CNN basketball article stirs up race row by labelling All-Star game as 'Black Thanksgiving'

We read:

"CNN has been dragged into a race row after an article on its website referred to a major basketball game as ‘Black Thanksgiving’. A piece by analyst David Aldridge about the NBA All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles has infuriated readers by billing it as a ‘national holiday’ for African Americans.

Users flooded the CNN message boards to slam the well-known commentator's article as 'utterly ridiculous' and either 'incredibly stupid or incredibly offensive'.

'I've just grown really tired of it being cool to celebrate black dominance, and completely taboo to have anything majority white,' said one reader.

Mr Aldridge, 46, quotes ESPN sports writer Mike Wilbon's ‘Black Thanksgiving’ label, saying NBA players are ‘royalty in Black America and everyone wants to be near them’. ‘The old saying is that ballers want to be rappers, and rappers want to be ballers. That's really, really true,’ he wrote.

‘Basketball is a culture. It isn't for everyone, though the game is loved by people of all colours. There is a rhythm to it, just as if McCoy Tyner was dribbling a ball instead of playing piano.’

He quotes Todd Boyd, professor at the University of Southern California, who said the NBA All-Star Weekend is a ‘celebration of African American culture’.

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I don't understand this controversy very well but I gather that the "offense" is in seeing blacks as having a world of their own. But they do to an extent so this would seem to be just another example of reality-denial.