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No Black hockey players?


I watched this and noticed there were no black hockey players in the movie. I can't understand why the director would chose to do this, other than the filmmakers being racIst.


And ps, this is a troll. Almost every message board has one of these post, and this one doesn't have one yet, lol. Loved this movie and think it's one of the best sports movies out there.

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lol. while i was reading this, i said to myself wtfff he has to be trolling or he just has no idea. good one though.

And I'm sharing in the Weekapaug Groove

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Thanks! I thought about adding more to make it even more over the top, but decided to keep it simple. I'm thinking now, what other movies like Miracle could I post something like that and have people go "WTF?" at first when they read it. Footloose (the original) has several of these type of messages, so it's what inspired me, I must say. I did almost post "no black androids?" In the Aliens board as well, but haven't yet.

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I noticed there weren't any Siamese-twin players either.

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From the YouTube comment section from the 1981 made for TV version of the Miracle on Ice with Karl Malden as Herb Brooks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vB-IhLtLi0&lc=Ugw067woarm9jwg-3OV4AaABAg.8hm0otuHD248lwWGH73t_M

Point of fact in reference to your diatribe; at 41:00-05, on screen, just past the nose of the actor portraying Craig Patrick, as he's typing, you can see a young Black man's photograph on the coach's board of prospects wearing a red t-shirt. This photo of an Black actor was NOT a fictional character put in the screenplay to appease concerns about quotas, "discrimination" or that of a Caucasian actor in blackface. It was accurate in presentation because there was at least one (that I know of) Black player, BeBe Walker of NorCal amateur hockey, that was invited to the Colorado springs tryouts, and he was one of the last cuts. He was one of my coaches in the adult rec league in the late 80's

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The OP is an asshole.

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Funny.

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