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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Raines and the Race Card
Yes, Keith Law goes there:
Many academics, including Princeton professor Cornel West, have written about the way that the American media treats white drug users differently from African-American drug users; perhaps this inequity has seeped into its treatment of baseball players with distant histories of drug use as well, because any gap between Raines’ and Molitor’s on-field performances could not begin to justify the gap in their Hall of Fame vote totals. This is not to say that any individual voter is racist, but that pervasive societal stereotypes may be hurting Raines’ Hall chances.
Hopefully, the intelligent writers can make the distinction between racist and racial-bias.
Jay Jaffe and I also went there last year.