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Originally Posted by Pastor Ezekiel
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Thank you for bringing up that link, Pastor! Indeed, I remember watching the interview on television and I saw nothing wrong with it. Mr. Campanis was simply pointing out a fact: When it comes to jobs involving abstract mental strength, intelligence, strategy, knowledge, etc. negroes are overwhelmingly underrepresented no matter the field. Whether you're talking about sports coaches or CEOs or particle physicists or mathematicians or Biblical scholars or engineers or whatever, there is always, always a shortage of negroes in those fields.
Personally, I thought Mr. Campanis' comments were actually positive and praising the negro race! I have bolded all the good comments he said about their kind.
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During the interview Koppel asked Campanis why African-American managers and general managers were virtually nonexistent in the sport. Campanis gave a notorious response: "It's just that they may not have some of the necessities to be, let's say, a field manager, or, perhaps, a general manager." (Rev Jim: He didn't say negroes were stupid, just that they weren't cut out for the job. Could I be a sports coach? Probably not, I am a pastor. But it doesn't mean I'm stupid, even though I don't have the necessities to be a general manager for a baseball team. This is not racism by any stretch.)
When Koppel objected, Campanis responded, "I know that they have wanted to manage, and many of them haven't managed. But they are outstanding athletes, very God-gifted and wonderful people … They are gifted with great musculature (sic) and various other things. They are fleet of foot and this is why there are a number of black ballplayers in the major leagues."
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I counted only one comment which could be seen as potentially racist (it was not) and six other comments which were positive! Why do all these racist negro protesters fixate only on the negative? This is the kind of PC politics that makes me one very angry white male!