointed out, Dusty Baker said his black and hispanic players could play baseball better because they were used to the heat. The great Bryant Goofball should have automatically understood that white people can better handle the snow and ice sports since they populate the colder areas of the world.
Expecting intelligence from Gumbel? You might as well expect a pig to fly. He's on TV because the he is good at reading Cue Cards and his skin color.
Nothing he has ever sain/done indicates he is intelligent or well-informed.
Hey, how did he get that. This was supposed to be the Republican Winter Olympics.
Power thrusters for bobsleds, head start in races, throw out all but best score in skating ...
..... was he really postulating that Blacks are a breed apart .....
It as been written that American blacks are in fact a breed part. We are now many generations from the selected breeding to establish traits required for superior workers. Slave were carefullly sired to produce superior traits.
See "Tales of Appalachia" for a view into this terrible practice.
.....Are people with varying skin tones a different breed? .....
I don't know.
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