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Originally posted by zebraman
"but white players get charges more than black players. It's a hard call, but a slow white guy gets the call more than an athletic black kid."
Statistics to back that up or just a wild claim? Any chance that athletic kids try to block shots instead of taking a charge? Whoo boy..... that's just moronic. Good thing he's a coach, because that chip on his shoulder wouldn't fit into most of the rooms that schools give us to dress in.
Z
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That perception is not any different than any other bias. If you always have white officials on games where both teams are racially different, you are going to have those assumtions about the calls. Not any different than officials living in a town or a state when other differences appear by geography. I do not see you calling it moronic if someone was to officiate there old HS or school in the town that they live. If they do not want to give off the impression of bias, but a more racially diverse crew on games with schools that have racial difference. That to me is a perfect way to squash that perception. Then all he would be left with is the officials themselves.
Peace