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Sports in Black and White
Newsday sports columnist Shaun Powell explores the world of African American athletes in his new book Souled Out? How Blacks are Winning and Losing in Sports (Human Kinetics, 2007)
Souled Out? is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
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Shaun Powell will be reading from his book at Hue-Man Bookstore & Cafe 2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd between 124th and 125th Streets tomorrow at 4.
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Comments
Brian,
Why are you calling Vivian Stringer "one strong GIRL". Please, the next time you interview Hillary Clinton...please ask her how she grew up to be one strong GIRL. I think your comment was at the very least strange.
Brian,
Like the previous commenter, I am astounded by your calling Ms Stringer "a strong girl" and some football player "a strong boy". This insensitivity is so unlike you. Please retract and correct.
I may be wrong but aren't both David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez are black? They are also both the most popular players on the Sox.
Incorrect statement about the nets...
The big three comment was too generic...
What about boki, marcus williams, maglore??
Keith - exactly!
Don Imus is unable to look at black women of great achievement as playing anything but the roles of maids or hos (whores). Not that those are bad professions, but he's denigrating black women of achievement from his tone.
Don Imus' racism over the years, referring to Gwen Iffil as (looking like) the 'cleaning woman' and referring to the Rutgers' winning basketball team as (looking like) "nappy headed ho's," is not just racist -- it is un-American.
Black women, besides being about 5% of our nation's population, have overcome and are overcoming so much just surviving in the USA.
Imus is entitled to his opinions, and probably all of us struggle with racism and prejudice, but we just don't need this guy having access to our public airwaves, making fun, while insulting noble people doing so much for our country.
The Rutgers University Women's Basketball Team are champions, winners, and they are scholars. Rutgers is one of our nation's oldest, most venerable universities. Imus' denigration of this team of achievers, insults us all as Americans.
This man is blind to our country's greatness; putting him on the air and paying him well to spew his hateful ignorance is an insult to our nation.
I sent this comment as an email to webmaster@wabcradio.com . You might want to call their advertising department, too; the only number they provide on the site for the public, besides calling into to their hateful hosts.
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