Posted on 04/21/2011 6:53:00 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
NEW YORK (AP)—The percentage of black players in the major leagues dropped again on opening day this year even as the sport again received a top overall grade for racial diversity.
Baseball’s grade for gender hiring declined slightly, according to the annual study released Thursday by Richard Lapchick’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the University of Central Florida.
Baseball received an A for racial diversity in hiring, the same grade as last year, and a B-minus for gender, down from a B. Its overall grade remained a B-plus.
“A one-year difference like this must be seen with the perspective of the overall pattern baseball has been going in,” he said during a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “If it t happened two or three years in a row, it would be different.”
The percentage of black players dropped to 8.5 percent on opening day this year, down from 10 percent at the start of last season and its lowest level since 2007. It was 17 percent when Lapchick began tracking the figure in 1990.
The percentage of Latino players dropped from 28.4 percent to 27 percent— baseball’s lowest since 1999’s 26 percent.
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Professional sports are racist. They keepin’ the black man down.
Where are the race pimp superheroes? Al, Jesse where are you?
Its the most racially mixed pro sport there is. There should be no whining about race involved.
Anybody can make up a phony job for themselves, but getting the government to pay for it is the real trick.
White players should sue the NBA and NFL because whites are not representative of their population at large within these sports. De facto racism.
Diversity in sports?
What's the goal for whites in the NBA?
In other news, the percentage of white players in the NBA dropped again. The Administration has appointed a special blue ribbon panel headed by Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate this shocking development.
And furthermore 100% of current US Presidents are black.
Scorecards for collectives, collectivists and useful idiots.
Baseball is a sport that is passed down from father to son, so in the black community where there is......
well you know the rest
Black is the wrong descriptive term. So is African-American, since black ballplayers from the Caribbean could be considered African-American. Are we talking about African-Americans from the fifty United States? What about Canadians?
I have my own Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports. How do I get a grant?
I have my own Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports. How do I get a grant?
What did it drop from? 97% to 95%?.
Nah, it is only 37% at most, maybe as little as 13%. See my tagline.
So we are supposed to watch sub-par performances because of some kind of race dream? Do I have that right?
That sounds like an easy job. I don't know how many sports teams there are at UCF but it can't take that long to analyze all of them in terms of racial and gender makeup. The ethics part may be a bit harder.
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