Monday, July 07, 2003

I guess Dusty Baker is going to get away with saying the kinds of things that got Jimmy the Greek fired. Is it easier to play baseball in the heat when you are dark?
"It's easier for most Latin guys and it's easier for most minority people because most of us come from heat. You don't find too many brothers in New Hampshire and Maine and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Right?" he said with a chuckle.

"We were brought over here for the heat, right? Isn't that history? Weren't we brought over because we could take the heat?"

Had a white manager said such a thing he would be making a public apology. Jesse Jackson would march until the guy resigned his job, unless, of course, the manager decided to donate millions to the Rainbow Coalition.

Baker may have a point, but until a white person can say the same thing, these kinds of double standards only cause more racism. The assumption is that only black people can know anything about black people. If true, that would be saying that the races were different, which sounds racist. But taken a step further, if only blacks understand blacks, then only whites must understand whites. If that were the case then Jesse Jackson shouldn't be able to accuse a white person of racism, because he wouldn't understand them enough to know their thinking.

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