"Try not to laugh when someone says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Games look like a GOP convention.".

"Try not to laugh when someone says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Games look like a GOP convention." Thus spake TV commentator Bryant Gumbel, holding forth on the Winter Olympics. If Gumbel were white, and had made a parallel comment about the predominance of blacks in some sport or other ("looks like an NAACP convention"), he would have been hounded out of his job by a screeching mob of PC enforcers, as Rush Limbaugh, Al Campanis, John Rocker, and others could tell him from experience. And the more common complaint about GOP conventions heard from the likes of Gumbel is that there are too many black faces being "showcased." And, at any rate, not long after Gumbel's silly remarks, black speed-skater Shani Davis won the gold medal in the men's 1,000-meter event. Thank goodness.