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NHL's Diversity Dilemma
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| Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance. | |
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| For years, lefties have complained that the National Hockey League is too white. | |
| Here are typical headlines. | |
| The racist culture of Canadian hockey. | |
| The problem with U.S. hockey. | |
| Racial diversity. | |
| What they mean is not enough diversity. | |
| And hockey has long been about white machismo. | |
| Can the NHL change that? | |
| Well, just this week, the Wall Street Journal jumped on the bandwagon with what could be the harshest headline of all. | |
| Diversify or die. | |
| The National Hockey League has a demography problem. | |
| The league has been talking to William Frey, a demographer at Brookings Institute, who makes a good living telling folks that white people are on their way out. | |
| He spooked the league when he explained that 40% of Americans are already non-white and that non-whites will soon be the majority. | |
| And so, as a recent NHL policy paper puts it, now, more than ever, hockey must focus on the drastic demographic and cultural change that is coming. | |
| Yep, demography changes everything. | |
| I wonder when the Republicans will figure that out. | |
| But the reasoning here... | |
| Well, if that's true, why didn't professional basketball die long ago? | |
| 81% of the players are black in a country that's only 13% black. | |
| Why doesn't basketball have to diversify or die? | |
| The National Football League is 70% black. | |
| Why isn't William Frey pestering the teams to hire more white guys? | |
| Well, I'll tell you why. | |
| Because anything that's white, like professional hockey, or classical music, or birdwatching, or the state of Maine, is by definition no good and has to change. | |
| Diversity is just a way of saying too many white people. | |
| That's why hockey, which is white, has to diversify or die. | |
| But basketball is wonderful because there are practically no whites left. | |
| There is a group called the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport that says this explicitly. | |
| It gives every professional league a grade for diversity. | |
| As it noted, in an ethnic breakdown of sports, NBA takes lead for most diverse. | |
| It's practically all black but gets top marks for diversity? | |
| That's because diversity means having as few whites as possible. | |
| And that's why Major League Baseball, which you actually could call diverse, gets a lower grade. | |
| Only 58% of the players are white, so whites are underrepresented. | |
| But that's not good enough. | |
| If baseball wants a better diversity score, it needs to get rid of those white players and look more like basketball. | |
| Well, to understand diversity, let us turn to the New York Times. | |
| In June, the paper heaped scorn on Canadian hockey as boringly white and held up the Toronto Raptors basketball team as more like what Canada truly deserves. | |
| It dug up an immigrant to say just what the paper wanted to hear. | |
| You only see white people playing hockey, said Andrew Guyen, 19, whose parents came to Toronto from Vietnam. | |
| But basketball is more like what the nation is like. | |
| How much did they have to pay Andrew Guyen to say something that stupid? | |
| Here are the Toronto Raptors. | |
| There are 18 men on the team. | |
| Only two are white. | |
| The guy in the front row is a light-skinned black. | |
| Canada is 3.4% black and 73% white. | |
| Does Andrew Guyen think he's living in Nigeria? | |
| Even famously diverse Toronto, where Andrew lives, is still about half-white and only 9% black. | |
| It doesn't look like the Raptors. | |
| And just this week, the Times was back to complaining about how miserably white Canadian hockey is and how marvelously representative the Raptors are. | |
| The Times gloried in how the team's racial, cultural, and socioeconomic diversity reflected the country as a whole. | |
| Here's another picture of the Raptors. | |
| Does even the Times believe its own baloney? | |
| Yes, because diversity means as few whites as possible. | |
| It's not as though the NHL is all white. | |
| Pro hockey got its first black player, Willie O'Ree, back in 1958. | |
| He wasn't much of a player, but he's in the Hockey Hall of Fame because he was the first black. | |
| And every year, the NHL gives out the Willie O'Ree Community Hero Award. | |
| There are plans to grant him the Congressional Gold Medal in the U.S. You know who got the first one? | |
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NHL's Diversity Push
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| George Washington. | |
| Last season, the NHL had 33 black players. | |
| How many black kids grow up even playing hockey? | |
| The league is hunting high and low for these unicorns. | |
| And the NHL is straining every muscle. | |
| To end its shameful homogeneity. | |
| It has a hockey is for everyone program to persuade even the most unlikely people to play hockey. | |
| It's going for Asians, black history, gay pride, girls and women. | |
| But since the only diversity that really counts is non-whites, this month, hockey commissioner Gary Bettman ordered mandatory diversity training for all coaches and personnel. | |
| And they'll get it every year. | |
| Just in case they forgot. | |
| The NHL celebrates Black History Month. | |
| As the very lefty Guardian newspaper noted, the league has departed from its previous tone-deafness around Black History Month with a full slate of relevant programming. | |
| It was tone-deaf on Black History? | |
| Could someone explain to me why professional hockey should care at all about Black History Month? | |
| Well, now it's got a full slate. | |
| Of videos of blacks talking about, and I quote, racism, breaking down barriers in hockey, and personal stories. | |
| The league even has a mobile black history museum that travels all around the country. | |
| American legacy. | |
| Know your history. | |
| Pro football and pro basketball don't even do that. | |
| The whiter you are, the more you have to celebrate black history, I guess. | |
| So there you have it. | |
| Hockey has got to diversify or die. | |
| Basketball and football can stay just as black as they like. | |
| Baseball is still suspiciously white. | |
| You see, sports are like everything else. | |
| Too many whites is just plain wrong, and you can never have too many people of color, especially blacks. | |
| The message is clear, isn't it? | |
| White people are like an infestation, like termites or bedbugs, and the quicker they can be disposed of, the better. | |
| And so pretty soon, What I'm about to do could be against the law, so I'll say it while I can. | |