Once again, he brings up race when talking sports.... How is it better for the game if African American "inner city" kids are drafted? Wouldn't drafting the best player be the goal of the draft? Sure the % of blacks in MLB has gone down, but I'd probably attribute that to the rising number of Latin American players and the huge popularity of the NBA. So yeah, back to question--Is Joe Morgan racist?
I agree. I don't particular think its racist, nor really care(I saw this posted on the ESPN board, figured I'd get opinions from here as well). The other side of the coin is, for example, Steve Phillips says that MLB teams should continue to primarily draft white players, since they can "more relate with our fans" and are good for the game. Would the media produce a huge outcry over that, do you think?
Of course. Not drafting black players because black people make them uncomfortable is incredibly racist. What Joe Morgan is saying is that he'd like there to be more African-Americans in the draft because the number black players in the league is rapidly declining. I think that everybody knows that's a bad thing.
No it's not racist, because he's saying there should be more blacks. But god forbid if he said the same for whites. He would be forced to resign and apologize, the whole nine. So since he's saying there should be more blacks, it's not racist. If he said there should be more whites, the shit would hit the fan and yes that would be racist. Anything remotely pro white is racist, in these gay liberal times.
He's probably not racist, but what he said still bothers me. Afr Americans aren't playing baseball simply because they don't want to. Whats next, a feminist complaining about the lack of women drafted?
I voted yes. I don't actually think he is, but I hate that dumbass and it makes me feel better if I insult his character.
It's always OK to say more blacks this or that, but say that about whites.... and you enter the racist hall of fame. Yes, it's a racist comment, founded in the "whitey keeping us down" train of thought. The Mets almost completely purged themselves of white players....what did Morgan have to say about that? Nada. I find that these black comedy shows are easilly the most racist stuff out there in mainstream media, but noone says chit about it. It's OK to hate whitey, ya know.
Of course, we owe blacky so much. I mean we keep them down and we had them as slaves. So what if it's something that we ddin't do and it's something that never happened to them, we still owe them so much. Where all bad white devils, we have to help struggling blacky*tear*. it's a sarcastic post.
Well,the number of Blacks in baseball IS declining,but the number of Hispanics in increasing. So,whats Morgans point?
He is a racist, but not based on this example. What I don't understand is why fewer black players is bad for the game. Is fewer white players bad for NBA and NFL???
