Mass Media Manipulation Negatively Affects African American Athletes On All Levels

Youth sports have taken on a whole different identity, thus changing the sporting experience for youth athletes. Today this is what we have, “Children are playing fewer sports, and the less talented are left behind in recreational leagues with poor coaching, uneven play and the message that they aren’t good enough” (Rosenwald). Youth sports used to be much more relaxed and focused on creating an environment for kids to develop socially more than athletically. Yes, skills were still taught during practice, but not with such an intensity that exists today. Today, some youth teams take training and winning very seriously. It has become customary for kids to play on elite teams from a very young age. This creates a gap between the more talented

Are African Americans athletes viewed more negative in the media, compared to white athletes? In this research design I will be researching articles and other media to see if African American athletes are viewed negative, or stereotyped compared to articles or media written about white athletes. I feel this is important because when the public is reading or viewing these articles, they are taking those negatives and stereotypes and applying them to all African American or other racial groups. Typically, these negative portrayals can reinforce these negative stereotypes associated with African Americans. We should care about this because we know not everyone one is treated and given equal treatment and these negative articles and media could be feeding into this, and feeding into stereotypes, and unequal treatment. In my research I will look at articles and see if they write about more negative things when talking about African Americans, compared mostly to whites athletes. I will also research if these articles or media effects how the general public views these athletes. In this research design I will give you my theoretical discussion and hypothesis, where I will give you how I justify my theory that the media is viewing African American negatively and state my hypothesis. Next, I will lay out my nature of my research, and what research I have already did, and what I came away from this research. I will also list what kind of other research I would like to

The God given talent an athlete possesses is a key component to the amount of success they will achieve throughout their career. Talent is what separates a good player from a bench player. LeBron James can be considered as the best professional basketball player of recent years. He is a 3x NBA Champion along with 3 NBA Finals MVP awards, 4x Most Valuable Player, 12x NBA All-Star and a 3x Olympic medalist. He was also considered to be more talented than anyone in his graduating high school class. So much so, that he skipped college and got drafted number 1 overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers. Talent is usually recognized at a young age. In today’s age of technology, just one click can find someone an eight-year-old who is the “Next Kevin Durant”

I find it to be very problematic how media today have perpetuated what it takes for a black man to be consider to be be black, and the media uses sports to affirm the notion of being black even when you are black. An example would be in 2008 during President Obama presidential campaign, he was questioned by Steve Kroft’s on 60 Minutes about if he were “black enough.” I don’t understand what Kroft’s was trying to get across and what qualification Obama needed to have deem as being black. All I got from it was that if you were black, you shouldn’t be trying to run for office in a predominant white culture. You should stay on the street and do drugs and when

The media is a profoundly impactful outlet, which has the capability and power to change ones perception about something or someone. However, there are innumerable portrayals that are deemed stereotypical to many people, such as Black people, who happen to face those cynical depictions. Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager from Ferguson, Missouri was killed by former and now resigned officer Darren Wilson in 2014. Brown was portrayed as a nonchalant troubled student who bullied people. The media failed to enlighten the greater public on how he was supposed to go to college the day after he was murdered and how he was a compassionate kid who loved and care for children. This is a prime example of what misuse of false information is, because

People start playing sports and become dedicated to sports at a young age. Those people can become good at that

Historically, there have been group of people who have always been marginalized through the history of time. The Black race is not any different from this issue, and throughout history of the world they have went through a lot changes from slavery to human right to now social injustice. Through all this different times and trails there have been one constant term the seems to come up that will in no doubt their ability to function as normal human beings. That is Sports. For centuries from the romans ‘gladiators’ to our WWE Super Stars, sports heroes have always been very instrumental part of the society and that’s not different in the black communities’ times of social injustice in forefront of our country history these induvial are as very

For example of the twenty one players of the national Junior Soccer team of Czechoslovakia fifteen of them were born between January first and March thirtieth, four between the months of April first and June thirtieth, and only two between the months that follow none after September. With similar patterns occur in the sports of Baseball and Hockey. One may ask what is the significance of these early birthdays and sporting success. One would have two trace back to the beginning of one’s sporting carrier to discover the answer. The typical cut off for age groups in sporting leagues is January first. Children playing sports with birthdays closer to the first typically do better due to maturity. This slight advantage leads them to getting better training and coaching and ultimately giving them a bigger advantage. This advantage grows until the later birthdays simply cannot keep up. The early birthdays grow up to become All Stars while the later birthdays are left in the dust. This multiple sport scenario unequivocally proves success is not determined by personal qualities but by small advantages that grow into large ones.

In various sports around the world, discovering the worthiest and most gifted individuals to embark on the journey of becoming an elite level athlete is no small feat. For many organizations in sport, this process known as talent identification (TI), is based on the evaluations of often very young individuals’ potential, and whether or not the attributes they possess can be groomed to produce success in later years. With the ever growing demand to watch a winning team, owners are pressured to find an attraction with low investment and high reward. The efficiency of this talent assessment provides teams with the commercial benefit of recruiting youth at very young ages, eventually selling them for massive transfer fees. Therefore, the use of such programs have tremendous impact on the overall sporting experience and careers of many young players, stressing the need to understand the fundamentals of talent identification not just on a business level, but also with regards to youth involvement in sport.

“‘And in general, high-level competition for young kids is not a great thing,’ says Metzl, co-author of “The Young Athlete: A Sports Doctor’s Complete Guide for Parents.”” said Jacqueline Stenson, author of the article “Pushing too hard too young” . Competitiveness in sports is a problem. For this problem new rules will be found for parents and coaches, consequences will be looked at, and they will also be avoided. This problem needs to be explored and solved.

10. If reducing the acquisition of sport skills to deliberate practice only, it can fails to acknowledge important developmental, motivational and psychological aspects of human abilities.

Not professional but the future of athletes. This is none other than the current college athletes that are playing for universities and institutions. “Madison and Norman are bringing together different aspects of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. It demonstrates how this struggle is firmly implanted among the young ― including young athletes.”. The very young athletes are very close to the subject and take this matter very seriously. They are not receiving the answer they please and have seeked out other ways of retrieving these answers. Many students and even coaches came in wearing black shirts that had “#BlackLivesMatter”. Sports also seem to be the center of this community therefore the athlete’s stance and outburst affected a whole movement where others joined in to bring awareness to black lives

This source discusses how he influence of television sports media has an affect on young black viewers. The article seeks to prove how sports media builds a false idea in young black males minds of what careers are achievable for them and what are not. This source will be extremely helpful because it speaks specifically to how black males often see sports as one of the only realistic careers for them. This source can be directly related to Smash Williams because in “Friday Night Lights” Williams is banking on his athletic ability to get him and his family out of low income living.

First I would like to state that I write to just express the way I personally feel. Its not to hurt anyones feelings and or to be rude or disrespectful in any way shape or form. I'm a sophomore at Smithville High School and 16 years of age. Sports come to me as seconds nature. The “I can do that in my sleep” occurs with me and my sport. I have to work at it yes everyones has to work to improve skills.

Since sports are such a big part of this world; at a young age kids see the super stars of the sports world and they want to be like them. This is what leads to kids wanting to specialize in a sport at such a young age. Kids want to devote lots of their time to training for a certain sport so they can reach an elite level by high school or college. Specializing in a sport means participating in the same sport season after season, and when you are not playing you are training for that sport. Many people believe that this is a major cause for injuries in the young sports world.