Monday 22 June 2015

Let's give Dhoni respect and time.Ganguly to Bedi, former skippers oppose Dhoni stepping down as captain: Sourav Ganguly


Let's give Dhoni respect and time.Ganguly to Bedi, former skippers oppose Dhoni stepping down as captain: Sourav Ganguly

| Jun 23, 2015


NEW DELHI: Former captain Sourav Ganguly on Monday demanded respect for beleaguered Mahendra Singh Dhoni, saying he has astonishing one-day records as skipper and needs to be given all the time in the world to take a decision.

Following India's defeat in the second ODI against Bangladesh, in an unusual show of emotions, Dhoni Sunday night said he can step away from captaincy if it brings back good days to Indian cricket.

Ganguly said one must not take it seriously since Dhoni's words were result of frustration.

"He has said it in the heat of the moment and it's not right. He was upset after the defeat. Leave it there. Everybody has to sit together and think. Don't put MS Dhoni down, he has a terrific record in one-dayers. Give respect to him," Ganguly told a TV Channel.

When asked if he thinks Dhoni should continue as captain at least till 2016 World Twenty20, Ganguly said, "It's not an individual decision. Let's cool down, let the series be finished. Such a decision can't be taken overnight.

"Whoever has to take a decision, has to take long-term aspect in mind. There is BCCI president, secretary general and office bearers. He should be given all the time in the world. Whether he wants to continue and has the power to lift the side..."

When reminded that he was part of the BCCI Advisory Committee and can make a suggestion on the matter to the Board, Ganguly said, "I am not sure if it is part of the Advisory Committee."

Ganguly did not make a big issue out of the fatigue factor, saying all the teams have jam-packed schedule and one has to find a way to succeed despite the crammed FTP.
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Racism 'Part of Our DNA,' Says Obama, Citing Slavery Legacy. Obama Invokes Slur to Make Point on Race

Racism 'Part of Our DNA,' Says Obama, Citing Slavery Legacy.

Obama Invokes Slur to Make Point on Race

June 23, 2015
Obama Invokes Slur to Make Point on Race
File Photo of US President Barack Obama

Washington:  It was a single word, just six letters long, but one that has not been spoken by an American president in public for generations.

President Barack Obama invoked the word "nigger" in a podcast interview released Monday to drive home his point that slavery still "casts a long shadow" on American life. But in the process, he touched a raw nerve in a country struggling to confront racism and hatred days after nine black parishioners were killed during Bible study in a South Carolina church.

"We're not cured of it," Obama said of racism during an interview for a "WTF with Marc Maron" podcast. "And it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say nigger in public. That's not the measure of whether racism still exists or not."

For part of the hourlong conversation with Maron, the nation's first black president patiently explained that race relations had improved in his lifetime. But in also acknowledging that racism was still deeply embedded in the United States as a "part of our DNA," he turned to a racially-fraught word. His use of it quickly became the focus of daylong commentary online and on cable news.

Marc Morial, the president of the Urban League, condemned the president's use of the term, calling it a "disparaging, hateful" word that should never be uttered, even by artists or poets who say they are seeking to change a word of hate into one of love. Nor should it be used, he insisted, by presidents trying to teach a nation a lesson.

"I got called that name numerous times," Morial said. "It led to fights. It never is appropriate to use it."

Morial praised Obama for his willingness to talk about racism, and he said he did not think the president intended to offend anyone. But he said the word was no better than the Confederate flag or the white hood of the Ku Klux Klan.

"It ought to be retired from the English language," he said. "Put it right next to the flag, in a linguistic museum. It belongs with the flag. It belongs with the hood."

For a nation in mourning over the killings at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, the president's use of the word echoed loudly. And after a year of several high-profile, fatal confrontations between the police and African-Americans, Obama's comment seemed designed almost as an exclamation point on a topic he now turns to frequently.

"I think he's being provocative," said Ishmael Reed, an author and poet who has written extensively on the African-American experience. "He's got a short time to be president, and I think he's letting his hair down. You have to raise the decibels in order to be heard."

Josh Earnest, the president's press secretary, said Obama had planned to use the word when he sat down with Maron, a comedian who records his popular podcast from his garage in Southern California. But Earnest said Obama was not surprised by the reaction to a word that has long been a racial slur, conjuring images of lynchings, oppression, bigotry and discrimination, while becoming unmentionable in most parts of public life.

Earnest called Obama's use of the word "notable," even provocative. But he said the president had used the term to make an argument "that is familiar to those who have been listening."

Obama will have another opportunity to be heard on Friday, when he delivers the eulogy for the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, the pastor at Emanuel AME Church, who was among the nine people killed there.

Obama has been far more open about the issue of race during his second term, in part because of incidents that have forced Americans to confront the depth of anger and frustration among some blacks, especially about their treatment by the police. The president reflected openly about race after protests that followed recent deaths of black men at the hands of the police. In 2012, he said that if he had a son, he might look like Trayvon Martin, the black teenager from Florida who was killed by a member of his community's neighborhood watch group.

Early in his White House tenure, Obama started a mentoring program for young, black men. But he has shown increasing eagerness to discuss the evolution in his own thinking about racial identity and the country's difficult racial struggle.

Morial said such a shift seemed inevitable.

"Every president, towards the end of their term, when they are freed of the straitjacket of having to think every moment of the day about what is required in the election, can think about the country, about their legacy and about the more difficult issues," he said.

The interview with Maron was a wide-ranging conversation about race, including a discussion about how Obama grew up as the son of a black father and a white mother. He talked about being a rebel during his youth and "trying on" different personas as he struggled to understand what kind of African-American man he wanted to be.

"I'm trying on a whole bunch of outfits," Obama said. "Here's how I should act. Here's what it means to be cool. Here's what it means to be a man."

He said that a lot of his anguish when he was young "revolved around race" but that his attitude changed around the time he turned 20. He said he began to understand how to honor both sides of his racial identity.

"I don't have to be one way to be both an African-American and also someone who affirms the white side of my family," Obama said. "I don't have to push back from the love and values that my mom instilled in me."

Obama began talking about race and his upbringing when he wrote the memoir "Dreams From My Father" as he was about to begin his first campaign, for the Illinois State Senate in 1995. The word "nigger" appears 19 times in the book, often as a way to explain the kind of language that he heard as he grew up.

In the interview, Obama made clear that he thinks further progress will come slowly.

"Societies don't overnight completely erase everything that happened two to 300 years prior," he said.
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