Minggu, 04 September 2011

Proof that 'diversity' means 'black' - Institute for Diversity gives NBA - 78% black, 17% white - A+ for diversity!

The cry of the diversiphile has always been along the lines that college admission and government contracting have to exactly mirror community demographics. Apparently, it not only doesn't apply to the NBA, but the definition changes. For the NBA, the definition goes something like this: diversity = black. How else to interpret an A+ rating on diversity to the NBA from the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports? Last year, I wrote this post:Institute for Diversity gives NBA - 77% black, 18% white - A+ for diversity! From that prior post, here were the NBA statistics from the "The 2010 Racial and Gender Report Card: National Basketball Association via Carp Diem:
It's gotten even worse this year (via Carpe Diem): The Disparity-Proves-Discrimination Standard Gets Applied Selectively; NBA, WNBA Get an A+ for Race . According to the diversiphiles, this should be bad news:
But it's not bad news to them. Rather, it's awesome news:
According to the "Racial and Gender Report Cards" (released annually by the "Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports" at the University of Central Florida) both the NBA and WNBA got letter grades of A+ for "race" in 2011 for the significant over-representation of black players and the significant under-representation of white, Hispanic and Asian players?? 
It's curious that the Center doesn't call for affirmative action in basketball, demanding that the players on the floor reflect national population demographics. In that case, there would be 1 black player allowed at any one time between the two teams. There would also have to be one Hispanic player at all times. One Asian player must be inserted during the game for a total of 27 minutes (which will be especially hard for the WNBA that apparently doesn't have even one). And the rest must be white. No exceptions. There has to be, after all, a 'critical mass' of white players to reflect the community. Or something. If that sounds absurd, why doesn't it for college admissions and government contracting?

Mark Perry finishes off with this bit of irony (in both last years and this years posts):

In case you're wondering who's in charge of the Institute of Diversity and Ethics at UCF, it's run by two white guys who are listed as the organization's top administrators (see photo below). What grade do they give their own organization, especially for the category of "Top Management" (one of the categories they use for the NBA)? Would that be an F for being 100% white male?

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