The Spike Lee School of Sportswriting?

More points of view on factual reporting? We're not talking columnists or opinion pieces, but what the hell points of view are there in reporting what you see, what you hear, who did what to who, when and where.

Explain how a black reporter would report a state volleyball championship differently from a white reporter, or a baseball game or a tennis match or any athletic endeavour
Or are you saying that black athletes would be more likely to talk to a black reporter? And that's racism and for journalist to allow that is disgusting. That's the same thing as refusing to hire a black reporter because none of the 1958 Alabama Football team will talk to him.

 

Hopefully Lee will teach them things like not writing "newspapers need more black sports writers to match the growing number of African-Americans playing professional sport."
Um, what growing numbers?
Is the African-American participation up in football and basketball?
Maybe since 1960.
But I would guess it's actually down over the last 10 years in basketball due to the influx of foreigners.
Isn't it down in baseball?
Certainly can't be talking about golf or NASCAR.
"Growing number of African-Americans playing professional sport" seems a broad and erroneous assumption.

 

I wonder why White folks HATE when black people succeed from them?

 

What???

 

Nothing like a little late-afternoon Caucasion baiting.

 

On the surface, this seems like a good idea. People who haven't had a chance get a program where they learn, hopefully get a place at the table, etc., etc., etc.

But we are talking about a profession where jobs are being reduced. I can't help but wonder if it is like teaching somebody stenography - great skill but a limited application.

I mean, I can see a young black student discussing this program with their parents. At the end, their parents ask "What about jobs and a starting salary?" Oh, you have a hard time finding a job and when you do, you make significantly less than a starting teacher would make.

Any working-class parent would wonder about that.

Thoughts?

 

Is that even a sentence?
"succeed from them"?
Meaning what?

 

For the record, there aren't too many "working-class" folks at Morehouse.