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June 10, 2004

Let's see if Conservatives like Bird as much as Cosby

Subtitled: HELL naw, I STILL ain't saying shit.

Quote of note:

It didn't escape Bird's notice that the league was considered "saved'' once he arrived, with Magic, and that the popularity was due to wane the longer it took for another star of his caliber and hue to emerge.

The truth makes Bird's remarks important. This was not Paul Hornung revisited, an old man spouting antebellum myths about black athletes' intelligence. This was Larry Bird, unwilling participant in a two-decade nationwide forum on race and sports, telling what he's discovered on his journey.

He proved that even for a man out of his culture and comfort zone, a white man in a black-dominated game, it's all about whether you can play. But he learned that "white America'' -- again, his words -- still prefers white skin on its favorite players. The facts aren't pretty, but no one promised they would be.

Bird chirps: White America wants white basketball stars
- David Steele
Thursday, June 10, 2004

Part of the reason Larry Bird was so admired, so beloved, so exalted throughout his NBA career was the widespread belief that he was smarter than everybody else, blessed with better perception and better vision.

You believed it then, whether it was true or not. So now that he's saying out loud, on national television, what has been hinted at or whispered or thought about silently for years, do you believe him?

You should.

In a cable interview to air tonight in which he shares the floor with Magic Johnson, LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony, Bird said -- among other things -- that having a white American superstar in the NBA today is "good for a fan base because, as we all know, the majority of the fans are white America. And if you just had a couple of white guys in there, you might get them a little excited.

"But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever. I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.''

For starters, hear what he says, not what's been misinterpreted; Bird didn't say he wants the NBA to have more white stars. He was asked if the league needs white stars, and he said yes. Because it's what white fans in this country want, what they will watch and are willing to pay for. As he added, "It is a money game.''

Now try to disprove it.

You know, after posting about Ray Charles' passing, this feels kind of irreverent.

Posted by P6 at June 10, 2004 04:43 PM
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