Why oh why did Independant newspapers have to make a big splash about Ashwell Prince being the 1st "Black Captain" of the SA Cricket side? Surely we are past the fact that we might, shock horror, have a black person in charge of a national side?
Does the fact have anything to do with anything that he might do on the field? Will the South African side play better or worse because he is a black man? Is his blackness the reason for his captaincy? Of course not, yet IOL feel it right to headline the fact the SA Cricket has it's 1st BLACK CAPTAIN!!!
What will happen when Cilliboy becomes the rugby captian, as he will when John Smith can't do it any longer? Will the world end? Will white people stop supporting the game? NEVER! Will more black people support the game? I doubt it.
Sensationalism when it comes to race in sport isn't needed any longer. So a big BOO to IOL for making sensationlist headlines out of nothing....
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