I was watching one of the sports news shows the other day and I saw a story about Fisher DeBerry. Fisher DeBerry is the Head Football coach for the United States Air Force Academy, and he made some comments early in the week that were deemed “insensitive†to black athletes. The comments that he made basically said that black athletes are faster than white athletes and that the Academy needed to “recruit speed.â€
I recall Howard Cosell making similar comments shortly before he died and the backlash cost him his job. Ironically, after the storm subsided, anthropologists came out and said that he was correct. In my opinion, Mr. DeBerry is also correct, yet he has been forced to apologize.
What does this say about our society? Honestly, people, when we have to apologize for being right, we have taken things too far. I recall a famous person saying that “You can’t please all of the people all of the time.†Being correct, whether people like it or not, is the trump card. Sorry to all of you supporters of brainwashing, errrr, I mean political correctness, but if I am telling the truth and you don’t like it, I’m not going to change what I say to make you like it, it will remain the truth.
Have we, the people of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect Union, started worrying more about political correctness than about correctness? Honestly, the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth should be more important than any individual or group’s feelings.
PAH, I’ll leave it there before I become completely incoherent in my anger.
