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Senior editor Cord Jefferson discusses Jeremy Lin and how ethnicity can determine sports careers:

These numbers were certainly no accident. What happens in the NFL is the same thing that was happening in professional baseball: Black players are put in positions where strength and speed are revered (linebacker), while whites dominate positions of leadership and intelligence (quarterback). In the infamous 1987 words of Al Campanis, a former player, scout, and general manager in the MLB, the reason you don’t see blacks in leadership and management positions in sports is because they “may not have some of the necessities to be, let’s say, a field manager, or, perhaps, a general manager.” He went on to say that the reason blacks aren’t good at swimming is because they don’t have the same buoyancy as whites. Ultimately, Campanis resigned from baseball two days after letting his bigotry show, but the beliefs he held still linger.

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