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Wednesday, January 27,
Discrimination suit
aims at sports
organizations
Tomorrow I plan to march down to the
little town that Texans call the state
capitol, Austin, and file a lawsuit against
the National Football League, the Major
League Baseball Association and the
National Basketball Association at the
state court house. What is the lawsuit for,
you ask? Why, I plan to sue the three
major sports associations for
discrimination against white athletes and
failure to be equal opportunity employers.
Over the Christmas holidays, the
Reverend Jesse Jackson met with the
owners of the teams in the Major League
Baseball Association to discuss their
minority hiring practices of personnel in
the upper echelon of baseball.
Jackson's claims that the Major League
owners hired a large number of whites
rather than blacks reflect recent allegations
against Cincinnati Red's owner Marge
Schott.
Schott is accused of being racially
prejudiced against blacks working as
executive-level personnel. Rev. Jackson
would like to see a better ratio of blacks to
whites in the upper levels of the league's
personnel. Jesse Jackson is right!
The time of hiring personnel based on
merit has reached its end. For far too long,
the whites have dominated all of the
upper-elite jobs just because they were
better qualified. It's time we let lesser
qualified minorities have those jobs
because it's not fair for them to actually
have to work to get them. The age of
equality has come, and we must work to
instill equality in everything.
That is why I am filing my lawsuit
against the MLBA, the NFL, and the NBA.
If there is going to be a hiring quota to
instill equality in regular everyday jobs,
then there ought to be a quota for equality
on the playing fields of the NBA, MLBA,
and the NFL.
Even the office of the presidency is
affected by hiring not on merit or
qualifications, but on the color of the skin,
as is evidenced by the cabinet
appointments of President Bill Clinton.
Many times a black person has won a
lawsuit against a big business because
they were not hired because they were
black. Never mind that their
qualifications were not as good as some
white person's. Well, I may not run as fast
as some of the black players in the NFL,
but I think that people like myself should
have a nice job like that anyway. I mean,
come on, we want equality in all jobs,
right?
I called the league offices of the
aforementioned sports associations and
was utterly shocked at how grossly behind
the times they are in regards to equality.
For instance, in the National Football
League, there is a 47-man roster per team
and there are 28 teams. That makes 1,316
players. According to the Public Relations
Office, 60 percent of those players are
black. That's 7889.6 black players. Now,
60 percent is a pretty staggering number,
but it's nothing compared to the NBA.
According to the league office, 75
percent of 353 players in the National
Basketball Association are black, and these
statistics are two years old! I was told that
the percentages are even greater now.
Based on these statistics, I am confident
that I will win my lawsuit against these
racist sports associations and put an end
to discrimination against white athletes
just because we don't have the same
qualifications that black athletes do.
Gee, I've always been a Dallas Cowboys
fan since I was a little kid. Hopefully, I'll
get to be on their team! Heck, they
should waive Emmitt Smith and let me
take his position. Yeah
However, abortion on the basis of get
is only the beginning.
With the government potenti;
allowing Medicaid to fund these murd
many underprivileged minorities
targeted to have their babies eliminal
Using this method of "ethnic cleansit
the U.S. government can help assure
continuation of a white majority,
ensuring the pro-choice advocates not
denied their so-called "liberties,"|
devaluation of God's most precious $
life, will be complete. And millions m:
children will have their lives drastical
cut short.
Mark B. Benilk
Physics Departm
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essential question of
life
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Dickerson’s column
shows faulty reasoning
Congratulations to columnist Matt
Dickqrson for successfully employing both
faulty logic and misrepresentation of the
pro-life movement to subsequently draw
ridiculous conclusions regarding the views
of those who value the right to life.
First, concerning the case of unborn
babies endangering the lives of their
mothers, he accuses "smug pro-lifers" of
hypocrisy in accepting such abortions and
then turning to condemn "other"
abortions as murder.
If Dickerson will read the U.S.
Constitution, he will notice that the law
provides for the use of lethal force in self-
defense if one's life is threatened.
Therefore, abortion in the case of
defending a mother's life from lethal
attack is provided for by our Constitution,
while abortion on demand for the sake of
convenience is not.
Furthermore, Dickerson's amusing
scare-tactic of taking the pro-life position
to its supposed ultimate conclusion
attempts to imply that the U.S. will
become "tyrannical," with government
agencies spending all of their free time
seeking out "new zygotes to protect their
rights," and accomplishing this by
demanding that women report all
pregnancies to the government.
Well, since Bill Clinton is now in office,
what happens if we take the pro-choice
position to its ultimate conclusion?
Abortion for the sake of sex selection will
become commonplace. Couples
desperately desiring to have a girl may
need four or five "terminations" before
they get their wish, but when you have
unlimited chances, who's counting?
In his column ridiculing the
abortion movement. Matt Dickers)]
presented some interesting "what:
scenarios, but I'd like to add a couple
my own:
Does a woman have the right
terminate her pregnancy through abort:
at the onset of labor, if at that moments:
begins having second thoughts?
Does a woman have the right to"
the plug" on a baby born three orft
months prematurely?
After all, such an infant could
survive outside an incubator and, if si
the womb, would certainly be labeled
game by the pro-choice crowd.
In either of these scenarios, should
father of the fetus/baby have any par
the decision?While such questions ar
great way to fill column space, they
ultimately irrelevant.
Strip away the judicial and journal:
activism, the name-calling, the pro!
marches, the clever slogans, the hui
barricades and all of the lofty rheti
about "rights" and "choice," and you
find the question that could insf
another civil war. Is a fetus nothing nS that /
than a mass of tissue, to be disposecl c i e ty ,!
when considered to be an inconvenkl Th
or handicap, or is there even the slight P ar tn
possibility that it just might be hull sc l ua d
and therefore worthy of a little mem ^
consideration?
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