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[quote=Anonymous]Honestly, I've probably refereed about 150 matches over the past 3 years....I'm not super experienced but I have enough games to make a comment and I must say that I've never even had the thought that one of my fellow referees showed bias due to race.  When I'm center, I've never felt like an AR called a unworthy foul with bias and when I'm AR, I never thought a center was biased.  At half-time, we usually ask the question to each other...what did we miss? We talk about whether or not more fouls need to be called or less. Never have I felt like more fouls were being called against a certain race.  We talk about the most physical physical players and watching them closer....they can be any race. We talk about the biggest kids and talk about being careful not to be biased against the biggest. Maybe I'm blind to it. My son plays on a team with hispanics and whites.  No blacks.  I do not feel like his teammates get called more than him.  I'm sure if I had a black player and watched this kid play every week, I would see something....because you tend to look for it....I think.  However, I just don't have the sense that there is an overall problem with referees being racist.  With that said, if I ever felt that a center was calling unjust fouls on a kid (regardless of race), I would say something at halftime like...I don't think there was a foul on #10 there and there.  I think they are shoulder to shoulder...or something like that and that may lead to a discussion.[/quote]

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