Sorry, had to throw this one in here as well after discussing the topic with a few friends of mine who are black.
While I am not in 100% agreement with the writers assessment of the racial reasoning behind the outcry for age restrictions, I will have to say that believing this assessment is pure ignorance is..well...a tad ignorant itself.
Racism exists everywhere, and by no means is limited to white people. During a contest where one team was completly white, and the other team was completly black...after calling a foul on a player on the team that was completely black, one of the players turned to me and said, " What, you don't like your own kind?" ( I ignored the comment, but would I have done the same if a white player had made a similar type of racist comment? I can NOW honestly say that I would have....but I was a bit younger and had a different view on life/racism back then, and believe my reaction would have been drastically different )
When you have the same " we don't want you to be equal or better than us " attitude presented towards you by others of a certain ethnic background in so many other life situations, you are going to be skeptical and assume that the same philosophy is being applied now that you are poised to possibly become a multi-millionaire. I don't believe that this is any type of excuse for anything, because there are going to be people your entire life that are going to hate you and want to bring you down for a million other reasons, and you have to ignore it continue to improve yourself and meet your personal goals.
So while I respectfully disagree that the race aspect is the reason behind this outcry, it certainly is there from some. ( But that is the way life is! How are you going to deal with it is the question!!) So I also have to respectfully disagree that the mention of it is ridiculous. The racism factor is there, but to the majority of American Blacks that I know including myself, believe it is a VERY small percentage of American Whites who think this way.....and bothers us very little if at all. ( As a side note, I think racial relations would be much better if some blacks began finding ways to continue life in a positive manner without using " White guy's racist " as an excuse for failure/failure to try......and if some white people were more open in admitting the fact that there is racism factored into decision making and the exclusion/attempted exclusion of others. Again, this is not limited to white people only.. but lets face it....when you are the MAJOR majority, it just happens more...and racism has a history of creating racism in reverse, unfortunately. And in both races it seems that the very few sometimes ruin it for the majority
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The person who wrote this article is obviously more upset and bothered by racism or perceived racism than the average person.
Savaahn Ty
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