"OK, you say it matters, but you haven't told me why."
It's because there are no other black skaters of his caliber - period! It's his uniqueness as an athlete not a statement about racism in America.
Please correct me if I'm wrong about this but if you are the only only one of your kind to do anything, I think that matters and makes you very special!
And your comment about being threatened to be killed is a logical non sequitur to say the least!
Alex
I'm sorry to be so dense, Alex, and obviously not up to your level on the logic, but I still don't get it. Because Davis is a top caliber speed skater and is unique in a color sort of way compared to his fellow skaters, that gives him and his mother the right to have an attitude about it?
Please pardon me for not being able to understand that.
When I go down to the basketball court for a pickup game and everybody else there is black, does that give me license to have an attitude about being white? I certainly don't think so. My unique color on the court tends to instill in me a little bit LESS of an attitude.
There's a gal who plays piano every once in a while on 3ABN who was born with no forearm or hand on her right. She plays beautiful piano with her left hand and just the stub of an arm that ends near the elbow on the right. In the world of piano players, her uniqueness has got to be pretty high, yet she has no attitude about it. Has she overcome an almost insurmountable hurdle? Yep. Attitude? Nope. What if she were purple in color? Would that make the difference?
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