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The culture wars are bad for business, said Disney/ESPN top dog Bob Iger recently, and he vowed to “quiet the noise.” Iger’s idea of quiet, however, is apparently a sane American’s idea of an ear-splitting cacophony (you know, like a gaggle of woke activists for baby-killing at a pro-Moloch rally). He has withdrawn his behemoth corporation from the culture wars by featuring race-hate huckster Ibram X. Kendi in a new ESPN series on the pervasiveness of racism in sports. That’ll calm things down for sure, Bob!
Fox News reported Wednesday that Kendi, “an anti-racist activist who founded the Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research, debuted a new ESPN series, ‘Skin in the Game,’ to dissect racism in sports.” That Center for Antiracist Research is not the glittering resume item it may appear to be (at least to leftist dopes) at first glance. After receiving millions of dollars in donations, much of which is unaccounted for, the Center folded last “amid allegations of mismanagement.”
BU Professor Saida Grundy, who was the Center’s Assistant Director of Narrative (now there’s a quintessentially leftist title), admitted: “I don’t know where the money is.” Nor does Kendi, apparently. But the sought-after activist has already moved on. His new show, which premiered on ESPN+ late last month, ‘delves into and challenges racism in the sports world, and will reveal how pervasive racism is in sports, while challenging the thoughts and systems of various governing bodies.’”
This is absurdity on stilts, with a side order of ridiculousness. As the famed firebrand New York Yankee manager Billy Martin once remarked, “I’ve always said I could manage Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Hirohito. That doesn’t mean I’d like them, but I’d manage them.” He would manage them, that is, if they could help him win. That was all that mattered to Martin, who also once observed: “Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener.”
Ibram X. Kendi and Bob Iger likely don’t know it, but Martin was articulating a universal principle in sports: it’s all about winning. A sports team that passed up on a competent player who could help it win games wouldn’t do well; other, non-racist teams would snap up the discarded player and win more games than the racist team, whereupon the racist team would lose money, and people don’t play professional sports, or own professional sports teams, in order to lose money.
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
If Iger is serious, he should just let go of ABC, ESPN & all their TV channels, since those are no longer cash cows for the Disney empire. Also please end the woke fairy tales: if they wanna do 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 themed stories, do new ones, & let all those billions who are interested in them watch them
ABC & ESPN can then figure out on their own what makes them 💵
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Kendo is a classic self-serving liberal. He is such a cynical, race hustling scourge in the vein of the BLM leaders. I bet the lost money is safely hidden away in some off-shore accounts owned by other big conglomerates like Disney. The idea of bringing equity to professional sports at any cost to the teams pales in comparison to the frightening notion of doing the same with airline pilots. Merit and qualifications be damned, we have a woke agenda that needs to take flight!
OLD GUY says
Racism in sports, are they going to field more white players now?