I thought this was going to be weather related. I just loves me some black ice, very smooth, slick.
As for the question you posted - you GD RACIST!!! -
Had to get that in. One reason to not watch the news, BS like this. I mean it's great that certain sports that were not available to all are no reaching more of our youth. Oh maybe 10 years ago I read a story about ice hockey clubs / leagues for Native Americans in the southwest. They weren't exclusive, rather inclusive, it was how the sport was expanded into areas where it had never existed and giving kids the opportunity to play.
When I was a kid, I think maybe by high school, there was one or maybe 2 ice rinks in the county. We weren't NE or Minnesota or Canada, we had frozen water but most of it was running, not lakes or ponds. So ice skating was not something we could do, even in the winter.