I read a news report recently where a youth boys' basketball team was disqualified from a National Tournament competition because the team had a girl member. An uproar followed. I just don't get it. The same organization prohibits boys from playing on girls' teams. It's a smart rule, it's a good rule.
Womens' Suffrage passed in 1920 in the USA. Title IX, mandating equity in public monies spent and equal opportunities offered to girls/women became law in 1973. Therefore, we have boys' teams and girls' teams? This is a smart approach, this is a good structured format.
While I am speaking to this wrong- minded support of females, let me add to the thinking another aspect of unnecessary 'crutch-handing' to minorities. The Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863 and in 1965, the Voting Rights Bill was signed into law giving blacks freedom and protection to embrace the voting process.
Black people will only be truly liberated when they not need have a 'Black Miss America' since there is not a 'White Miss America.'
The simple fact is this: When our society sees the illogical nonsense of wishing to allow girls to have exclusive participation rights to their own programs along with participation rights in boys' programs, without a reciprocal philosophy, females are not truly emancipated. Also, once black Americans see the folly and harm in wanting equality while embracing separatism, blacks will remain compromised.
I am just saying, 'As long as any identifiable group, which once suffered inequality needs to be stroked both ways that group is perceived as weak.'
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