Sports have been ritualized for years in America. It is one of the many staples of this country and continues to be glorified, despite many that may characterize it as an unethical marketing tool to attain revenue, using the ability of other humans. Sports have some components that make it a conceivable instrument of integration and harmonious race relations. “Mention must also be made of what came to be termed in the early 1990s as the new politics of ‘race’ and ‘racism’. Underlying the new politics of ‘race’ and ‘racism’ is a deep ambivalence amongst certain groups of social and political activists about the traditional categories that have been used to defend racist practices and policy.” (G. Jarvie and I. Reid, 1997) Racism is the belief that all members each race possess
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normally including the possibility that one's own particular race is superior and have the right prevail over others or that a specific racial gathering is second rate compared to the others.
Professional sports teams are owned by immensely rich businessmen, some of whom are worth billions of dollars and nearly all of them are white males. This pattern of white men being in charge trickles down to operations of a team. Over the years, things have gotten better in the last 50 years. It's pretty clear that a majority of players are people of color, but the sidelines of football fields and courts there is still a lack of diversity. As of 2016, the NBA’s players consist of seventy percent African Americans, while there are only 3 minority general managers and only one minority team president in the entire association. There's clearly more work that needs to be done when it comes to hiring people of color for president, CEO general manager, and head coaching positions. This discrepancy of jobs between whites and minorities goes back to blatant segregation in the late 19th to mid 20th century. Legal
normally including the possibility that one's own particular race is superior and have the right prevail over others or that a specific racial gathering is second rate compared to the others.
Professional sports teams are owned by immensely rich businessmen, some of whom are worth billions of dollars and nearly all of them are white males. This pattern of white men being in charge trickles down to operations of a team. Over the years, things have gotten better in the last 50 years. It's pretty clear that a majority of players are people of color, but the sidelines of football fields and courts there is still a lack of diversity. As of 2016, the NBA’s players consist of seventy percent African Americans, while there are only 3 minority general managers and only one minority team president in the entire association. There's clearly more work that needs to be done when it comes to hiring people of color for president, CEO general manager, and head coaching positions. This discrepancy of jobs between whites and minorities goes back to blatant segregation in the late 19th to mid 20th century. Legal