Black people cant swim.

Discussion in 'Stereotypes and Myths' started by Madiba, Aug 24, 2010.

  1. TERRASTAR18

    TERRASTAR18 Well-Known Member

    thank god for tilden hs 's swim team, i learned to swim there.
     
  2. TERRASTAR18

    TERRASTAR18 Well-Known Member

    if your lil tiger woods needs an agent give me a call. now i need a serena for golf and a black lindsay vonn for swimming.
     
  3. botoan

    botoan Active Member

    The owners of Major League Baseball want more black men in baseball partly because they are losing the most valuable commodity in all of sports: The black male athlete.

    The black athlete over time has made pro football and pro basketball what they are today.You can't dominate football, basketball and track and not have people associate you as 'the best'.

    Black athletes are the overall leaders in jersey sales, video game covers and the spokesmen for commercial products.

    I have white friends who practically say they don't take baseball seriously because of the lack of black players or 'real athletes'. For whatever reason Latino players have not replaced, the black baseball player in the eyes of many Americans, in numbers sure but, not in terms of affection.

    Look out how our country has turned it's back on boxing since Black Americans no longer control the heavyweight division (numbers don't lie). Hell, when I was a kid the average girl walking down the street knew who the middleweight champion was ('Sugar Ray' Leonard or Thomas 'Hitman' Hearns, to be honest Roberto Duran mattered because those two mattered).

    With black players returning to baseball it would mean a surge in marketing and promoting opportunities, for a sport that was once number one, now a very distant third. It is not about getting more blacks in the game to provide political correctness so much as it is money, credibility and renewed popularity that baseball wants. I am not vilifying them, to me that is fine, we can all win if more Brothas go back to baseball.

    MLB is now building baseball infrastructure in urban areas to attract black kids to the game, but without community and family support I don't think it will work.

    Hopefully more Black men will continue to get involved with their children and then baseball like the rest of society can benefit.
     
  4. orejon4

    orejon4 Well-Known Member

    Hahaha! Serena's dad told my son a couple of years ago while we were watching Venus practice that he would win at least 16 grand slams, and my little guy's jaw just dropped. He was like "really"? It was really cool of Mr. Williams to say that.
     
  5. orejon4

    orejon4 Well-Known Member

    There are plenty of brothers dominating in it, they just all have Spanish surnames. LOL
     
  6. goodlove

    goodlove New Member

    we swim like rocks..end of thread
     
  7. orejon4

    orejon4 Well-Known Member

    I'm trying to raise a little Sampras/Pele/D-Wade/Lance Armstrong(sans doping)/Michael Phelps/Alberto Salazar, lol. You up for multi-sport representation?
     
  8. Tony Soprano

    Tony Soprano Moderator

    Well said.
     
  9. flaminghetero

    flaminghetero Well-Known Member

    Be fair??

    Who's fair to us??
     
  10. wolfboy

    wolfboy Restricted

    Above quote is simply true.
    Black Americans can learn a lot from their Afro-Caribbean brothers.
    The Suriname government commemorated Anthony Nesty on a stamp and on gold and silver coins.
    It is a shame that he is unknown by a lot of Americans.
    This is the moment to know him al little bit better.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BLQkm5rOtU
     
  11. The Dark King

    The Dark King Well-Known Member

    Damn kid you don't let up for a sec
     
  12. orejon4

    orejon4 Well-Known Member

    Excellent post.
     
  13. Morning Star

    Morning Star Well-Known Member

    Mario taught me how to swim.

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  14. Bliss

    Bliss Well-Known Member

    Ryan Howard doesn't begin to get an ounce of the (national) respect he deserves.
     
  15. Bliss

    Bliss Well-Known Member

    Have you ever checked out on PBS Ken Burns wonderful docu-series on Baseball? The vintage footage of Jackie, Satchel, and Willie...just awe-some!
    The ugly racism, and sexism (women's baseball; totally blackballed) was sickeningly overt and without restraint.

    http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/baseball/
     
  16. TheWilliam

    TheWilliam New Member

    Oh baseball.....

    So that's still considered a sport huh?
     
  17. JordanC

    JordanC Well-Known Member

    I think a lot of sports are becoming out of reach because of costs involved. The husband of a friend coaches a baseball team and the fees for registration, uniform and every weekend they go play out of town. It is so a person of normal means can't be involved.
     
  18. pettyofficerj

    pettyofficerj New Member

    we went from swimming to baseball

    you mothafuckas somethin else
     
  19. goodlove

    goodlove New Member

    this thread should have died on the second post....we know negroes can swim ...shit. LOL
     
  20. blackguyatprinceton

    blackguyatprinceton New Member

    True. But I think there is much more to it than that. The complexities of baseball isn’t understood by most. It is a game of strategy and some athleticism. It won't matter how many black athletes are in the MLB. In this day and age, people want instant gratification. Baseball doesn’t provide this;it is a game of patience. In other words, the casual fan is going to struggle mightily appreciating the game.


    Baseball has also been a victim of media bias.The media has also spent years demonizing one of the greatest players of all time because he treated them how they deserve to be treated as opposed to how they want to be treated(Bonds).

    And the league has also been hurt by an incompetent commissioner, who has repeatedly made dumb decisions (his attempt to "contract" the Twins and Expos, his decision to declare one of the All-Star Games a tie, his "suspended" World Series game).

    Although baseball is losing mass appeal in America, it is the most popular sport in Japan, Korea, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and the Caribbean and even in America, attendance records are being broken nearly every year. Baseball is developing into an international game, while football remains largely a North American sport (though football has some popularity in Japan).
     

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