Racism's still alive, they just be concealin it ( August 24, 2005)
Well I got my first comment (first unsolicited one anyway) on my blog the other day. Didn’t make much of it until I checked out the guy’s blog. He’s at the top of his game. It turned into a great affirmation. Check out his blog. Parental advisory: It’s not for the faint of heart. Humanity Critic.
Anyway I was feeling a little overwhelmed by the great blog writers of my time and that I didn’t have anything to write about, but leave it to another racist institution to save the day.
This morning as I signed into msn to check my e-mail, I caught a glimpse of an article. Racism and the Los Angeles Dodgers. It was an article about racial issues between the LA Dodgers players. I’m thinking great, racism, in one of the most racist cities in the world. Licking my chops.
But to my chagrin (come on, ain’t there some words that you just like hearing?) the stories images had the black brother’s picture in it but none of the white guys. Did I mention this was a story from Fox sports? Also the whole story was about the black guys, Milton Bradley (Parent’s tell me why? Why do you do your kids like that?) Accusations about the white player. They only had one quote from the white guy. It came across looking like a spoiled black dude complaining about racism that wasn’t present. Is it me or am I tripping? The main thing that bothers me was that I know how powerful imagery and symbolism is (i.e. Gold chains on rappers) and the fact that there were no pictures of the Kent guy in this story is no small factor.
Read it and let me know what you think.
One thing I know is that Bradley is right about this “White people never want to see race - with anything. But there's race involved in baseball. That's why there's less than 9 percent African-American representation in the game. I'm one of the few African-Americans that starts here.”
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/4802848
posted by Say Yeah at 8:06 PM
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