NBA Lacks Diversity: A Plan For Ensuring Social Justice




Recently a USA Today front page featured a glaring headline: Testosterone Valley. The article referred to Silicon Valley as a "exclusive boys club" citing its lack of diversity. The article also pointed out that blacks, and Hispanics make up less than 4% of tech jobs in silicon valley. Racial extortionist Jesse Jackson has once again begun his shakedown of corporate America by requesting diversity records of tech giants Google, Facebook, Twitter and others. This has shined an unwanted spotlight on the tech industry's lack of diversity.

However, there is something else awry in America. This week, USA  basketball  roster for next weeks Olympic basketball tournament in Rio. The 12 man roster doesn include a single white player. A check of the rosters for the past USA basketball teams reveals a total of 6 whites have made USA basketball rosters since 1994! Which represents less than 10% of the total number of players. This troubling trend seems to show that USA Basketball is leaving white American basketball players behind. The left which has introduced words such as "diversity" and "inclusion" to American lexicon sits idly by as talented white ball players are locked out of the opportunity to represent their country. 46% of NBA fans are white and yet better than 90% of USA  basketballs teams are black! Why the disparity? The NBA itself is roughly 78% Black and whites make up only about 17%, many of them are of European origin. There are some teams that do not contain even a single white American player. This should not stand. "The NBA should reflect the market demographic that it serves", said Brace Baiter of the National Association for the Advancement Of White People or NAAWP (yes it exist).

I propose a few solutions to eradicate the "hoop desert" in white communities. Government funding initiatives to build more basketball courts in the suburbs. Larry Bird and Danny Ainge could conduct basketball clinics for poor whites in Appalachia. A major NBA diversity program in partnership with the NAAWP could be formed. President Obama, a huge basketball fan and avid player who will soon be out of the White House could be appointed Director of Basketball diversity. The NBA's good ol' brothers network should be forced to examine its policies of exclusion which denies access to white talent. I suggest that after Jesse Jackson is finished cleaning up silicon valley, he give NBA commissioner Adam Silver a call.

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