Your Intellectual Betters

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1. What? Black people are playing golf? How did they get into the club-house?

   1. ” or were not culturally traditional pursuits in Black communities”

      I can just imagine the Black community calling the Williams girls “Oreos” for playing tennis./

      1. Girls…?

         1. Yes Watto, they were girls before they were women. You know, back when they were in training.

      2. There’s what? ONE black player in the NHL? And how many on the Olympic swimming team?
         Nevermind … I’ll go back to my work … because Im not a journalist who gets to make up shit all day.

         1. Grant Feur (sp) was the black goalie for the Edmonton Oilers back in their dynasty days in the 1980s.
            I saw them play when I lived in Edmonchuk back then,
            In fact, once I literally bumped into Gretsky at the entrance to a restaurant, and he said “sorry” like the good canuck he is. Messier gave me the eye, though, being his enforcer.
            Sorry. I know that Wayne is an evil maga guy now.

            1. My best hockey memory is the constant refrain of the Oakland Seals play-by-play broadcaster exclaiming excitedly … “Glove save by Meloche!” … “Skate save by Meloche!” … over and over again… as he was the very best thing we had.

               https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/11/23/60/19217436/4/1200×0.jpg

               And he made Canadian porn-staches a thing …

2. I’m old enough to remember following pro golfers Calvin Pete and Jim Thorpe (Fast cars…thick steaks) in my yoot. NBC is insufferable.
   That said – The old proverb You can lead a black man to water but you can’t make him swim still holds true.

   1. Yeah, I’m old enough to remember playing Peewee hockey in northern Ontario with wagon burners on my team, and we laughed about saying wagon burners.

3. Josh Liendo is plenty fast and if you have ever swam the fly u know how good this is :
   Josh Liendo set a world record in the men’s 100-metre butterfly with a time of 47.68 seconds during the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup in Toronto

   https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/aquatics/swimming/josh-liendo-world-record-100-metre-butterfly-short-course-toronto-9.6951418

4. Love the ‘or’ qualifier.

   So which is it…’systemic racism’ OR ‘cultural tradition’ that made the biggest difference? Was it 95% racism and 5% culture, or 95% culture and 5% racism? Or was it only 1% racism…or ZERO%?

   What an utterly useless assertion.

5. So ppl like to try new ventures, what else is new?

6. Has the writer ever met a black person? My father went to school, in Alberta, with more black kids than white kids and I went to school with some of the black kids’ black kids. While they must have tired of blond haired and blue eyed toddlers like me staring at them, I never got the feeling they wanted anything different out of society than the rest of us. They were farmers like the rest of us. Anyone who would have picked on one of our black neighbors would have had dental work from my father and his brothers.

7. GOOD GRIEF!!!! You mean the 1964 Civil Rights Act almost OVERWHELMINGLY OPPOSED BY THE DEMOCRATS at the time, actually worked?

8. This is an American article about American culture. Not sure it applies to Canada, at least not in my experience.