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Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America
Fields, Barbara Jeanne http://www.solidarity-us.org/pdfs/cadreschool/fields.pdf
Publisher: New Left Review Date Written: 31/05/1990 Year Published: 1990 Resource Type: Article
Two years ago, a sports announcer in the United States lost his job because he enlarged indiscreetly -- that is, before a television audience -- upon his views about 'racial' differences. Asked why there are so few black coaches in basketball, Jimmy 'the Greek' Snyder remarked that black athletes already hold an advantage as basketball players because they have longer thighs than white athletes, their ancestors having been deliberately bred that way during slavery.
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