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NBA Lacks Diversity: A Plan For Ensuring Social Justice

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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 ...