“I know all about Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, but today’s baseball stars are all guys named Rodriguez to me,” Mr. Rooney wrote in the second paragraph of the column, which appeared in The Stamford Times of Stamford, Conn. “They’re apparently very good but they haven’t caught my interest.”
I don’t see anything wrong in what Rooney wrote. There’s no shame in being more interested in people of your ethnic group. White people rarely watch black TV dramas and comedies. There’s no shame in that. Aside from a handful of stars such as Denzel Washington, films with black leads don’t attrack much of a non-black audience. There’s no shame in blacks preferring to see films with black leads and whites preferring to see films with white leads.
