Michigan ACLU Blasts Central Michigan U. for Starting Golf Program, Calling it ‘the Whitest of Sports’
“Country clubs that have been the training grounds for elite golfers have historically been racially exclusive”
Has anyone at the Michigan ACLU ever heard of Tiger Woods?
Campus Reform reports:
ACLU wants college athletes to run track, not play golf, calling it ‘among the whitest of sports’
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan is pressuring Central Michigan University to bring back their men’s track and field team, citing that the original decision as having “far-reaching racial implications.”
The ACLU of Michigan blasted CMU for eliminating the men’s track and field program, but then adding a golf program, which it contends is “among the whitest of sports,” Central Michigan Life reports.
The university had announced the discontinuation of the track and field program in May 2020, citing financial concerns related to COVID-19.
After sending a letter on May 4 to the CMU president, Bob Davies, the ACLU of Michigan sent a second letter to the university board of trustees on September 16.
“African American golfers are rare because of both historical circumstance and design. Country clubs that have been the training grounds for elite golfers have historically been racially exclusive,” the September 16 letter states. “Add to that the expense of the sport and the socio-economic circumstances of many African Americans, and the reasons for the whiteness of golf are quite evident.”
In their first letter, the ACLU states that track and field has a big impact on the Black community because it has “offered many a way out of oppressive poverty.”
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“Add to that the expense of the sport and the socio-economic circumstances of many African Americans, and the reasons for the whiteness of golf are quite evident.”
I guess the AClU hasn’t priced sneakers lately.
They don’t cost nearly as much if you shoplift them
If you think golf is expensive, buy a machinegun. We are talking dollars per second. But worth it. Buzzgun skeet is instantly addicting.
@ACLU
Tough luck candy assses. There are plenty of sports that are majority black and minority … if that’s allowed … so should sports dominated by whites.
Tiger Woods is just another black face of white supremacy.
In 1896, 124 white men chasing a black man was called the KKK. In 1996, it was renamed the PGA.
I just ignore these racist organizations. So should you.
I suspect that they had to cancel the men’s track and field program because of Title IX. If their students are 60% female, then their athletes have to be 60% female. If enough women don’t go out for sports, then men’s sports have to be eliminated. Eliminating men’s track and field will reduce the men by a large number. Golf will be a comparatively small number.
ACLU and country clubs. I wonder how many in the upper echelons of the ACLU belong to one?? Note to ACLU there are lots of public courses available that are inexpensive. Maybe they should ask Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley what they think of golf!
Whiter than ice hockey?
I don’t think they could articulate what civil liberties are about. So fuck ’em.