Black rights leader "The Minnesota TWolves are too white".

• Trueblue23

  

  Wow, talk about bullshit.
  http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/dish/201210/are-minnesota-timberwolves-too-white
  
  
  Ron Edwards, a longtime Minneapolis civil rights advocate, told the Star-Tribune that it was "somewhat disturbing" when he saw a game last season in which Wes Johnson was the only black player on the floor for the Timberwolves. The composition of this season's roster has prompted Edwards to react even stronger.
  "It raises some real questions to me about what's really intended," Edwards said. "I think, personally, that it was calculated. Is this an attempt to get fans back in the stands? Minnesota, after all, is a pretty white state.''
  
  
  So god damned dumb.
• gorocks99

  

  That's probably why the team doesn't make the playoffs.
• tk421

  

  I find that the NBA is too black
• said_aouita

  

  Brandon Roy has a good quote-
  
  “It’s just basketball,” Roy said. “I never really had to feel like I’m the only black guy out here. I’ve played on teams that maybe had all black guys and the feeling is just the same when I’m out there on the floor playing with these guys. The only problem we have is in the weight room, arguing over what music we’re going to listen to.”
• rmolin73

  

  What an idiot!
• gorocks99

  

  
• wildcats20

  

  He's obviously never seen the Pacers roster.
• O-Trap

  

  
• Dr Winston O'Boogie

  

  The sad thing is people like this have a permenant platform to view whatever thoughts happen to drift into their brain at a given time.
• robj55

  

  what a joke
• xKoToVxSyNdRoMe

  

  If they want to be competitive I would consider this more of just constructive criticism.
• tk421

  

  13.6% of the population identified as black, the NBA is 78% African American. If anything, the NBA is overwhelmingly "black". We have affirmative action at government levels, where is the outcry for AA for whites in sports?
  
  :rolleyes:
• rmolin73

  

  Hockey balances things out
• O-Trap

  

  rmolin73;1308520 wrote:Hockey balances things out

  Pff ... Canadians ...
• wkfan

  tk421;1308494 wrote:13.6% of the population identified as black, the NBA is 78% African American. If anything, the NBA is overwhelmingly "black". We have affirmative action at government levels, where is the outcry for AA for whites in sports?
  
  :rolleyes:

  I have underlined the reason that there is no outcry.......
  
  I also find Mr. Edwards comments to be extremely racist.
• WebFire

  This is why racism will never die. Because they don't want it to.
• Tiernan

  The entire NGBA* has become the Harlem Globetrotters (if the Globies all carried 9mm Glocks...) so somebody has to be the Washington Generals, might as well be Minneapolis.
  
  
  
  *National Gangbangers Association
• O-Trap

  

  Tiernan;1308737 wrote:The entire NGBA* has become the Harlem Globetrotters (if the Globies all carried 9mm Glocks...) so somebody has to be the Washington Generals, might as well be Minneapolis.
  
  
  
  *National Gangbangers Association

  Let me guess. The MLB is full of illegal aliens? The NFL is full of steroid-pumped neanderthals. Am I getting warm?
• Tiernan

  That would be a very narrow minded view of professional sports O-Crap and I'm much more tolerant than that.
• O-Trap

  

  Tiernan;1308758 wrote:That would be a very narrow minded view of professional sports O-Crap and I'm much more tolerant than that.

  Ah yes. Your tolerance is shining through. You and David Copeland would get along well.
  
  And oh no ... you made fun of my name. You hurt my feelz.
• rmolin73

  

  Here goes Tiernan on one of his rants. We shouldn't waste our time proving him wrong yet again. It stops being fun.
• Tiernan

  No rant Moley just the gospel truth. Oh wait...is using the term gospel considered to be racist somehow?
• sportswizuhrd

  From the roster on nba.com
  
  Stiemsma, Ridnour, Love, Amundson and Budinger are White American born players.(5)
  
  Rubio, Pekovic, Barea, and Shved are White Euro's.(4)
  
  Conroy, Cunningham, Jones, Lee, Roy and Williams are the African American players.(6)
• sportswizuhrd

  wildcats20;1308220 wrote:He's obviously never seen the Pacers roster.

  3 white guys. Hansbrough brothers and Plumlee. A few years ago I would have guessed that they broke the record.
• End of Line

  

  
  
  Like Web said, things like this will prevent racism from ever going away.