Appalling lack of diversity on someUS olympic teams

[Mason66]

what other teams? and i just showed you two women who won medals for the USA

I am telling you who I saw with my own eyes. I don't remember what teams they were on, but they were not on the US team.

All the female swimmers I saw were white from the US team.

Katie Ledecky is amazing to watch. She beat her own record by a lot which is very hard.

 

[dimensionallava]

I am telling you who I saw with my own eyes. I don't remember what teams they were on, but they were not on the US team.

All the female swimmers I saw were white from the US team.

Katie Ledecky is amazing to watch. She beat her own record by a lot which is very hard.

are you insane i just showed you two black female swimmers. I dont care what your eyes saw. Are you saying the olympics is lying?

 

[jimbo]

No, the OP is making an observation, you brought your anti-progressive strawman as your personal carry-on baggage.

"Or perhaps the US Olympic team could do more to recruit swimmers of color?

Whenever you see something where predominately white people have reached the top, the only conclusion you can really reach is that white privilege helped them get there?"

Seems like whenever a white person gets picked, it must be discrimination.

 

[TurtleDude]

I doubt you could have misrepresented Dueces post more dishonestly if you had tried. Good job.

One of the most entertaining parts of your posts is how posters of all leans come together to laugh at you.

Yep there is all kinds of DIVERSITY among the posters bashing AA's seething idiocy

Gays straights, blacks whites, greens reds, socialists libertarians, ping pong stars, ballet dancers, kung fu masters, bull riders, go cart racers, single engine pilots, dentists, paralegals, dog walkers, manicurists, landscape architects and personal hygiene nurses.

 

[Vox]

I guess black athletes don't like water polo all that much...

It's just that you can't develop much water polo skill by playing in water sprayed from fire hydrants.

 

[TheGoverness]

Yep there is all kinds of DIVERSITY among the posters bashing AA's seething idiocy

Gays straights, blacks whites, greens reds, socialists libertarians, ping pong stars, ballet dancers, kung fu masters, bull riders, go cart racers, single engine pilots, dentists, paralegals, dog walkers, manicurists, landscape architects and personal hygiene nurses.

AtlantaDonis is a great tool to use for DP unity.

 

[AtlantaAdonis]

Go find them yourself. You seem to be an Olympic scout or something.

You can find African-Americans who are taller than Phelps with bigger feet and longer arms (traits needed for swimming). Now why weren't they recruited into the Olympic training program? Simple. We use stereotypes to recruit athletes.

 

[ajn678]

You can find African-Americans who are taller than Phelps with bigger feet and longer arms (traits needed for swimming). Now why weren't they recruited into the Olympic training program? Simple. We use stereotypes to recruit athletes.

Maybe cause they would rather make millions in another sport like basketball or football.

 

[TheGoverness]

You can find African-Americans who are taller than Phelps with bigger feet and longer arms (traits needed for swimming). Now why weren't they recruited into the Olympic training program? Simple. We use stereotypes to recruit athletes.

Where's your evidence that we use stereotypes to recruit athletes?

 

[Perotista]

Swimming

Rowing

Shooting

Women's Soccer

Water Polo

Why are we still fielding all-white teams in 2016?

What's the goal here? Send the best players or athletes available in the sport they participate in or diversity. There were competition events held in all sports and those who were the best qualified for the team in whatever sport they took part in. The key word is the best.

Now for diversity, do we break up team USA basketball team because it is all black, totally lacking diversity? Seems to me if diversity is that important, since blacks make up only 13% of our total population, they should have only two players in team USA basketball team. Or are they there because they are the best at what they do?

 

[Carjosse]

You can find African-Americans who are taller than Phelps with bigger feet and longer arms (traits needed for swimming). Now why weren't they recruited into the Olympic training program? Simple. We use stereotypes to recruit athletes.

Or wait for it, they did not want to. Blacks already make up a much smaller potion of the US population, but then you have to find someone who wants to swim at an Olympic level, and is also good enough to be the best. It is not as simple as finding someone who can be be the best it is finding someone who can be the best but also wants to be the best in a small subset of the population. People's interests are shaped by their community and culture, it is very possible that many Blacks that might be good at swimming just do not want to do it.

 

[Casper]

You can find African-Americans who are taller than Phelps with bigger feet and longer arms (traits needed for swimming). Now why weren't they recruited into the Olympic training program? Simple. We use stereotypes to recruit athletes.

You do not seem to grasp how these athletes get on the Olympic team, clue it has to do with the sport that they compete in and their own level of skill and talent. So are you saying the US Olympic team should be recruiting and training more whites to run in the track and field events? If you think the summer Olympics are racist you are going to explode when you see the teams for the Winter Olympics.

 

[Black Dog]

Swimming

Rowing

Shooting

Women's Soccer

Water Polo

Why are we still fielding all-white teams in 2016?

Blacks interested in rowing and water polo? Seriously? Some people don't do some sports and has nothing to do with diversity.

 

[Mason66]

are you insane i just showed you two black female swimmers. I dont care what your eyes saw. Are you saying the olympics is lying?

I only commented on what I saw. Why are you making it about something else?

 

[Mason66]

You can find African-Americans who are taller than Phelps with bigger feet and longer arms (traits needed for swimming). Now why weren't they recruited into the Olympic training program? Simple. We use stereotypes to recruit athletes.

Where are they? Who are they?

If they wanted to be on the team, and they were better then these team members, they would be there.

You seem to know who they are so please tell us.

 

[CaptainCourtesy]

More of the liberal utopia ... Sorry liberals, life is not fair and there will never be equal outcome or opportunity. Deal with it.

The only way you fools can create equal opportunity is to reduce everyone to the lowest common denominator, then wonder why everyone sucks and nothing works.

Apparently we need to build Olympic size swimming pools in every school, even force the Private ones to build one, don't want the privileged to be underprivileged, they all need farmland to keep the horses for the polo teams and we will need to dig a lake at every school for the rowing teams the list goes on and on. Ironically that would mean you liberals would need to build shooting ranges and supply guns to every kid that wants the opportunity and since Turtle Dude can afford the best weapons for his kids we will need the best weapons for every kid that wants an opportunity to shoot against Turtle Dude's kid.

Of course what good will all that do if the kids home life is poor, without the opportunity of a good home how can anyone expect them to have the same opportunity, so now we are building homes for everyone and they will need a car to get to practice. But some people can afford the best trainers so now we need to pay for the very best trainers for everyone. We cant expect kids that can only afford macaroni and cheese to compete against kids who's parents can afford nutritional meals so now we need to fund meals to the kids, but some kids might not have a dad and mom works so we need a nanny to take care of them while mommy works.

But even with all that some kids just cant deal with all the pressure of competition, that doesn't seem right. How do you expect anyone to have equal opportunity to win with all that pressure and only one gold metal, they should all get gold medals...

Moral of the story, no matter what liberals tell you about wanting equal opportunity not outcomes, ultimately they become one and the same.

Your post is nothing but conservative partisan hackery... since many LIBERALS have come into this thread and let the OP know that his premise is idiotic.

 

[CaptainCourtesy]

The time for Diversity is not a week before the Olympics starts.

Could they not just find some swimmers of color for the Olympic training program a year or more before the games and train them up to be first-rate swimmers? Do they not think African-American swimmers are motivated enough or that they only care about basketball? It's this kind of stereotypical thinking that has no place in our Olympic training program.

Why is it that you did not address my post regarding the lack of diversity on the US Basketball team? Is it because it demonstrates that your entire premise was stupid and has no credibility?

 

[DA60]

Swimming

Rowing

Shooting

Women's Soccer

Water Polo

Why are we still fielding all-white teams in 2016?

Swimming, rowing, shooting, women's soccer and water polo? You are honestly surprised that more African Americans are not on the American Olympic team in these sports? I am not.

Like it or not (and I don't like it), 'blacks' are still not the richest 'race' in America. I doubt you will find TONS of them competing - just for fun - in rowing, shooting or water polo. Some? Sure...but still the vast minority. I am guessing mosts inner city, public schools do not have a rowing, shooting (for sport) or water polo team. And swimming and women's soccer are two other's that do not leap to mind when it comes to African Americans competing in.

Eventually (hopefully), that will change. But for now...nope.

It's simple economic realities of America (unfortunately).

 

[calamity]

Swimming, rowing, shooting, women's soccer and water polo? You are honestly surprised that more African Americans are not on the American Olympic team in these sports? I am not.

Like it or not (and I don't like it), 'blacks' are still not the richest 'race' in America. I doubt you will find TONS of them competing - just for fun - in rowing, shooting or water polo. Some? Sure...but still the vast minority. I am guessing mosts inner city, public schools do not have a rowing, shooting (for sport) or water polo team. And swimming and women's soccer are two other's that do not leap to mind when it comes to African Americans competing in.

Eventually (hopefully), that will change. But for now...nope.

It's simple economic realities of America (unfortunately).

Few kids, white or black, grow up dreaming of being water poll stars or masters rowers. Sheesh, most kids don't even know those sports even exist. If you opened up an inner city rowing club for kids under 12, you'd be hard pressed to fill those slots, even if you offerred free memberships.

There is no less expensive sport than soccer. A ball and empty lot is all you need. Millions of black kids are not aiming to be the next Pele though. Are they? No, they want to be like Mike, Steph or LeBron. It has nothing to do with privilege.

 

[Aunt Spiker]

Water Polo

Why are we still fielding all-white teams in 2016?

You might actually be itnerested in what Ashleigh Johnson - the only black Female of the US Women's Water Polo Team - says about the sport. Water Polo Player From Miami On Verge of Olympic History | NBC 6 South Florida

"I didn't even really wonder why there weren't any more black people on the team,” Johnson said. “That's just how it's always been.”

"It is mentioned a lot,” Donna Johnson said about her daughter’s ethnicity. “A lot of people ask her about it, so she is very conscious of it, but i don't think it affects the way she sees herself.”

Ashleigh says she’s never faced any outward prejudice or even heard opponents make comments about how she’s different. "I'm sure they think it, but they don't say it, and they definitely don't say it after the game, because we beat them," Johnson said with a big smile.

So it seems that black people just don't get into things like Water Polo because they just don't . . . is it that big of a deal?

 

[DA60]

Few kids, white or black, grow up dreaming of being water poll stars or masters rowers. Sheesh, most kids don't even know those sports even exist. If you opened up an inner city rowing club for kids under 12, you'd be hard pressed to fill those slots, even if you offerred free memberships.

There is no less expensive sport than soccer. A ball and empty lot is all you need. Millions of black kids are not aiming to be the next Pele though. Are they? No, they want to be like Mike, Steph or LeBron. It has nothing to do with privilege.

Oh come on now. If that were the case, then there would be no Olympic water polo team if no one wanted to play it. Or are you suggesting that there is some genetic reason why 'blacks' do not like water polo..because I sure do not think there is. If you watch international soccer games, there are TONS of 'blacks' making millions playing soccer (football).

This is about economics...period.

Most 'black' Americans do not have remotely the access to the sports in the OP that 'whites' do...pure and simple. That is why there are no 'blacks' on those teams - not because 'blacks' (for some reason) do not like playing those sports less than whites do.

If more 'blacks' played more of the OP sports, then more would make the Olympics and thus more would want to play and so on and so on. But because the inner cities do not have easy access to these sports.....


And, btw, soccer is often NOT an easy sport to play in an inner city. There are not a lot of proper soccer fields in the middle of a city. When I lived in a wealthy part of a city, I had a hard time finding a soccer field (as I was on the school team and the school did not even have a field). Space is often at a premium in cities.
And the parks that do exist usually have either baseball fields (which are near useless for soccer) or football fields...with no soccer goals.

 

[calamity]

Oh come on now. If that were the case, then there would be no Olympic water polo team if no one wanted to play it. Or are you suggesting that there is some genetic reason why 'blacks' do not like water polo..because I sure do not think there is.

This is about economics...period.

Most 'black' Americans do not have remotely the access to the sports in the OP then 'whites' do...pure and simple. That is why there are no 'blacks' on those teams - not because 'blacks' (for some reason) do not like playing those sports.


And, btw, soccer is often NOT an easy sport to play in an inner city. There are not a lot of soccer fields in the middle of a city. When I lived in a wealthy part of a city, I had a hard time finding a soccer field (as I was on the school team and the school did not even have a field). Space is often at a premium in cities.
And the parks that do exist usually have either baseball fields (which is near useless for soccer) or football fields...with no soccer goals.

Nonsense. Poor kids play soccer all over Asia, Europe and South America. Get real.

 

[DA60]

Nonsense. Poor kids play soccer all over Asia, Europe and South America. Get real.

You are being ridiculous.

Your argument is basically that 'blacks' do not genetically like playing the OP sports which is why they are not on the teams in question...which is absolutely ludicrous.


Have you even been to an inner city? I guarantee you there are few/NO water polo clubs or rowing clubs. Where the hell would someone row in a poor inner city? In a sewer? Think.


You are not even making sense...and this discussion is pointless.

There are no 'blacks' in the OP photos primarily because of economic realities in America...period. If you cannot see that incredibly obvious point - that is your problem.


We are done here.

Good day.

 

[longview]

Everybody gets a trophy, just for participation. The foundation, Keep Our Own Kids Safe (yes there's an acronym) supports abolition of competition so that no one's self-esteem is damaged.

The result is called generation snowflake, they melt if they take any heat!

 

[Kobie]

Nonsense. Poor kids play soccer all over Asia, Europe and South America. Get real.

Poor kids in Asia, Europe and South America play soccer because all you need is a ball, and it's the sport their idols play.

Poor kids in North America play basketball because all you need is a ball, and it's the sport their idols play.