Angels baseball player Torii Hunter was recently quoted as saying that Black Latinos are imposters…
“”People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they’re African American. They’re not us. They’re impostors,” he told Bob Nightengale. He added, “As African-American players, we have a theory that baseball can go get an imitator and pass them off as us…. It’s like, ‘Why should I get this kid from the South Side of Chicago and have Scott Boras represent him and pay him $5 million when you can get a Dominican guy for a bag of chips?’” Full USA Today Article
Torii,
I believe what you are trying to say is that you are upset that Major League Baseball spends more money and recourses on developing baseball talent in the Dominican as opposed to Inner City, U.S.A. Furthermore, I believe you are trying to say that their motives in doing so are based on the idea that if they can recruit talented players out of the Dominican, they will be able to pay them less then black players, thus saving them a buck, and that this phenomenon is evidenced by the lack of Black Americans in baseball.
I feel your pain Torii….for years my associates and I here at imgross.org have had the dream of becoming rappers. Sadly, we are mostly comprised of white suburban kids and there is just a total lack of white suburban kids in rap music. I have also been lobbying the major rap record companies to spend more time and recourses developing the white rap talent in suburban high schools, but they simply refuse to do it…I Say this is total horseshit Torii! I mean as business owners, the CEO’s of those companies are under a social obligation to give every race the opportunity to become famous rich White rappers right? They should spend millions on me and my associates; it’s just not fair that they only look for and develop talent in densely populated, urban, African American communities. It’s not fair and doing so makes them racist. I believe that an influential man such as yourself is in a unique position to help me and future white generations reach our dreams. So Torii, I’m asking you to please help us reach out to the record labels and right this wrong.
Thank You for Your Time,
Senator Robert Byrd
love it.
Brilliant
awesome awesome analogy….what i would give for this to somehow get back to torri hunter.
its like this is the first time he has heard of people of any creed or race being upset at jobs getting outsourced on the cheap and he only knows about it because it involves him and his money. get a clue, half-wit.