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<\/p>\nFOX News VP John Moody: Team USA Will Lose Medals Because It\u2019s Too Gay and Too Black<\/b>
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FOX News Executive Editor and VP John Moody published a hideous editorial complaining about the more diverse make-up of this year\u2019s U.S. Olympic team. Reacting to a recent article in the Washington Post<\/a> which argued that despite the diversity the team is still \u201coverwhelmingly white,\u201d Moody asserted that Team USA could lose medals because it\u2019s too gay<\/a> and too black.<\/p>\n Wrote Moody<\/a>:<\/p>\n Unless it\u2019s changed overnight, the motto of the Olympics, since 1894, has been \u201cFaster, Higher, Stronger.\u201d It appears the U.S. Olympic Committee would like to change that to \u201cDarker, Gayer, Different.\u201d If your goal is to win medals, that won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n A USOC official was quoted this week expressing pride (what else?) about taking the most diverse U.S. squad ever to the Winter Olympics. That was followed by a, frankly, embarrassing laundry list of how many African-Americans, Asians and openly gay<\/a> athletes are on this year\u2019s U.S. team. No sport that we are aware of awards points \u2013 or medals \u2013 for skin color or sexual orientation.<\/p>\n For the current USOC, a dream team should look more like the general population. So, while uncomfortable, the question probably needs to be asked: were our Olympians selected because they\u2019re the best at what they do, or because they\u2019re the best publicity for our current obsession with having one each from Column A, B and C?<\/p>\n Wrote Media Matters:<\/p>\n Though this is Team USA\u2019s most diverse delegation of athletes ever, as\u00a0The Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>reported<\/a>, the U.S. Olympic Committee still has a lot of progress to make: Out of 243 athletes, two men<\/a> are openly gay<\/a>, \u201c10 are African American \u2014 4 percent \u2014 and another 10 are Asian American. The rest, by and large, are white.\u201d Moody suggested without basis that the focus on diversity may cost Team USA medals, and speculated that athletes\u00a0were given spots on the team that they didn\u2019t earn during their\u00a0trials<\/a>, because of their race.<\/p>\n Concluded Moody<\/a>: \u201cIf someone is denied a slot on a team because of prejudice, that\u2019s one thing. Complaining that every team isn\u2019t a rainbow of political correctness defeats the purpose of sports, which is competition. At the Olympic level, not everyone is a winner. Not everyone gets a little plastic trophy to take home. Sorry. \u2018Faster, Higher, Stronger\u2019 still works better than \u2018We win because we\u2019re different.’\u201d<\/p>\n The post FOX News VP John Moody: Team USA Will Lose Medals Because It\u2019s Too Gay and Too Black<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n