THIS WEEK WE WERE NOT ONLY SUBJECTED TO FAT-CAT POLITICIANS CALLING DOWN A HOCKEY PLAYER WITH AN EXEMPLARY REPUTATION FOR THEIR OWN SELF GLORIFICATION...WE ALSO HAD AN ACADEMIC FROM THE WHARTON SCHOOL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PUBLISHING ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES A PAPER THAT STATES THAT BLACK PLAYERS IN THE NBA ARE CALLED FOR FOULS AT A GREATER RATE THAN WHITE. PROFESSOR JUSTIN WOLFERS BASED THIS ON SOME 600 THOUSAND CALLS MADE OVER A 13 YEAR PERIOD USING BOX SCORES. WHILE NO-ONE CAN ARGUE THAT OUR SOCIETY IS FILLED WITH RACIAL OR ETHNIC BIAS....(JUST ASK SHANE DOAN) NEVER HAVE I HEARD ANYONE CRY RACISM WHEN IT COMES TO REFEREEING IN THE NBA. THIS IS A CASE OF AN EGGHEAD, WHO ADMITEDLY DOESN'T EVEN LIKE BASKETBALL, MAKING STATISTICS FIT A PRECONCEIVED NOTION.
AS MARK TWAIN SAID, "THERE ARE LIES, DAMED LIES AND THEN THERE ARE STATISTICS." THE STUDY IS BEING GIVEN ABSOLUTELY NO CREDENCE BY AFRICAN-AMERICAN PLAYERS IN THE NBA WHO WILL TELL YOU THAT THE REFEREES ARE BLIND AND STUPID AND HAVE NO JUDGEMENT..BUT DEFINITELY ARE NOT RACIST. WE HAVEN'T HEARD WHETHER PROFESSOR WOLFERS IS GOING TO SWITCH HIS OBVIOUSLY PLENTIFUL FREE TIME TO RACISM IN HOCKEY. PERHAPS HE CAN MAKE A STATISTICAL CASE FOR PETER WORRELL, GEORGE LARACQUE AND DONALD BRASHEAR BEING AN OFFICIATING VICTIM FOR ALL OF THOSE FIGHTING MAJORS.
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