And we should root for the U.S. team because … ?

Gintas writes (August 3):

Lithuania plays the USA tomorrow in basketball. For whom do I root? Helpful pictures attached.

LA replies:

Well, my maternal grandmother’s family came from Vilna. Maybe I should root for Lithuania?

Gintas replies:

(Imagine speaking with a thick Eastern European accent) To be Lithuanian you have to be a little crazy I think. So I root for Lithuania. (end accent)

I won’t watch, because they’ll probably be crushed, and the USA players will strut and swagger and make faces.

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Stephen T. writes:

When Mexicans living in this country booed in unison and made obscene gestures during our national anthem as the U.S. soccer team played Mexico in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena (while also cheering wildly for the Mexican team,) the L.A. Times declared this to be—no, not unassimilated ethnocentrism or anything like that—but, rather, a stirring display of the rich tapestry of Mexican pride and a cheerful example of the vibrant, wondrous culture soon to dominate the mute, impotent Anglos.

So, surely the Times would be equally approving of any person of European ancestry who cheers for the white Lithuanians instead of the mostly black American team.

Wouldn’t they?

August 5

A reader writes:

I don’t understand why your commenter has an issue with the Olympic basketball team, though I assume he’s simply associating all blacks with criminality (with Kobe especially that’s absolutely silly.) Your blog likes to talk about black-white IQ differences, and there are obviously differences in specific types of athleticism as well, so unless you want reverse affirmative action I don’t know what the complaint is.

LA replies:

You’ve misunderstood the entry, which, based on your previous comments which I’ve declined to post because of their insulting and ad hominem character, does not surprise me. The commenter’s point was not to associate all blacks with criminality (though many black athletes today are indeed criminal thugs and should not be in college, professional, or Olympic sports), nor to suggest that the best basketball players, regardless of race, should not be on the U.S. Olympic team (though having professional athletes compete at the Olympics, as has been the case for some time now, has radically degraded the meaning of the Olympics). His point, I believe, was that U.S. blacks increasingly have nothing in common with white Americans, and that to a very great extent they are, in fact, an alien, hostile, and destructive presence in our midst. Therefore whites’ extravagant identification with black athletes (spurred on by the media’s wall-to-wall orchestrated worship of blacks) is irrational and self-damaging behavior, and whites should re-think this behavior.

Ben M. writes:

You wrote:

His point, I believe, was that U.S. blacks increasingly have nothing in common with white Americans, and that to a very great extent they are, in fact, an alien, hostile, and destructive presence in our midst. Therefore whites’ extravagant identification with black athletes (spurred on by the media’s wall-to-wall orchestrated worship of blacks) is irrational and self-damaging behavior, and whites should re-think this behavior.

With this in mind, I refuse to watch any black dominated sports such as the NBA. I’m not interested in their athletic achievements. Nor am I blind to the fact that the great majority of collegiate black athletes do not belong on college sports teams and do not merit athletic scholarships that depend on a minimum of scholastic achievement. The NCAA is a fraud.

In a reborn American society, high school, college. and professional sports would not involve hoodlums. There used to be a certain integrity, graciousness, and professionalism to an athlete. Not anymore. Who really cares to cheer for a team of thugs?

August 9

Paul Henri writes:

I don’t know what else we can do than root for our teams. Blacks are not alone in devolving our society. We can’t start advocating that people stop respecting or rooting for chess clubs because they are dominated by Jews who, by a large majority, vote for the destruction of whites and America right along with their black allies. Both groups (along with a huge number of whites and modern Germans I must add) act as though they were immune to the impending chaos.

Team attitude is traditional. My favorite college football team is almost all black, yet I feel about it intensely. My football team represents my state, my (as defined by Steve Sailer) extended family, just as the NBA players represent the USA. Team and family are related ideas, and you root for your family, good or bad. (There are limits to badness, of course, based on Christianity.) Attorneys are on many teams. Once they are on a team, they fight like heck for the team even though there are no personal feelings about the team before or after the team exists.

LA writes:

If one’s team no longer represents something good, if it’s a team of thugs, does one still care about them and identify with them?

I used to identify with various sports teams, and race was not a factor. The blacks were my guys as much as the whites. But as black athletes became increasingly disgusting and thuggish, that was a major factor in my losing interest in sports.

And in addition to the thug aspect, there is the fact that blacks corporately (not individually) represent a hostile and adversial presence in America. They are certainly not for us. Why should we be for them?

But in a sense I’m not qualified to participate in this discussion about whether we should root for our Olympic teams, since the Olympics as such offend me, it is has become the religious cult of the New World Order, and I have no more interest in the U.S. athletes than any others. See Marion Horvat’s article at Tradition in Action (discussed here) criticizing the pope for blessing the Olympics.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at August 04, 2012 10:45 AM | Send