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Article pointing finger at Racist Referees
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Fort Wayne's Team Website Video Highlights of the game - Funny thing, the only foul called in the video looks like there should have been a Player Control foul on Blue #35 for hooking the player and then another for displacing #20 White. Instead the foul is called against white for a potential 3 point play. Looks like those mean old white officials sure had it in for the Wayne Generals. Fort Wayne's record 13-9 Peru's record 19-4 This of course doesn't mean anything except that Fort Wanye (according to Jonathan) must have had 9 games with officiating crews that are not "diverse". The newspaper allowed the officials names to be printed in an article where the author is accusing them of racism and cheating with absolutely NO EVIDENCE. If anyone knows these officials in Indiana they should be made aware of what they are being accused of in the article. Here is a quote from the newspaper's website posted right above the comments section: Quote:
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If three black officials are on the floor and make the same calls/no calls, we never hear a word from this guy. But because the offiicals are white, then they obviously didn't make the call because they are racist.
Why is it that those who are in a position such at this gentleman appear to be the most racist? Hopefully, they'll contact an attorney and discuss the potentially libelous remarks.
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wow. shockingly bad editorial.
"A dream was deferred for some. Diversifying officiating crews might make every call an easy call, no matter whom it affects. " I threw up a little after reading that. there are some controversial articles about refs that are worth mentioning and talking about. But for this one I'm out after this post. not worth it. Last edited by mutantducky; Thu Mar 26, 2009 at 03:54am. |
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That was genuinely hilarious!
"Just maybe a lack of diversity caused them to make a no-call with 50 seconds left when a Wayne athlete was fouled and pushed out of bounds." D'Oh! I am a big fan of diversity.
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Of course, we all know that there are individual refs out there that are racist, and that some of those choose which calls to make based on the color of the player. The writer simply makes no case for that being the sitch in this game, or in any particular game. He presents no evidence at all that what he says is true. or that it's applicable to the game he discusses.
And why isn't ne concerned about the 90% black team having a black (or mixed?) coach? Surely if race is an issue in reffing, it's an issue in coaching. What's most disturbing about this is that he seems to think that a few racist refs can ruin the lives of a lot of kids. I suppose that's possible, although I don't think we really have all that much power. But whether the issue is race, gender, socio-economic status or a bad nose job, I still believe that as long as a kid keeps blaming the referee, the kid is then not getting better at basketball. And when the kid isn't getting better, then the kid isn't going to move up. When my daughter was playing, there was a game where the refs clearly were planning for my daughter's (mostly black) team not to win. This decision was probably based on race, although it may not have been. But after the game, my daughter's coach (black) gave those girls (and the parents!) a lecture. He said, "Any of you that were going to get a scholarship have already gotten it. So you didn't lose anything. If you wanted to advance in the tournament, you should have shot better, should have blocked cleaner, should have gotten more rebounds. You are good enough players that you could have won this game even if the refs had been messing with the clock. They didn't take the game away from you, you gave it to them." I think this coach could probably say the same thing, judging from the outcome of the game.
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So you are accusing the officials of cheating....and you are saying they were cheating because they were racists
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We're All African Americans (150,000 Years Ago) ..
I'm Irish. Should I not be allowed to officiate teams with mostly Italian players? I'm male. Should I not be allowed to officiate girls games? I'm heterosexual. Should I not be allowed to officiate games with homosexual players? I can hear. Should I not be allowed to officiate games with deaf players? I'm Catholic. Should I not be allowed to officiate games with Jewish players.
We'll I've worked games with Italian players, female players, homosexual players, deaf players, and Jewish players, and I worked just as hard, and tried to do the best I could for these games, as I would do for games involving Irish, male, heterosexual, hearing, Catholic players. And how did President O'Bama get such a great tan? Us Irish guys usually burn. We don't tan.
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Knowing that it does happen to all races, what race officiates more games? Quote:
It is an issue in coaching and officiating. But, I think there is a larger percentage of minority coaches than minority officials. I could probably name 95% of the black officials who are on TV often, but probably couldn't name 3% of the white officials on TV often.
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Wow, maybe I should darken my skin so I have an excuse for blowing a call against a white team.
Of course, I am sure the author of that article is doing all he can to increase the number of minorities in officiating. I think his article would have the opposite effect. Who wants to officiate when your name shows up in an article critical of your actions in a game? And...someone needs to tell the author that we have a few more pressing issues to worry about in this country. "Is what you are doing getting you what you want?" |
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Screw that. Forget about this article and tell the same thing to the people who keep shoving "Octumom" down our throat!
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diverse: differing from one another
I don't see where the article mentions race. He may want a crew made of a doctor, a lawyer, and an Indian chief.
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Here is a way to simply take away any claims. Give officials of all levels similar opportunities, then these comments go away. Until you do that, you will have these claims.
There was a claim a few years ago by a coach that said the officials were not Black. Then the state started putting officials in situations to take away that claim. I do not know the situation here, I do not know if the claim is valid. But when you have a sport where many of the top teams and players are of a certain race and you never schedule officials that look like the participants, then you have these claims. There was a nationally televised game on TV a few years back with three Black D1 Officials. It was such an unusual thing in this particular conference. I sent a text message to one of the officials working the game showing how surprised I was by this occurrence. He responded to me, "Hey, we thought the same thing." Peace
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