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Post by ned on Dec 8, 2012 4:16:37 GMT -5
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Post by e0 on Dec 8, 2012 11:32:02 GMT -5
I generally agree with the piece actually. That said, the best lax player in the world when I was at Hopkins was black, his father started the first black lax team, the father and his father were...... Doctor's. The dual sport lax star/WR we landed came to us as a Freshman with huge lax hype when I was a senior because his rich family sent him to.... The Gillman School (a top prep school in the country).
Lax's racial issues ARE the same as tennis, hockey, etc. It's a game essentially played by one class of people that is also extremely expensive to play. The hateful reactions that Chazz write's about re: the backlash to the backlash against #Ninjaplease are very similar to the hateful reactions I saw from rich fucks on Hopkins Lax team whose parents never disciplined them, went to top schools all their lives and were star "athletes" had when a freshman football player refused to let the Senior Fuck cut him in line at the Royal Farms and the Senior and his brothers/friends beat the fuck out of him for not bowing to their social superiority. Later that night when the cops found the kid that led the charge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Peyser) he was screaming at Baltimore PD "Do you know how I am!!"
When sports become fraternal they become protective of that fraternity, fuck, take some cookie cutter white boy and drop him in an inner-city playground. The only difference with Lax is that a good chunk (and not all, trust me) of that fraternity are fucks that have had everything handed to them forever and want nothing more than to keep their fraternity as it is.
That all said, the race issue exists as a biproduct of the social/class/fraternity problem in lax. Which Chazz, to his credit, sort of hits on.
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Post by e0 on Feb 1, 2013 19:46:15 GMT -5
There are serious rumors of Hopkins joining the B1G as a lax only school.
If this happens my head will explode.
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