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Originally posted by bebanovich
Williams may be a total crackpot, but I'm not buying or rejecting it from a writer with a point-of-view who won't take more trouble than this to establish credibility.
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I'm not a journalist, so this is an honest question. What more could she have done to establish his credibility? She tried to contact the coach. She did contact the officials. And she talked to "several" observers who had no rooting interest. Without being an eyewitness, what else should she do to verify/falsify the coach's claims?
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These are the insidious comments that seem to inevitably come out of incidents like this that are patronizing fluff or worse. If you really think you and your students are the victim of racism, don't say anything about it, just teach that life is unfair and learn to deal with it?
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I agree that that comment is kind of condescending.
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But can you please spare us the hand-wringing over "playing the race card" and the fake moralizing over not teaching kids that the world is unfair and that racism must be overcome.
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I think the hand-wringing is not about moralizing, but about being ticked off about FALSE accusations of racism. You don't see any hand-wringing when David Duke is drummed out of politics b/c the accusations of racism are true. You don't see any hand-wringing when Texaco is fined billions of dollars for failing to promote qualified black executives b/c the accusations of racism are true.
The hand-wringing is because it's wrong to accuse someone falsely of racism, just as it's wrong to discriminate solely on the basis of race. JMO, as always.