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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]By the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s own estimate, 61 percent of student athletes last year were white. [/quote]

58% of all college students are white (non-Hispanic). 61% is not out of line with this, and hardly demonstrates a racist advantage for whites.

[quote]When it comes to college athletics, football and basketball command the most public attention, but in the background is a phalanx of lower-profile sports favored by white kids, which often cost a small fortune for a student participating at a top level. Ivy League sports like sailing, golf, water polo, fencing, and lacrosse aren’t typically staples of urban high schools with big nonwhite populations; they have entrenched reputations as suburban, country-club sports.[/quote]

These "lower profile" sports, put together, represent a trivial number of high school and college athletes. And every Ivy league school does not even offer these sports. Basically, this is not an impressive claim when you consider that the overwhelming majority of athletes are in football, basketball, baseball, and soccer, sports in which blacks and Hispanics have plenty of opportunity and in which they excel.

[quote] One in five families of an elite high-school athlete spend $1,000 a month on sports—the average family of a lacrosse player spends nearly $8,000 a year. [/quote]

The author is overplaying the "only rich kids can afford it" idea. We are not "rich". Far from it, we are upper middle class. We are still spending about $5,000 a year on travel lacrosse. That is well within the reach of parents who earn even significantly less than we do.[/quote]

and your kid was recruited to an Ivy league school?[/quote]

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