CBS Sports www.sportsline.com. On any given day you can go to this hate site and find hate speech. It’s a shame they don’t clean it up. If there is a lawyer out there who would like to take the case, I’ll serve as the plaintiff. Just write me. It shouldn’t be too hard to prove as the following is CBS Sport’s own disclaimer:
Bad logic, ignorance and selective memory are all prevalent on these forums, and none of these are valid reasons to warn another member. If you don’t like what is said or how it is said, you may rate the content appropriately; however, such factors are not legitimate reasons to warn another member.
In the meantime enjoy this nugget of CBS Sports hate by Mowse:
YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH.
Imus is right. You hear about an athlete who has been arrested multiple times and chances are 99.9% the athlete is black. Hell, you hear about an athlete who has been arrested once and the chances don’t go down all that much.
I have been saying this forever. Criminal athlete problems are primarily in the NBA and NFL. The two sports leagues that are primarily black. You do not have these problems in MLB or NHL.
Say what you want about Don Imus. He is not afraid to speak the truth. Neither am I.
Truth does not equal racism. That ideaology is liberal bullcrap.
June 24, 2008 at 12:53 pm |
Wow. Did anyone respond to his post by bringing up the fact that perhaps the MLB and NHL appear (disproportionately) law-abiding and upstanding because anything to indicate otherwise is not reported? It’s certainly possible even if it isn’t probable.
Media sources (and human nature in general) craves a good fall-from-grace narrative or speculation of a fall.
This poster appears to be conveying two things: black athletes are more likely to commit a crime than white athletes; the NBA and the NFL are home to more of said athletes.
The numbers aren’t just lop-sided in competitive sports. I’m not sure if the Uniform Crime Reports would suggest too differently for data covering the last five to ten years, but young black men are statistically the most likely to commit and be the victims of violent crime.
The NBA or NFL somehow being more conducive to more (black) athletes getting arrested for DUIs or sexual assault or cruelty to animals or drug possession et al…is incidental.
The NHL is unique because it’s mostly comprised of white players (oddly, the sport itself is a hotbed of violence (directly or indirectly resulting from game-play). But the MLB is quite diverse, right? Compared to the NFL, it might be slightly more ethnically well-rounded, but a person who is going to commit a crime is going to do it regardless of sport.
The question asked or correlations drawn should really be, assuming that the media is doing a thorough job at reporting all stories involving athletes arrested or investigated, why don’t NHL players find themselves in legal troubles or sticky situations? The answer must be more than “because they’re white.”
I hope all that made sense.
June 25, 2008 at 3:44 am |
You’re going to have to give me some time to digest all of this, but thanks for the post.
June 25, 2008 at 12:44 pm |
I’m looking forward to reading what you think.
June 26, 2008 at 4:42 am |
When I was in college I’d say a good percentage of the kids smoked weed. I would have to put that number at around 40%. Yet none of them ever got busted. I think America has a very selective judicial process that goes after certain people. Take for example Brett Favre who committed felony prescription drug fraud. You think Mike Vick could have pulled that off and then wrote a book about it! What about Wayne Gretsky, wasn’t his wife basically a bookie? What happened to her?
As for reporting there are a lot of ignorant people out there with very little understanding of basic economics. To them what they see is black hoodlum getting paid millions of unearned dollars. They truly have a fundamental misunderstanding of supply and demand, don’t believe me, see the current gas prices. Now tell me who is bitching the most about those gas prices? Amazing isn’t it?
The media outlets are definitely taking advantage of a lot of hate. I think it’s time they get called out for it.
June 26, 2008 at 1:05 pm |
I think America has a very selective judicial process that goes after certain people.
Yes! Some laws are harder to enforce than others, but often times, the inconsistency of that enforcement makes a person risk getting caught. Or, it makes a person get grouchy. (eg. traffic laws).
Interesting Favre and Vick contrast. Looking at the offenses themselves, prescription drugs fraud vs. contributing to the misfortune of dogs. The former gives off the impression of “oh, you poor thing, Brett,” while the latter invokes, “you bad man, Michael.” If it were reversed, I think the emotional response would be flipped as well. “oh, you poor thing, Michael” vs. “you bad man, Brett.”
I just read up on Favre’s drug woes. Prescription drugs (painkillers) are ripe for addictions and because the “victims” took them initially as part of treatment, they’re
less likely to be vilified for (unknowingly) trotting down a path that would lead them to destinations such as drug fraud. For such a high-profile person like Brett Favre, the judgmental public is more willing to forgive, especially if there’s an acknowledgment of “i did wrong….to myself.”
Speaking of wobbly law enforcement and Michael Vick….