tankdilla's Journal: Rush Limbaugh

In other news, Rush Limbaugh made more comments regarding beleagured athletes today. His claim that Donovan McNabb was overrated and that people want to see a black quarterback succeed got him into hot water before and caused him to lose his job at ESPN. He was also heard saying Jim Steinerstein was an overrated hockey player, and that people just want to see a Muslim hockey player succeed, and that Jeb Huckleberry was an overrated NBA point guard, and that people want to see a Jewish point guard succeed.

It's bad that people like Rush are paid to be in the position to reach so many people. Undoubtedly there are still millions of racist people who base their thoughts or decisions about a person on the race of the person. Those people have a right to their thoughts and beliefs. But having people like that on national TV is just bad and wrong. I would hear about different racist comments that were made back in the 80s and early 90s. And I kinda hoped that people were past that kinda thing by now. Limbaugh just lets you know that things haven't really changed that much. It is good to see people condemning what he said though. If a good majority of the people are on the right page, I guess that's good enough, since it's almost impossible to have everybody on the right page.

When people look at sports (or I guess anything for that matter), you're watching skilled athletes competing. If a player is playing good, you say they're a good player. And if they're doin bad, then that player is not doing so well. So if Donovan McNabb and let's say Kurt Warner are playing pretty well, then that's good. If McNabb is throwing incomplete passes and the team isn't winning, it's just because he's not playing so well now, and has nothing to do with his race. Likewise, with Kurt Warner, he hasn't been playing well because of his hand or whatever other factors there may be. It doesn't have anything to do with his race. Basically what I'm trying to say is that people should be able to see someone as a good athlete, not a good black athlete or a good white athlete. Here on the Internet, we see each other as screen names and know each other by the things we put on the Web here. You don't say, yeah that's a good white hacker there, or he's an overrated hispanic hacker. This sounds all We-Are-The-Worldish I know, but it's just how I wish things were.