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Townshend believes the same about Peters as he does his college coach. In a fateful twist, Townshend worked with Peters in the mid-1990s when he was winding up his playing career. Townshend was playing in the now-defunct International League for the Houston Aeros and was also running hockey schools in Texas. Peters was operating a youth hockey program in San Antonio and hired him in to work with some of the students.
“He brought me in. A black guy,” Townshend said. “He could have picked a hundred different people and he picked the one black person who ran hockey schools. If he was a racist, why would he do that? He could have picked 50 white guys and he picked me.”
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Its important to get as many sides of the story as possible. I'm glad the media is doing that. I would just note that a person can both have black/Chinese/gay/etc friends or colleagues who they treat respectfully and hold prejudicial attitudes about black/Chinese/gay/etc persons at the same time. Those things aren't mutually exclusive.
EDIT: GioForPM's post does a better job explaining what I mean.
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"Life of Russian hockey veterans is very hard," said Soviet hockey star Sergei Makarov. "Most of them don't have enough to eat these days. These old players are Russian legends."
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