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Originally Posted by Kevin
Why is it staggering? How do you know? You don't.
You simply assume that if a person of color applies to a country club and is rejected, it was because of race. You don't know that to be true. It could be because no one knows the person's family. It could be because of some professional squabble. Could be anything. But for whatever reason, you hone in on race. Not everything is about race.
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Beyond this, I'm sure there are some number of clubs that are systematically finding excuses to reject black members. I'm sure there are proportionally more that have a higher bar for black members than white members, or have dabbled in "tokenism" or other similar behavior.
We have simply no idea of how to separate these instances from the larger whole, and the fallback position of the club (essentially, "we make the rules and he's not good enough") is practically unassailable.
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