Atlanta Hawks owner thinks his team has too many black cheerleaders. This is them.
Let's start with
this. Seriously, click on that link.
Then let's go to this, from Atlanta Hawks owner email arguing that the team—IN ATLANTA—should work to get less black people attending:
when digging into why our season ticket base is so small, i was told it is because we can’t get 35-55 white males and corporations to buy season tixs and they are the primary demo for season tickets around the league. when i pushed further, folks generally shrugged their shoulders. then i start looking around our arena during games and notice the following:
– it’s 70 pct black
– the cheerleaders are black
– the music is hip hop
– at the bars it’s 90 pct black
– there are few fathers and sons at the games
– we are doing after game concerts to attract more fans and the concerts are either hip hop or gospel.
Then i start looking around at other arenas. It is completely different. Even DC with its affluent black community never has more than 15 pct black audience.
Too many black people at NBA games is bad, even in a city like Atlanta that is only
36 percent white. Just like
too many black people at the polls.
The Georgia state senator who ranted about excessive black voting and vowed to fight a move to expand early voting in DeKalb County defended his remarks on Facebook, saying that he would rather have more educated voters than an increase in the total number of voters.
Only white people are educated. Black people are ... African, as Atlanta Hawks general manager noted about NBA player Luol Deng:
He’s a good guy overall. But he’s not perfect. He’s got some African in him. And I don’t say that in a bad way.
He's African. And that's not bad! Except it makes him not perfect.