Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Food For Thought

In this journal article the author, Steve Sailer, touches on the idea of collusion. He states that baseball teams colluded to not blacks play alongside with white just how colleges collude for whites and asian students. I'm not entirely sure if I agree with this but this is what Sailer says, "The team owners' ill-named ``gentlemen's agreement'' to discriminate against blacks closely resembles today's unspoken understanding among the presidents of another government-sanctioned cartel, our elite colleges, that they will all discriminate against whites and Asians. Both clubowners and college presidents chose to head off ugly incidents by pre-emptively caving in to racial activists. They then browbeat all their peers into closing ranks, lest a lone dissident spotlight their spinelessness." (Sailer, 1996)
Agree or disagree if you will but it is definitely something to think about from my point of view.

Source:
Sailer, S. (1996). How Jackie Robinson desegregated America. National Review, 48(6), 38-41.
 

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