After reading the corner, my email and my column on Dusty Baker from last Summer and thinking about it a bit more, I think I probably overstated the colorblind nature of professional sports in my first post on the Rush thing. I do think the principle holds — that sports has a lower threshhold for tolerating race-talk, largely for laudable reasons — but there’s no escaping that there’s a double standard here.
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Jonah Goldberg is a National Review contributing editor.
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