SFCityBear;842220449 said:
First of all, I find it despicable to use the occasion of a young man’s misfortune, a serious heart condition which has caused him to retire from basketball, to turn the discussion into a blatant race-baiting tome to further your own ends, which appear to be a return to the days of bashing the Cal basketball coaching staffs, accusing them of not being able to recruit or develop good players, this time players of the white race. Our coaches should have known about Alex Rossi’s heart condition before offering him a scholarship, is that right?
I felt that your continued obsession, contempt for a young Garrett Sim, was childish, and a little hateful, but this post about Cal not being able to develop good white players is illogical, disingenuous, and racist. I don’t know you well enough to say you are a racist, but the words in your post are racist, and there is no place for racism on this board. This Bear fan is not LOL.
You realize, of course, that according to Webster’s dictionary, there is no longer any idea in physical anthropology as dividing mankind into races. In the practical sense, there has been much interbreeding among various ethnicities as to begin to blur the distinction. But since much of the world has not been able to move beyond race as an identifier, let’s look at your argument:
To begin with, you cherry-picked which players you would consider or decide were white. Ryan Mendez is on your list of good white players. Mendez’ father was Cuban and his mother white. According to the political correctness of today, Mendez is not white, he is Hispanic, or Hispanic-American. So did you mean to include Hispanics in your list of white players? If so, you must include Chris Hernandez of Stanford, and Jorge Gutierrez of Cal.
And if you are going to include Ryan Mendez in your list of good white players, because his mother was white, and he is therefore 50% white, then you must also include Cal’s Jason Kidd on your list of white players, because his father was African-American and his mother white.
Then there is Cal's Tony Gonzales. His father was of Portuguese, Scottish, and Jamaican ancestry, and his mother was of African-American, Caucasian, Mexican, and Native American ancestry. Does Tony make your list of whites? Both of his parents had some Caucasian ancestry.
How very magnanimous of you to include Amit Tamir, a Jew, in your “white” category. What other race would he be, since according to most Jews, Jewish is not, and never was a race?
Either you have forgotten to mention many of the good white players at Cal over the last 25 years, as others have ably pointed out, or you just cherry-picked a few of them to make up your list of successful white ballplayers. Your argument is disingenuous, because you did not include all the good white Cal players, and although you included many good white players from Stanford, Oregon, and USC, you neglected to give us the 25 year list of white players who played for those schools who did not become good players. And I would guess there are quite a few.
I will put the final nail in the coffin of your argument, using your definition of white, by stating that Ryan Anderson and Jason Kidd alone are better players than any of the white players in your list from Stanford, Oregon and USC.
Yours was an argument I wish I had never read. Based on your rants against Garrett Sim, I guess we should expect this kind of trash from you. But do us a favor and leave race out of this board, will you?
Fantastic post, and thank you for exposing "Dick" Lee's agenda.