Stereotypes: All Black People Are Good At Basketball

As an African American, there are several stereotypes placed upon my people. One of the most common is the assumption that “all black men are good at basketball.”

The image of the man being discriminated by the police and the teacher is connected to the real world in how black people are being victimized by the police even when a person has not committed a crime. This image portrays how the police assume a black person has done something wrong and choose to pick on them. This image also shows different scenarios where an innocent black man is being victimized to portray the fact that police brutality happens often and can happen in any situation and has happened in numerous situations. The police use the false stereotype that all black people are “trouble- making” and this picture shows the mistreatment by the police by arresting them or pulling them aside when no crime has been committed. In addition,

Why do all people think that African Americans are good at sports? This one the stereotypes that people say about African Americans most people believe or they say that all African Americans are good in sports because that’s all they see or hear about on T.V, but it’s not always true. I think that if you are white, Latino, Asian or Samoan you can be good at sports, all race can be good at sports if they love it enough. The world thinks that if you are African American you can only play sports and not good at nothing else; like reading, math writing, having a business, owning homes doing things in life besides sports. I know when I started playing sports everyone expected me to play and it wasn’t a surprised to them.

Prejudices is found virtually everywhere, and will be continually found, if we can’t rise above our own opinions and just listen to what others have to say. It’s not everyone’s fault, it’s the people that encompass one’s life. Therefore, if ones around people that have a negative thought process, one will soon also have the same thought process even though it’s wrong. The only way out of it would be ones self-perseverance in achieving goals in life.

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2015, African-Americans have been in the U.S. for many generations; they were forced as slaves to come to American by the Europeans; their ethnic background consists of Africa, Caribbean, and the West Indies Culture. African-Americans were known in the past years as Negros or Colored. According to CDC 2015, during the year of 1997, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), identifies people of color as Black or African-American. The population of African-American in the year of 2013was estimated around 41.7 million, which made up of 13.2% of the population in the United States. In 2013, 38.1% of the total population in Mississippi was African-Americans (CDC, 2015). According to

From the article, personally, I gather the idea that some African American students are scared to score better than the white students because they did not want to get bullied or taunted. For most of history, a well educated African American had to hide their knowledge because they were afraid. There are many stories where slaves would sneak their masters books to teach themselves how to read and educate themselves on their own. Based on the interactionist perspective African Americans are automatically have a unequal learning opportunity. They are often perceived as “slow learners.” By placing the students in this category teachers and parents hinder the children’s true potential. There may be many African Americans who are highly

Alternatively a study was conducted to examine how black and white quarterbacks (QB’s) were described by a major sports publication prior the National Football League draft. During the course of a 10 year period 4,745 attributions used to describe white and black QB prospects exhibited data patterns that resulted in racial stereotypes. Black athletes were primarily described with words and phrases that highlighted physical gifts and a lack of mental ability. Conversely, white QB’S were described as less physically gifted, but more mentally prepared for the game and less likely to make decision making and mental errors (Mercurio 2010). Also a fixed survey was issued to 869 students regarding their beliefs of African American stereotypes and

I absolutely agree with you LaQueisha! Especially, at my work I see this happening all to often from your examples. Constantly, I see a higher expectation for Asian Americans rather than African Americans when doing their job. From what you said in your post and what I mentioned, could it be the results of negative self-image inflicting this negative stereotype being placed on these two groups? This kind of stereotyping based on the assumption that Asian Americans have more education than African Americans is inappropriate. With that said, I know a few African American co-workers who I work, with that went to college and got their masters. I sometimes think that cumulative causation may have something to do with or has

After watching Verna Myers speak about African Americans, one could see the pure justice in her eyes. For some, this video made them take a step back and realize just how biased our world currently is. In all categories of life, each human being has been negatively stereotyped in their own way. In life I have really only experienced one circumstance of being negatively stereotyped and that was being not only physically a female, but a human who has multiple tattoos. Every time it is mentioned or spotted that there is ink on the skin, ones assumptions of having any potential of being in the professional work force goes out the window. The catch is even with mine being on my sides and being hidden 24/7, the looks of disgrace and the thought of I have no potential of getting a real career still happens. Tattoos have become to where it has their own stereotype questions and comments like, “You are going to regret those when you get older,”

African Americans are often portrayed on television unfavorably. According to previous research, television often presents African Americans in stereotypical roles. These unfavorable representations can have an influence on the perceptions of viewers. Research indicates that television viewers have used these images as indications of real portrayals of life and of others, causing viewers to rely on these stereotypical images in face-to-face interactions. Although prior studies have considered the impact that these images have had in the minds of people different from the images, little research has considered how images of African Americans have influenced the perceptions of African Americans. This proposed study was designed to focus on the

Stereotypes seem to be very present in our country, especially stereotypes towards African-Americans. For the longest time, like it has been instilled as a fact in my brain, black people have been directly related to the words “ghetto” or “hood”. I don’t remember a time where I actually can remember the words “ghetto” or “hood” without the picture in my mind of an African-American person. I think that this is a big problem in today’s society because it is not true but still seems to be taught. In politics, society, and everyday life, it feels like African-American’s are being slammed for being hoodlums. This is a problem because there are millions of African-American people who do not fit this stereotype, but still get degraded and treated badly because of this age old belief.

I first learned about the world from my parents. Their viewpoints on people and their opinions about issues shaped my perceptions growing up. After interacting with people outside of my house, however, I began to doubt the explanations that my parents offered about issues like race and religion. For example, I distinctly remember my dad telling me to avoid befriending black people due to their “inherent aggressive behavior.” Then, I moved schools in third grade and started interacting with African American kids my age while also learning about the civil rights movement and segregation. With these new experiences and education, I realized that what my parents said to me was wrong and how our negative stereotypes of African Americans are harmful. I shared my findings with them, but they simply shrugged my comments off and kept their bigoted opinions firm despite everything I said. I think it was at that moment I realized

I was a sophomore in high school when I met a black junior at my school named Jordan. She was first in her class and had been taking advanced placement classes since she was a freshman, which my school does not offer freshman. I was in awe when she offered to help me make my schedule for my junior year and advised me on what classes and teachers were the best. Whenever I need advice for school, I still call Jordan to talk about my situation with her. Through this relationship, I have learned that black people need to help other black people because only we know what is feels like to be black and successful. In my experience, success isn’t expected from black students. While applying for a black scholarships the GPA minimum for many of them was 2.5, which is below the 3.0 national average. In essence, they were expecting below average blacks to apply for their

The stereotyped group that is a problem is African American and black athletes being portrayed as beast like, unintelligent, emotional, dominating, violent, and brutal. The specific sport of focus is the NBA. Black athletes are portrayed as beast and animal like in media images like poster, magazine covers, tee shirts, and game freeze frames. Black players have made many strides in the NBA, nearly 75% of NBA players are black, while only 23% of players are white (The 2015 Racial and Gender Report Card). Although there are many black players the media is still owned and operated by predominantly white gatekeepers. This negative stereotype is because it disregards the hours of hard work that black players complete to play professionally. African Americans feel this cover misrepresents them. Blacks could feel exploited, manipulated, or even subconsciously use it as justification for confirming the negative stereotypes the media feeds society. It is a racist notion that black players are unintelligent and rely on genetics “animal instincts” to be great players. If this stereotypes continues young blacks may see believe that they are unintelligent and slack off in school, believing that they can make it through like based on their athletic ability. It perpetuates a “super model minority”. An excellent example of this stereotype is the visual portrayals of NBA superstar LeBron James in the media. James has been prevalent in sports media dating back to his high school years when

The most common stereotypes are those that are aimed towards different racial or ethnic groups. We often stereotype young black males as being involved in a gang because of the use of 'ghetto'; slang terms and the particular style and presentation of their clothes. The media constantly portrays most gang activity as a result from the inner city black community; however, they seldom discuss white and Asian gang activity. We also believe that most of the African Americans make up the largest group of people on welfare, when in reality; it is whites that are the largest group requiring public assistance. Caucasian athletes have stereotyped blacks as being a superior athlete and competitor. African Americans supposedly can jump higher and run faster then their fellow athletes. The viewing public would agree with the previous statement, because it seems like it is true when watching sporting competitions on television, but it is, nonetheless due to stereotypes.