Current Racial Issue

Basketball - Chinese
Football - Malay
Cricket - Indian

I'm actually really cool about racism in sports because it builds character but after today, it just really ticked me off.


Why is race such a big thing?
Why is it just because the guy in your team has a darker skin colour you cant pass to him?
Why must you speak a different language than that one person who doesn't understand it?
Why?


Okay we play racist basketball in the park but it's among friends and its like okay because we don't mean harm. We don't mean what we say and it aint harsh.


I got called today for Taylors basketball team selection. I was really excited, so much so that I ended up not eating lunch.


I went to the court and well this was the situation;

30 people
25 are chinese
4 are africans
1 is me

The coach felt ALL of us understood mandarin and spoke in mandarin the WHOLE time. Only when he wanted something done he'd talk to us in English. Don't we deserve to understand what you say too?

To me it gave the impression that he already made his pick for the team and it was all Chinese.


Later during game, the only time i touched the ball was on rebound, they felt I wasn't worth the pass even though I was wide open. I fought for the ball with what I thought was the opponent and found out my own teammate was trying to take it from me. That is ridiculous.

I mean if you really dont want me to play then just say so. Don't treat me like an animal.


I just feel the way I was treated was unfair, the african guys got the ball everytime they asked for it. My shouts went to deaf ears.


So much for playing for college huh?


If I offended anyone with this racial post I'm truly sorry but I'm pretty upset with what happened