NHL’s Black Diversity Executive Promises to Change the Racial Makeup of the League

It turns out the NHL is the most “problematic” of all professional sports.

Why, you may ask?

The answer is simple, there are too many white people.

The NHL was forced to do an internal report on the racial makeup of their workforce, and the results have left woke progressives ‘shell shocked.’

83.6% of the NHL workforce is white.

90% of the players are white.

This is a big problem according to the NHL’s ‘Executive Vice President, Social Impact, Growth Initiatives & Legislative Affairs,’ Kim Davis:

“The whole purpose behind doing a workforce study is to provide a baseline: a fact-based baseline so that you can begin to develop very intentional and specific strategies around where you need to hire, how you need to hire, how you need to improve your brand,” Davis said.

The question is, what percentage will Davis find suitable?

Should the league only be 75% white?

Maybe 50%?

Where does it end?

Let’s also ignore the fact that the makeup of the entire roster of the NBA is nearly 75% black.

Is THAT number problematic as well?

The NHL's so-called VP of "social impact, growth and legislative affairs" says the league is too white. https://t.co/13WPKS9mX3

— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) October 21, 2022

Newsmax has the story:

The National Hockey League is too white, and its Black diversity executive vows to change that.

An internal report on the racial makeup of the 32 teams that comprise the NHL found 83.6% of the league’s workforce is white. That percentage is even higher on the ice, as more than 90% of players and nearly all coaches and officials are white.

“The whole purpose behind doing a workforce study is to provide a baseline: a fact-based baseline so that you can begin to develop very intentional and specific strategies around where you need to hire, how you need to hire, how you need to improve your brand,” said Kim Davis, a Black woman, who was hired as the NHL’s executive vice president of social impact, growth and legislative affairs in 2017. “This is a good start, but there’s a ways to go.”

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said the data from the 24-page report will shape policies “that will produce the greatest impacts in the years to come.

The NHL's first internal demographic study found its workforce to be overwhelmingly white.

Kim Davis, NHL EVP of social impact, growth and legislative affairs, says seeing the numbers is a first step toward fixing the problem.

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— AP Sports (@AP_Sports) October 18, 2022

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— CTV News (@CTVNews) October 19, 2022

CTV News has more:

One of the next steps is turning the data into a race and gender report card produced by the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, which has for years graded sports leagues on hiring practices.

In the 24-page report, which was presented to the league’s Board of Governors and distributed to multiple internal committees, Commissioner Gary Bettman said the data will shape policies “that will produce the greatest impacts in the years to come.”

The results are not surprising for a sport that for many reasons, from socioeconomic to geographic and more, has remained predominantly white. While the NHL has made efforts to bolster diversity efforts from youth hockey to the front office, change has been slow.

Davis said it is not as simple as recruiting people of colour to work for the NHL, that it starts with improving how underrepresented communities see and feel about the sport itself. The NHL, eager to diversify its fan base, mapped out seven courses of action, from education and community initiatives to marketing and partnerships.

The NHL has declared a crisis because it has too many white people.

Not that I watch a lot of hockey, but the NHL is another sport we will witness the left destroy.

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) October 19, 2022

The NHL is 83% white
Average NHL salary: $3.5 million

The NBA is 73% black
Average NBA salary: $8.5 million

If the roles were reversed, there would be 50k articles about “closing the race income gap in sports”

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 19, 2022

The NHL is committing to “diversity” and wants to decrease its percentage of white players. Should we expect the same move from the NBA for black players?

— Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) October 19, 2022

https://twitter.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1582790178426396673?s=20&t=p6EdPy0iI45Rer7wIgeYTQ

Anti-whites: “NFL coaches and executives should reflect the players!”

* NHL players are overwhelmingly white.

Anti-whites: “NHL coaches and execs shouldn’t be white because…!”

Contradictory arguments, but always the same goal — replace whites.

— Frank DeScushin (@FrankDeScushin) October 19, 2022

If you think there are too many white people at your work, it’s just as racist as thinking there are too many black people at your work.

The NHL’s workforce is “overwhelmingly white” because hockey fans are overwhelmingly white.

And as a black NHL fan, I couldn’t care less.

— Samuel Sey (@SlowToWrite) October 19, 2022