Diversities in Sports

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Diversities in Sports

• Win Oo
• Eric

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History

• Late 19th and early 20th Century-Whites and
  blacks were competing side by side
• Black athletes increasingly began to dominate
  their sports/white athletes and managers decided
  to ban interracial competition.
• Two factors
• 1)desire of whites not to associate with African
  Americans
• 2)African Americans were inferior. This view
  finds it roots in slavery

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Mascots

• The last area dealing with diversity in sports
  shifts gears from talking mainly about blacks and
• whites, to talking about Native Americans. More
  specifically, the usage of ideas of Native
• Americans as mascots for sports teams. This is a
  problem that is encountered at the high school,
• college, and professional levels. (3)Sports teams
  have used Native Americans as mascots to
• signify power, strength, pride and other good
  things. Along with these however, come the not so
• good ideas such as the mascot being violent,
  primitive, and ignorant to name a few. The sports
• teams may not mean any harm but it is still
  offensive to the Native Americans. There are
  indeed
• negative aspects to the mascots. (r)The first one
  is that the mascots treat Indians as objects
  rather
• than human beings. They portray American Indians
  as warlike and violent. They inaccurately
• portray the American Indian dress and customs.
  The last thing that they do is that they
  perpetuate
• stereotypes. The American Indians have taken
  offense to these things and continue to do so.
  They
• want the sports teams to change their names and
  therefore stop the humiliation and
• embarrassment that is felt when an American
  Indian witnesses a mascot or fan of a team that
  is
• incorrectly representing what the Native
  Americans stand for. Minnesota has actually been
  one of
• the leading states when it comes to getting rid
  of inappropriate mascots. Thirty years ago, there
• were more than sixty-five high schools that had a
  form of American Indian identification for their
• teams and mascots. By the hard work of concern
  Indian Parents in cooperation with the
• Minnesota state Board of Education, faculty, and
  students, there are now less than nine remaining.

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Diversity Today

• Number of black athletes in professional sports.
• 12 of the U.S.
• Eight out of every ten players in the NBA
• 68 percent of the NFL
• 19 of MLB
• Sports Illustrated article
• Whites make up only 28 of the players in the NBA
• Whites make up 95 of the ownership stake in
  professional basketball,baseball, and football
  teams.
• 7 of team presidents in the NBA were colored
  while there were zero in the NFL and MLB.
• 12 of the Vice Presidents in the NBA were black,
  4 in the NFL and only 5 in MLB.

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Mascots

• Problem encountered at the High School, college,
  and professional levels.
• Native American mascots signify power, strength,
  pride and other good things
• Also signify violence, primitiveness, and
  ignorance to name a few.
• The mascots treat Indians as objects rather than
  human beings.
• They portray American Indians as warlike and
  violent.
• They inaccurately portray the American Indian
  dress and customs.
• They perpetuate stereotypes.
• Minnesota

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• Still a large amount of racial diversity in
  sports
• It has improved
• Athletes now have the opportunity to play due to
  their ability, and not so much as by the color of
  their skin.