Sports Ethics Test 3

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Racial discrimination

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the practice of treating people unfavorably or unfairly because of their race or skin color.

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Kivel: Discrimination

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varies in form and ranges from mild to severe depending on one’s skin color, ethnicity, level of education, location, gender, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, and how people respond to these factors.

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Kievel: Discrimination

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varies in form and ranges from mild to severe depending on one’s skin color, ethnicity, level of education, location, gender, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, and how people respond to these factors.

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Racial discrimination

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the practice of treating people unfavorably or unfairly because of their race or skin color

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Disparate Impact Discrimination: (Using Title VII’s definition)

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Even when an employer is not motivated by discriminatory intent, that employer is prohibited from using a facially neutral employment practice that has unjustified adverse impact on members of a protected class.

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Good Old Boy Network:

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Informal fraternity of men (usually white) who exchange business and political favors with other similarly-situated men

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Affirmative Action: goal

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reverse the effects of past discrimination

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Affirmative Action: Proper Application

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Set minimum (measurable) criteria for position and once a qualified pool of candidates are assembled, then (and only then) should protected class status be considered.
***quotas are NOT allowed

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Reverse Discrimination

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Unfairness against majority based on corrective measures taken to promote minority interests.

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NFL’s Rooney Rule

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Requires one minority candidate to be interviewed for all vacant coaching positions

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1865- Congress enacts 14th Amendment to US Constitution

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Contains the Equal Protection Clause: “no state shall … deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

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Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers

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1947

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1954- Brown v. Board of Education

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Landmark decision overturning Plessy v. Ferguson’s “separate but equal” determination.

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Enactment of Civil Rights Act that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in voting, employment, and public services.

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1964

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Nat Norhington became the first African-American to play in the SEC when his Kentucky Wildcats played Mississippi State.

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1967

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Mississippi State hires Sylvester Croom, the first African-American head football coach for an SEC school

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2003

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Damon Evans becomes the first African-American Athletic director in SEC

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2004

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Meritocracy

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A venue in which people advance because of talent and hard work rather than because of politics or cultural ideology.

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In 2003 USA Today surveyed 129 private, semi-private, public, and resort golf courses.

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Only 50% had non-discrimination policies.
19% refused to answer questions that would reveal whether or not they had non-discrimination policies

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Stacking

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Disproportionate representation of athletes at certain positions based on racial or ethnic stereotypes.
Examples: Mets, Mariners, Dodgers

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Darwin's Athletes by Hoberman

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Sport has played an integral role in leading African-Americans to embrace the damaging idea that physical self-expression is the essence of being black.

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For Hoberman, these factors out weight the contributions that sport has played in racial integration

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In promoting friendships b/w whites and blacks
In teaching values such as deferred gratification and fair play
And in paving the way to higher education

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Shooting Hoops Under the Bell Curve

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Most provocative and controversial section.
Asserts that black pride in athletic achievement is “damaging black America in ways that African-Americans in particular find hard to acknowledge.”
Argues that Western racism has inflicted upon African-Americans a “physicalized” and thus “primitive” identity and this identity is “athleticized” through engagement in sport.

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Physicalized identify of African-Americans traps them in a “sports fixation.”

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Starvation for non-sport race heroes.
Syndrome has made athleticism the signature achievement of black America and the symbol of black “genius.”