The Ethics of Living Jim Crow

What a painful experience this read was. My friend sent me a link to a newspaper article in Augusta about a new basketball league trying to get a team sponsored. This basketball league is an all white league. The spokesman for the league talked about how they simply wanted to create a league for people who wanted to play regular ball without the risk of someone hitting them, or getting a gun pulled on them in the locker room, or foul language being used. Because white people never do any of those things. It wasn't the article itself that was most upsetting. It was the comments posted after the article. Bunch of tin foil hat wearing weirdos. All these people kept saying the same thing "why's it racist?!" and then rationalizing it, complaining about reversed racism, etc. I was tempted to post the link for this essay, and say simply "until your entire culture has experienced THIS at the hands of an entire country, until everyone you consider part of your race has stories like THIS, let's not throw out the reverse racism card, and let's be honest with ourselves."