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Originally Posted by Camron Rust
And that is an entirely different question than what race those officials were. That was simply a matter of the officials not being qualified for that game.
We see the game thing here...officials from outside of Portland can be suprised by the level of ball they encounter when they get deep into the tourney...and they are the same race as the other officials and players.
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I believe qualifications can include race when situations of the participants and their reaction to things are a factor. Just like someone in business is going to hire or send people in their company to deal with certain groups because they know they can handle those situation. I would not expect in a sport like soccer to send all English speaking people into certain places if all the players speak Spanish. Let us not act like only a certain group is "qualified" in the first place. And what does "qualified" even mean? And for some reason we never see outcries for qualification of officials when they are all white males. That is a fact you still have yet to address, but we seem to wonder why women and African-Americans are in games when the players look more like them are somehow not "qualified." I find that fact very interesting.
Peace