Womens championship game

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by deecee

No more misplaced that then games with predominantly white athletes get mostly to all white officials. What you are defending is affirmative action. Which I think is a bunch of baloney.

The majority of officials I see are white in the first place. You do not have to make a case for more white officials wnen most of the officials offiating almost everything are already white. And this could be the case in just about any level and any sport. And in basketball the sport is dominated at least on the Men's side with African-Americans. We need Affirmative-Action to prove that we can excell in basketball officiating, while dominating in other aspects of the sport? Give me a break!!!

Originally Posted by deecee

For the record I am not white, nor am I black or Hispanic. Its like saying that being a Black, female, and gay is hitting the genetic jackpot in officiating.

If the deciding factor over who gets selected is race/ethnicity/gender then that's just hog wash. I would like all qualified officials to be entered into a lottery and 3 names selected at random, and 1 for the alternative. However large that pool be is up to the deciding bodies. But it's not more short sighted and/or misplaced then going overboard with ones new found freedom/equality at the expense of exactly what they were fighting in the first place.

No one said it was the deciding factor. But let us be frank for a second. Many but not all for sure whites often do not even want to go into certain communities for their sterotypes and so-called assumptions about certain communities. I hear it all the time when I have been assigned place and my white counterparts have more negative things to say than I would. As if I feel comfortable to go to certain communities, but I never complain. At least at the HS level I have no problem with people that can handle the sitaution as an official and not worry about other things while going to officiate. Unless we are employees, no one can really make us go anywhere. And if I was assigning I want officials that can handle the issues in that game that might take place. That is why I have openly said that the 2A state finals the offiicals appeared to be totally overmatched as they did not seem to address the extra-ciricular activity that took place in that game. And I am sorry, three rural officials was not the answer. Heck they all could have been from Chicago and white and that would have been better than what was working that game because I did not see officials aware of the underlining situations that could arise. And yes, players and coaches talk to their "own" differently than they do other races or even genders.

Peace