Richard Wright: The First African American Athletes

Richard Wright was born after the Civil War but before the Civil Rights Movement. If Wright was writing an autobiography title Black Boy about a black boy growing up in the United States, he would wrote about the first African American, Barack Hussein Obama II, got elected as the President of the United States, African American athletes are dominating the white athletes in the sports, and racial problems is still happening in the police brutality. Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is the first African American to have served as president. Wright would wrote about him because no one can believe in back then that a African American can be the President …show more content…
In sports, especially NBA, African American athletes are dominating the white athletes. Examples of some famous NBA African American athletes are Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, etcs. They are the players that are not only well known in the United States but in the World and their achievements are unachievable for any other athletes. Also, their impacts on African American are huge too. Because of their huge impacts in NBA make everyone in the world look up to them and African Americans. Wright would wrote about them because at his time period, everyone was looking down at African Americans. African Americans would never expected that other people would look up on them. They only expected that people would treat them equal. Wright would felt very proud of what these African American athletes had changed how other people view and treat African Americans. In the article, Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We are Afraid to talk about it, written by Jon Entine from The New York Time. Entine argues that when you upon a basketball arena, you would see most of the faces of the extended tree trunks scampering around the court are black. He claims that Blacks not only outnumber their nonwhite competitors but, by and large, are the superstars. He supports this claim by first using the words from Carl Lewis, “Blacks-physically in many cases-are made better”. Then he makes his argument strong by saying black athletes may dominate sports, blacks in general do not: the ownership and high level management of every major sports franchise and the various leagues are still in white hands to the virtual exclusion of African Americans, And finally, he talks about how for the first time in history science promises a glimpse of how the world’s different populations-popularly called races-have evolved. Entine’s purpose is to examine why