Wilbon called out by a white guy

What major/mid-major city would be considered the least racist, though?

 

DC?

 

And D.C. isn't segregated or anything ...

 

Good question.

Philly? McNabb and Cunningham, plus they had AI.

I'm not black, so I do not know what it is like to walk around on those city streets either.

 

Please, let's stop judging a city's overall race relations by its affection (or lack thereof) for its minority athletes. That makes no sense.

 

I think the factors differ. I think the RS get players because they pay and are successful -- and play in the summer, so weather is less of a factor. Things are more or less equal in the NFL, so I suspect the Pats bring in players because of their recent success. (And at least a few football players I know argue that they'd RATHER play in the cool and the cold.) I think the weather does come into play for the Celtics -- and the Wolves and the Bucks, for that matter. Which is not to say I disagree with Wilbon.

 

Sure, you'd say that.

To be honest, anywhere I have lived, there has been racism. Where races mix (in apartment complexes, in subdivisions) it's all fine.

Where you have white people here, black people here, Hispanics here, Asians here, it's not fine.

No matter the city.

 

as a black man, I can say I know what Wilbon is talking about in Boston.

 

This argument always bothers me because it doesn't mean Boston is racist, it means the Red Sox are racist. Is Boston more tolerant becuase both the Celtics and Bruins were among the first to have black players?

The Red Sox were last. The Boston Braves were fifth. I'm not saying Boston isn't racist. I'm not saying it is. But the Red Sox have nothing to do with it.

I'm under the impression too that Boston ranks low among big cities in black population. That would seem to add to the potentional for racism (The more familiar you are with anything, likely the more accepting you are of it).

Is Boston better than it used to be? Most people seem to think yes?