re: College Baseball Rosters of UCLA and Miss. State

If I recall the numbers correctly, MLB has only something like 5% black ball players in the bigs; the Latin American players are the second highest racial group after anglos. So, using your "logic", lets force MLB to draft & promote more blacks to the big leagues.And since you're into affirmative action, force MLB to pay them millions in contract money whether they have any talent or not. You're big on giving something of value to those who have not earned it, but in most sports, pro sports in particular, one's talent pretty much trumps race in every instance. Does the number 42 mean anything to you at all? He earned his way onto the diamond.

I'm all for diversity on the board, but "progressive" measures such as the one OP suggested are typical of the race-baiting left who take it upon themselves to give away what is not theirs to give, and they could have never earned.

Affirmative Action for college sports teams, are you insane? I say that in jest, because I'm sure you're completely serious, as all liberals are when it comes to asinine policies similar to what you suggested.

Just because someone comes from less privileged (whatever that even means) doesn't mean a decision to play professional sports (aka get skill job after high school instead of college, something many people do and are successful) is a risky move.

If you really live in Jackson, take a look around. I don't care what race you are, Jackson is a cesspool of liberal measures taken to an extreme with absolutely nothing to show for it.

You want to take this into sports teams, because your state's flagship baseball team has only one black person?

The basketball team is a heavy majority black, I am sure. Same as the football team.

To end, I ask a question to the OP, just because I am curious. How much is enough? What exactly can we do to make amends for the "1950's" as you put it?