Discrimination in Sports

As an adolescent, I was very interested in sports. In fact, sports were all around me. I was usually the tallest of my friends, therefore I was faced with more opportunities concerning sports. The main sports I played were basketball and softball. At this point in my life, I did not know about Title IX and all of its rules and regulations concerning women in sports; I was just interested because sports were fun for me.

What is discrimination you ask well it is the treatment or consideration of, or making

At times, it was commonly believed women were not physically long distance we as a society lose if we tolerate violence against women or similarly marginalized populations for any reason. This article talks about the issues of how women can’t play sports and how sports are for men but I feel that sports are for women and men because everybody deserves a chance to play a sport. Women all ages should feel comfortable playing sports and participating in school sports to. (By: Sage, Learn)

Discrimination is when someone has a bias opinion on a specific crowd of people due to their race, sex, religion, or order of rank. This basically goes hand in hand with the phrase judging a book by its cover meaning the person with the negative opinion will not give the other individual a fair chance for the reason being they are being stereotypical and not thinking of the other person’s talent, or character. A modern day example of discrimination would be if a male employer were to compensate a female employee a lower pay due to her gender. At some time in everyone’s life due to today society, we have all been victimized by discrimination. Whether it may be a dirty look from a random person, or the way you dress, talk, and even look.

Discrimination has many meaning and many different ways people can discriminate against others. Discriminations can be as simple as a person making a judgment against someone else by the way they dress or the way they speak or it can be the people are discriminated (out casted/left out) because they choose to be different or have a disability or different colour of skin or even religion. Discrimination is unfair treatment of a person action based on prejudice.

Discrimination is the act of someone treating another unfairly, unequal, or less favorably because of their race, gender, religion, disability, or sexual orientation. Discrimination affects people and can occur in many places. Discrimination happened during the civil war and made it hard to live through that time.

Sports such as footy and soccer have a special place in the national conscience, but following the recent event where a Port Adelaide fan was photographed wearing a Nazi swastika with his Power jersey, it is clear to be said that more work is required in order to stop racism in all sporting events by the Australian Government. This isn’t the first time where this kind of incident has happened though. Non-white footballers face racial abuse regularly on the pitch. Surely you big footy fans still remember the incident in 2013, where aboriginal footballer Adam Goodes was called an ape by a 13 year old girl as he went near the stands in a match against Collingwood. These kind of people do not deserve to be called a footy fan.

Several sports writers during this era wanted to put an end to the ban of Negro League players from entering MLB. They felt that players from the Negro League could fill in the weakness that MLB had, and bring more of an excitement to the game. Furthermore, a need of a dialogue between societies was needed to discuss social issues like discrimination and racism. One sport writer wrote, "I think newspapers have been taking care of middle America for a hundred years. We need more dialogue (on the sports pages). It's the only way we're going to educate white America, 61% of which clings to the illusion that there is no discrimination. If the education must be done on the sports pages, what's wrong with that," (Kelley, page 138).

Right now in the NFL the football teams are kneeling for the National Anthem. This all started with Colin Kaepernick protesting the police and the inequality that people of color in the United States in August of 2016. The players are protesting the injustices people of color still face in America today. The message that the players are trying to send has been misunderstood. Some have said that the players are attempting to disrespect the country, national anthem, flag, and military by taking a knee this is incorrect. Part of this confusion came from initial misunderstanding, then it grew even greater when Trump spoke at his rally in Alabama. The players are protesting systematic oppression against people of color, police brutality, and the

When Jack Johnson fought for and won the title “Heavyweight Champion of the World,” the news shook the world. African Americans rejoiced at the success and Caucasians mourned through committing acts of violence. “The sight or very thought of a black man knocking out a white man on American soil was enough to trigger race riots, lynching’s, and mayhem throughout the country. As many as 26 people died” (Margolick). Hatred between different races was very apparent in the early 20th century. Now, when looking at baseball, because it was a team sport, both sides were being hindered from the segregations of teams. However, when the desegregation of baseball occurred in 1947 with Jackie Robinson, hate riots did not break out. Hate speech and negative feelings occurred, but nothing to the extent of what happened 30 years prior. Was this because Caucasians were accepting African Americans as humans with rights and talent, or because they were benefiting from the African American player’s success? If one thinks about the historical context, it is most likely the latter. We saw Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X fighting for equal rights in the 1950s and 1960s, until they were both ultimately murdered at different times, because of their beliefs and their fight for equality. The desegregation of baseball was only a small step in the right direction. However, these

On the pro side they are groups or singular people urging there fellow pears to take a stand. They are athletes that use their platform as athletes to protest certain things whatever it may be from racial profiling to protesting war. On the con side its explains that these people could of handled it in a better ways. for example when 49er's player Colin Kaepernick knelt down instead of standing for The Star Spangled Banner to protest the flag and what it stood for. He instead could have taken different less public measures. I support the con side because people make it a huge publicity stunt like Colin Kaepernick protesting the flag of the united states of america he could have done it in a way better

“First Nations basketball player excluded from games, native identity questioned” by Tamsyn Burgmann and Gemma Karsten-Smith published in the February 15 Vancouver Sun talks about a mixed race, adopted first nations basketball player who was excluded from games and was later expelled from his team because his aboriginal identity was debatable. The type of discrimination that occurred in this article was racial discrimination. Racial discrimination is when a person is treated less favourably than another person in a similar situation race, colour, or ethnic origin.

In this report I will be talking about what discrimination and discriminatory practice is, also the infringement of rights, covert or overt abuse of power, bullying, prejudges, stereotyping and labelling. I will be talking about all of this and how they link to health and social care.

Racialization is the process in which etho-racial groups get marginalized on the racial hierarchy that is constructed by White supremacists (Henry & Tator, 2010, pp. 319). Sports are social institutions that reinforce racial hierarchies in Canada (Henry & Tator, 2010, pp. 243). Although it is commonly denied that there is any racism in Canada, racism in sports has manifested through dominant media narratives, surveillance, and imagery in sports.

It is against the law to discriminate against someone on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex. This law is regulated by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. However, there is a fine line between discrimination and prejudice. Prejudice is an unfavorable opinion or feeling held within a person. Discrimination is the practice of unfair treatment based on race, sex, religion, national origin. There are many people who still hold that preconceived negative judgment for someone on the basis of their race. Discrimination may be against the law, but this doesn’t stop the prejudice that inhabits some people’s minds. This would make sense why we are so far from achieving that tranquil environment that should come to define sports.