"The history of West Indies cricket does, though, have a backdrop of racism..."

George Headley was not considered suitable for captaincy because he was black. Jack Grant was made captain of a team that included George, and turned to him for advice. Jack conceded that he knew it was because he was white that he was made captain.

Worrell himself was shocked by the aloof and unsociable behaviour of the touring M.C.C. team in 1954, writing that, "Never once, however, did the members of the M.C.C. party show that they wanted our hospitality, and their attitude distressed us beyond words

That man, Viv Richards would write about how it made the team grimly determined to beat England in 1976 after Tony Greig said he would make them grovel. It had come just after the tour of Australia, where they had been surprised by the hostility of the verbal abuse. The "friendly rivalry" that was revealed in shouts of "You f**k off, you black bastard!" left the team stunned, wrote Richards.

When South Africa toured in 2001, Ntini had already so warmed the hearts of West Indians that spectators pleaded with him as he attacked the West Indies’ batting. “Ntini, don’t forget you’re one ah we,” an Indian man had called out, begging him to show mercy at Queen’s Park Oval.

Booms always has an agenda up his sleeve...

George Headley was not considered suitable for captaincy because he was black.

Boomer we have indeed come a far way since then, so much so that now you are not considered suitable for the WI team if you're white

Wasn't Viv the one that said West Indies is a Black team? Why was he stunned?

Wasn't Viv the one that said West Indies is a Black team? Why was he stunned?

1. Humans have approximately 30,000 genes. On average, how many genes separate all members of one race from all members of another race?

A. None
B. 1
C. 23
D. 142
E. 1008
F. We don't know

ANSWER
1. A. None

There are no characteristics, no traits, not even one gene that distinguish all members of one so-called race from all members of another race.

4. Members of a race can be identified by their:

A. Blood group
B. Skin color
C. Ancestry
D. Genes
E. None of the above
F. All of the above

ANSWER:
4. E. None of the above

There are no traits, no characteristics, not even one gene that is present in all members of one so-called race and absent in another. The A, B, and O blood groups can be found in all the world's peoples (the percentage of Estonians and Papua New Guineans with A, B, and O blood are almost exactly identical). Skin color tends to correlate with the earth's geographic latitude not race; sub-Saharan Africans, the Dravidians and Tamils of southern Asia, and Melanesians from the Pacific all have very dark skin. Ancestry is difficult to trace; we all have two parents, four grandparents, etc. If you could trace your family back 30 generations, slightly more than 1,000 years, you'd find one billion ancestors.

Wasn't Viv the one that said West Indies is a Black team? Why was he stunned?

I'm not sure but I was once told that when doing blood transfusions, there is an incompatibility between the blood from a black person and the blood from a white person.

By the way, when Ntini's South Africa team toured the West Indies in 2005---many WI fans rooted for Ntini South Africa team against Shiv Chanderpaul's West Indies team.

WHO VEX, VEX--IT'S THE TRUTH!!

Boomer

I do not recall this happening. Does anyone else here?