White Wolves

This is a sad example of the ridiculous level of inanity to which so-called and self-titled "civil rights leaders" have lowered our society:

Minnesota Timberwolves fans may notice something different about their team this year. In a league in which American-born black players made up 75 percent of roster spots in 2011, the Timberwolves will have an opening-day roster comprising just 33 percent black players (five out of 15).

According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, this year's squad will be the league's whitest since the 1980s Boston Celtics.

Is that a problem?

Some civil rights leaders in Minneapolis think so. Tyrone Terrell, chairman of St. Paul's African American leadership council, told the Star-Tribune that he thinks the unbalanced roster could be seen as a ploy by the ownership to sell the team to a majority-white fan base.

"How did we get a roster that resembles the 1955 Lakers?" Terrell said to the Star-Tribune. "I think everything is a strategy. Nothing happens by happenstance."

Yeah, you're onto us, Tyrone. We admit it. All us honkies are really closet white supremacists, and we're starting with basketball! First the NBA, and the next thing you know all the black people are pickin' cotton and saying "YESSAH, Massah!" as we light our cigars with rolled up photos of Martin Luther King. Yup, you caught us, you wily investigator...

Fortunately, the players aren't idiots like Mr Terrell.

Indeed, while the team lacks as many African-American players as most other squads, the Timberwolves are still quite diverse. Five of their ten white players were born outside of the United States.

Brandon Roy, projected to be the team's only black starter, says the color of his teammates doesn't faze him.

"It's just basketball," Roy said. "I never really had to feel like I'm the only black guy out here. I've played on teams that maybe had all black guys and the feeling is just the same when I'm out there on the floor playing with these guys."

You tell 'em, Brandon.

So who are the real racists, here? The ownership of the Timberwolves, who simply want to win championships by hiring the best players for the job? Or is it the "civil rights leaders" and "advocates" who spend all their time counting to see if there are enough black sheep in the flock to satisfy their personal biases?

The only real racism left in this country, aside from a tiny minority of kooks like the neo-Nazis, stems entirely from people who make their living from it, such as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Mr Tyrone Terrell. The rest of us just want everybody to shut up about it so we can get on with hiring the best person for the job -- whether they are black, white, or pink-spotted, green-skinned Martians.



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Hat-tip to Patrick E.