- Sweden now recommends a second booster shot for people who are 80 and over.
- New York City has a vaccination mandate. They just fired 1430 employees for not complying. That turned out to be 0.4% of the 400,000 work force.
About the Beijing Winter Olympics:
- Eileen Gu of San Francisco, but representing China, won a silver medal in freeski slopestyle.
- Mikaela Schffrin finished 18th in the women's downhill. But she competed.
- Germany won gold, silver and bronze medals in the two-man bobsled.
- Looks like 15-year old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva (right) will be allowed to continue competing, and seems likely to gain a second gold on Thursday. Something to do with being a minor and thus a "protected person." Very troublesome decision, for Russia is already on probation for a variety of doping tests. A little known heart medication, trimetazidine, is at the heart of the issue. Very confusing judgement call which won't be settled until sometime in the future, at which time her medals could be revoked.
- The southwestern USA into Texas has been in drought since 2000. This is the driest period for this region in 1200 years. Here is the scary part: this means maybe something else is causing global warming!
- Looks like Sarah Palin will lose her lawsuit against the New York Times.
- Is it really possible that Russia is beginning to pull back some troops from the Ukraine border?
- White 58%
- Hispanic 19%
- Black 12%
- Asian 6% (includes those from India)
NBA players:
- White 17%
- Hispanic 2%
- Black 74%
- Asian 0.4%
CEOs in the U.S.:
- White 36%
- Hispanic 5%
- Black 19%
- Asian 30%
But numbers can be deceiving. Of Fortune 500 CEOs:
- White men 86%
- White women 7%
- Hispanic 3%
- Black 1%
- Asian 3%
- White 38%
- Hispanic 11%
- Black 9%
- Asian 21%
- White 27%
- Hispanic 17%
- Black 0.2%
- Asian 37%
- No one ever mentions that maybe one problem is that most of the players are Black.
- 88% of Americans are non-Black, and some of them too watch the game on TV.
- I have never once seen a White protest that there are too many Blacks on teams and that this is a viable civil rights issue. Same for Hispanics and Asians. But the reason is clear. Blacks are physically superior.
- But should there be racial equality for fairness, or maybe to increase viewership?
- Interestingly enough, a decade ago 48% of NBA head coaches were black.
- Today, it is down to 23%.
- As 74% of players are Black, is something wrong here?
- But then, only 12% of U.S. citizens are Black.
- How do you determine what is right?
- What does racial equality really mean?
The NFL is now in some sort of racial crisis, for only 6.3% of head coaches are Black.
- However, 39% of assistant coaches are Black. Isn't this too many, as Blacks are only 12% of the country?
- Part of the problem is, what is Black? Wikipedia says 59% of NFL players are Black, while the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport says this figure is 71%, but goes on to say that this number represents non-Whites.
- Two more Black coaches and at least this percentage will match the national number of 12%.
- But what about the dominance of Black players? Shouldn't there thus be at least half Black coaches?
- What about the fact that all NFL team owners are non-Black? There is a South Korean owner (of the Buffalo Bills) and another was born in Pakistan (Jacksonville Jaguars). Is this just another example of racial injustice by prejudice? Or is this the freedom allowed in the USA?
On the academic side of racial equality, Asians are complaining that Ivy League schools discriminate against them in the admission process. Not only test scores are used, but other factors too, and these try to strike some kind of racial and social balance. This lawsuit against Harvard is soon to be adjudicated by the Supreme Court. Mind you, Asians are only 6% of those in high school, but as shown above, represent 21% of the student body at Harvard. Their contention is that this number should be even higher based on achievement and test scores.
While Harvard and CalTech have what appear to be similar parameters to select students, a closer look at the actual process shows that CalTech is noted to base the process mostly on test scores and high school achievement, while Harvard likes the more well-rounded individuals. So how do you explain this discrepancy of undergraduate Blacks on both campus:
- Harvard 9%
- CalTech 0.2%
I wish not to at this time enter the controversy associated with racial equality, but how is it possible for two of our best universities to have such a gross difference in percentage of Black undergraduate students? Is one race less competent mentally? Or is the selection process providing what should be illegal preference to a race that has not been provided equal education? Or both? Or something else. No matter how you say it, visions of eugenics and Hitler come into play.
In 2017 one of my postings was entitled: ARE ASIANS SMARTER THAN AMERICANS? Read that article, for at the end I actually kind of answer that question. The reality is that it is not the brainpower but the internal motivation influenced by parental pressure and culture, which shifts over time. I noticed that those figures were for 2010. Here is the comparison for 2020:
- Asian $94,903
- White $74,912
- Hispanic $55,321
- Black $45,870
So one gauge of success could well be median household income. How this happened is education. % with bachelor's degree:
- U.S. population 28%
- Asian 49%
- White 31%
- Black 18%
- Hispanic 13%
But does it really matter, for this argument states...If Asian-Americans are so smart, how come they have no power or influence? Leading to the next fact: Why then is the USA so dominantly powerful in the World today?
But returning to the topic of the day, here is another discussion entitled: Intellectually Inferior and Physically Superior--Racist Ideologies and the Black Athlete. For more, Wikipedia addresses Race and Intelligence. Here is another on Eugenics.
So what is racial equality? Maybe that is the wrong question to ask.
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