Race card played

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Now I'm even more confused.....

By "your people", do you mean that the black coach is saying that the black official is a bigot because he is selling out his people-i.e. his fellow African-Americans?

If so, please explain how this could not be racial in nature?

If not, please enlighten me as to why this isn't racial.

Jurassic,

BITS pretty much has given answers that closely describe my line of thinking.

If I were ref'n a game involving a predominantly Mexican-American team and their coach yelled at me "you just don't like Mexicans!", he would get T'd up, but I wouldn't considered it a racist remark, I would consider it an attack against my integrity and impartiality. The same if I were called a bigot or sell-out. To me they are character attacks, not racial attacks.