USA Today wants to know why there are so many white guys on Wisconsin basketball team
Liberals today are absolutely obsessed with the topic of race, and if you doubt that’s true, just scroll through the top stories of any given day of the week, and I guarantee you’ll run across some blubbering lefty shedding crocodile tears and spewing fake outrage about some non-existent racial injustice.
And if you still aren’t convinced from that little exercise, then perhaps the USA Today kerfuffle over the number of white guys on the Wisconsin Badgers basketball team will do the trick.
Yes, those bloodhound journalists seeking truth, justice, and the socialist way are probing deep into why the Badgers haven’t met the secret quote of black players they deem appropriate for a college basketball team to have.
Sigh.
From NewsBusters:
Racially obsessed USA Today on Friday wrote this headline: “Wisconsin doesn’t hide from ‘white guys’ reputation.”
Josh Peter assembled current and former Badger players, former assistant coaches, and “authorities on the African-American experience” to answer: “Why is the Badgers’ roster predominantly white?”
When the Final Four is played Saturday in Indianapolis, all five starters for Kentucky, Duke and Michigan State will be African American. Wisconsin’s starting lineup, by contrast, includes one African American, forward Nigel Hayes.
The average Division I men’s basketball team this season includes nine African-American players and four white players, according to data provided by the NCAA. At Wisconsin, the roster includes five African Americans, 10 whites and one Native American.
This year’s starting lineup is no aberration. When Wisconsin played Kentucky in the Final Four last year, it had one African American in the starting lineup. When the Badgers reached the Final Four under previous coach Dick Bennett in 2000 — in the school’s only other appearance since 1941 — it had one African-American starter.
Former Badgers point guard Jordan Taylor told of being needled by a teammate about Wisconsin’s chances against undefeated Kentucky.
“He was just saying we’ve got too many white guys,” Taylor says with a chuckle. “I still get kind of poked at, teased about it, because it always seems like there are about four white guys and a black point guard all the time (in Wisconsin’s starting lineup).”
So I guess Wisconsin should feel bad they don’t have a team comprised almost completely of blacks, as having anything less than that is “racist.”
That may not have been explicitly stated, but it’s not hard to read between the lines and see what they’re getting at.
Since every other team has mostly black starters, for Wisconsin to have the opposite must be due to racism. Liberal logic at it’s finest.
The reality is Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan does most of his recruiting for the team inside the state. Only six and a half percent of Wisconsin’s population is made up of blacks, which is half the national average.
Ryan’s coaching style is low-scoring and has a slow-tempo, which doesn’t really appeal to “hot shots” who basically just want to take every possible opportunity to score as many points as they can and get into the NBA.
In other words, there are perfectly reasonable explanations for why Wisconsin doesn’t have an entire team of black starters, and none of them has anything to do with skin color.
One would think blacks would be insulted by the fact so many liberals just want these teams to have a certain number of players based on race instead of talent.
It’s the “poor black guy can’t do it on his own and needs the white guy to rescue him,” deal, and it’s pretty demeaning, and in my opinion, racist.
How about everyone just pipe down and let college sports recruiters go out and get the best kids they can for the team and not worry about what color their skin happens to be?
Then again, that doesn’t give bleeding heart lefties anything to cry about, so I guess I’m asking too much.