Originally Published: August 8, 2007
PART 2
IT GETS WORSE ...
CALL IT A "CRIME"
AGAINST AMERICA
( PS. PRESIDENT OBAMA'S SCHOOL )
HARVARD'S ALL WHITE BASEBALL
TEAM
Today we go where
The Boston Globe did not
in exposing
RACISM at
this "great" American "institution"
let us call it of
LOWER learning
In Part
1 of the
2 Part Box yesterday we detailed the finding of
the Globe that
ALL
32 head coaches in Harvard's Athletic Department are
WHITE as well as
the Director of Athletics and the top
13 executives in America's largest college
sports program. We should have also mentioned there has not ben even
one African American head coach at Harvard for any sport in
16 years.
But that is where the Globe
concluded its Report
but not the Box
We did what no one else has and took a close look
at all those men's and women's teams at Harvard all
37 of them. There are more
teams that coaches because some of them do double duty for men and
women.
Here is what we Found and
it is even more outrageous
then the coaching scandal
and reflects the very same
Institutional Racism that
lives in American society
masquerading as a
"meritocracy"
Of
19 Harvard men's teams
12
have
NO African Americans
Baseball
32
White /
0 African
American
Heavyweight Crew ( rowing
)
37
White /
0
African American
Lightweight
Crew ( rowing )
39 White /
0 African
American
Golf
8 White /
0 African
American
Ice Hockey
30 White /
0 African
American
Lacrosse
3 White /
0 African
American
Squash
13 White /
0 African
American
Swimming &
Diving
36 White /
0 African
American
Tennis
13 White /
0 African
American
Volleyball
10 White /
0 African
American
Sailing
10 White /
0 African
American
Skiing
14 White /
0 African
American
Of the
remaining
7 men's
teams.
3 have
ONE African
American, Fencing, Water Polo and Wrestling. Track & Field has
TWO African
Americans. Basketball
THREE African Americans. Only Soccer
and Football have sizable numbers of Black players. Soccer
7 of
26 players, and Football is
impossible to determine because about
50% of the photos on this large team are
missing.
Now here are the Women of
Harvard
Heavyweight Crew ( rowing
)
47
White /
0
African American
Field
Hockey
19 White /
0 African
American
Golf
10 White /
0 African
American
Ice Hockey
26 White /
0 African
American
Sailing
19 White /
0 African
American
Skiing
14 White /
0 African
American
Soccer
22 White /
0 African
American
Softball
16 White /
0 African
American
Squash
12 White /
0 African
American
Tennis
7 White /
0 African
American
Volleyball
15 White /
0 African
American
Water Polo
15 White /
0 African
American
There are
4 women's teams
with
ONE African
American on them. Basketball (yes Basketball only
ONE African American),
Lightweight Crew, Lacrosse, and Swimming & Diving. Fencing has
TWO African
Americans. And the most Black players are on Track & Field
THREE African
Americans.
So of
37 total teams
24 have
NO African Americans.
12 men's teams
and
12 women's
teams. A very perverse "equality" of denial. Fully
70% of the student NCAA
teams at Harvard do not even have even
ONE African American.
7 of the other
13 teams over half have only
ONE African American on each
team. Only
6 of
37 teams have even
TWO African
American players.
NO Women's team has more than
2 Black players and that is
ONLY on Track
& Field with
3 African Americans. Only
TWO teams at Harvard have
more than
3 Black
players. Both men's teams. Soccer and Football.
On the men's side - excluding Football because no
accurate count is possible - on the men's side
415 students play NCAA
sports minus Football, just
15 of them are African American. If you leave
out Soccer with
7
Black players that means that
17
of
19
men's teams at Harvard have a grand total of
8 Black players.
On the Harvard women's side with
18 NCAA teams,
IT IS EVEN WORSE.
There are a total of
382
Harvard women playing NCAA sports. Exactly
9 of them are African
American. That comes to less than
3% of all the women players are African
American. While on the men's side (excluding football) just
barely over
4% of
the male players are African American.
Let's return to coaching for a moment.
While there are
NO African American head
coaches on these
37
Harvard teams let's look at the entire coaching staff for all the teams
which includes many assistant coaches.. On the men's side there are a
total of
59
coaching positions
4 are African Americans. On the women's side it
is
EVEN FAR WORSE.
There are also
59
coaching positions on the women's teams at Harvard. Exactly
ONE is held by an African
American. And he is a man Jeremy Gee in Women's Track & Field.
There is
NOT even
ONE African
American woman in coaching at Harvard.
Of all the Outrages
we have documented
in over
5 years now
this situation at Harvard
not unlike at most elite colleges
just worst of all at Harvard is
Blatant Institutional Racism
that reflects the very
Core Philosophy of
America's #
1 University
where so many "leaders"
in American Society
emerge to Lord over
All of
US.
This is
America on
Easter Sunday
2007
Let us conclude again with a
Rousing Rendition of
the Harvard Fight Song
that serves their teams
and sung at games
so very well
"Ten Thousand Men of Harvard"
Ten Thousand Men of Harvard want victory today
For they know that o'er old Eli
Fair Harvard holds sway.
So then we'll conquer all old Eli's
men,
And when the game ends we'll
sing again:
Ten thousand men of
Harvard gained vict'ry today
let's add a
new verse .....
Ten
thousand
WHITE men
of Harvard
who will always be
Victorious
no matter what it
takes
we'll steal cheat
lie
so that we'll always
WIN WIN WIN
we Harvard men !
HARVARD'S ALL WHITE WOMEN'S
ICE HOCKEY
TEAM
