I hear Don Cherry only eats american cheddar cheese on his Quizno subs, not orange cheddar. Know why? He’s racist against orange cheddar cheese.
Cherry also likes those big collars over the small collars. He’s racist against small collars. And he drives Chevy over Ford. He’s racist against Fords.
Cherry also prefers the Stewart tartan over the Macdonald tartan. He’s racist against the Stewarts.
Calling Cherry racist seems to be self evidently false, a polticians over the top hyperbole we've all learned hopefully to dismiss. He's an unabashedly strong supporter of Canada, and has been for a long time. When he started this shctick a long time ago, Canadians were not big flag wavers, didnt think we were good enough, and most musicians even couldnt consider they made it until americans liked them.
Sure Cherry is over the top, kinda ridiculous sometimes, and part of the toronto machine that is the enemy to Ottawa, but to call him racist only means to me that we have lost sight of what that word means. May as well call him a troll if you just want a label that you can attach to him without requiring any further explanations.
And i notice that in the arenas around the country, when Don Cherry shows up, he is still a star that has people hanging on his every word. And that hnic ratings go up between periods when he is on. This seems the opposite reaction from what he receives on message boards with perhaps a large concentration of internet shut-ins.
