The National Collegiate Athletic Association has been a long advocate for diversity and Homosexual/Transgender/ Women’s rights.
Last month, the NCAA made a spectacle about removing one of their star games from a city which does not support the ‘Transgender Bathroom Bill’.
But now, the tables have turned, and the NCAA is the one under fire for not following their own policies.
The NCAA was just issued a report card by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics, which graded diversity within their hiring.
The association received poor grades both in hiring women and different races.
Breitbart News reported:
The Institute for Diversity and Ethics issued its annual report card to the NCAA, grading the organization a C+ for racial hiring and a C for gender hiring.
While the association claims to be a large advocate for diversity, they are hypocritical in their claims.
Last month, the NCAA made a big deal about pulling their star game from an area that does not support transgender bathroom policies.
Breitbart News reported:
Last month, the nationwide organization that governs college sports made a huge spectacle of how concerned they are of protecting individual rights by pulling the March Madness tournament from North Carolina because of the Tar Heel State’s bathroom privacy law HB2. Now, it turns out the NCAA falls way short of practicing what they preach.
A study revealed the poor hiring trends by the NCAA and other major athletic groups.
Breitbart News reported:
The new study reveals that college sports has had severe challenges in hiring minorities and women, and showed decreases from last year in both gender and racial hiring. Of all the categories studied by the institute, only college sports received less than a B for racial hiring.
For the 2016 season 86.1 percent of Division I, 88.1 percent of Division II, and 91.7 percent of Division III men’s coaches were white.
African Americans were so under-represented as head coaches in Division III that the percentage of women coaching men’s teams was greater than African American men coaching men’s teams.
As far as Athletic Directors go, Whites held the overwhelming majority of the decision making position, maintaining 87.6 percent for Division I, 89.4 for D-II, and 93.6 for D-III.
The NCAA surely does not practice what it preaches, and in this case, is under fire by both the media and The Institute for Diversity and Ethnicity.
A Breitbart reporter made his issue on the stance very clear, writing:
The self-righteous hypocritical posturing and carrying on by the NCAA and such coaches as Mike Krzyzewski of Duke and Roy Williams of North Carolina about how offended they are by North Carolina’s HB2 law is laughable and intensely hypocritical given the racial and gender statistics cited in the above report. If they are so disturbed by the marginalization of transgenders in North Carolina, you would think they might be a bit more concerned about the marginalization of African Americans and women in their own organization.
A trend is becoming seen in liberal organizations such as the NCAA, where social justice and political policies are being promoted, but not enforced.
Another example can be found in progressive companies such as Kellogg’s or Pepsi, who claim to support the inclusion of all citizens, but attempt to block out conservative companies from working alongside them.
What are your thoughts?
Do you think the NCAA deserved a lower rating for their hypocritical tendencies?
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