[Peace-discuss] Your Day in Racist Sportscasting

[Neil Parthun]

So far today we've had two stories break about some very overt racism  
in sport.

Bill Cunningham is a conservative talk radio host who really knows  
how to get his name in lights. Unfortunately, like Don Imus a few  
years back, he may have gone too far.

On his radio show at Cincinnati's WLW recently, Cunningham latched  
onto the subject of the University of Cincinnati men's basketball  
team. Here we go.

"How many illegitimate children does the UC men's basketball team  
have? I heard it's more than a half dozen ... So there's some hangin'  
and bangin' going on at the Shoemaker Center after the game. ...  
They're poppin' those things out like cherry pits out of one's mouth."

And from Deadspin.com:
In case the earlier item about racist remarks on the radio isn't your  
thing, how about fans yelling monkey noises at a black high school  
basketball player?

It happened in Anaheim, in a game this past Friday between Mater Dei  
High — the top-ranked boys team in the nation — and host Servite, a  
Catholic boys school. Two starting Mater Dei players, Gary Franklin  
and Tyler Lamb, had racist taunts yelled at them from the Servite  
"Pit Crew," a student cheering section.

 From the Orange County Register:

     Brian Wojtkiewicz, a longtime Mater Dei supporter and parent of  
Mater Dei students, said he was at the game and heard the sounds.  
“There were monkey calls when Franklin had the ball,” Wojtkiewicz  
said. “’Who’s your daddy’ when Lamb had the ball, that sort of thing.”

     The monkey sounds can be heard on a short video on ocvarsity.com  
when Franklin is dribbling the ball.

Servite president Peter Bowen said that his school's administration  
has met wit the student body to discuss the incident, and is also  
planning an apology to Mater Dei.

Live hard,
      Neil

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear — fear of  
poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or  
fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for  
bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp  
on vague charges of being a terrorist sympathizer.
[hunter s. thompson, 1937-2005]

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil  
obedience...Our problem is that people are obedient all over the  
world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war,  
and cruelty.
[howard zinn, 1922-]

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