December 20, 2009
Black and White I spent this Sunday afternoon watching the Toronto Raptors defeat the New Orleans Hornets 98-92. The game was fairly uneventful but I do have the following thoughts: 1. For those not from the Toronto area I should let you know that when the Raptors score 100 points everyone can redeem their ticket for a free piece of Pizza Pizza. With the clock ticking down and the Hornets having stopped trying it was still too much for one of the Raptors to score and give everybody in the crowd lunch. This made me furious. These millionaires can’t make the effort to feed the people who pay premium prices to watch them bounce a round ball. And don’t tell me it hurts the integrity of the game for someone to score uncontested at the end just to give the crowd pizza. Not when Tim Donaghy spent years officiating NBA games while also living a double life as a degenrate gambler. 2. The Raptors Dance Pak or the people who assemble it are a racist group. In a sport played predominantly by black men and on a team based in the most multicultural city in the World we have a “Dance Pak” made up almost entirely of white women. We seriously don’t have a single black girl on a basketball team’s cheerleading squad? Seriously? The above picture is only slightly less blonde then Tiger Wood’s harem. This needs to change. 3. The Raptors really need to hope that basketball’s Worldwide appeal continues to grow. Our team now includes a Spaniard, an Italian, and a Turk. Part of what drew them here is the amazing multicultural city of Toronto. With built in ethnic neighbourhoods Toronto is one of the best places for a European immigrant to come to live in. Compare this to other NBA cities like Houston or Atlanta and you can see why our team is increasingly white and European. In the same vein we will never be an appealing city to an African American who grew up in the Southern United States. Toronto is cold, different from home, and taxes are higher here. These are the reasons Tracy left, the reasons Vince left, and the reasons why Chris Bosh is going to leave at the end of the season.

Black and White

I spent this Sunday afternoon watching the Toronto Raptors defeat the New Orleans Hornets 98-92. The game was fairly uneventful but I do have the following thoughts:

1. For those not from the Toronto area I should let you know that when the Raptors score 100 points everyone can redeem their ticket for a free piece of Pizza Pizza. With the clock ticking down and the Hornets having stopped trying it was still too much for one of the Raptors to score and give everybody in the crowd lunch. This made me furious. These millionaires can’t make the effort to feed the people who pay premium prices to watch them bounce a round ball. And don’t tell me it hurts the integrity of the game for someone to score uncontested at the end just to give the crowd pizza. Not when Tim Donaghy spent years officiating NBA games while also living a double life as a degenrate gambler.

2. The Raptors Dance Pak or the people who assemble it are a racist group. In a sport played predominantly by black men and on a team based in the most multicultural city in the World we have a “Dance Pak” made up almost entirely of white women. We seriously don’t have a single black girl on a basketball team’s cheerleading squad? Seriously? The above picture is only slightly less blonde then Tiger Wood’s harem. This needs to change.

3. The Raptors really need to hope that basketball’s Worldwide appeal continues to grow. Our team now includes a Spaniard, an Italian, and a Turk. Part of what drew them here is the amazing multicultural city of Toronto. With built in ethnic neighbourhoods Toronto is one of the best places for a European immigrant to come to live in. Compare this to other NBA cities like Houston or Atlanta and you can see why our team is increasingly white and European. In the same vein we will never be an appealing city to an African American who grew up in the Southern United States. Toronto is cold, different from home, and taxes are higher here. These are the reasons Tracy left, the reasons Vince left, and the reasons why Chris Bosh is going to leave at the end of the season.

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