[tomegun]

I don't have any problem if someone says they don't have enough information to know whether this has to do with race or not because there really isn't enough information. However, I'm bothered by the way people seem to dismiss race as a possibility. One side says it is about race, the other side says (I assume) it isn't and the court will decide, but it is always so easy to dismiss it as "playing the race card." Well, I'm starting to believe there is a "reverse race card" or something for those who continually say this.

A retired Chief (Air Force E-9) told me last week about Montgomery Alabama being a racist city. He told me he went there to visit some good friends with his wife and they stayed with the couple they went to visit. After he left some of the neighbors asked this couple why they let some black people stay with them. True story.

Affirmative action is still an answer. True story.

There is a new show called "black and white" where a white family is made up to be black and a black family is made up to be white so they can see how it is to live like each other. True story.

I said all of that to say that race problems still exist in the United States and it would be naive to think the world of basketball is in a bubble without these problems. Whether we like the messangers or not, I would hope we could at least consider (like some have done) these accusations. I'm just as sick of this being an issue as the next man, but until we treat each other equally across the board it will still happen. Unfortunately, we will all probably be dead and gone before that happens.