This is the Duke University basketball team picture for the current season.
It is or ought to be self explanatory.
I do not understand how an institution in North Carolina — or anywhere in America — gets away with this.
For contrast, here is the official photograph of the current basketball team at the University of Kentucky, an institution whose alleged racism in the past was a major theme in a popular movie. (Full disclosure: I am a UK graduate.)
I count three dark faces in Duke's picture, perhaps four. Kentucky has three white ones. If this situation were reversed, would the media be silent? Would the NCAA? Would Congress?
Duke likes to think of their basketball program as "America's Team." But America's team doesn't look much like America, certainly not much like the teams who compete against them. Why are they not held accountable for this?
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