There really just isn’t a much better illustration of Utah’s insular, white-bread homogeneity than the sheer number of people who’ve taken to social media and comment boards in the last day or two to ask “Why is calling a black man ‘boy’ racist?”
Turns out there is a reason diversity is good and useful — it can teach us all a thing or two.
The Utah Jazz, one can presume, would rather not have been in the news this past week for investigating multiple incidents of racial taunts lobbed by some of their fans at Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook.