What, no Thomas Sowell?

Definitely. And Walter Williams. Black libertarians are a special breed.

You can get a special breed of argument because they're not afraid of being called racist.

I've used articles from both for critiques in school

This post was edited by Skinned on Apr 3 2014 08:50am

Yeah, the hood emphasizes tennis so much. You right.

Because there are so many tennis courts in the hood. And racquets are so cheap. There are no barriers there.

Tiger Woods got to play golf because his father was in the military and had access to a golf course. Otherwise for most of the past century blacks didn't have access to things like that.

Tennis and golf are categorically different than basketball, football, or baseball, cheap games you can play with just a ball and people. Add a broomstick if you want. Accessible.

It is cool your role model was a black tennis player. But you have more in common with him than anybody from the hood. James Blake never impressed me much. I mean why bother when a force of nature like Nadal exists?

This post was edited by Skinned on Apr 3 2014 09:29am

I like Blake more than Nadal because he had to overcome much more adversity in his career/life. He had severe scoliosis as a kid and early on his career he broke his neck in a tennis accident.

...how does someone do that...did he trip while jumping over the net ?

He slipped on a clay court near the net and hit the pole. It was just at a practice session so there's no footage of it.

Nadal kicks ass on clay.

And gets wrecked on grass. How he won Wimbledon in 2010 against Berdych I'll never know.