Editor’s note: After a dialogue with Our Group treasurer Jenelle DeVits, I invited her to express her concerns about the gay-sports community on our blog. Her entries will appear from time to time.
Coming across Outsports early in my collegiate career opened my eyes to gay media. Dominated by white masculinity I was bothered by the [...]
Posts under ‘Racism’
Activist: Bring more minority voices to Outsports
Ryan Moats video is hard to watch
It took me a couple days to see the video from the Ryan Moats incident with police officer Robert Powell. In case you didn’t see it, Moats and his wife went to see his dying mother-in-law at the hospital, ran a red light (he says safely), and Moats was detained in the hospital parking lot [...]
Dykstra article alleges homophobia and more
With the recession continuing to ravage the nation, there’s been a lot of discussion about last week’s interview of CNBC’s Jim “Mad Money” Cramer by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. Stewart effectively picked apart Cramer’s reputation as a financial expert (at least from some reports — I didn’t watch it myself so I can’t [...]
A racist column about Plax?
Al Sharpton has made his way back into headlines with an attack on a New York Post column about Giants WR Plaxico Burress, calling the column racist. In his Monday column, Post writer Steve Serby started his rant about Burress with:
Good for Tom Coughlin. Good for Coughlin for tightening the noose around Plaxico Burress.
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More on racism in motorsports
It’s good to see this subject finally talked about. And we needn’t look as far away as Spain to find this ugliness. Right here in the good old U.S. of A., the motorsports fans can watch NASCAR racing till the cows come home, and they will see nary a black driver in top competition.
At best, the fans might see one or two in the [...]
Racism in Formula One racing
Racism is rearing its ugly head in auto racing after Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton, who is black, was jeered by fans in Spain, some of who dressed up in blackface (photo here).
“The truth is that I feel somewhat sad, I am in love with this country, and especially the city of Barcelona and this [...]
