wherein a group of bespectacled men in corduroy jackets sit around a mahogany table and pontificate, will definately not be found here at my blog this evening. Why then even bring it up? I don't know if there was something in the water this week, but the subject definately came up in places. Gladwell has a bunch of posts concerning race this week. A word of warning, you might need a hazmat suit for some of the comments in all of the following. The rest of these lack the scholarly tone of the previous. First, from the AJC. Should Bama hire Croom, and why didn't they in the first place (nudge, nudge, wink, wink). If you don't want to read the column, I'll summarize the comments into two camps for you: 1. They can't hire him now, it's in his contract, plus he isn't exactly setting the world on fire at MSU; and, 2. How dare you imply we're a bunch of racist racists, if anyone's a racist here, it's you, you racist-ass racist racist. That basically sums it up. Next we have this blog at Fox Sports that seems to be a little hung up one a particular subject. And here's what started it all (the original was removed, so some analysis will have to suffice).
And finally, is the legacy of Mohammad Ali as a counterculture icon nothing but a moneymaking scheme by certain parties? And does implying so make you racist, you race-baiting racist-ass racist (just check out the comments). Enough "real world problems" now, back to me whining about sports.
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