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By now you all know how I feel
about the poorly led USTA. These past few days they have decided
that one of my multiple social media accounts is a danger to
them, their work and reputation. So, they made the executive
decision to block it and forbid me to tag to their accounts or
see my account.
So what is it that I did that
made them censor me? All I do is ask simple questions like:
- How is it fair that you raise
your salaries 537% when tennis is declining all over the USA
in every category under your control?
- Or when I question how much
of the $300M actually ends up in the kid's hands to grow Tennis,
instead of the fat salaries of the executives and the multiple
repeated jobs all over?
- Why do you donate only 1% of
the US Open revenues and pretend you help a lot more?
Well to the $300M + quasi-for-profit
organization those questions and the traction they generate were
simply too much to handle. They have decided to censor my account
and try to control their message which is based on deception.
This decision is, of course, ironic as what I want is for people
to be aware of just how poorly tennis is run in the country and
what they want is to keep the public thinking all is fine.
You have to do not much to see
who is telling the truth, all you have to do is see parks in
your city or town and take a peek at schools and you will quickly
reach the conclusion that they have destroyed the pipeline of
players of our beloved sport. If you are a club player you have
to see that your colleagues are on average 55 and above. It is
clear that the younger generations are simply not attracted to
the sport. I, on the other hand, want to raise awareness of just
how few kids we have and how that creates a huge problem for
the industry as the supply chain will be forever affected.
The USTA had a choice, rather
than then reaching out to me and trying to establish a dialog
and an open line of communication with a critic, they prefer
the bullying tactic making sure people do not read what I write
at least it is from their website. This censorship decision,
of course, makes little sense as there are very few followers
of the USTA and if I am a critic would you not want to see what
I write?
Just as an example I wrote a
tweet to president Trump and it got in one day more retweets
than any that I did while tweeting to the USTA. Ineptitude on
full display. No wonder tennis is in such poor shape. I say No
to ineptitude and yes to grow the game. Below is the image of
the tweet that caused them to be so scared. You be the judge.
I can be reached at jpalenque@yahoo.com
or @palenquej |
