Argentina is not black enough for the Washington Post
Zachary Faria
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If you thought the toxic racial obsession in establishment media wouldn’t make its way into the World Cup the way it did in coverage of the World Series, you would be wrong.
The Washington Post is demanding to know “Why doesn’t Argentina have more Black players in the World Cup?” The piece, written by Erika Denise Edwards, answered its own question, initially claiming that just 1% of the Argentine population was black. More specifically, the country has just under 150,000 black residents in a population of nearly 45.8 million. With only 26 people on a World Cup roster, it isn’t exactly clear what Edwards or the Post expected to see when Argentina took the field.
But it gets even better. As you may guess, 150,000 people out of 45.8 million isn’t 1% of the population. It is more like 0.3% of the population. So, not only were Edwards and the Post complaining that a country with a 1% black population didn’t have a black player on a 26-man team, they were doing so while getting the percentage wrong.
While most of the piece is focused on the history of racial policies and immigration in Argentina, Edwards keeps desperately looking for an angle to complain about Argentina’s World Cup roster. In true journalistic passive voice fashion, she remarks that, “as fans keep up with Argentina’s success in this year’s World Cup, a familiar question arises: why doesn’t Argentina’s team have more Black players?” No one is raising this question. Or at least, no normal people are raising it, because normal people don’t obsess over the race of sports rosters.
Edwards does. After detailing histories of interracial marriage and black Argentine women trying to pass as white for extra benefits, she writes that “while Argentina’s soccer team may not include people of African descent, or perhaps people that most would view as Black, it is not a ‘White’ team either.”
That’s neat, I guess, but who asked in the first place?
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Other than the Washington Post, no one actually cares that Argentina’s players have lighter skin than the Washington Post wishes they did. Likewise, no one cared what NBC or the Associated Press thought about the skin color of World Series rosters. Believe it or not, most people who watch sports find things to care about other than melanin. Then again, most people aren’t establishment journalists.