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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is the problem racism or is it diversity?[/quote]

Good point. Many sports teams are not diverse. Could be because of things like grades, interest, exposure to the game, talent, or potential to make a living from the sport. There are probably more reasons. College football teams are not diverse when considering the make up of the US population compared to who plays on these teams. But I don't think anyone considers college football to be a racist sport. Lacrosse may not be diverse just like football, but it's certainly not a racist sport. [b]My DD has played on teams with multiple AA, Asians, Indians, players from all walks of life[/b]. More likely individuals choose not to play for reasons noted above. Not because the sport is blocking them from playing.[/quote]

And yet, there are no AA players at UVA, and maybe one at VT tech, WM and UNC.  Where did AA players go?

People go out of their ways to say that they are for diversity and inclusion; however, how many of them are for busing kids from poor neighborhood in Fairfax County to attend McLean or Langley high school?  [/quote]

UVA has one.  Last year they had three.  It looks like their would be junior isn't playing this year.  From looking at the roster, VT doesn't, but they do have a player from the Akwesasne Nation.  Why WM is in the conversation I don't know, but yes they have two AA players.  UNC takes a black girl every four years. Duke has one, but they have two 22s signed.  BC has zero.  ND has zero.  Loyola has one.  Syracuse has one, but they also have women from Haudenosaunee and two AA players coming in next year. Northwestern has one. SB has one. Florida has zero.  So that means in the women's top ten there are seven AA players.  Are there girls being overlooked, yes.  Are there girls choosing not to go where they will be the only, yes.  Is lacrosse racist, you better believe it.  It has been shown, just on this thread, what folks do when they feel attacked.  We aren't saying you are a member of the KKK, but yes you will do what you need to do to keep others out.[/quote]

"you will do what you need to do to keep others out" Uh, no. You clearly never played any high level sport in college or high school level. If you did, you'd understand kids just want to win. They dont care if Johnny is black, Susie is yellow, or Mike is white. They just want to win. I can get behind the Harlem and Baltimore programs that are trying to build the program at the youth level, but to say this sport or that sport is racist is just lazy and smacks of racism by those applying those labels. If you really want to do something about what you percieve as a problem, as Nike says 'just do it'. You can donate time, money and used gear to those programs, and they will gladly accept it. But sports is one of the few things holding the kids together these days and extending social engineering to the kids is wrong. [/quote]

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