Some will say this is reverse discrimination, that people would be justifiably appalled if a player said he was choosing a school or team because it had a white coach. But it isn't the same thing at all. This is affirmative action. This is about correcting decades-long discrimination. This is about forcing the people in power to finally examine a problem they've ignored for too long. This is about giving people a chance denied for too long.
I don't know ... I suppose it's a good idea, but it makes me twitch. I suppose because I'm still naïve enough to believe that some athletes go to college to get an education, and making this decision now could compromise the quality of the education you wind up getting, and compromising your chances to get into a different old boys' network, as it were.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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