Get Politics Out of Sports
Sports is the great unifier. It brings individuals of all backgrounds and races together. Or at least, it did. Podcaster and author Jason Whitlock stresses that when politics win, sports fans lose.
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Script:.
Pro sports has actually become woke sports. Which’s an issue– not just for sports, however for everyone..
” Sport has the power … to unify individuals in a manner that bit else does.. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination.”.
The Nobel Peace Prize recipient comprehended the power of sports to bring disparate people together. There is no better example of this than the popular victory of South Africa’s mixed-race group in the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
Sports have actually served as a powerful racial unifier in America. This is not new. It returns years..
In 1936, the terrific black sprinter and long jumper Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals at the Berlin Olympics. In 1938, the great black boxer, Joe Louis, scored a first-round knockout over German heavyweight Max Schmeling. The Owens and Louis success pierced Hitler’s Aryan supremacy misconception, merged white and black Americans in pride and celebration, and developed Owens and Louis as America’s very first black nationwide heroes.
Jesse Owens and Joe Louis laid the structure for Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey’s collaboration with black baseball legend Jackie Robinson to integrate Major League Baseball in the late 1940s. That, in turn, motivated Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s.
Obama saw what Mandela saw– how sports transcends all barriers: “When you see this group of folks of various shades … originating from various neighborhoods … and after that playing as one team … and commemorating each other and being joyous because, that informs us … something about … America.” Sports, to put it simply, is the supreme equalizer..
In competition, what matters is winning. Sports enable us to experience the power of pure meritocracy– the only method to govern sports, and the only method to govern life.
Now, all this storied history and the positive message of sports are being reversed. In September 2016, NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee– that is, refused to stand– during the national anthem. His protectors state his protest wasn’t about the flag. However Kaepernick said otherwise. “I am not going to withstand show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black individuals and people of color,” he informed journalism. We all know what happened next. Players throughout the NFL followed Kaepernick’s lead, kneeling, locking arms, and even raising fists during the nationwide anthem. Athletes from other sports signed up with in.
Paradoxically, just as sports has the power to join, we have found it likewise has equivalent power to divide..
On Opening Day 2021, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred stripped Atlanta of the All Star Game as penalty for Georgia political leaders’ passage of a citizen stability costs. Bowing to the political mob that casts half of America as racist, the relocation fractured baseball’s fan base.
The whole American sports world– a culture that commemorated victors, colorblindness, and patriotism– has immersed itself in victimization and left-wing radicalism. This immersion threatens long-term damage, both to American sports and to the larger American culture.
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Podcaster and author Jason Whitlock worries that when politics win, sports fans lose.
The Nobel Peace Prize recipient understood the power of sports to bring disparate people together. Sports allow us to experience the power of pure meritocracy– the only way to govern sports, and the only method to govern life.
Now, all this storied history and the positive message of sports are being undone. Professional athletes from other sports signed up with in.
