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Originally Posted by MorseMoose
He does do a lot of that. He has been a very charitable guy for the inner-city and has spoken out quite extensively about fewer blacks in the majors.
Something else that pissed me off the other day was someone wrote into the paper saying something along the lines of: "baseball isn't attractive to blacks because it isn't flashy or enough action and that black kids love the flashy and sports that are all about violence because that is what they grow up knowing."
Maybe this fits better in Off Topic, but it really seems like (to me) that we are growing more and more racist (and this was before the Imus comment). It seems that people are growing more and more me-centric and everything has to go their way or it is wrong.
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His point is correct but for the wrong reasons
Baseball is not attractive to black kids and it is not 'flashy' for them because their communities and culture have for whatever reasons shunned it to a large degree.
The violence comment is pretty inane but his core therory I think is correct.