Bryant Gumbel a Racist?

What's the problem with Bryant Gumbel? He thinks the Winter Olympics are a waste of time. He laughed at the statement that these were the greatest athletes in the world. How can that be, he said, there aren't any black people participating. Shani Davis is black and he did take a gold metal yesterday in speed skating.

What was he saying here? The only real athletes are black? It's stupid to hold any kind of contest where black people don't excel because it won't be a contest? The event will be meaningless? Is it because he couldn't come to terms on a contract with NBC and left the organization? Or is it much more serious than that.

Don't use that word - Oh no, not that one - that one is reserved for whites only. The media side-stepped it completely except for some local radio talk shows and then only ever so lightly.

What if a white national personality had said the same thing, what do you think would have happened to him? Remember Rush Limbaugh's statement about the black quarter a few years ago? He said that he was over rated because the conference was focusing on the black quarter backs as there weren't enough of them in the league.

Remember the fire storm that brought on? Television and the print media had a field day for weeks.

Remember Jimmy the Creek's blunder, a sports analysts on television, made a statement about black athletes that was considered off limits? Was it true? Doesn't matter! He's Gone.

And what the heck is wrong with Shani? Here is the only black athlete to win a gold metal in Winter Olympics and he is acting like a jerk!!! He wins his gold metal but he can't take a minute of his time to display his countries flag on a victory lap. What a nice center piece for the black community. More anger and more rage.

He isn't the only one that is acting like a small spoiled child. One of the other speed skaters can't put aside some tiff or other that he has with Shani long enough to at least present some show of congeniality for the home crowd.

I, for one, am tired of putting up with this show elitism. I think NBC should just not interview them after their races. If they want to be jerks, let them do it on their own time.

I won't watch anymore speed skating.