Maybe he was kidding, but Bird managed to denigrate the white athlete, marginalize black players and Euro-bash the influx of foreign stars to a league that, under Commissioner David Stern, is regarded as the most wonderfully diverse in the world.
"Football federations have a duty to provide comparable treatment to men and women's national football teams; they should not exclude or marginalize women players". In Argentina, striker Macarena Sanchez is suing her governing body because she believes they do not support the women's game.
But as it is, the game is marginalizing the players it has left, and milking everything it can out of those who are standing faithfully beside it.
Michael Needham, chief executive of Heritage Action for America, said on Fox News Sunday that Boehner and his allies treated conservatives as "crazies" to be marginalized, not as central players in developing the party agenda.
A decision that the arbitral panel has jurisdiction," could put the arbitration body at the risk of "being ignored, derided and marginalized by the biggest player in the region".
At the same time, if it decides to push ahead and eventually rule against China, then there is a huge risk that, as a good friend Columbia University Professor Matthew C. Waxman puts it, the arbitral tribunal would be "ignored, derided and marginalized by the biggest player [China] in the region".
Until this is done, women academics will continue to be excluded and marginalized from becoming senior, influential players in HE".
As the new brand names of the industry seek to monopolize more and more of the traffic on the Internet, Talbot is fighting to prevent Salon from being marginalized as a virtuous bit player.
Despite his successes as a bebop clarinetist, however, DeFranco, like other bebop players, found employment possibilities marginalized by the challenging aspects of the music.
