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What percentage of the FF officials were Black? 33%. Now, what percentage of the US is Black? 13%. Now, what percentage of the US is Hispanic? 15%. Now, what percentage of the US is Asian? 5%. Looks to me like Blacks are really getting shafted on this one! ![]() If equality were really the goal to be determined by the numbers, two of the Black officials should yield their spots to a Hispanic or Asian. There are surely individual cases of discrimination but if there are any more than 13% of the nationwide tournament officials that are Black, there is NO basis of any argument that there is a pattern of racial discrimination unless someone wishes to make the claim that Blacks are better officials because they're Black and that they should be overrepresented because of that. There are plenty of problem areas where inequities are real and need attention. This is not one of them. It is efforts like this that detract from the fights against true discrimination problems.
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