Introduction
Presently, the issue of sports and racism centers on the communal and biased implication associated with the issue of black athletic supremacy and/or the overall view of such presumed supremacy (Morgan, 2007). The hot subject dated April 23, 2006, featuring on United States news and Global headline was “is professional sport bad for the black community?” which concentrated mainly on the obsession of sports as far as Black Americans are concerned. According to this tale,” approximately 65% of any Black American man aged between 14 and 19 believes he can earn from sports. Also, the story engaged an extensive discussion regarding the black community as the only thing in the mind of white men, an abbreviated and rather flawed historical background (Hawkins, 2004, p. 28). These findings regarding the issue they seem to me are incredibly distorted, equally as distorted as the American conformist perception of Sailors.
Evidence
Firstly, while a black man is viewed widely as a physical presence in the U.S, he is not necessary the “body” according to an American mind. A woman, particularly of white background, serves that purpose. It is her natural loveliness that is an input to United States promotion and the leisure arena. This is why a female’s slimming and a female’s loveliness culture is such a multi-million sector in America. It is due to this prominence on a woman as the body that a woman is usually so insecure regarding her appearance and suffers more from low self-worth and/or despair (Morgan, 2007).
The freedom to engage in sporting activities for the black community, notably following Second World War, confirms the success of autonomous ethics of the fair game. Also, the freedom shows that sport is an image of autonomous ethics, the people’s desire weighed against the interest of the group, equal submission of regulations for white and black individuals, and the final rewarding of ultimate winner (Hawkins, 2004, p. 31). These arguments were utilized by white and Black American sports stakeholders while supporting the incorporation of main federation football, a key reason for black stakeholders of the late 1940s and this set of cases was to be utilized in interpreting the importance of football as a symbol of United States democratic principles after integrating football on the major federation position early 1950s (Baldwin, 2008).
These arguments saw the ideal democratic face of American dominance in sports as an image but somewhat positioned entire hegemonic representations in their collective model of possession which could be, through community demands making the organizations restructure their selfish interests, forced to change (Baldwin, 2008).
Hawkins’s arguments work only if people recognize the assertion that black community involvements in high-rank games are, in and of themselves, acts of humiliation that the author appears to propose due to fixation through the American Community regarding the potentiality of black people (Hawkins, 2004). To believe these are not the affirmations of facts grounded on sports but the receipt of stands or attitudes towards the significance of sports.
Professional Sports
The rapid growth of career and high-rank recreational games may have heightened race differences in America through its idealistic racially prejudiced assumptions about a black person being an ordinary athlete and it may have negatively impacted the freedom of black people, having the same value as white people, in other areas of human undertaking. Alternatively, sporting endeavors may have amplified the idea of social equality in the United States and offered a black person increased freedom and better access than he/she might otherwise have attained. How the problem of racism and sports will be solved are almost not possible to mention. Hoberman’s contentious arguments regarding “Darwin’s Athletes” have generated substantial discussion among black academicians, even anger in certain areas (Hoberman, 1997).
Conclusion
Whether these feedbacks are necessary is not as significant an issue as that an entire integration of this concern by black scholars may fail to provide an answer but it may result in an increased comprehending of why certain events occur and ways in which the blacks might smartly be capable of making changes.
References
Baldwin, J. (2008). Everybody’s Protest Novel. In B. James, Notes of a Native Son. Boston: Beacon Press.
Hawkins, B. (2004). The Black Student Athlete: The Colonized Black Body. Journal of African American Men, 1(3), 27-39.
Hoberman, J. (1997). Darwin’s Athletes: How Sport has Damaged Black American and Preserved the Myth of Race. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Morgan, J. (2007). Ethics in sport (2nd ed.). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.