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Re:Is everybody a racist? by pessimizer on Saturday April 02, 2016 @08:56PM (#11414382)
Or it could be that in an employment environment that systematically discriminates against blacks that you would expect that they would end up over-represented in fields that didn't? Or that in a country where blacks are systematically undereducated that they would be over-represented in a profession that didn't require education? Or that in a system of higher education that is expensive and places value on what high school you went to, that black people with lower wealth/income who went to segregated schools that aren't valued as much would gravitate towards sports as a way to go to University?

None of these come up in your head before anti-white racism perpetrated by whites?

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Re:Is everybody a racist? by michaelbuddy on Sunday April 03, 2016 @12:56AM (#11414983)
You're not making much sense. What schools are segregated? None. That's against the law. And you're saying that no the NBA isn't subconsciously overrepresenting blacks, and talk about poverty. There are more impoverished and undereducated whites than blacks. More whites overall means more white players to pick from. And yet NBA has a racial disparity. It points to unconscious bias toward recruiting black players over whites.

I'd also call out specific black scholarships that black athletes and black students are only eligible for.

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