Quote:That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. So every job out there should only have 13% blacks. Thanks for telling us how you really feel.

 

I feel that the best person ought to get the job and I'm certain that most professional sports owners feel the same way. But for people with your agenda, if half the jobs aren't given to a minority then it's not "fair." Even though the math defies your perception. If there aren't enough whites to have more great athletes (your "larger pool" position) then why can it not be that there simply aren't enough blacks to have more great coaches? Especially when the second position is more logical when black only comprise 13% of the total population? For you the answer must be "because racism." Do qualified candidates get passed over? Absolutely, but when you only have 20k positions and a population of 300 million that isn't unfair, it reality. And the truth is that more qualified white candidates get passed over than qualified black candidates get passed over. That isn't racism, it's simple scope.

 

So, do you feel that the over-large representation of blacks in basketball is a product of racism or something else? Are you truly saying that an over-representation of blacks in a position is due to their superiority while an over-representation of whites in a similar position is due to racism?

 

My position is that the occupations we are discussing are so difficult to achieve that any type of racial disparity is swallowed whole by the elite nature of the talent pool required just for consideration much less actual selection.

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