Race And Ethnicity

On November 9th, My American Sport in the 21st century class discussed a lot of information on the topic of race and ethnicity in Sports. It was stated that sport is considered to be a meritocratic institution. In todays sports, Racial minorities in the U.S continue to face systematic and pervasive discrimination. There were many key words and definitions that are important based off this topic.

Key Words:

  1. Bigot- Someone who is stubbornly attached to an opinion or belief.
  2. Prejudice- Judge something without knowledge of the facts.
  3. Stereotypes- Fixed ideas about a group.
  4. Discrimination- to be rude to someone because of their physical appearance, treating someone different from others.
  5. Race- Social category constructed and accepted by society to describe members with genetic similarity.
  6. Ethic group- Socially distinct population that shares a way of life.
  7. Minority group- members who share common group characteristics.
2017 NFL Protest
  • The protest of some NFL players refusing to stand for the National Anthem.
  • Most americans disagreed with some of the NFL Players decisions to not stand during our country's national Anthem.
  • It caused a racial division in which 2/3 of whites disapproved while 3/4 of African Americans approved of the protest.
  • The main issue causing the protest was the topic of police brutality.
  • it was proven that about 70% of whites approve of the job the police are doing versus 66% of African Americans who object to the job .
Early Participation of African Americans in Sport
  • Prior to the 1950's, African Americans faced a segregated sport's system.
  • African Americans participate in a very limited range of sports.
  • African Americans men and women are under represented in most sports.
USA Today

USA today and Donald trump spoke about the 2017 NFL protest in the link I provided below, the link also provides a video that explains every teams reason for participating in the protest. I thought this was a good way to describe everyones reason for the protest, he said “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color”.  This relates to what we talked about in class because we discuss the NFL protest, and other issue involving Race and ethnicity in sports.

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