'They say removing playground basketball nets is about noise—I say it’s about race' — TDSB
We have at least four basketball nets on our small street. At any point during the evening hours, I can hear the relentless thump, thump, thump of a basketball being dribbled on the ground. I know that sound. I know the pitch the ball makes as it’s dribbled on the driveway asphalt, I know the bang of every missed shot. I also know I would never think to walk over to my neighbours and ask them to take their hoop down because the noise of the bouncing ball was bothering me.
Surely basketball isn’t the only sport played in this neighbourhood. I’ve heard hockey slap shots—they can be pretty loud. Are the complaints coming in to stop kids from playing hockey in the evenings? We all have an image in our head about what a teenage or young-adult basketball game on a court in the evening looks like: We see kids of all races, maybe predominantly Black, we hear trash talk, maybe there’s music playing. The kids are street-wise, with a hip hop aesthetic.
Frankly, it doesn’t even matter that the youth playing basketball aren’t all Black. The stereotypes about basketball and basketball culture are so pervasive that anti-Black racism is at work, regardless of the race of the youth. Complaining about the noise is simply more acceptable than complaining about agathering near your home. It’s a dog whistle. Saying one thing but meaning something else entirely. And it’s oh so Canadian. Like basketball.
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