What Atlanta Hawks Owner Shows About Race
.. “My theory is that the black crowd scared away the whites and there are simply not enough affluent black fans to build a significant season ticket base,” Levenson wrote to explain the imperative for new initiatives (among them, less hip-hop during intermissions and “some white cheerleaders”).
.. i never felt uncomfortable, but i think southern whites simply were not comfortable being in an arena or at a bar where they were in the minority. On fan sites i would read comments about how dangerous it is around phillips yet in our 9 years, i don’t know of a mugging or even a pick pocket incident. This was just racist garbage. When i hear some people saying the arena is in the wrong place I think it is code for there are too many blacks at the games.
.. The exigencies of profit contribute, perhaps in large part, to Levenson’s use of offensive language—language that regarded people, both players and fans alike, as instruments for delivering revenue.