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"Try not to laugh when someone says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Games look like a GOP convention.".(The Week)(Bryant Gumbel)(Brief article)

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"Try not to laugh when someone says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Games look like a GOP convention." Thus spake TV commentator Bryant Gumbel, holding forth on the Winter Olympics. If Gumbel were white, and had made a parallel comment about the predominance of blacks in some sport or other ("looks like an NAACP convention"), he would have been hounded out of his job by a screeching mob of ...

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