but where you were born
determines your ability to play
in some three letter acronym at the national
scale
be it nhl, nfl, nba, or whoever
but say you’re born in samoa?
you’re probably great at just one
maybe your grandparents are from africa?
you’ll fit in any at all.
but before you say i’m racist
let me tell that you i aint white
i’m as minority as the day is long
in the country full of yella’s
the sieve and the sand 
Ehhh! Racist… Probably not. This piece is bigoted though. See the scope is too narrow for I don’t see how people’s destinies can be scaled down to sport teams. It may just be that the place of birth limits people’s venues in life and that people usually head toward the door which is open to them. But it is a bit of an easy short cut to simply look at the ending result and circumvent the whole issue of how it all came about.
See the African grand parents part seem to go along with the school counselor who advises a student to take down some sport simply due to his ethnic background (maybe some tutoring would have raised the grades). What I mean is that it advocates a certain image and expectation. As a result people walk around with a check list In their minds trying to classify and fit everyone else in a hole.
longest comment ever.
yea, the hole i was always trying to fill was the one no one expected which turned out to be a hole nonetheless…
although a way more fun one.
p.s. https://sieveandsand.com/2010/02/08/on-swimming-against-the-current/