Playing the Race Card

I believe that Mitch Albom is trying to get his point across in saying that race does not play a factor in sports issues and controversies. He says that many people use the race card just to solve certain issues. I agree with Albom on this topic. The problem here was definately not racial. It had to with Lebron being an attention hog and wanted the spotlight all on him. The reason why most of the public dislikes him now is because Lebron is basically saying, "Hey everyone! Look at me! Im the greatest baseketball player alive!" Many people dislike that about him but I don't think that the racial card had anything to do with the Lebron controversey. I also think that the controversey with Farve was the same type of thing. He wanted all of the attention on himself and that is why people started to dislike him more and more. Also, both of these superstar athletes chose to abandon their home teams and this usually causes dissruption among fans because they never like to see athletes to betray their home teams. But, I do not believe that race played a factor at all in Lebron's situation. It only had to do with him being arrogant and wanting all of the focus to be on him.