Racist Coach Speak

There's much hullabaloo locally about the comments made by Fisher DeBerry, the Air Force Academy's football coach. After a recent shellacking by TCU, 48-10, the coach was quoted this week saying "Afro-American kids can run very well. That doesn't mean that Caucasian kids and other descents can't run, but it's very obvious to me that they run extremely well."

First off, an Afro is a hair style. Second, if you hear him talk, a very folksy manner with a southern accent, and consider his age, 67, you understand exactly his background and what he means. What he really wanted to say was: "We gotta get us some of them ni**ers, so's we can be fast too".

You'd think by now, any coach, commentator, whatever, would never, ever broach the subject of race and athleticism and expect to keep his job.

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