Friday, October 1, 2010

Who Said It? Caste Football or African-American Sports Writer Jason Whitlock

Left-wing MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has once again taken to smearing organizations on the racial right. This time she's gone after the website Caste Football. In a mocking tone, she says of the site: "Caste Football is research - racial analysis of NFL teams in which they count the white people." (watch the video on The Political Cesspool blog).

I’m guessing that Maddow didn’t object when the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport released their annual report earlier this year ranking men's pro sports leagues on their “diversity” (sounds like "racial analysis" to me). In the report, the NBA received the top grade (an 'A' for diversity) because 77% of the players are black and there are a large number of blacks in front-office positions (needless to say, the NHL didn't fare as well).

Putting that double standard aside, as an example of how horribly racist Caste Football is Maddow read a quote from the site about how the Indianapolis Colts have a mostly white starting offense.

Here's a fun game. There are 10 quotations about the Indianapolis Colts' offense below. Try to identify which 5 are from Caste Football's analysis of the team and which 5 are from African-American sports writer Jason Whitlock's. Check your answers below and see how you did.

1 - "the Colts started and played nine white guys on offense... NFL rosters are nearly 70 percent comprised of African-Americans. What the Colts did was significant"

2 - "the Colts' offensive line is almost always one of the best, and again this season follows its time-honored formula of starting white men everywhere except left tackle"

3 - "the best offense in football was 82 percent white"

4 - "the Patriots, like the Colts and Packers, have a predominantly white starting offense"

5 - "Tight end Dallas Clark reached career highs in 2009 with 100 catches, 1,106 yards and 10 TDs, one of the very best seasons ever by a TE. [The Colts] use Clark as a receiving tight end and as a wideout, dispensing with the nonsense that white TEs must be great blockers in order to start."

6 - "Austin Collie, Garcon’s replacement, put a clown suit on the Denver secondary with precise route running and nifty moves after the catch. Some practice-squad kid, Blair White, performed a Collie impersonation when Collie was tired."

7 - "Blair White... has all the qualities NFL coaches dream about -- when a receiver is black that is."

8 - "Peyton Manning is the Larry Bird of this era. I mean that as high, high praise."
 
9 - "The unwritten rule in sports writing/journalism is we’re only supposed to mention racial progress when it involves dark-skin minorities."

10 - "But keep repeating, the NFL is colorblind, white and black football players are treated exactly the same, there's no agenda, there's no affirmative action when it comes to giving out scholarships and developing players. Keep repeating that, and keep living in a fantasy land..." 


Answers:
Jason Whitlock: #1, 3, 6, 8, and 9
Caste Football: #2, 4, 5, 7 and 10

Note: In some of the quotes I altered the capitalization (e.g., I changed "White" to "white") for consistency. Otherwise, none of the quotes have been altered, except where indicated.

23 comments:

  1. I don't think Caste Football gave any team higher than a C. The two teams in the game I'll be going to see on Sunday both have ratings of F+.

    I stopped watching the NBA years ago, but I'll probably keep watching football so long as the quarterback position remains predominantly white.

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  2. Blacks do not watch games where whites are the majority of players. I do not watch any games where blacks are the majority of players.

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  3. Anonymous, non-whites make-up an overwhelming majority of players in the NFL this year (70%). 75% of starters are non-whites. Games where the majority of starters are White almost never happen in today's NFL. If they do, it is only for a few minutes. (A 50/50 split could happen if a team like the Colts are on offense and are playing against the Bills' defense) Games with a majority of White players (on rosters) hasn't happened in years. So if what you are saying is what you actually do, you aren't watching any NFL games and haven't been for many years.

    Also, your claim about blacks is unfounded and ludicrous. That would mean that no blacks watched football until the Caste System went into full effect in the early 1980s. I would argue that blacks will watch any football game, just as whites will. I'd also argue that most black fans know more about the racial dynamics and make-up of teams than do most DWFs (drunk white fans).

    I don't like watching NFL games unless Whites are being used as receivers (TE,WR) or runners (RB,FB). I also don't like watching all black defenses, of which there are way too many. The QB spot has been a target of affirmative action for years, but remains White dominated. Still, I don't like watching a White QB throwing or handing off to nothing but non-whites. I have to see Whites being used in areas of the game where they are not usually seen, in order to really be interested in the game.

    This week, Peyton Hillis will likely be starting at RB for the Browns. The Packers have been giving carries to RB John Kuhn. Minnesota has the awesome RB Toby Gerhart stranded behind Adrian Peterson (a common theme amongst white RBs is to be drafted by a team with a great black RB and then never get playing time). RB Brian Leonard gets a few carries with Cincinnati. Jacob Hester could be a great RB, but he allowed himself to become a FB who hardly ever gets carries.

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  5. I love pro football but with the absence of whites in the quarterback , running back and receiver positions I pass up a lot of games . Thanks to the New England Patriots I still get to watch a little of the NFL .

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