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Air Force Coach Fisher DeBerry in trouble

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scooter1369

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HTTR Forever.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/football/ncaa/10/26/bc.fbc.airforce.coachco.ap/index.html

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- The Air Force Academy is looking into comments made by longtime football coach Fisher DeBerry, who said black athletes "run very, very well" and that the program lacks minority athletes.
The 67-year-old DeBerry, in his 22nd year at Air Force, first mentioned the academy's lack of minority players compared to other schools on Monday.
"We were looking at things, like you don't see many minority athletes in our program," DeBerry was quoted as saying in The Gazette of Colorado Springs.
DeBerry elaborated on his comments during his weekly luncheon Tuesday.
"It just seems to be that way, that Afro-American kids can run very, very well. That doesn't mean that Caucasian kids and other descents can't run, but it's very obvious to me they run extremely well," DeBerry said in remarks broadcast Tuesday night by Denver television station KWGN.
Academy officials released a statement Tuesday, saying they were aware of the remarks.
"We cannot comment further until we have a chance to review all the reports, the coach's actual statements and to speak with the coach personally," academy spokesman Lt. Col Laurent Fox said.
DeBerry is the winningest coach in service academy history with a record of 161-94-1. He has had 17 winning seasons and won 12 bowl games.
This season, the Falcons are struggling. The team lost 48-10 to No. 20 TCU on Saturday, dropping to 3-5 overall and 2-4 in the Mountain West Conference.
Copyright 2005 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Is it just me, but isn't this sort of a compliment to the black athlete?
 
So much discussion can be generated from this. Personally, what he said didn't really get my boxers in a bunch. But, I am well aware of the*forthcoming complaints. He stereotyped, plain and simple. Everybody stereotypes, but society has taught us that we aren't supposed to make those inner feelings known in public. You may say that he was making a compliment to black athletes, but what is he therefore saying about white athletes? Or, is it OK to say white athletes are slow....because you aren't talking about a minority group. He will catch a lot of heat over his comments. Some interesting quotes:
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[SIZE=+1]You know the world is off tilt when the best rapper is a white guy [Eminem], the best golfer is a black guy [Tiger Woods], the tallest basketball player is Chinese [Yao Ming, 7'6"], and Germany doesn't want to go to war [in Iraq].[/SIZE] Charles Barkley, 2003
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[SIZE=+1]There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery -- then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.[/SIZE] Jesse Jackson
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[SIZE=+1]All stereotypes are true.[/SIZE] Bill Maher, "Politically Incorrect"
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That prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination, against anyone for any reason, but especially concerning ethnic groups, races, or the sexes, are bad things is today a truth of public discourse that is never questioned by anyone considered socially, morally, or politically responsible. Never questioned in public, that is; for the guilty secret of all, whether liberals or conservatives -- indeed even among the widely acknowledged victims of prejudice and stereotypes -- is that, in private, prejudices and stereotypes are usually harbored about someone. And virtually everyone, whether right or left, black or white, and whatever they think, feel, or say, practices some kind of discrimination about someone.
 
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Or, is it OK to say white athletes are slow
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Actually I believe it is, cause it's true. People are too freakin sensitive. There is no insult to anybody involved in saying something like that. He didnt say that we suck because we have white kids. He said that they dont have alot of black kids. I really get tired of seeing people in this country whining about this kind of shit. First off, he said it, it's his own business and opinion, nobody elses.

Did anybody watch the story that ESPN did on the pink Iowa locker rooms? Course all the people against it were gay, or women's rights. If we would just off those people (and no I dont mean kill all gay people, I just mean the ones that cant keep their mouths shut), everything would be fine :biggrin:

Someone award this man ^^^
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I agree..........done
 
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Speaking of stereotyping (or profiling), I like the scene in the movie 'Crash', where Ludacris and his buddy are walking down the street in a white neighborhood, and Sandra Bullock, who is walking toward them about 100 feet away, snuggles closer to hubby Brendan Fraser after she sees them.

Ludacris bitches to his buddy about how the white lady reacted to seeing a couple of black guys approaching, even though they're well-dressed. Then he proceeds to pull a gun and carjack their Escalade right as they're getting into it. It was pretty funny. Good movie overall, also.
 
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scooter1369 said:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/football/ncaa/10/26/bc.fbc.airforce.coachco.ap/index.html



Is it just me, but isn't this sort of a compliment to the black athlete?
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Joe Morgan says the Astros don't have enough blacks. That's okay because Joe Morgan is a famous black guy.

Fisher DeBerry says his team doesn't have enough blacks. That's bad because he's an old white guy.

I realize there are some difference in the points being made, but this is ridiculous. He wasn't insulting anyone. What if he would have posed it a different way such as "Not enough young black men are interested in attending the Air Force Academy"?Ahhhh, nevermind, I still know the answer.
 
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