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Archive for the 'Sports' Category

18 Jun

“Hitler” & “Lynch him”- Sports channels need to provide history lessons

Well it’s Wednesday, which means another sports journalist has been suspended for lacking the most basic understanding of historic atrocities and their present day reverberations.

21 Mar

This Picture’s Thousand Words…

UPDATE 3/31 - Read More - The Brute Caricature, The Jim Crow Museum
Basketball star Lebron James will grace Vogue’s April cover. He’s only the third man to ever do so.
Here it is:

What the hell??!??
Can you just imagine the impact on unsuspecting passersby of dozens of these magazines on display side by side? A [...]

13 Feb

All About Race on NPR - AUDIO Link!

CLICK Here to hear the audio of today’s Blogger’s Roundtable segment.
I hope you enjoy it. It was a lot of fun.
Please let me know what YOU think!!
For the third time I mixed it up with two other bloggers on NPR’s “News and Notes” program. Earlier today, host Farai Chideya put us through our paces [...]

01 Feb

The Topsoil: Willie O’Ree and the NHL

Contributor Andrew Padula has been in situations throughout his life where he has felt compelled to address racial issues from his unusual perspective. Andrew is a white, politically conservative, blues musician who has been teaching and touring the U.S. and Europe since 1993. He can be seen with blues legend Bobby Parker on B.E.T. Jazz [...]

17 Jan

Golf + Noose = ?

I imagine this place, All About Race.com, to be a spot where we can open our hearts and speak our minds to each other in ways that would be downright impossible in the whir of day-to-day life.
So I am asking for you input, in all sincerity:

What were they thinking?
I don’t understand it.
Seriously. If [...]

10 Jan

‘Lynch Tiger Woods’ - UPDATE Tilghman Suspended

The Golf Channel has taken the appropriate step of suspending Kelly Tilghman for two weeks following her on air remarks.
Nick Faldo’s co-host on the Golf Channel’s coverage of the US Tour has been suspended for two weeks following a remark she made about Tiger Woods.
Kelly Tilghman and European Ryder Cup captain Faldo were talking on [...]

09 Jan

‘Lynch Tiger Woods’

That’s the headline that flashed across AOL yesterday afternoon as I was checking my personal email account. Turns out that Golf Channel PGA Tour announcer, Kelly Tilghman made this repugnant comment during Friday’s telecast of the PGA Tour’s opening event. She said, on air, that in order to win:
…today’s young players should lynch Tiger [...]

07 Aug

SCLC Backs Away from Honoring Michael Vick: Bravo!

I awoke ready to fuss at the venerable Southern Christian Leadership Conference for planning to honor alleged dog fighter, Falcons quarterback, Michael Vick. But, they saw the light and reversed course.