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Old Mon Nov 15, 2004, 02:06pm
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Re: Re: I never told you how to handle these situations.

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Originally posted by blindzebra
Two: If the game is being lost and I have a call, it's because I'm a racist.
BZ -- This is something a lot of women deal with too, especially in boys ball, so I've felt it from the end of the person representing the traditionally oppressed group. I couldn't possibly have made that call from a position of competence and ability. It's not the same for men in girls ball, because they've been reffing all along and are reaching out from a position of traditional power and authority.

In the same way, a white ref in a black situation may feel some racial animosity directed at them, but it's nothing like what a black ref feels when race is an issue. I think you and I, as whites stepping into a black situation, feel like it cuts both ways. It is most assuredly not the same. I'm not saying you are a racist. You're not. And it's not okay for a black kid to assume you are. But that doesn't mean that you're being treated the same as Jeff gets treated when he's the black ref in a game between a white team and a black team. It's just not the same.