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> Blacks are extremely highly represented for their population percentage in professional sports. And to further support your point: this is clearly depending
by usrusr 10y ago
> Blacks are extremely highly represented for their population percentage in professional sports.
And to further support your point: this is clearly depending on the sport. All careers are determined to a large extent by youth aspirations and it would truly be a terrible stretch of the term "racism" if we blamed young people for choosing idols who are "like them". I guess that the set of kids who dreamt of being like Lance Armstrong wasn't particularly diverse and there certainly are no active gatekeepers to dreaming.
The same mechanism is active in every other desirable profession and we need to understand it well so that we can identify and act upon the cases where there is also something else at play.