I NOTICE SOMETHING

I’ve been watching the NCAA Woman’s Basketball Championship games on television. A few days ago the University of Connecticut ladies played the girls from Rutgers University and I couldn’t help but notice something. During most of the game, if not the entire game, all of the players on the floor where black.

Now the fact that I noticed that basketball seems to have an unusually large percentage of good, black basketball players is hardly new. For years sociologists have examined this phenomenon.

As I understand it, they conclude that many black players were brought up in less affluent neighborhoods and whenever they looked out their front doors there were no baseball, football or hockey facilities available. However, there always seemed to be a pole with a basket on it so basketball became the game of choice.

If this train of thought is to be followed I might also conclude that somewhere there are neighborhoods where most of the residents are white and when they look out their front doors they see pompoms.

A very large percentage of the cheerleaders appear to be Caucasian.

The Old Professor
Carmel, CA
April 5, 2008