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This is a strange position to take, considering girls have far higher levels of average educational attainment than boys and have for quite a while.

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November cure wrote:

This is a strange position to take, considering girls have far higher levels of average educational attainment than boys and have for quite a while.

Missed the "international" part.

Worldwide this isn't the case. In developing countries and those ruled by theocratic governments, girls do not get proper educations nor the ability to rise beyond being chattel.

As for minority representation in US distance running, this is an issue that will take some time to remedy. Distance running is primarily an upper middle class white pursuit here. The best programs with the most talented coaching are mostly found at well funded suburban public schools and private institutions. First, you have to improve the level of coaching and talent identification in urban schools. Next, you have to build a culture that makes distance running an attractive and worthwhile pursuit for people of color. Lastly, our society and the denizens of our sport need to cleanse ourselves of deep rooted notions about race. For example, our police need to stop assuming that a black person out running is fleeing some sort of crime. Hitting closer to home, sites like LRC need to be friendlier on matters of race and gender. If a 14 year black girl thinking about trying cross country came upon this forum, she would very quickly dismiss that notion after sampling a few topic threads commonly found on the front page.

This probably came from Saucony marketing and they were probably focusing on the majority of females who run in America i.e. what you see in the post. If a black NBA player was told by his sponsor to post something to market towards inner city youth they wouldn't post pictures of white kids, now would they? Now with today social climate should they included some pictures of black runners? Yes. But this is about marketing, not racism like so many are so quick to point the finger to.

The left will eventually eat its own....

Tell one current Black Saucony sponsored athlete. I’ll wait.

old news wrote:

The left will eventually eat its own....

Wow, it's almost like "the left" is more interested in holding people accountable than in supporting their "team".

It's almost like "the left" only exists because there is another group of people who happily and eagerly view politics and current events like a sporting match, and they wear their "TEAM RIGHT" uniform proudly. Too bad they don't understand they're doing exactly what's expected of them.

lookingforequality wrote:

Tell one current Black Saucony sponsored athlete. I’ll wait.

Then they shouldn't put this on in the first place. It did come off as lack of social awareness.

Portland Hobby Jogger wrote:

As for minority representation in US distance running, this is an issue that will take some time to remedy.

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First, you have to improve the level of coaching and talent identification in urban schools. Next, you have to build a culture that makes distance running an attractive and worthwhile pursuit for people of color. Lastly, our society and the denizens of our sport need to cleanse ourselves of deep rooted notions about race.

This is a non-issue and I'm not going to do any of those things. Get a life.

Eventually the mob will get the most "woke" individuals as well.

cottonball wrote:

Eventually the mob will get the most "woke" individuals as well.

Like this guy?

cottonball wrote:

Eventually the mob will get the most "woke" individuals as well.

You already said the exact same thing. Do you think people aren't wise? Mix up the syntax, dork.

old news wrote:

The left will eventually eat its own....

lookingforequality wrote:

Tell one current Black Saucony sponsored athlete. I’ll wait.

Reminder, you want to phrase your questions in a way that does NOT sound like a russian troll. It's the poor word choices that kill.

Isn't Saucony an American company? They aren't as big as Nike or Adidas which are truly worldwide, so I imagine most of their sponsored runners are American. How many non-white distance runners are at the top of the American running scene? There are only a few that I can think of, and they're already sponsored by other companies. Should they throw an extra large amount of money at someone of color just so that they can have someone of color on their list? I think that would be ridiculous. To me that would be just as wrong as not signing someone because they were a person of color.

Molly is now somehow in charge of and accountable for the athletes Saucony signs? Single-issue SJWs are confused and reacting against their brethren. As others have said, they'll gladly eat their own instead of considering the greater good. But really, that's SM for ya regardless of the ideology.