Arguments Against Professional Athletes

Professional athletes today use their status to protest, but is this justifiable? Some may believe it’s fine to protest using their career. Professional athletes shouldn’t use their status to protest other events taking place today. There are many reasons that prove why professional athletes shouldn’t protest in their place of work. For example, sometimes we as people with a governed body just need to communicate directly and honestly. “In 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. The next morning, Gibson, who is black, got into a heated conversation about racial equality with his catcher, Tim McCarver, who is white. Years later McCarver wrote, ‘Bob and I reached a meeting of the minds that morning. That was the kind of walk we often had on the Cardinals,” article one stated. If people remain civilized and strictly truthful and aware, we will accomplish more and began to understand each other better. In addition, it may make American’s viewpoints on the sports change. “Americans of all economic classes and backgrounds have always been able to escape life’s troubles by watching sports,” the second article by Merrill Matthews informed. If there are professional athletes taking the focus away from the game, their job, to politics and other struggles, they aren’t doing their job or continuing the reason of the pastime, to distract and entertain viewers. If they aren’t doing their job, people will then stop watching the sport or team. Furthermore, …show more content…
Carmelo Anthony, Lebron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Paul protested at a sports show to urge fellow athletes to become more socially involved with racial equality and to raise awareness. However, this had very little to do with the game. The athletes don’t have to be very socially involved to successfully to do their job. James and the others could also be seen as trying to force their opinion on the others which is not their purpose for being