Stereotypical Bull(ish)

Air Force football coach Fisher DeBerry said it was clear TCU "had a lot more African-American players than we did and they ran a lot faster than we did," after his team lost to TCU.
"It just seems to me to be that way," he said. "African-American kids can run very well. That doesn't mean that Caucasian kids and other descents can't run, but it's very obvious to me that they run extremely well."
So we lost Rosa Parks two days ago, and guess what? The issue of race won't go away. I wonder why? Is it because the concepts of race, class and ethnicity have been with us since ... forever?

I don't think what DeBerry said hurts anybody, it just proves that racial implications aren't going anywhere. I think he meant to say something like this: "The Air Force Academy is still operating as though Jackie Robinson never wore Dodger Blue and 42. The team I run is nowhere near as competitive as it could be if we recruited the best players. We're stuck in the (18)30s."

That means one of two things: either the Air Force is horrible at recruiting blacks who want to fly planes in Iraq, join the legions who've died for Daddy Bush's cause and play football for a bad team or maybe the majority of blacks caught on when Furious in Boyz N The Hood said something about the military not being a place for blacks. Who knows?

DeBerry implied that on the average blacks are generally better athletes and faster than other races, and used NFL and NBA lines to prove his theory. Is that comment racially insensitive? Not really to blacks, maybe whites because he implies that they're slower than blacks.

Life might be different if we didn't see race, but we've been seeing colors since ... forever, and it's not going to change anytime soon. Blacks are still going to load the rosters of the NBA and you'll be able to point out the only black person at your party because we see race. We see class and we see ethnicity.

If Blacks are fast, Asians can fix your computer, Middle Easterners are terrorists and Africans are "well endowed." As we all know, these stereotypes don't always work.