Many in liberal media let their racism shine through clearest whenever it comes to the racial demographics of sports leagues.

Writing for Joy Reid’s The ReidOut at MSNBC, Ja’Han Jones offers yet another example of this. Jones is complaining that Major League Baseball is not black enough; specifically, that the share of black American players (remember that phrase) is down to 6%, the lowest since some university “diversity” program began plugging MLB players into racial quota spreadsheets in 1991.

Jones uses this number to complain about a whole lot of nothing. According to him, the Athletics moving from Oakland to Las Vegas is racist, the lack of racial quotas for league management is racist, the fans are racist, getting rid of affirmative action at universities is racist and also somehow involved in this catastrophe. If black players don’t make up a larger share of a baseball league, then how far have we really come from slavery and Jim Crow?

There are a few problems with this. For one, sports are the most meritorious of any profession in the United States. Different people go into sports for different reasons, and so various leagues look far different from each other and from the general population. NFL players, who play in the most popular sports league in the country, are 53% black. Given that black people make up 13% of the U.S. population, you could say the MLB at 6% is far more representative than the NFL’s 53% or the NBA’s 73%. Oddly, Jones isn’t complaining about those numbers not representing the general population.

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Worse still is that framing of “black American players,” as mentioned earlier. More than 6% of MLB players are black, but only 6% are “black Americans.” According to Jones and the university program that pulls these numbers, black Latinos simply do not count. NBC doesn’t count them either, as evidenced when NBC BLK erased several black Latinos from the narrative to say that both World Series teams in 2021 only had one black player each.

So, if you follow Jones’s logic, black Latinos are not diverse, and disproportionate skin color representation is only bad when there is a slightly lower percentage of black players in a sport and not a ridiculously high percentage of them. If that seems bad and incoherent to you, it’s because you are not a racist. Only someone who categorizes people based on skin color and whose brain has been rotted by racism and narratives of oppression would think that this “logic” makes sense.