Media Racism and Stereotyping
by Colin Liddell
When our kindred folk the ancient Greeks established the Olympic Games in 776 BC, they intended that sport and politics should be separate. During the games, a truce was in effect among any Greek states that were at war and politics were put on the back burner as the gods were honoured by athletic competition.
Unfortunately, in our modern era, sport has become a political http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4775. It would be naïve of Nationalists to neglect this important fact and negligent of us not to deepen our understanding of how sport is politicized, especially as this is often inimical to the interests of our people.
Any nationalist who has noticed the exaggerated acclaim that non-White athletes like Tiger Woods and Lewis Hamilton receive, or who has witnessed the changing http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3568 have only underscored this point.A few months ago, you may have noticed the ‘institutionalized racism’ treatment that the Premiership received from the media, simply because there had never been a British-born Black manager. You may also have noticed the alacrity with which Paul Ince was then installed as manager of Blackburn Rovers.
This year also presented us with the spectacle of two ‘English’ clubs contesting the European Champions League Final, while all our international teams sat out Euro 2008. This highlighted the degree to which the English Premiership has been ethnically cleansed of indigenous players and colonized by foreigners. Out of the 28 http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4527 and Manchester United players who played in the Champions League Final, only 7 were indigenous British players with another 3 of mixed ancestry. Euro 2008, meanwhile, was dominated by foreign imports into the Premiership, reminding us that English players are a shrinking minority in their own top league.
Trends like this don’t just happen by chance. There are often powerful, unseen forces driving them that need to be correctly identified and countered. To best understand how sport can be adversely impacted by forces that should have nothing to do with it, it is best to look across the Atlantic to America. This has the most developed racist sporting system in the world, and gets away with it, simply because the racism is directed at Whites. Here we can find, fully developed and out in the open, the insidious anti-White racism that is now beginning to infect our sports. This is most noticeable in the most popular sports of American football, basketball, and baseball.
Anyone watching American sports might get the impression that Blacks are some kind of supermen, and that Whites exist simply to provide cute little blonde cheerleaders to cheer on these ebony titans, as well as the passive horde of couch potato fans whose TV subscriptions pay for their lives of unbelievable bling and excess. In other words, American popular sports routinely present an extremely degrading image of White people.
It hasn’t always been this way, of course. Don Wassall, a White American nationalist who runs Caste Football (www.castefootball.us), a website dedicated to exposing the deep anti-White racism in American sport, has made a study of the changing racial demographics of American sport.
“The NFL began integrating in the 1950s,” Wassall wrote in an email. “By the end of the ’60s it was roughly one-third black and two-thirds white. By the mid ’80s, those figures had reversed, at two-thirds black and one-third white. Since then the black percentage has increased, but only very slowly. The NFL currently is about 70% black and 30% white. Over 90% of the starters on defense are black and close to 80% of starters altogether. In basketball, the NBA has been 80% black, give or take a percentage point or two, for at least a generation now.”
Blacks do less well in baseball, where they have fallen back from a peak of 28% of players in the mid 1970s to around 8 or 9 percent today. This is less than their 12 or 13 percent share of the total U.S. population. But instead of Blacks making inroads here, it is Hispanics. According to Wassall, Hispanics, range from 100% White to 100% Black, but most are mixed race (White and American Indian, with a significant number also having varying amounts of Negro blood). 30% of Major League players are now Hispanic, while the minor leagues, the feeder system for the two pro leagues, have become majority Hispanic.
Given that America’s population is still around two-thirds White and the vast majority of sports fans are White, the overrepresentation of non-Whites creates an image of White inferiority. This is compounded by the dominant historical narrative promoted by the mass media and Hollywood. This suggests that Blacks have always been physically superior to Whites, so that when racial barriers in sport were removed in the 1950s and 1960s, their sporting domination was a foregone conclusion. A key phrase that often crops up in this context is “athletically gifted,” a coded racist term that is routinely applied to Black sportsmen to imply an innate physical superiority to Whites. As we know from our own experience in Britain, racist claims like this go unchallenged as long as they are directed at Whites.
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