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politics and sports

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by SheaSeals, Mar 29, 2008.

  1. Tom Petty

    Tom Petty Guest

    you can't handle the truth.
     
  2. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Please explain how you extrapolate Joe Paterno being a Republican to all coaches are Republicans.
     
  3. forever_town

    forever_town Well-Known Member

    DTGDTN!

    You'd have thought Yawn started it except for the lack of liberal bashing in the first post...
     
  4. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Most people who make as much money as big-time college football and basketball coaches are Republicans. I don't think it's a psychological thing, or means they can't relate to poorer kids. It's just a function of their tax bracket.
     
  5. fossywriter8

    fossywriter8 Well-Known Member

    "I'm admittedly a liberal, but it strikes me as odd. Wouldn't coaches, having experienced the recruiting of AA athletes, be more sympathetic and open to the plights of young black men and women in this country? Wouldn't they, in a sense, be more liberal?"

    1) I don't see how a political view means a coach does or does not care about the plight of a minority. Since we're making generalizations, perhaps by being a Republican, a coach is used to working to improve what he/she already has and not relying on what he/she already has or is able to get from someone else, and then helping pass that work ethic on to his/her players. And what about minority coaches? Are they figured into the equation?

    2) Re: Republican presidents helping minorities
    From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower) Yes, I'm lazy, but it's late and this has the general information:
    Eisenhower supported the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka U.S. Supreme Court decision, in which segregated ("separate but equal") schools were ruled to be unconstitutional. The very next day he told District of Columbia officials to make Washington a model for the rest of the country in integrating black and white public school children.[22] He proposed to Congress the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 and signed those acts into law. Although both Acts were weaker than subsequent civil rights legislation, they constituted the first significant civil rights acts since the 1870s. The "Little Rock Nine" incident of 1957 involved the refusal by the State of Arkansas to honor a Federal court order to integrate the schools. Under Executive Order 10730, Eisenhower placed the Arkansas National Guard under Federal control and sent Army troops to escort nine black students into an all-white public school. The integration did not occur without violence. Eisenhower and Arkansas governor Orval Faubus engaged in tense arguments.

    3) Shouldn't all coaches, regardless of their political leanings, keep those leanings to themselves? Why should only Republican coaches keep silent?
     
  6. pallister

    pallister Guest

    Stupid post of the day.
     
  7. I think it's wrong to assume that all or even most of these young, black male athletes are liberals. I doubt most have political leanings at all. What they do have is the same aspirations of their coaches: get ahead and make a lot of money.
     
  8. ServeItUp

    ServeItUp Active Member

    When asked why he wouldn't denounce some racist remarks by North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, Michael Jordan said, "Republicans buy sneakers, too."
     
  9. beardpuller

    beardpuller Active Member

    Wikipedia, my ass. This is from the Earl Warren biography, "Justice for All." I've read versions of it in many contexts:

    In May 1954, the court struck down the "separate but equal" doctrine and ordered schools integrated "with all deliberate speed." The vote was unanimous. In less than a year, Newton writes, Warren "had united his brilliant Court into a single voice on an issue of moral urgency."

    Eisenhower was furious. He'd told Warren that Southerners "are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes," the justice wrote in his memoirs. He never forgave Eisenhower for that remark and went on to lead the court on decisions that would further irritate the president - and inflame the John Birch Society, which dotted the nation with "Impeach Earl Warren" signs.
     
  10. The arrogance exhibited in the OP is enough to assure this thread will go nowhere. Yikes.
     
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