Submitted by B Jones, Mar 24, 2007 22:18

...race concerns where they don't belong. It's an ugly tendency no matter who does it. It comes down to how the sports' organizers approach the problem. Systematic tolerance for drug abuse starts at the organizational level. It's the NFL league offices' fault that drugs are commonplace in its ranks. The drug issue is not about threatening black men. It's about fairness. And it's got to start somewhere. Instead of leveling charges at Baseball and its fans, we should be praising it for taking the first baby steps at cleaning up competition and protecting sportsmanship. Professional cycling is the anti-doping forerunner among sports. Big problem; huge penalties for violations; constant debate over efforts to improve testing accuracy. If you'll take your head out of the "America's Racist Past & Present" paradigm, you can look to international sports and see that it's not about the color or the athletes' backgrounds. The only culture that's being condemned by anti-doping efforts in the drug culture. If you want to claim that culture as belonging to one race, you're using it as a rhetorical bat.

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