re: First time in NBA history there will be no white players participating in ASG

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think a talking point on that is, generally speaking, is when white people use their own sensibilities and then seem to not having any understanding whatsoever as to why "other cultures" may process things differently

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Processing things differently is fine, but I'd like to think people could agree that race is such a lazy way to excuse why things are the way they are.

For example, there is a high correlation between race and education level completed. If you stopped right there you'd fail to see that there is an even higher correlation between socioeconomic status and education completed. Obviously education is a more complex issue than basketball or acting, but my point remains.

I'm not going to get into white privilege because I think alot of that stuff is ridiculous, but I can say I consider myself blessed to have been raised in such a way that I look inward for what went wrong rather than outward for someone to blame. That approach manifest itself even with something as trivial as the OP - my first inclination is that white players should have performed better, not that deserving white players were overlooked for black players.

That approach isn't exclusive to white people by any means, but outside of a few sarcastic comments, the lack of any outrage over this provides some anecdotal evidence that most people see this as a merit issue, not a race issue. I'd like to think that could become a more universal approach to things like this.

tl;Dr - Downvoting myself for being this serious on the MSB.