“One Man’s Opinion” by Gordon Curvey

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As many of you know I have a well known music program called “Music Inner City Television” but my real passion is sports. I have a huge passion for sports. I love playing it growing up and watching it now.

In my opinion African Americans have basically dominated football and basketball in the last few decades. The top stars in the NBA and NFL happen to be African American. All you have to do is check on TV and see who is doing national marketing of products. KD, Westbrook, CP3, Shaq, Barkley, Blake Griffin, Russell Wilson, Richard Sherman, Curry and many more.

But off the field on sports radio African Americans are basically a no show behind the microphone. Here in Seattle for a long time sports radio KJR had a all white on air staff and for years I made my voice heard that it was very unfair to have a all white on air staff blasting African Americans at will at a drop of a hat. Very unfair.

Because of my speaking out, African American sports writer Jerry Brewer was hired to be a on-air jock. He did a good job on the air. I will admit we disagreed on a few issues but of course that will happen. Brewer is a very nice dude and sorry to say he is leaving Seattle for a gig with the Washington Post in D.C. Jerry main job is a sports writer and he was the main sports editorial writer for the Seattle Times. I wish Jerry the best on his new position. He is lucky because he will get to cover a NBA in the Wizards.

On KJR, longtime morning host Mitch Levy got on his high horse the other day and started to put on blast two African Americans in the sports world. ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith and Seattle Seahawks Doug Baldwin. A day after having Baldwin on his radio show, for some unknown reason THE NEXT MORNING Mitch decided to bring up the topic “We are tired of Angry Doug Baldwin’s act”. And when a producer or someone asked Mitch how he feels about Stephen A. Smith.

Levy told the person ” When ever I see Smith I grab the remote. Or I run away from he TV” The question is WHY does Mitch run from the TV when Smith is on? Is it because Smith is a highly intelligent black man who has a national audience to give his views on what is happening in the sports world?

I do not agree with Smith from time to time. That is for sure. But knowing how few black men have a national audience to speak about sports, I am very happy to see him as well as the brotha and sista on ESPN with the program “His & Her’s” and Wilborn. So I think it was very very unfair for Levy to run his mouth with his negative comments about Doug Baldwin and Stephen A. on a radio station with zero African Americans on the air on a regular basis with their own program.