Comments on: Richard Lapchick on College Football Civil Rights http://www.acri.org/blog/2008/12/10/richard-lapchick-on-college-football-civil-rights/ "Race has no place in American Life or Law" Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:37:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Sylvia Wasson http://www.acri.org/blog/2008/12/10/richard-lapchick-on-college-football-civil-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-471 Sylvia Wasson Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:05:10 +0000 http://www.acri.org/blog/?p=579#comment-471 I believe that it is "unfair" that basketball players are almost exclusively above average height. This is discriminatory against short people. Let's level the "playing field" all the way and I mean "playing field" in the literal sense of the word. Why worry about talent and ability! What counts is race, color, gender...oh, that reminds me: isn't it also unfair to have only men or only women on sports teams? Why not mixed-gender football teams? Depriving fans of the suspense of a 120-pound woman football player tackling a 240-pound quarterback is simply unfair! Yes, the composition of teams should be representative of the general public. That would be genuine diversity and -- as they say in academe -- diversity equals excellence. And excellence is what we are after. Richard Lapchick, you are onto something! I believe that it is “unfair” that basketball players are almost exclusively above average height. This is discriminatory against short people. Let’s level the “playing field” all the way and I mean “playing field” in the literal sense of the word.

Why worry about talent and ability! What counts is race, color, gender…oh, that reminds me: isn’t it also unfair to have only men or only women on sports teams? Why not mixed-gender football teams? Depriving fans of the suspense of a 120-pound woman football player tackling a 240-pound quarterback is simply unfair! Yes, the composition of teams should be representative of the general public. That would be genuine diversity and — as they say in academe — diversity equals excellence. And excellence is what we are after. Richard Lapchick, you are onto something!

]]> By: Randy Long http://www.acri.org/blog/2008/12/10/richard-lapchick-on-college-football-civil-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-350 Randy Long Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:07:40 +0000 http://www.acri.org/blog/?p=579#comment-350 Let's play on even footing here, how about the NBA? I don't think there are enough white players when compared to the number of black players so what do we do force the black players out and bring in white ones? Sounds just as fair to me. Let’s play on even footing here, how about the NBA? I don’t think there are enough white players when compared to the number of black players so what do we do force the black players out and bring in white ones? Sounds just as fair to me.

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