35 thoughts on “MLS Black History Month Roundtable”

  4. @Tatkovi-px7mx

    Are yiu seriouse???? First of all its not fucking soccer its football second football is invented and dominated and loved and everything by white people what is this crap why dont they invite white people to talk about the nba

  11. @chachi1843

    This issue isn't only in American soccer, racism in soccer extends to the world governing body FIFA. Africa has 54 countries, and there are only 5 spots for the continent in the World Cup. Europe has 50 countries, and they have 13 spots at the world. They say Africa will get more spots when they improve at the World Cup, well who has better chances of reaching the finals, one with 13 or one with 5? it's not rocket science. Some say well Latin Ameria has about the same number of spots, why are they more successful? Well it's no secrete that Latin America is just an extension of Europe, FIFA has traditionally allocate more resources to Latin America than Africa, they are way more advanced than Africa. Lately Africa has been receiving more attention from FIFA, that's because Africa has decided to make its vote count. See Africa has the highest number of votes, an asset they've decided to put into effect, and results are beginning to show. I wouldn't be surprised if FIFA changed the voting rules in the future to take away the power of the African vote.

  12. @mnew

    I wonder if the league would consider doing something similar for supporter groups. Having that conversation, but taking it to the stands.

  15. @100mattsimpson

    Really good program with very thoughtful dialogue. Great example of MLS being solutions oriented instead of tiptoeing around a topic that so many in the soccer/football community are afraid to address. Another reason I'm a big fan of the league. Like Jozy said, It's just a first step but an important one! #inspired

  16. @kimberlydean3805

    This was a great roundtable conversation because it addressed the issues of African Americans being treated as an anomaly and being expected to assimilate and deny our "Blackness." Whites love our talent but we as a whole are not a vested commodity in our society unless we are entertaining as sports icons or celebrities but inner cities are thought of as urban jungles. We are such a wonderfully gifted people.

  25. @adnanilyas6368

    This is an absurdly good video. This is exactly the kind of conversations I want to see more of – thoughtful discussion about how soccer in the US is built and how it relates to big question both in and around the sport for people who really have stakes in the issues. Great content, I look forward to see more like this.

  30. @1969JohnnyM

    People need to learn the history of the sport, a lot of American people would be surprised to learn just how big the sport was in America and it was only events like the Great Depression, too many rival leagues and stubborn team owners who wouldn't work together and the fact that so many teams originated from the ethnic immigrants who made up of the area they played in so there were many Irish, German, Hungarian, Scottish and Italian American and so on teams which didn't integrate fast enough to be just American teams representing every ethnicity in the area they played in. American's aren't the only people who need educating but also the snobs who look down on the usage of the word soccer as its actually an English word from the 1880's and was used widely in the world but its popularity died out in the old world but stayed alive in the new world. People need to learn the history of Association Football aka Football aka Soccer.

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