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Isn't it racist to say that a black person is athletically gifted. because it implies that they can't be intellectually gifted? On the other hand it is racist to call a black person "articulate". I guess it is just racist for a white person to speak to a black person at all.
I've never heard of those things being mutually exclusive...
Um, in case you've been living under a rock diversity only means color
And many of those NHL'ers look a little too white for "our" tastes.
diversity is more encompassing than just skin color.
Judging diversity by skin pigment is simplistic. In hockey they have people from dozens of countries, speaking many different languages playing the same sport. They even have drafted players that are not ready to play at the nhl level play in various other countries professional leagues all of Europe and North America.
Hockey even pays its players the best with the highest minimum salary and a pension.
Ok, well it's the 3rd most popular in the U.S, so too bad. I work in sports merch, so pretty much everyone I come into contact with is a a sports fanatic.
9/10 watch the NFL
8/10 watch MLB
8/10 watch NCAA football
6/10 watch NCAA basketball
4/10 watch NHL
2/10 watch NBA
maybe it's popular in other parts of the world, but here MLB and NFL are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay bigger, and here in Michigan the NHL is way bigger.
NFL has 68% of Black. How is that diversified?
"68%
With 1155 players, the black population of the NFL runs away with a 68% majority. In a distant second are the 470 white players who make up 28% of the league. The following three racial categories, Other, Asian/Pacific Islander and Hispanic, make up a combined 4.36% of the league.Sep 23, 2014"
It is also not the total countries, but the % of players that comes from various countries.
Having one player from one country is not equal to having 20 players from one country.
Which is irrelevant and beside the point, the point being the NBA is not some "blacks only" league, with the sole purpose of making sure all its players check the "Black/African American" box on a Census form. It's not some good ole boys club, it's comprised of some of the best athletes in the world.
The NHL "looks" white just as much as the NBA "looks" black.
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