Originally Posted By youyouit Bryant Gumbel is a bigot, we all know this I thought. Oh hold on, black people can not be bigots right?
Originally Posted By youyouit2 >>You mean other than Bush in 2000, right?<< true we should have let Gore have 50 more recounts i'm sure he would have found one where he won lol
Originally Posted By peeaanuut he was quite clear about what he was saying. It was simply a waste of airtime.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Excellent article from the Washington Post... <a href="http://newsbusters.org/node/4167" target="_blank">http://newsbusters.org/node/41 67</a> >>Gumbel has a right not to like the Winter Olympics. He can trash curlers, lugers and snowboard-crossers all he wants. But who made him arbiter of all things culturally diverse? Superimposing your own idea of diversity upon athletes from 80 different nations, essentially equating diversity with only race, is just inane. Of those 80 nations, eight are Asian. There is not a paucity of Japanese, Chinese and Koreans at the 20th Winter Games. Or don't Asian nations represent diversity to Gumbel? Let's not be so focused on the disguise that race becomes a mask. Just because Gumbel doesn't see the ethnicity and diversity he wants to see here does not mean it does not exist. Have you ever met someone from Azerbaijan, a country represented in figure skating? In the world community, Azerbaijan is a minority. Moreover, Gumbel's implication is that the Games are not worth watching because of the abundance of, well, white people. Never mind that if Bob Costas, who is anchoring NBC's prime-time coverage from Turin, said he no longer watched the NBA because it was "too black," he would be forced to apologize to keep his job. And that might not even work...<< >>"To me, personally, it doesn't matter what color I am," said Shani Davis, after winning the 1,000-meter speedskating gold medal. "Black or white, Asian or Hispanic, it doesn't matter to me as long as the message I'm portraying to people that watch me on TV is positive and it shows that they can do things that are different besides catching a football, hitting a baseball or shooting a basketball. I'm just showing them that stepping outside the bubble is okay and they can be successful at it." You don't have to like the Winter Games. But Asian, Hispanic or from Azerbaijan, Bryant Gumbel should at least embrace diversity in all its forms.<<
