...let's face it, white kids are subliminally given the message that they have almost as little chance of becoming the MVP of the NBA as a black kid has of becoming president.

When it comes to basketball, Caucasian kids are subject to the same kinds of lowered expectations that plague too many African-American children in other areas.

A survey a few years ago by the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University discovered that nearly 70 percent of African-American kids believed they someday would play in the NBA, a proportion almost double that of Caucasian kids.

That's largely because white kids get the message early on that they are inferior players, that, generally speaking, they'll eventually fall behind their black counterparts.

It's not unlike African-American children, especially the ones from the inner city, who get direct and indirect hints that they're not expected to be able to keep up academically with Caucasian children. Tell a kid, any kid, something often enough, and eventually he will begin to believe it.

But the white Europeans coming into the NBA haven't had stereotypes thrown in their faces from the time they were learning to dribble.
Stojakovic didn't grow up being picked last in pickup games because the other players assumed his skin color meant he was probably a stiff.

No one told Nowitzki that 7-foot white players aren't supposed to be nasty enough to slash down the lane and "posterize" people with vicious dunks.

Kukoc never heard that because he's Caucasian, he couldn't have the flair and creativity to deliver passes from behind his back and between his legs.

There is no law that says the NBA has to be dominated by African-American players. If the racial makeup of the league changes significantly, maybe a few of those black kids who were dreaming of wearing an NBA uniform someday will be more likely to recognize the folly of banking on a one-in-10-million shot. Once that happens, they might discover that there are other dreams that are just as worth having.

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A survey a few years ago by the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University discovered that nearly 70 percent of African-American kids believed they someday would play in the NBA, a proportion almost double that of Caucasian kids.

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80% of your typical rent to own customer base is black, as is most of your chicken purchaser base (Col Sanders became KFC for a reason) as is most of your daytime audience who dosen't have kids. And then there is your best spenders on clothes they can't aford and will wear 10 times at max.
Thus, most of the crap you see on TV for all of the above.

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I WON'T see "Men in Black-2". In an interview with Barbara Walters, Will Smith denounces whites and accuses them of engineering the aids virus to wipe-out his people. Good black people should come forth and denounce such remarks, but are strangely silent!Hmmm....