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Discrimination And Discrimination

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In other to understand discrimination and circumstances associated with it, it is paramount to know what is discrimination is and to fully understand the different type of categories: Discrimination is defined by the Cambridge English Dictionary “as the treatment of a person or a particular group of people differently, in a way that is worse than the way people are usually treated”. Discrimination may fall within categories such as race, age, gender, and religion. In an article by Mother Jones he talks about a player name Michael Sam. Sam wanted to let people know about his life but at the same time, he was afraid to disclose his sexual orientation. Such is the case for many athletes and other everyday people. Over the last few decades, our society today has come a long way; there have been major changes and a lot of breakthrough to barriers and beliefs we once held, however, we still have a long way to go
There are some state laws that discriminate against gay employees and some of the NFL teams falls within these states boundaries, therefore, said teams must abide by state laws when hiring or contracting players. Currently in the league, there are 13 NFL teams are under local law, 12 NFL teams that have nondiscrimination laws, and 7 other teams are no state or local law in the NFL. Sam was going to play for the St. Louis Rams which means it was a local law and would be under and thus subjected to discriminatory laws based on sexual orientation. He played for the NFL and

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