Thursday, November 30, 2006

Kramer Hates Puerto Ricans Too, Remember?

I just finished reading Dave Zirin's What's My Name, Fool?. Very insightful writing about sports, protest & politics from a Mac '96 lad. Getting a blurb from Chuck D does a lot to make me forget the chicken-leg-in-the-pocket episode.

His newsletter tipped me off to Wizards forward Etan Thomas's new column on Slam: http://slamonline.com/online/2006/11/type-casting/. It provokes a very animated debate about racism, classism and ismism. Worth checking out, so long as you can handle the indifferent spelling, logic and grammar of most commenters.

4 comments:

Jerious Norwood said...

Jeez, I wish all of these nonwhitey groups would just get over this whole racism thing. I think we can all agree that its getting pretty old.

Badcock said...

How about starting up racism versus the Irish again? Like the good old days?

Jerious Norwood said...

What was I laughing about again? Oh yes, that crippled Irishman!!!

Jerious Norwood said...

Not to mention the Catholics. Similar to the Irish, but I always think that its wise to think expansively on such matters. Everyone knows that there just a fifth column who irrationally swear allegiance to the Pope. And speaking of fifth columns, how 'bout the Jews? They've been living off this whole Holocaust thing for quite a while.