The Cantball comment on black coaches:

"I'm waiting for the day when we have our first black Dave Wannstedt"


How we judge failure is always the better barometer for how
tolerant we are.

We'll have truly broken down the barrier when he's allowed to succeed
and fail and we don't link it to his Asian-ness.

Nobody asks how Sebastian Telfair's race influenced his mediocrity.
We have basketball explanations for why Telfair is mediocre.

It should be the same with Lin. When we can COMFORTABLY judge him
on his ABILITY rather than his ethnicity, we'll have progressed.

The thing that Lin did accomplish is in challenging our assumptions: he definitely
expanded our notion of what we think an NBA point guard looks like.

The weird thing is this: as an African-American, Lin makes me proud, because
he is a lesson to little BLACK KIDS: You can have a 3.2 in Econ and Harvard and
still make the league. He's better than MILLIONS of black kids who hoop and
didn't study a day in college (or go to college at all).

^The missing, inspiring lesson in the Lin story.





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