MLB's Biased Charity

I stumbled across the tidbit below from Phil Mushnick's column in the New York Post this week and I think he makes an outstanding point. Many people involved in MLB have lamented about the lack of blacks in MLB. Last year I am told that 8% of the players in the league were black. Now this only includes black Americans because black players from Dominican Republic and other foreign countries are not included in that figure. MLB has charity programs designed to attract more black Americans to baseball. CC Sabathia has even called the lack of blacks in MLB a "crisis". I don't see how it matters how many blacks are in the league and it is certainly not anything that should be called a crisis. I don't see the NBA or NFL implementing programs to stop the decline of white Americans in their leagues. Here is what Phil Mushnick wrote in his column:

"Let's see if we've got this right: MLB is financing initiatives to have more African-American kids play baseball. Meantime, the Mets have closed their Florida instructional league facility and will move it to the Dominican Republic. Soon, MLB can expand its "Play Baseball!" initiative to include all U.S. kids!"