Good point. Rather than navel gazing about the decline of black ballplayers, we should be happy that there is no discrimination any more. Best players get to play. If there are not as many black ballplayers in the pipeline to the major leagues as in previous decades, it is not due to discrimination.
Nobody would ever navel gaze about the sharp decline of white American born players in the NBA, would they?
Besides, with everything being called racism these days I'm beginning to doubt the public's ability to recognize the real thing.
After all, being superior althetically blacks dominate the NBA and the NFL; were it not for racism they would dominate MLB.
Almost twenty years ago SI did a front cover story about the decline in white players on major college and pro teams. I don't recall a huge brouhaha about the article. A number of reasons were offered even the obvious major reason that black athletes are on average better adapted for the sport than white players.
That fact got many people fired (Jimmy the Greek, others) for stating the obvious. Since then I've read comments by a number of well-known black athletes saying pretty much the same thing. Only clueless white libs (for ideological reasons) still believe in the myth that all races are exactly equal in physical ability.