According to an article in the USA Today on-line, the head football coach of the United States Air Force Academy thinks that his team is probably getting its ass regularly kicked on the gridiron because opponents have many “Afro-American kids [that] can run very, very well.”
In other military news, the Secretary of the Army released a report yesterday saying that he thinks the U.S. Army is in danger in any potential match-up with Nigeria, because Nigerian soldiers are “very athletically gifted blacks, while too many white soldiers in the U.S. Army have to rely on their brains and technology for effective killing skills.” (In case any freeper happens to read this — the preceding sentence is pure bullshit).
Comforting to know that a high level person at one of the United States Military Academies is a) a subtle racist, and b) stupid enough not to realize that talking about his subtle racism to the national press corps will likely get him fired.
It gets better. Later in the article, it mentions that the coach “was forced last November to remove a banner in the team’s locker room that read in part, ‘I am a member of Team Jesus Christ.’ “
Note to coach of team Jesus Christ. Even Notre Dame recruits outside Catholic High Schools. If you expand your recruiting pool beyond born-again Christian Fundamentalists, statistically, you’re going to get a larger sample, and are more likely to end up with accessing a few players of exceptional talent.
Good luck coaching at Bob Jones University next year. Moron.
I saw this guy on CNN this morning, just going on and on about how black kids can run faster blah blah blah…and I’m just thinking to myself “oh man, just stop talking, you’re just getting in deeper and deeper…”
Isn’t he familiar with Jimmy the Greek?
Wasn’t Jimmy the Greek followed by Flavus the Roman?
He does need to stop talking, but I think it is over now. Thank God for fundie schools where he will be welcome to coach high school football.
“…If you expand your recruiting pool beyond born-again Christian Fundamentalists, statistically, you’re going to get a larger sample, and are more likely to end up with accessing a few players of exceptional talent.”
Hmmmm: Random variation in skill levels affecting outcome of competition… You do realize, don’t you, that such thoughts are only a step removed from Satan’s favorite heresy, evolution.
Bob Jones University material indeed…
He’d fit right into the Bush Administration, with his fantasy-based thinking and inability to take responsibility for his own failures.
DeBerry made several campaign-related appearances in Colorado Springs for the Chimperor. I think one was with his neighbor, Dobson.
That was the AFA? I just heard the tail end of it on KGNU this morning.
Why does Colorado have so many racist coaches and athletes? I’m hoping the Air Force Academy at least didn’t hire hookers to woo their recruits like CU did. And I’m surprised DeBerry didn’t attribute it to our team having a couple of Jews who ignored the team prayer and didn’t attend the special team worship service and maybe even voted yes on Referenda C & D.
At least they’re not raising my taxes again to pay for a newer football stadium. I guess that’s only in even years.
Blatant racism fits right in with the Air Force Academy tradition of raping female cadets and bullying non-Christian ones.
Growing up near bases or on bases… a girl KNEW not to go walking around at night.
However… I did manage to put a Daisy Air pop gun over my shoulder, put on some rubber boots as it was raining (I think they were Winnie the Pooh) and go marching straight up the road to the main gate…
Stark raving nude.
MPs brought me back home. By then they knew exactly whose child I was.
I was already protesting at the age of 2ish. 🙂
DJ, you are truly a treasure!
…or run either, I guess…
What the heck are the military academies doing fielding any sports teams anyway? Maybe they should send those fine specimens of American manhood over to Iraq, and bring back some of our National Guard folks to go back to work and feed their families…