How About Those Boys From North of The Border: Canada Wins Hockey Gold With 3-2 Sudden Death Victory Over U.S.

Black Buzz News Service
Vancouver, Canada
March 1, 2010


The boys from North of the border (Canada ) captured the men's hockey team Olympic gold medal with one of the most exciting games I have ever witnessed with a 3-2 sudden-death overtime victory against Team USA on Sunday.
The United States scored with under a minute remaining in regulation to force overtime, but Canada's biggest star, The Pittsburgh Penguins Sidney Crosby, scored the winning goal at 7:40 into the overtime period.The U.S. men's hockey program has come a very long way, and now is considered the second best program in the world. The U.S. team fought back gallantly after being down 2-0, and they put forth a first class effort with style and true grit. And the players from the U.S. should hold their heads high for they have everything to be proud of in battling the world's premier hockey club in the Canadians.
* The Canadian hockey team also had one Afro-Canadian ( Black) on its team and his name is Jarome Iginla. Jarome also helped the Canadian hockey team to win gold medals in 2002, and 2006 Olympics. So Mr. Iginla came back for the third time to win a gold medal on the home turf in Canada. Iginla is a five-time NHL All Star and the Calgary Flames' all time leader in goals, points, and games played.
Mr.Iginla is a descendant of the Yoruba tribe of upper Nigeria.
*Blacks have been associated with playing hockey in Canada as far back as 1820 and the "Colored Hockey League" in Canada lasted from 1894-1930. Blacks players such as the Carnegie Brothers dominated Canadian hockey and hockey historians George and Darril Fosty in their book titled Black Ice : "The Lost History of Colored Hockey League of Maritimes " state that Black player named Eddie Martin of the Halifax Eurekas invented the modern day slap shot. The Fosty brothers also say that Afro-Canadians helped to shape the modern day game of hockey.
The Colored Hockey League teams beat their white Canadian-counterparts so often that the white racist bigots burned down the colored homes in the Negro section of said Nova Scotia known as AFRICVILLE.
The Canadian government needs to pay reparations to the descendants of that brutal slaughter and act of genocide in Africville. Not one single racist terrorist was tried for killing a Negro and for the burning of the colored homes down in Africville. Justice delayed is justice denied, and that horrible tragedy that happened in Africville remains in the hearts and minds of most Afro-Canadians.
The white hockey teams of Canada also banned the Black players from entry into their leagues in the latter part of the nineteenth and twentieth century.
Finally, in 1958 Willie O'Ree became the first Black to play in the NHL with the Boston Bruins. Blogger Black Buzz notes that the Boston Redsox was the last major league baseball team to integrate their roster with Negro players when they brought up Pumpsie Green on July 21, 1959 to play in that band box called Fenway Park.
If Africans Americans were given an equal opportunity to play hockey in the U.S. they would dominate, and excel in the sport just as they do in Pro Football & Basketball. Typically the vast majority of hockey rinks and ice skating rings in the USA are not located in communities were under class and lower class African Americans reside. Hockey equipment is very expensive and its take far less to learn how to play basketball than mastering the game of Hockey. And most middle class African Americans have been hard hit by the present economic crisis in the U.S. and many are not in a position to pay for expensive ice skating lessons nor or they capable of paying for costly hockey lessons with the various Youth Leagues in the Suburbs. Most predominately African American high schools in the USA do not have bona-fide hockey teams. Afro- Canadians live in well integrated areas and they have access to many ice skating and hockey rinks. Hockey is still considered to be the National pastime in Canada.

Those that do not know their history are destined to repeat it." Those that rely on others to tell their story will most likely be forgotten. Black African slaves adapted well to every environment and community, engaged in activities closely associated with their church, and desperately sought to be equals; for their descendants throughout the African Diaspora continue to struggle and toil.