Womens championship game

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Originally Posted by Camron Rust

The difference is in making sure the disadvantaged group get the opportunities that they should get, even if it means giving chances when they may nore may not be entirely ready versus giving opportunities only to that group....or giving disproportionate opportunities. It should be about making things equal and fair, not shutting out (or nearly shutting shutting out) a group because there predecessors were unfair. Doing things that way will never work. They will not bring people together. It only provides more ammunition to split them apart.

This I agree with. But I don't think that is the case, at least not in my experience in the officiating I've witnessed around me. And I still see plenty of white men officiating at all levels of basketball.

And a related, but separate argument, is having officials who more closely reflect the makeup of the participants. I have no problem with the desire to assign more female officials to women's games.

Just as I have no problem with the lack of black officials in sports such as hockey or lacrosse, for example, where the overwhelming majority of participants are white.