Comments on: Geno Auriemma Calls ‘Bull’ On Imaginary Racism http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/geno-auriemma-calls-bull-on-imaginary-racism-23182 Celebrity sports gossip since 2001 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:56:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: MODI http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/geno-auriemma-calls-bull-on-imaginary-racism-23182#comment-76720 MODI Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:59:07 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/geno-auriemma-calls-bull-on-imaginary-racism-23182#comment-76720 "The simple truth is that discussing race makes people sufficiently uncomfortable"   Clarification: Discussing race only generally makes <em>white</em> people uncomfortable. Non-white people discuss it all the time because the reality of the  public's perception (majority white) and the media (majority white) affects day-to-day lives of those who are not white. The consequences of NOT discussing race -- even when that discussion is imperfect -- is far far worse than the mild uncomfortability that it provides to some. We should discuss race and perception every single day -- not only after the police response to Ryan Moats and Robbie Tolan, the government response to Barry Bonds, or the initial media response to Sean Taylor. These symbolic incidents continue from denying the conversation on race and perception in the first place. "The simple truth is that discussing race makes people sufficiently uncomfortable"
 
Clarification: Discussing race only generally makes white people uncomfortable. Non-white people discuss it all the time because the reality of the  public's perception (majority white) and the media (majority white) affects day-to-day lives of those who are not white.

The consequences of NOT discussing race — even when that discussion is imperfect — is far far worse than the mild uncomfortability that it provides to some.

We should discuss race and perception every single day – not only after the police response to Ryan Moats and Robbie Tolan, the government response to Barry Bonds, or the initial media response to Sean Taylor.

These symbolic incidents continue from denying the conversation on race and perception in the first place.

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