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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really? I mean really? with all that is wrong in the world this is what you choose to blog about? First off, one can not even begin to make an informed thought concerning this issue without having a lot more information such as, how many blacks bball players tried out at Duke, I mean, if only three black players tried out and all three made the team I would say your assumption that something is amiss here is way off base; however, if 40 tried out and 20 white players tried out and only 3 black vs. all 20 white players made the team then yes, maybe you have a point, or maybe just the 20 white players were better, who knows? Who really cares?
ReplyDeleteYou would have a better point, it seems to me, if anyone tried out. The reality is that these players have been sought out and recruited to go there. I am very confident that there is no open tryout for Duke's basketball team.
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