Does the NBA have to apologize for being too black? Does judo have to apologize for being too Asian? But, here we go, hockey has to apologize for a player base drawn from rural areas that have a lot of ice.
And the apology has to come with racial quotas and promises to “do better”.
The NHL for the first time has done an internal demographic study of its staff and all 32 teams, and the results show that hockey has a lot of work to do to increase diversity at all levels.
The report released Tuesday found that 83.6% of the NHL’s workforce is white and that men make up nearly 62% of the total, based on the 4,200 people who participated in a voluntary and anonymous survey (about 67% of all employees).
Are these numbers reflective of the player and fan base? I suspect that they are. So what’s the problem? Is there a reason for the NHL to be different than its fan base?
That nearly mirrors the situation on the ice, where more than 90% of players and nearly all coaches and officials are white.
Are black players being systemically kept out of hockey? Instead, there’s been an aggressive effort to recruit more minority hockey players. It isn’t working. Sadly, there’s no similar effort to recruit Japanese basketball players for the NBA.
One of the next steps is turning the data into a race and gender report card produced by the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, which has for years graded sports leagues on hiring practices.
Which amps up the quotas. Except that the real problem is the lack of interest. As they admit.
Davis said it is not as simple as recruiting people of color to work for the NHL, that it starts with improving how underrepresented communities see and feel about the sport itself.
Maybe minorities just aren’t interested in hockey? No, the NHL must make minorities care about hockey. Equality is about offering equal access. Equity demands that somehow the NHL must get minorities involved in any way possible.
I’m still waiting for pygmy representation in the NFL
Saaaay….I never thought about that one.
There was a midget once who played major league baseball, I think. His strike zone was so small that he usually drew a walk 🙂
Spud Webb was an NBA player and won a slam dunk contest even though he’s only 5 ‘6. That’s pretty close to a midget.
Muggsey Bogues was 5 ‘3! Three inches over a midget but still short as F!
“Short people got no reason to live?” I always hated Randy Newman and his shitty songs. I’m taller than Webb and Bogues but I can’t play in the NBA and neither can Newman.
And I seem to remember Genghis Khan and Napoleon accomplishing quite a bit.
“Spud Webb was an NBA player and won a slam dunk contest even though he’s only 5 ‘6. That’s pretty close to a midget.”
Hey! I resemble that remark.
Didn’t read article and don’t care, just responding to the headline. Hockey was my last bastion after the rest of the sports world went woke. Then the black guy (devanty smith) who played for my beloved caps refused to meet Trump after winning the Stanley Cup. SC 2018 was the last time I watched anything involving ML sports.
Why do white people hate themselves so much? Are there any other groups of people that bend over backwards to appease other groups at their own demise?
Again, diversity has always been code for anti-white. Any sport, business, neighborhood, city, state, etc, that is predominately white, and the Leftist’s are out complaining of lack of diversity. Nobody cares about diversity when blacks are the dominate group in a sport, town, business, etc.
This reminds me of when Joe Morgan, Hall of Fame baseball player, went on a rant about having to get more black kids involved in baseball. Why? Why do we have to get more black kids involved in baseball? Here’s a newsflash. black kids gravitate to football and basketball. Most aren’t interested in baseball, but Joe was implying baseball is a racist sport that excludes black kids..
Liberal whites are the biggest fools walking the earth.
I think what he was objecting to was Latinos doing so well in baseball that they were taking the place of blacks.
Nobody ever complained about Blacks in basketball or baseball? Do you understand the history of racial segregation in this country? Do you understand the hatred that the first Black players in MLB or the NBA had to face?
A reader above complains that “hockey was my last bastion.” Last bastion of what?
Hockey is now in the cesspool of diversity and inclusion. Progressive BS ruins everything it touches. Merit should be the only criteria for any pro sport, like any other job.
Do you understand that racial segregation ended half a century ago? Do you understand the only institutionalized racial discrimination for the last half century has been “affirmative action?”
“…after the rest of the sports world went woke.” Sounds like the last bastion of sanity in sports, outside the racist anti-American socialism of ‘wokeness.’
Thanks, Cowboy, for saving me the trouble 🙂
Are we living in 2020 or 1940? What does anything you just spewed have to do with what I said? Again, diversity is code for anti-white, which is why people only complain when whites dominate a section of society. When blacks dominate a section of society, whether it be basketball, football, etc, then nobody cares about diversity.
DO you understand interracial crime in this country is 90% black on white? Do you understand affirmative action has been used as a weapon to openly discriminate against whites? All going on for decades.
Yet, your dumb azz is still talking about black as if they are still victims of 1940’s discrimination.
Another white guilt ridden liberal,
You can’t use the past to pretend whites are privileged and blacks are oppressed. The opposite is current fact.
And maybe hockey was the guy’s last bastion against pernicious anti-white racism? Did you even comprehend his comment, you racist dolt?
I’ll bet you’ve never even nailed a black chick and experienced real diversity.
Moderation again? Shit. Only blacks get this type of undeserved deference. I could call Asians “the yellow peril” and nobody would bat an eye. I could write “savage red man” and still no moderation.
But if I notice CRT is racist bullshit I’m in need of moderation?
I thought it was just me. My comments are being moderated to. In addition, it looks like the moderator cuts off your debate with the other person at their whim. They take away the reply button.
Bunch of dirtbags
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Speaking about black chicks, British naval ships weren’t supposed to have females on board when out at sea, but they did (this was in the 1700s or 1800s and probably other times as well). Turns out a lot of the ladies were black. I don’t know how they could stand living on ship, it was so crowded, damp, and stuffy, etc., that I don’t see how even the men could stand it. But somehow they found room for the extra ladies also. These were the “sailors wives”, the officers also had their ladies on board, in less dreadful living conditions, though I couldn’t have stood even those living conditions.
Yes, I’ve also read about how awful the living conditions on ships were back then, even after they instituted improvements! No wonder orphans got shanghaied by the Royal Navy. I didn’t know about the “wives,” though. They had it even worse than the sailors did.
I read a dopey science fiction series when I was a teenager about a refugee kid from Cuba, I think, who went on to become “The Space Tyrant” of some type of solar system government. The naval spaceships had a section called “the tail” where prostitutes lived and serviced the servicemen. They were treated a hell of a lot better than those chicks in the old Hornblower Royal Navy were, I bet.
If I can demonstrate that there exists systemic racial discrimination within the sex trade industry, will the DOJ involve itself?
Join WPM. White Pimps Matter.
Strike a blow for
equalityequity. Show the black man pigmentation isn’t everything. Pink guys can drive purple Caddies with white tires too.My question would be why the taxpayers of Florida are funding via UCF muck raking, Banal, and divisive research. Maybe they should focus on teaching people to read an ad since high schools aren’t doing it
The Hanson brothers! Maybe there’ll be an unfunny woke remake of “Slapshot,” with mostly black, arab, and mexican players, alphabet people, and women, with a token YT male thrown in to be the butt of jokes. When it bombs they can blame it on racism, sexism, and phobias.
It’s amusing to watch the woke antics of professional sports, especially the ones the left hates anyway. They can never satisfy people who live to be aggrieved. That’s fine, I can count the number of professional sports games and matches I’ve watched over the last three decades on one hand, and it’s been longer since I bought any of their stuff.
Not “enough” black people surf, either. Better get a racial equity commissar on that.
After back people learn how to swim, of course. OOh! Was that wascist of me?
And hiking, camping, hunting and the great outdoors. It’s all white supremacism and the wascist exclusion of blacks!
My girlfriend surfs. Now she hikes and camps because of me but sometimes she doesn’t realize she’s supposed to be black and a Dirtbagocrat and behaves like a regular American instead.
Free ice skates to inner city kids will help diversify the NHL.
Free Air Jordans to white suburban kids will help diversify the NBA.
Free computers to Asian kids will help diversify Asian kids.
What happened to natural evolution??
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Lastly, I’ve seen posts with a lot worse than dirtbag. And you left it as you should.
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