So what's the real situation? Oh, this:The University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports will likely release its annual racial and gender report later this month, telling us how Major League Baseball graded in diversity issues in 2008. The institute's report last year showed that African-Americans constituted 8.2 percent of major league rosters in 2007 - a 20-year low and a growing concern for MLB.Carfardo then goes on to list by team the number of African Americans on the team rosters for this season. The punch line of course is that the Red Sox have none.
The Red Sox are a very diverse team - 32% of the team would be classified as other than white by the census. The "white" population of the US is 74%. See how numbers can be skewered?I guess that this plays well in Cambridge and on Beacon Hill. Unfortunately for the Globe, folks in Worcester and Springfield think they're idiots, and the Globe needs these subscribers to stay alive.
You know that the bias is hopeless when PC seeps from the editorial page, to the front page, to the sports page. Next up, the blank page.
UPDATE 8 April 2009 9:31: I see that I'm now the #1 hit for the Google search "boston globe going out of business" - it's all part of being a full service blog.
2 comments:
Unfortunately for the Glob, the majority of their readers are rapidly becoming former readers. It's craptastic reporting of non stories like this that are the reason.
I'm sure that the Blob will pick up this story, http://tinyurl.com/c3c2yb pretty soon.
I've seen first hand the results of affirmative action when people's lives are on the line. It isn't pretty, although lowering standards in the name of "diversity" makes the fuzzy haired nitwits in Cambridge feel better.
We even have an Affirmative Action President, which also seems not to be working too well.
As Pres. Bush said, it's the soft bigotry of low expectations.
It tells minorities of all backgrounds that we (the white world) understand that the deck was stacked against them, which is why they can't perform to well established standards. Because Jews, Irish, Asians, and others have never had to overcome adversity to succeed.
Tell me again, who are the racists?
I wonder...do they have similar concerns about diversity in, say, Professional Basketball?
What about Boxing?
Heck...what about Hockey for that matter. Are there ANY black Hockey players?
I know I'm missing your point, but this kind of thing just burns my butt.
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