A Few Thoughts on "Diversity"

As baseball fans, many us of know that April 15, 1947 marked the day Major League Baseball broke the color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson.

Yesterday, on the 60th Anniversary of this groundbreaking event, all baseball games were to commemorate the date as Jackie Robinson Day.

(Side note: it was somewhat ironic that the Phillies, who were the last team in the National League to integrate, had the game postponed by a Nor'Easter. I'm surprised Al Sharpton isn't screaming "conspiracy" and blaming the postponement on the team's mostly-white owners and management,...but I digress)

In light of the Imus debacle, the country is now fixated on race. This season opened with reports that Major League Baseball's rosters are now less than 10% black. It was, at first, annoying but now just plain aggravating to read story after story of how far blacks still need to go in baseball.

Some Philadelphians may remember a similar problem in the Nineties involving the lack of black rowers in the Dad Vail Regatta. Protests were formed, and promises made to get more blacks involved.

In professional lacrosse, you can count the number of black players on one hand (The Philadelphia Wings have one of them - John Christmas).

And, hey,...what about those poor South Asians?? I can't remember the last time I saw one on a hockey, baseball, football, or basketball team! Can you?

So it comes down to this: why is America forcing people of every race and color to be something that they don't want to be? Maybe the lack of black baseball and lacrosse players, and rower could simply be because black kids LIKE to play basketball and football more!

In the long run, "diversity" is just another blindly Utopian attempt to get an equal number of every race, creed, and color involved in every aspect of our society, whether we want it our not.

**That's my opinion and you're entitled to it!**