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Originally posted by OKbaseballDad:
In this case it is important to say African American instead of black, not to be PC, but to underscore that a lot of blacks in MLB are not Americans.
On the selfish side, my son always played basketball, but in the past several years it became painfully apparent that he was not going to be as good as good as many of the players he competed with for scholarships.
Perhaps because African American kids don't see baseball as a cool sport, or they don't have as many opportunities, there is less competition in baseball for those scholarships.
As to your 1st assertion, why not say American blacks instead of the PC term then? The blacks of today are not all desended from Africa as you point out, but also don't assume that only Hispanic blacks are not African.
Call a Jamacian black "African American" and see how they react. My overall point is that all this politically correct, hyphenated-American garbage needs to end.
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Originally posted by 2013 Dad:
This is certainly true, but only due to the fact that white people out number black people by about (give or take) 5 to 1.
The percentage of white people on welfare is much less than the percentage of black people on welfare. According to the 2010 census, there are 42,020,743 black people or 13.6% of the population. The census reported 223.6 million white people or about 72% of the population.
Therefore, even if 100% of black people were on assistance and only 50% of white people were on assitance, the raw number of white people on assitance would be more than twice that of black people.
The quoted comment is misleading. I'm not really sure what your point is, Vector. Please clarify.
Yes, I am acutely aware of the per capita factor, yet that still does not undermine my pointing out how the so called "under-privileged" are made up of more than just minorities. Remember many organizations use the term helping the "under-privileged" as code for specifically helping blacks and minorities only.
For instance the USTA is a fairly liberal organization embracing the homosexual lifestyle, black empowerment, etc.
They use the membership dues to fund "underprivileged" tennis programs, which is fine.
However as it turns out, their definition is not based on economic need, rather instead, race. When I spoke with one of the top people in the organization as to why under-privileged white kids were not assisted by the program, this person actually was ignorant enough to imply most poor people were black and did not have the means to play tennis. Needless to say I informed them of their lack of knowledge.
As to my overall point, I hope we never see a type of affirmative action invade sports like it has other professions. It is easy to point out how most baseball teams are white or brown, with few American blacks. Yet we do not hear complaints about how most basketball teams are black, with a low % of whites. The same is true on many positions in football as well. If the lack of minorities is considered an issue in need of fixing or explanation, then so too should the same be said for a lack of whites in certain sports.
If economics are the focus and assumed reason, then make sure that poor whites are considered just as much as any minority group. To do otherwise would be hypocritical.
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