RACISM. The only thing that angered me about Whitlock’s column is when he followed his skewering of the Hall selection committee because it has three black voters (a fourth, Michael Wilbon, left the panel when he began covering the NBA a few years ago) in the next sentence by saying two white men — me and Gosselin — lead an “old-school, good-ol’-boys network” in the selection room. If he finds me racist, I wish he’d just call me racist.
Now, as for the three-out-of-44 argument, it’s valid … to a point. In an ideal world, there’d be a lot more than seven percent black voting members in the Hall. But let’s look at the pool these voters come from. The Hall takes its voters from NFL press boxes, and I’d guess (it’d just be a guess, but I’m probably not far off) that the NFL’s main press box at the Super Bowl was no more than 10 percent black. And is there some great injustice we’ve perpetrated that can be linked to racism? Four of the last 19 modern-era enshrinees are white.
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