It's Not How You Hit The Ball But The Color Of The Bat That Counts
By Frederick Meekins (04/22/06)
Contemporary American athletics has been a success story in that those on
the field have embodied the dream Martin Luther King professed at least
publicly where achievement would be measured not by the color of one's skin
but rather by the content of one's character and ability.
Washington's racist mayor Anthony Williams thinks he knows more than both
historical wisdom and the invisible hand of economic forces in that he
believes the city's new baseball franchise, the National's, should not be
sold to the most competent managers but rather to ones whose primary
qualifications happen to be the pigmentation of their skin in that this
whiney politician insists minorities need to be given a portion of this
lucrative prize.
In the running for ownership is one group of investors with former Secretary
of State Colin Powell and another featuring retired Redskins Art Monk and
Charles Mann. Since Monk and Mann have darker complexions than Powell, does
that mean they are more deserving of the team than Powell?
If you turn and say, well skin color does not matter, then on what grounds
can you then turn and denounce the impropriety of the team predominately
being owned by Whites? After all, since Caucasians are the minority in DC
anyway, shouldn't they be the ones granted special status?
Why should White folks be penalized if Black people don't exhibit financial
acumen? Should we take away set asides for Asians when they rise to the top
despite being fewer in number? Better yet, perhaps we should set aside a
number of starter positions on each sports team for short, dumpy Jews.
It's high time some referee stepped up to the plate and called foul on these
minority supremacists that constantly police White Americans for the
slightest hint of ethnocentrism yet go out of their way to accrue benefits
and privileges for their own little specialized tribe.
by Frederick Meekins
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