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Does West Virginia University Have A Problem With Black Athletes?
If you don’t play football, apparently so, according to Mountaineer quarterback Pat White.
Before anyone goes and calls him an angry black man or an individual who’s misguided or misinformed, truly begin to understand the source. We’re not talking about a back-up QB at Chowan College, this is a Heisman Trophy finalist with a high profile in college football.
But more convincing than his academic accolades in the fact that he actually attends West Virginia University. If White believes that blacks are not welcome to be a part of the baseball team, then they probably are not welcome to be a part of the baseball team. He has much more to lose than to gain in this commentary, so whether its true or not, he must be commended for speaking his mind when so many other athletes don’t.
And on the subject of losing, let’s look at the University’s athletic profile, shall we?
Hmm. No black players on the baseball team, and White has been drafted by Major League Baseball teams three times in his tenure at WVU.
There is one black head coach at the university, and he coaches the soccer team. He also happens to be the head of oneWVU, an diversity initiative designed to promote “racial equality and justice.” Usually schools who are truly down for racial equality and justice don’t need a program to implement it. It just happens.
You don’t have to dig far to realize that while Pat White may be way off in his commentary, the impetus for his statement is dead on. And the thing is, he might not be way off in his commentary. As a student-athlete, you think that baseball players don’t talk to football players about how their coaches are? That if the baseball coach was a raving racist, other black athletes wouldn’t know about it?
And even if that wasn’t true, there’s enough smoke around that program to call in a Five Alarm diversity problem. The state that produced Randy Moss can’t be that limited in black athletes who play more than football.
I hope that people don’t take Pat White out of context. More over, I hope they put the motivation for his comments under the proper microscope.
