re: Can skiing solve its diversity problem?

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Excluded by default. Skiing costs a lot of money. There is less generational wealth being passed down in the black community. This is not hard to acknowledge for anyone with a smidgen of integrity.

Sure, they can pull themselves out of that by their boot straps, but by then it's too late to become an elite skier. They would have to take their kid. But it's a tough activity to teach your kid if you yourself didn't learn to ski until your mid 30s or early 40s

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My wife is black and comes from an above average wealth family. She hasn’t shown a previous interest in skiing because she hates the cold.

There's a shite ton of white people who can't afford to go skiing.

But I'm sure the black people will find a way to pay for it. Just like airline tickets, cruises, Disney and Mexico trips, etc.

Bruh I went in Mama’s Fried Chicken in Opelousas this recent Mardi Gras night after Fat Tuesday parades. I had just finished hunting. I was in full camo, but had a hankering for a shrimp poboy. I was the only white dude within two blocks of that restaurant.

At NO point did I think “damn, I’m scared, it’s a bunch of black people all around me and I’m the only white dude”.

What gives? Why are blacks so scared of white gatherings?

Black History Lesson: Black people invented skiing. White people stole their skis and claimed skiing as a white sport. Then, they wouldn't allow Black people to ski on the mountains they stole from Black people.

It’s weird that you can say and encourage this:

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Black-run organisations

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But I would imagine a self-identified White-run organization would cause quite a stir.

Bonus points for the ski pun.

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Can skiing solve its diversity problem?

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When the diversity "problem" gets solved, that's when the real problems begin.

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The whiteness of skiing in the US is partly tied to [its] cultural, national and racial history," said Annie Gilbert Coleman, whose paper The Unbearable Whiteness of Skiing examines the sport's lack of diversity.

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Imagine someone writing a paper on how unbearable basketball is because it’s majority black

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don’t notice your posts often, but are they always this fricking stupid? Good Lord.

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He’s just really good at his shtick.

Okay, so skiing isn’t the most diverse scene in the world. But who’s complaining?

This is a problem with no victims. No one cares, other than this one group that assembled to justify its existence.

White people don’t care. Black people don’t care. Why is this a thing?