Everyday we hear about racism against minorities being treated unfairly and differently from the majority. We don't often hear about the "majority" being treated unfairly or differently from the minorities. It that it happens everyday but we just don't pay much attention to what is considered reverse racism.
Tonight, as I was switching the channel on the television and decided to watch the News for a bit. I came across the "Hannity" show on FoxNews. He and two of his sports colleague had a debate on the controversy about Tony Gerhart, the running back from Standford University not getting drafted in the first round and was drafted in the second round behind four other running backs from other colleges which had worst statistic numbers than Tony Gerhart. But because the other backs were black and Tony was white, those NFL teams that drafted the other backs didn't drafted him based on his talents because white running back were know not to performed as well than blacks in the NFL.
There was also a controversy about this 20 or so years ago when Warren Moon didn't get drafted into the NFL. He outplayed every quarterback during that year and was the MVP in the Rose Bowl that year. Because quarterbacks were mostly if not all white, he was no drafted. He had to go to Canada to play football to proof that he can play. Later NFL team drafted him.
The two cases are similar only in reverse. The Warren Moon case is what you see everyday against minorities and the Tony Gerhart case is what I call reverse racism, minorities against the majority (white). I think that it is unfair for the for teams to pick other players over other players based on the color of their skin just because some color are know to perform better than others. We should pick players based on their performance and talents on the field instead of assuming that certain color players can't play certain positions. If they perform well, they should deserve the spot and to be pick first in order to help the team to perform better to win games regardless of their skin color.
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