More “Hurtful” Hockey
November 28, 2019
Akim Aliu
KIDIST PALOUS ASRAT writes:
You might be hearing about the Calgary Flames head coach’s firing due to anecdotal accusations of “racism.”
Apparently, a “Nigerian Ukrainian” hockey player with a Nigerian Muslim name, Akim Aliu, was yelled at by the coach for listening to hip-hop music in the locker rooms — ten years ago!
Hockey is a fast and furious game. Even the players cannot contain their aggression, and fights on the ice have to be broken up by referees regularly. Coaches have to be equally fierce to reign in their players, on and off ice.
You can see the quote here as recalled by Aliu. Admittedly it was crude, but isn’t that common in locker rooms? The coach, Bill Peters, yelled at the player, but he never called him, Aliu, the “N” word, but rather referred to the music Aliu was listening to with that term (which is used by blacks also sometimes). It must be disconcerting to these majority white players and coaches to hear this unexpected black culture in their midst.
Peters apologized, immediately returning to the locker room area after his rant.
Now, ten years later, he has had to quit (or was fired) and has been replaced by a younger – white – man, assistant coach Geoff Ward. I think this has pretty much ruined Peters’ career, as well as softened him up so that he can no longer act the way he normally does to run any team.
Aliu was a reasonably good hockey player, but not a star. Here is a link to his “performance.” The last team he played for was the Orlando Solar Bears, in the East Coast Hockey League, not the prestigious National Hockey League. He shuffles around from team to team. In the 2018-19 season, he scored four goals.
Some people are asking, “Why now, ten years later?”, but of course the answer is that “racist” Don Cherry set that whole “racist hockey” train going!
This multiculturalism is really bubbling up. Even hockey, that last bastion of white sports, whose majority of fans are white, as are the players (I would say 90%), is under multi-culti attack.
