On the sports tangent, the US is happy to allow the NBA to be primarily black, however it is not OK to allow baseball to be primarily white. There were multiple news threads a few months back talking about how minorities, specifically blacks, were not playing baseball. As if the league itself was racist. Wonderful. But the NBA is rarely ever cast in that light.
In my opinion, I don't care. People play the sport they want to play. My thought is, you want to know why basketball is more popular among black youth? Because if you live in a city or an area lacking large fields, it is much easier to throw up a hoop than carve out a diamond. Or maybe they just relate personally to the black athletes they see on TV. And why do white kids not run towards basketball, who knows, maybe they can't compete as well, maybe they are better at other things...hell maybe they all play hockey. The point is, this is pointless. More meddling by organizations, governments and individuals that need to simply get past race as a card. Oddly enough the NFL has the closest mix of races with blacks making up roughly 65% of the league, whites making up 35% and the beloved 'other' category making up the rest. Of course the NFL gets ragged left and right for coaching staffs and even have one dumb rule in place to make sure 'blacks' get looked at as coaches, you can't get much more racist than that.
And if you'd really need proof of how dumb society is and how hung on race it is, the Wall Street Journal devoted time to a study that said:
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(Blacks) dominate, to the tune of 90% or greater, at the positions of wide receiver, defensive back and running back. However, 81% of starting quarterbacks are white, and there is just one black starting kicker among the 32 NFL rosters. Whites also slightly outnumber blacks at tight end and offensive line.
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The NFL and Race, by the Numbers - The Numbers Guy - WSJ
And more by the numbers:
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African-Americans comprise approximately 79% of NBA rosters, 65% of NFL line ups, and 18% of MLB teams (about 18 % of MLB players are Hispanic). Obviously there has been a skyrocketing in African-American participation (Lapchick & Benedict, 1994).
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Racial Composition Of NBA, NFL And MLB Teams And Racial Composition Of Franchise Cities - Research and Read Books, Journals, Articles at Questia Online Library
I'll say it again, there was open racism in America.....was.