Bryan Clay won the Decathlon yesterday. The people of Hawaii are ecstatic! He is half African American, half Japanese American. It's interesting that we think of him as local, not just black. On the other hand, people automatically think of Barack Obama as black. I remember thinking from high school that everybody should intermarry and we could all be brown so there wouldn't be any prejudice. Then I learned about the difficulties of Jewish people and realized that prejudice would always be there, if not the color of your skin, then your religion, if not that...maybe the way you wear your hat...
This reminds me of something silly. I remember a friend telling me in Illinois that I had olive colored skin. Well... I was insulted. I happened to love green olives so I assumed she meant my skin had a green tint. It was bad enough that people thought I had yellow skin because I was Asian but now.... green?!?! Well, now I know she meant I had tanned skin... and that is true.
Good gracious! I'm getting away from what I really wanted to write about and that is the lack of coverage of the Decathlon. They had virtual minute by minute coverage of the prelims for platform diving and only showed a short segment of Bryan Clay coming in last on the 1500 meter run and still coming in way ahead in points for the Gold Medal. Why couldn't we see how great he did in the 100 meters, the long jump, the discus, etc.? There are so many events but the coverage seems to focus mostly in gymnastics and swimming/diving. OK... OK.... I know... I know... we should get cable...
Ah well...
I'm going to stop griping now and enjoy my Saturday! Have a happy day, everybody!
