No Effort Is Wasted In The Fight Against Racism In Professional Sports

By Enid Hinton


Many times in the background of undesirable incidences, the biggest differences come from the smallest of gestures. On other periods, it appears that a heavy gesture would be required to make a noticeable impact, especially on a sensitive issue like racism in professional sports. Any topic that dwells on racism would not necessarily focus on personalities, or having to deal with those personalities. The broader view must be focused on and the problems that arise from them tackled forthwith.

Racism has dominated the headlines in sporting activities around the globe. From international soccer where it is always recurring to its cradle the NFL, NBA and MLB where cases of racial discrimination have become a social norm, it is speedily grabbing airwaves. The ideas and opinions of prominent figures on this issue are capable of creating comments and counter-comments that can cause a societal impact that is highly unpredictable.

And it has a deep meaning for lots of people who currently go to the public to make comments on what they feel are their own conception of what racism is or cannot be. Every league requires leaders to be in unison against all forms of bigotry and hatred. And every little action by any person can lead to an impact that resonates throughout a nation. That single denouncement of a bigot by that single personality has the impact of causing a ripple through the consciousness of a nation.

A societal move like the mass abandonment of a racist's products and services can go a long way to the create awareness to future generations and create mass hatred for the racist. Sports participants are also expected to form a voice where cases of racism should be trashed and stiff punishments should be given to offenders. This will send an important message to the sporting world as a whole.

These types of problems are very uncertain as the extent of damage heightens in the hearts of the people. It can be best described as the ripples of waves on an ocean. You can commence it, but it always expand beyond expectations. This all begins with an unhappy voice voicing out his frustration and then it can develop unpredictably. The mass media performs a crucial role in disseminating and interpreting the information to members of the society.

When the masses have been adequately informed by the media, they take crucial steps to punish the racist by destroying his image, abandoning his products and services and sacking him from his office. The next impact is highly volatile.

Many dignitaries who have been involved with cases of racism never fully recover from such a nasty label. They get stripped of all their opulence, status, wealth, and lives. Their wealth and business collapse and they virtually become paupers, zombies, and entities looking for acceptance from a world that has turned its back on them. They suffer the worst kind of rejection from friends, family, colleagues, associates, kinsmen; the list is endless, and so are the consequences of being a racist in sports.

We are all required to be vocal when we fall victim to racism in our different sport of choice. However, the in-significant affection may just play the crucial role of solving this problem. Just maybe.




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