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Are you bothered when professional sports leagues are racially homogeneous? Would you prefer that they practice affirmative action?



Professional sports leagues aren't the keys to wealth and power in this country. That's why there's a big fuss over college admissions and not about sports.


No, there's no big fuss about sports because an affirmative-action-privileged race happens to be superior in this area.


I'm failing to find a more colorful way to put this so here it is plainly:

One becomes an affirmative-action-privileged race precisely because there are systematic barriers to the keys to wealth and power. If sports were that, and there were systematic barriers to it, we would be having this same discussion about Asians. Being good at sports is overall irrelevant to wealth and power in this country.

This stuff isn't hard.




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