QuoteAfrican-Americans Go From Being No Good At Sports To Being Only Good At Sports
The late 1940s and '50s saw a role reversal unprecedented in the history of sport, as African-Americans—once thought incapable of physically competing against whites—began dominating playing fields to such an extent that their athletic skills soon came to be seen as their only contribution to society.
"Blacks have no chance against whites on the baseball diamond. They simply don't have what it takes to make the effort," Boston Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey told The Boston Globe in April 1947, echoing the nation's sentiments as Jackie Robinson made his major-league debut.
But two months into the season, Yawkey gave a follow-up interview in which he once more crystallized the thoughts of white America, saying, "Well, naturally, Robinson is out there running faster, jumping higher, and hitting the ball farther. Blacks are, if nothing else, more athletically gifted than whites. Sports is what they're good at."
This changing viewpoint was soon echoed by notable sports figures, politicians, typical American citizens, Ku Klux Klan members, and University of Kentucky basketball coach Adolph Rupp, who for years had refused to recruit black players because of their alleged unsuitability for athletics. After losing the 1966 NCAA Championship game to an all-black Texas Western team, however, Rupp said that the loss didn't surprise him.
"Blacks have a clear physical advantage over whites because their years of slavery made them genetically stronger and more athletic," Rupp said after the 72-65 defeat. "But they'll never be great doctors and lawyers. They don't have the mental capacity for something like that."
"I'll put it this way," Rupp added. "We'll never see a black head coach, team owner, or president of the United States."
At the time, certain controversial figures also claimed that blacks tended to display a certain talent for music, although most of them admitted that said music was only palatable when interpreted by white American or British artists.
The Onion is at its finest when it just displays a mirror to reality. :D
Funny, if you replace "African-American" with "Gay" and "white" with "hetero", you get the typical article Marty froths over.
I recall reading a theory that the most inherently superior humans are New Guineans.
Wheras we white people have a few millenia of farming and sub-par folk breeding they've been stuck as hunter-gatherers in the jungle for all time and hence only the best survive.
So lets hope they don't get atomics.
I don't really get this onion article. Seems fairly like something that could have been written a few decades ago to me.
The humour (at least for me) comes from the realisation how stupidly racist people were only a few decades ago and, by extension, that many ideas we hold today about race or sexuality or what have you will seem equally silly to people in 50 years or so.
You think today's racism is intelligent?
Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on December 29, 2009, 09:36:31 AM
Funny, if you replace "African-American" with "Gay" and "white" with "hetero", you get the typical article Marty froths over.
Gays dominate (women's) sports.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on December 29, 2009, 12:52:52 PM
Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on December 29, 2009, 09:36:31 AM
Funny, if you replace "African-American" with "Gay" and "white" with "hetero", you get the typical article Marty froths over.
Gays dominate (women's) sports.
In women's tennis, I always root against the heterosexual.
I root for the cuter one regardless of orientation.
Quote from: Syt on December 29, 2009, 12:58:35 PM
In women's tennis, I always root against the heterosexual.
You rooted against Steffi Graf?! TRAITOR!
I guess no one except Seedy or Ed will recognize that movie quote.
Quote from: Syt on December 29, 2009, 01:10:29 PM
I guess no one except Seedy or Ed will recognize that movie quote.
:blush:
Quote from: Syt on December 29, 2009, 01:10:29 PM
I guess no one except Seedy or Ed will recognize that movie quote.
I also know a little German :contract:
Quote from: derspiess on December 29, 2009, 01:15:15 PM
Quote from: Syt on December 29, 2009, 01:10:29 PM
I guess no one except Seedy or Ed will recognize that movie quote.
I also know a little German :contract:
He's sitting right over there!
Quote from: Syt on December 29, 2009, 01:10:29 PM
I guess no one except Seedy or Ed will recognize that movie quote.
I never cared for
Top Secret that much.
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 29, 2009, 01:30:43 PM
Quote from: Syt on December 29, 2009, 01:10:29 PM
I guess no one except Seedy or Ed will recognize that movie quote.
I never cared for Top Secret that much.
Blasphemy! :mad:
Quote from: The Larch on December 29, 2009, 01:37:14 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 29, 2009, 01:30:43 PM
Quote from: Syt on December 29, 2009, 01:10:29 PM
I guess no one except Seedy or Ed will recognize that movie quote.
I never cared for Top Secret that much.
Blasphemy! :mad:
Other than the Anal intruder,
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.gizmodo.com%2Fassets%2Fresources%2F2008%2F01%2Ftopsecret01ch5.jpg&hash=e29756f9b8131a5bae1dfd99d7855f329260e360)
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Felengendromecanico.miciudadreal.net%2Ffiles%2F2008%2F10%2Fanalintruder.jpg&hash=dfb42d4d3d75c5fe8eed7d9ddf4e8c76e6afe75d)
the movie just didn't thrill me. :Embarrass:
IIRC it somewhat dragged in the middle (including a ridiculously overlong Blue Lagoon send up) but the rest of the movie more than made up for it.
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 29, 2009, 02:13:00 PM
Quote from: The Larch on December 29, 2009, 01:37:14 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 29, 2009, 01:30:43 PM
Quote from: Syt on December 29, 2009, 01:10:29 PM
I guess no one except Seedy or Ed will recognize that movie quote.
I never cared for Top Secret that much.
Blasphemy! :mad:
Other than the Anal intruder,
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.gizmodo.com%2Fassets%2Fresources%2F2008%2F01%2Ftopsecret01ch5.jpg&hash=e29756f9b8131a5bae1dfd99d7855f329260e360)
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Felengendromecanico.miciudadreal.net%2Ffiles%2F2008%2F10%2Fanalintruder.jpg&hash=dfb42d4d3d75c5fe8eed7d9ddf4e8c76e6afe75d)
the movie just didn't thrill me. :Embarrass:
Not even the
Resistance? Or the medal cerimony by the East German female athletics team?
Quote from: The Larch on December 29, 2009, 02:50:19 PM
Not even the Resistance? Or the medal cerimony by the East German female athletics team?
Hail, hail East Germany
Land of fruit and grape
Land where you'll regret
If you try to escape
No matter if you tunnel under or take a running jump at the wall
Forget it, the guards will kill you, if the electrified fence doesn't first.
Not really a very funny article and definitely not the Onion at its finest. Generally, whatever Martinus praises, you can run in the opposite direction and be very safe.
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 29, 2009, 01:30:43 PM
Quote from: Syt on December 29, 2009, 01:10:29 PM
I guess no one except Seedy or Ed will recognize that movie quote.
I never cared for Top Secret that much.
You just shifted from +CdM to +Martinus on the Faction Chart.
Fuck.
I like both Airplane movies.
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 30, 2009, 08:28:20 AM
Fuck.
I like both Airplane movies.
Both? The first one well, of course, it's a pivotal piece in the history of modern cinema, but the second one...
Quote from: The Larch on December 30, 2009, 08:32:49 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 30, 2009, 08:28:20 AM
Fuck.
I like both Airplane movies.
Both? The first one well, of course, it's a pivotal piece in the history of modern cinema, but the second one...
Dude. Shatner in the moon base. Totally worth it.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on December 30, 2009, 08:23:19 AM
You just shifted from +CdM to +Martinus on the Faction Chart.
How is that a shift? :huh: